Live Free Or Die- Guantanamo Hunger Strikers Near Death

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Guantanamo hunger strikers reported near death

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/01/guantanamo-hunger-strikers-reported.php

(JURIST) Several detainees involved in the continuing Guantanamo Bay (JURIST news archive) hunger strikes are close to death, according to lawyers acting for the detainees. Despite force-feedings by the US military, there is concern for two emaciated Yemenis and a hospitalized Saudi prisoner. Reprieve (advocacy website), an international prisoners' rights group, is set to release a report Monday on the grave condition of Yemenis Abu Bakah al-Shamrani and Abu Anas. Last week the US military announced (JURIST report) that the number of detainees participating in hunger strikes had reached its lowest point since October 2005 - only 22, with 17 of those receiving nourishment via feeding tubes - but offered no reasons for the dropoff. While force-feeding has been declared humane (American Forces Press report) by medical officials at Guantanamo, lawyers for the detainees dispute (JURIST report) the assertion. The detainees are protesting their indefinite captivity in the US military camp. The London Sunday Times has more.


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1. Alex, I'll take dictatorships for $100.

"...detainees participating in hunger strikes had reached its lowest point since October 2005 - only 22, with 17 of those receiving nourishment via feeding tubes - but offered no reasons for the dropoff."

What is: The rest of them died?

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2. force fed or un-counted

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3. It's official: I sympathize with the terrorists. Come and get me Limpballs

We have lost our humanity. How can you not feel sympathy for someone driven to starve to death rather than live the brutalized existence left them? Are they guilty, innocent? Who knows? There has been no public trial. It certainly seems cruel and unusual. And these people being treated like animals are not the only ones to lose their humanity. We have lost ours, hidden behind the secrecy of national security. We have failed miserably under the rule of Our Leader.