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unhappycamper

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Sat Apr 20, 2013, 06:24 AM Apr 2013

Guantánamo hunger strike count reaches 63

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/04/19/189097/guantanamo-hunger-strike-count.html


Guantánamo hunger strike count reaches 63
Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald
Posted on Friday, April 19, 2013

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- More than a third of the war-on-terror captives are now considered hunger strikers, with 15 of them being force fed and four hospitalized, the U.S. military said Friday, reporting a significant spike since the majority of prisoners were put under lockdown.

U.S. Army Capt. Malisa Hamper, a prison camps spokesman, said 63 of the 166 captives had missed enough meals or become malnourished enough to meet the detention center definition of a hunger striker.

Also Thursday, the detention center’s Muslim-American cultural advisor defended the decision to raid a communal prison and forcibly move into single-cell lockdown some 60 or so captives. The detainees had weeks before covered up most of the prison’s surveillance cameras and kept largely out of view of their U.S. Army guards, the military said, stirring fears that some were planning to commit suicide.

“They wanted to die of hunger and thirst behind the hidden cameras,” said the Pentagon employee who allows himself to be identified only by his first name, Zak.



unhappycamper comment: One would think that this gulag should have been closed by now.

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