The Dept. of Defense announced today that it has released five ethnic Chinese muslims who were being held in the U.S. detainment facility at Guantanamo.
Even after the U.S. decreed that the five were no longer considered enemy combatants, the Bush administration insisted that it could not repatriate them back to China due to concerns for their well-being. They are being sent instead to Albania.
All five of the subject detainees are ethnic Uighurs determined to be “No Longer Enemy Combatants” (NLEC) through a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT), a review process held at Guantanamo during 2004-2005 to determine classification status of all detainees.
The United States has done the utmost to ensure that the Uighurs will be treated humanely upon release. Our key objective has been to resettle the Uighurs in an environment that will permit them to rebuild their lives. Albania will provide this opportunity.
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