One of President Obama’s first act was to sign documents to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp within the year. Almost two years later GITMO holds 147 detainees in what the US military claim are humane conditions. The treatment of prisoners has certainly improved over the previous administration’s blind eye to torture of inmates. When three inmates committed suicide in 2006, the prison commander protested accusation of abuse by saying that the suicides were “an act of asymmetric warfare committed against us.”
One prisoner had a different opinion.
“I was trying to kill myself. I tried four times, because I was disgusted with my life.”
Those desperate days are over, however Gitmo exists in a legal limbo as politicians argue against transporting this detainees to US soil. Prisoners have no real rights and this week the military authorities cut the ice cream ration.
One serving a day.
This story is a diversion to show that the prisoners are treated with humanity.
The truth to hide a lie.
No one is screaming for ice cream.
Not in Gitmo.