Word: guantanamo
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William B. Botka and his wife Harrietteintended to volunteer as translators with theAmerican Red Cross in the planned Guantanamo Bay,Cuba refugee camp...
...Initially when we heard that they were goingto send the 20,000 refugees to Guantanamo, wecalled the Red Cross and volunteered to go downand be interpreters," Botka says...
...which the refugees were consuming at the rate of about 250 tons a day. About 120,000 people were to be convoyed or flown out of the Balkans for temporary resettlement around the world; the U.S. first agreed to house 20,000 refugees at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but then backed off when refugee organizations complained that the facility was too far away...
...upsetting its delicate ethnic balance. The country is continually pressing the allies to ferry them elsewhere, which the allies have so far done, flying several thousand to places as disparate as Albania, Turkey, Norway and Germany. None will be coming to U.S. terrritory, however. "America's offer of Guantanamo Bay was turned down by refugee groups," says Branegan, "because it was too far away and seemed like a prison...
Rather than airlifting 20,000 refugees to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the U.S. is wisely considering the alternative of providing direct assistance to the bordering nations, such as building barracks for the refugees in Albania. Increased assistance would also help to rebuild Albania's shattered economy and improve their ability to shelter the refugees...