While away, I ‘missed’ the 6th anniversary of the opening of the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay. Surprisingly, or not, I did not see it covered in the press.

Just the reading of this timeline of events is enough to make you angry and feel sick at the treatment of fellow human beings. Stuff such as Bush signing memos that allow the ignoring of Article 3 of the Geneva Convention. Article 3 requires fair trial standards and prohibits torture, cruelty, and ‘outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment.’

775 people have been held in Guantánamo since Jan 11th 2002
In those 6 years not one single person has been put on trial
11 people were put on military trial, which was then ruled unlawful by the US Supreme Court.
These men are sons, husbands, fathers, brothers.
They have daughters, sons, wives, mother, fathers
they have been imprisoned for no crime, with no access to their families, and with no hope of a change in their circumstances.
They have been deprived of the very freedom that the west, and particularly the US, pride themselves on.
Deprived for 6 years!
That’s 2191 days!
I can’t imagine the pain of not seeing my wife or children for 6 years. Not being able to hug them, hold them, laugh with them, cry with them. It’s an unbearable pain even without the torture that we know is happening inside!

This is inhumane
this is unjust
and it must end now
we need to treat our fellow humans with dignity
there is NO EXCUSE for what is happening in this camp.

Please visit the Amnesty space here and join us in attempting to see justice done – it’s a Kingdom thing! Justice is a God thing!