'Shameful' silence on Guantanamo medical care

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Monday, 18 Sep 2006 11:13


'Shameful' silence on Guantanamo medical care

Doctors have demanded the government launch an investigation into medical care of Guantanamo detainees

Senior doctors have today slammed the government for failing to provide adequate medical care for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, claiming this "collusion" with the US amounts to "war crimes".

In a letter to The Times, 120 signatories condemned the Foreign Office for ignoring a request from the British Medical Association (BMA) to send out a team of doctors to the prison in Cuba to examine the condition of the eight British residents being held there.

Calling for an independent investigation into the medical needs of the prisoners, the doctors also condemned the Foreign Office for its "shameful" silence on the matter.

"Given that the US military has awarded medals for doctors involved in the care of Guantanamo detainees (for medical treatment that would warrant a criminal investigation if carried out in Britain), we have no confidence in the proposed investigation of the recent suicides.

Responding to the letter, director of Amnesty International UK Kate Allen said: "It’s shameful that in four and half years the government has not insisted on independent medical examinations for long-term residents of the UK held in the black hole of Guantanamo.

"These men — some of whom are refugees that the UK has acknowledged to be vulnerable people — have essentially been left to rot in Guantanamo’s cells. They are Guantanamo’s forgotten prisoners."


http://www.politics.co.uk/News/shameful-silence-on-guantanamo-medical-care-$450666.htm

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. And mind you, even GOP senators like Dr. Frist...

... admit that for all the lack of medical care for Guantanamo prisoners, they still receive better medical care than most Americans.

[madokie]

2. I'll bet his survival rate of patients is low, how could you wake up after

an operation and see dr 'catkiller' frist's smiling, evil smiling:grr: face. It would be enough to kill me fore shore.

[malaise]

3. But, but, but

Richard Miniter just said (on WJ CSpan)that the US is too kind to these 'terrorists'. Why do you hate freedom? Waterboarding is just a sport. :sarcasm: :sarcasm: