Cuba Says Guantanamo Prison a "Concentration Camp"

[barbaraann]

Fri Dec 26, 1:01 PM ET Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo!

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has charged the United States with running a concentration camp at the Guantanamo base on the eastern tip of the island, in the government's first attack on use of the facility to hold terror suspects.

"In the territory illegally occupied by the Guantanamo naval base, hundreds of foreign prisoners are subjected to indescribable abuses," said a statement passed by parliament earlier this week and broadcast by the state-run media on Friday.

Communist-run Cuba's National Assembly said prisoners were isolated and denied the right to communicate with their families or to prepare an adequate defense.

"Some of the few freed have spoken of the horrors of this concentration camp," said the statement, appealing to lawmakers throughout the Americas to halt U.S. human rights violations related to the war on terror.
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http://news.yahoo.com/?tmpl=story&u=/nm/cuba_usa_dc

And it's just a part of the CIA's worldwide web of secret prisons.

[burrowowl]

1. Cuba is right eom

[Malva Zebrina]

2. wow--"concentration camp" thems harsh words

and probably the most succinct. HOw the hell would we know? WE are only the citizens of this republic and this democracy!