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Guantanamo Hunger Strike Returns

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 12:34:55 PM EST
Tags: detainee, Guantanamo (all tags)
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Image from BBC news.

The hunger strike at Guantanamo has resumed.

Force-feeding is painful.

The military's rationale for force-feeding?

"Because our policy is to preserve life."

Then why won't it take the death penalty off the table?

Another blast from the past: A special report by the Guardian on the mistreatment of detainees.

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    Disturbingly great graphic.... (5.00 / 2) (#1)
    by kdog on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 12:39:04 PM EST
    makes my stomach turn....and our stomachs should be turning with what goes on in our names.

    I'll Say (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by squeaky on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 12:56:43 PM EST
    Couldn't have put it better myself.

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    Repugnant treatment (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by Edie on Wed Apr 11, 2007 at 12:27:57 PM EST
    There's not been a lot of analysis of the hunger strike in the US press--because it is so repugnant and politically damning.  The World Socialist Web Site makes this point about Guantanamo:

    The prison's name has become synonymous with torture, humiliation, religious persecution, sexual abuse, and the abrogation of the most basic democratic rights associated with the so-called "war on terror."


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    They don't show (none / 0) (#3)
    by Che's Lounge on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 02:08:32 PM EST
    the guy kneeling on his chest. It's no easy task shoving an NG tube down the gullet of an uncooperative "patient". To the glee of Jim and others, I will point out that ramming the tube through a sinus and into the brain is a known complication of this type of US medical care (AKA torture). But it does quiet the patient down significantly.

    I remember getting the tube.... (none / 0) (#4)
    by kdog on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 02:12:02 PM EST
    through the nose when I got my stomach pumped....a more unpleasant feeling I cannot recall.  

    It felt like torture...and I was cooperating.

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    The (none / 0) (#5)
    by Wile ECoyote on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 02:45:42 PM EST
    BBC story is from 26 Oct 05 15:06 16:06 UK.  

    So!? (5.00 / 1) (