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Nov 11, 2009 News
The members of the Caribbean World News Network (CWNN) in Washington D.C. have expressed their outrage at the ongoing silence from the United States Administration on the “gruesome torture of a minor teen in the South American nation of Guyana.”
This stems from the US governments swift condemnation of the alleged assaults on Cuban bloggers, and apparent disregard for the news of the tortured teen.
According to CWNN, “Cuban bloggers `were forcibly detained by plain clothes security personnel and beaten while en route to a peaceful demonstration in Havana` on November 6th.”
Shortly after the allegations of the forceful confinement of the three bloggers; Yoani Sanchez, Orlando Luis Pardo and Claudia Cadelo, the US state department released a statement saying, “We call on the Government of Cuba to ensure the full respect of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all its citizens.”
In a commentary published on the newspapers website, CWNN said that the U.S. state department will also “insists it is following up on the personal well being of the three (Cubans) and on their medical condition.”
The CWNN editors called the silence of the U.S. government on the tortured teen as ‘deafening’ and said that “(This) tells volumes of whose rights are more important to the U.S. administration. From where we sit, it seems the Barack Obama administration is more willing to play politics than have real concern for the human rights of all citizens of the world.”
Describing the injuries received by the 14-year-old as ‘horrific’, the CWNN labelled the police officers allegedly responsible for the torture as ‘bullying cops’ who “seem to consider themselves judge, jury and executioner in Guyana.”
They also made reference to Haitians who had been immediately sent back to their home country without recourse for Temporary Protected Status; another occasion which they noted the U.S. government chose to pay no attention to.
In the commentary they said “there has been no similar outrage expressed by the U.S. on this matter,” and accused the U.S. government of playing biased politics “as usual” which allows for Cubans “under the controversial wet foot, dry land policy” to be given refuge in the U.S.
The news network said that ‘Guyanese voters, and especially those who worked on the Obama campaign, should be offended by the non-action on this issue by the U.S. government, and went on to further encourage the Guyanese to “let the State Department and the White House know their feelings.”
“It cannot be politics as usual. Concern for human rights must not extend to one group but to all citizens of the world. The police brutality used by the Guyana cops towards an apparent innocent minor must be condemned on all fronts, especially by the State Department, which has seen it fit to condemn lesser acts in Cuba.”
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