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There is a forwarded message from Human Rights group (there is human rights
violations in U.S.!). 

Mi Mi Sr.

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From: gallo66@news.gate.net (Omar Galloso)
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                   **** URGENT APPEAL ****
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In the concentration camps, naked babies run mere inches from  
barbed wire barricades patrolled by guards.   The segregation of
parents and children into separate camps is an established
practice.  Old and young, women and men, inhabit overcrowded, 
sweltering tents that litter the dusty landscape.  The food given
to them is poor and often unpalatable.  Sanitation is dismal, with
one toilet being shared by 300 or more. 

No, the date is not 1944 and these are not Nazi Germany's
concentration camps for Jews ordained by Adolf Hitler.  The date is
1994 and these are America's concentration camps for Cuban refugees
ordered by President Bill Clinton. 

Hastily set up within the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
and in Panama, these concentration camps are Mr. Clinton's solution
to halting the wave of Cuban refugees fleeing the horrors of the
Castro regime.  It is a "solution" unworthy of a country whose very
foundation was forged by people fleeing oppression and tyranny in
their own homeland.  

The U.S. media--the same media that has obsessively covered every
minuscule detail of the O.J. Simpson murder case--has largely
ignored the plight of  the more than 30,000 Cuban refuges in U.S.
concentration camps.  Amnesty International, in a report dated
September 28 which received little or no coverage by the U.S.
press, has concluded that:   "[A] substantial proportion of the
Cubans currently held at Guantanamo could be at risk of human
rights violations if required to return home....[I]n the past those
who have tried to leave the country illegally, despite not having
committed other serious offenses, have frequently been imprisoned
for several months, or even years, and become marginalized from
Cuban society because their action was considered to be an 'act of
betrayal'.  Amnesty International therefore believes that, at the
very least, such people, if returned, will be victimized."

However, on September 9 the Clinton administration had already
reached an accord with the Castro regime whereby none of the U.S.
concentration camp internees will be admitted into the U.S.  At the
same time, in a move worthy of Fidel Castro himself, psychological
and physical deprivations in the concentration camps have increased
with the obvious intent of making the internees desperate enough
that they will choose to return to Cuba.  And Mr. Clinton's ploy is
working--42 internees have so far chosen to return to Cuba to face
an uncertain fate.  In an attempt at image damage control, the
administration has "promised", pending Castro's consent, to 
allow the admission into the U.S. of the handful of internees 
that are over age 70 and of unaccompanied children under the age of 
18.  The number of internees potentially affected by this action would
amount to LESS than 1% of the population of the concentration camps.

The independent group Human Rights Watch has added its voice to 
denouncing the United States for its treatment of the Cuban 
refugees.  In its November report, Human Rights Watch charges
the U.S. government with being an accomplice of the violations of
the Castro regime by entering into an agreement to prevent the
exit of persecuted people from the island.  The group also points
out that the detention of the Cuban refugees by the U.S. violates
article 9th of the International Convention of Civil and Political
Rights. 

It is our collective responsibility to let the Clinton
administration know that its actions are intolerable and unworthy
of the decent people.  Your support in condemning and halting the
unethical practices of the Clinton administration toward Cuban
refugees are desperately needed NOW.  PLEASE contact the White
House and Attorney General Janet Reno and let them know that you
oppose their inhumane treatment of Cuban refugees. 


President Bill Clinton
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
(202) 456-1111 (Voice comment line)
(202) 456-2883 & 456-2461 (FAX) 
President@WhiteHouse.GOV  (Internet e-mail)

  
Attorney General Janet Reno
Department of Justice
Constitution Ave. and Tenth St. NW
Washington, DC 20530
(202) 633-2001 (Voice)
(202) 514-4371 (FAX)

			*** Thank you! ***