GUATANAND BAY. Cuba. Feb 1: Haitian refugee* stranded at the US navy base here because they tested positive for the AIDS virus have gene on a hunger strike their attorney said Sunday, reports

The 271 Haitians also have refused to return to their wooden barracks and are camping out at nearby football field on the bas.. said Michael Ratner, an attorney for the New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights

The CCR, an affiliate of the Yale Law School says the med leal facilities at Guantanamo aren t adequate

The major demand I* not that they get out but that they get a date or. when they are getting out.’ said Ratner who said some of the Haitians have been held at the camp for more than a year