Na Sherrill Hogen, Greenfield Recorder, Ianuali 17, 2023
He kanakolu mau kānaka i make mai ka wā i hoʻokuʻu ʻia ai lākou mai ka hale paʻahao ʻo Guantanamo. He aha kā lākou i make ai? Ma hea lākou? ʻIke paha kekahi? Ua mālama anei mākou ma ʻAmelika? ʻAʻole anei lākou "ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi o nā mea ʻino" nāna i hoʻolālā i ka 9/11?
ʻO kā mākou aupuni, ma o nā ʻoihana ʻehā, e hoʻopoina iā mākou i kēia mau kāne, a poina i nā kānaka Muslim 35 i noho kaʻawale ʻia ma lalo o ka paʻa pūʻali koa ma Guantanamo. Makemake lākou e hoʻopoina iā mākou i nā mea he nui e pili ana iā Guantanamo e hōʻike ana i kahi kulekele ʻino a me ke koko koko o ka hoʻohaʻahaʻa ʻana i ka poʻe i mea e kākoʻo ai i ke Kaua ma ka Terror.
Aia wau ma Wakinekona, DC ma ke ʻano he lālā o Witness Against Torture e kūʻē i ka 21st anniversary o ka wehe ʻana o Guantanamo, a he mau nīnau kaʻu.
Pono mākou i kahi kaua ma luna o ka weliweli? Ua manaʻo ka nui o mākou, e pane i ka 9/11, e pale i ka United States. Aka, he kaua kaua anei? Pono anei ia e hoʻokau i nā kāne Muslim? Pono anei ia e hoʻāla i kahi Islamophobia huna? Nui nā nīnau. Kakaikahi na pane oiaio. Akā, loaʻa iā mākou kekahi mau ʻike.
ʻO ka hale paʻahao ʻo Guantanamo, ma waho o nā palena ʻAmelika, ma ka mokupuni ʻo Cuba, ua loaʻa i kāna mau pio mua ma Ianuali 11, 2002. Mai ia manawa, 779 mau kāne a me nā keikikāne Muslim i hoʻopaʻa ʻia ma laila, aneane ʻaʻole i hoʻopiʻi ʻia a hoʻokolokolo ʻia no ka hewa, kokoke. hoʻokuʻu ʻia nā mea a pau ma hope o nā makahiki o ka paʻa ʻana a he 35 wale nō i koe. No laila, ua hewa kēlā mau 35 i kekahi mea. Akā ʻaʻole. Ua hoʻokuʻu ʻia he iwakālua o lākou no ka hoʻokuʻu ʻana, mai Pepeluali 2021, akā paʻa paʻa - ke kali nei.
Hoʻomaʻemaʻe ʻia no ka hoʻokuʻu ʻana, ʻo ia ka mea e lawe aku ai kekahi ʻāina ʻekolu iā lākou mai ko mākou lima aku, no ka mea, ʻo mākou, ka poʻe i hana ʻino iā lākou a hiki i 20 mau makahiki, hōʻole mākou e lawe iā lākou, ma ke kauoha a ka ʻaha kūkā. ʻOiai ke noi nei ʻo ʻAmelika a kipi i nā ʻāina ʻē aʻe e hoʻokipa i kēia mau kāne, noho nā kāne i loko o ko lākou mau keʻena a kali, no laila e hoʻolōʻihi i ka ʻeha o ka ʻike ʻole inā hiki mai ke kūʻokoʻa.
Akā naʻe, ʻaʻole i hōʻoia ʻia ke kūʻokoʻa. Ma waho aʻe o nā 30 i ʻōlelo ʻia ma mua o ka make ʻana mai ko lākou hoʻokuʻu ʻia ʻana, he mau haneli hou aʻe i hopu ʻia i loko o ka limbo, ʻaʻohe palapala passport, ʻaʻohe hana, ʻaʻohe mālama olakino a ʻinikua, a me ka hui ʻole ʻana me ko lākou ʻohana! Aia kekahi ma nā ʻāina ʻaʻole lākou e ʻōlelo i ka ʻōlelo; ua pale ʻia kekahi e like me ex-Gitmo, me he mea lā i hana hewa.
He aha kā mākou ʻaiʻē i kēia mau kāne? - no ka mea, he mau kāne lākou, he poʻe kānaka e like me mākou, pono ke mahalo a mālama ʻia. (Ua hoʻomāinoino mākou i kekahi o lākou, ma nā ʻano hoʻowahāwahā ʻia, akā ua hūnā ʻia kēlā ʻoiaʻiʻo i ka Senate huna "Torture Report"). Inā manaʻo ʻoe he aie mākou iā lākou i ka hoʻoponopono hou ʻana, hiki iā ʻoe ke kōkua ma o ka Guantanamo Survivors Fund. (www.nogitmos.org)
Hōʻike piha: Ua hoʻopiʻi ʻia he ʻumi o nā kāne 35 ma Guantanamo i kēia lā, akā ua loaʻa kā lākou ʻae ʻana ma lalo o ka hoʻomāinoino a no laila ua nīnau ʻia. ʻElua mau kāne i hoʻokolokolo ʻia a hoʻopaʻi ʻia. Ironically, ka mea i kapaia, nona iho hoolaha mastermind o ka 9/11 hoouka, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a me kona eha co-conspirators, a pau ma Guantanamo ma lalo o ka pūʻali paʻahao e like me ke koena, aole i hookolokoloia. He ʻōnaehana hoʻokolokolo e hana ana kēia? ʻO kēia ke ala e hoʻolilo ai i kā mākou waiwai, ma ke kumukūʻai he $14 miliona no ka paʻahao i kēlā me kēia makahiki?
Mai poina iā mākou ʻo Guantanamo, akā e hana e hoʻopau iā ia. He ʻāpana ia o kahi kulekele hewa, hoʻomāinoino, hoʻomāinoino a ko mākou aupuni. Na mākou ke kuleana. E hana kākou i nā ʻōnaehana olakino e pili ana i ka pono no nā mea a pau. ʻAʻole kēlā ʻo Guantanamo.
Sherrill Hogen, he lālā o Witness Against Torture, No More Guantanamos, a World BEYOND War, noho ma Charlesmont.
