Guantanamo, April 03: A group of inmates interned at detention camp on the US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have reportedly set aside some of their food rations as a donation to Haiti’s earthquake victims.
A lawyer for one of the prisoners says she was told that inmates from Camp 4 believed it was common sense to ask if they could contribute to Haitians suffering from the country’s devastating earthquake in January.
The camp’s prisoners are allowed to watch television and have been following the tragedy unfold in neighboring Haiti, Allison Lefrak, a lawyer for the last Russian inmate Ravil Mingazov, told the US media on Friday.
However, the camp guards have not facilitated the donations, she added.
The lawyer says despite their good intentions, the detainees are “doubtful” whether the camp authorities will actually send the food that they have set aside to Haiti for humanitarian purposes.
The United States has used the base for dispatch of relief supplies to Haiti, which lies only 160 kilometers (100 miles) to the east.
——-Agencies