If this is true twitler is even a bigger monster than I thought

[kimbutgar]

This is from the the Guardian

Twitler is starving the detainees now at Guantanamo Bay now!

I am in Guantánamo Bay. The US government is starving me to death
By Khalid Qassim

I haven’t had food in my stomach for 23 days. The 20 September was the day they told us they would no longer feed us. They have decided to leave us to waste away and die instead.

I am in so much pain every minute that I know it can’t go on much longer. Now as each night comes, I wonder if I will wake up in the morning. When will my organs fail? When will my heart stop? I am slowly slipping away and no one notices.

There is a man who is in charge of all the medical staff. I don’t know his name but they call him the senior medical officer. He was the one who called us all in and told us they would stop feeding us. As soon as he took over I knew he was bad news and now he has decided to end our lives.

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These days have been the most terrifying of my 15 years in this place. We are used to torture here but this is so slow and so cruel. The people who are supposed to look after us are hurting us. I have been reduced to pleading for my life. I am asking for anyone out there to talk about what’s going on here. To ask why Trump is letting us slowly die. I don’t have many days left.

These words were dictated by Khalid Qasim from Guantánamo Bay to his attorney, Shelby Sullivan-Bennis. of the human rights organization Reprieve. Khalid Qassim has been held at Guantánamo Bay for 15 years. He has never been charged with a crime or had the chance to prove his innocence at trial. Khalid comes from a small town in Yemen and travelled to Afghanistan in search of work in 2000. He was detained by Afghan police and handed over the US forces in a case of mistaken identity. It emerged later that the US offered large financial incentives to local law enforcement to hand over Arab prisoners for interrogation.

I accidentally found this in a right wing site - what really happened - years ago I used to read it because it was anti bush but as soon as President Obama got elected it got awful. I took a shower after looking at this site.

But I consider the guardian a reputable site.

I wonder now how they are treating undocumented immigrants in those ICE camps? Is twitler authorizing starting concentration camps and gulags?

Please talk me down.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/13/guantanamo-bay-us-government-hunger-strike?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[Wounded Bear]

1. I find that hard to believe, even for Trump...

I usually trust The Guardian, too, but this reeks of RW propaganda.

[elehhhhna]

7. I believe they have suspended forced feeding. If I understand correctly.

[Wounded Bear]

14. That at least makes a bit of sense...nt

[B2G]

2. I'm genuinely confused.

They're going to stop force feeding the 26 prisoners who are on a hunger strike? Or everyone there?

[cwydro]

3. He is on a hunger strike, but wants to be force fed?

I’m missing something here.

[B2G]

5. I know. This makes no sense.

I've seen horrific force feeding videos posted here.

Is he really lamenting not being force fed and the possibility he might die as a result?

Well fucking eat a sandwich. This is just bizarre.

[cwydro]

10. Yup.

Bizarro world.

[marybourg]

6. Yeah, you're missing the part where

you're supposed to disengage your brain and go off ranting to all your FB and Twit followers about the bad gub'mint. This is one area where both sides actually do do it.

[linuxman]

4. Uh-huh...

[uppityperson]

8. Looks like they stopped force feeding, are letting people starve themselves if they choose to

[B2G]

9. A year ago he was bitching about force feedings.

Careful what you wish for.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/features/2016/08/khalid-qasim-hunger-strike-guantanamo-160823112235473.html

[cwydro]

11. Good find.

Unbelievable.

[kimbutgar]

12. I cant help but feel his helplessness in being there in the first place let alone 15 years!

[B2G]

13. The UN says force feeding is torture.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.commondreams.org/views/2014/05/28/force-feeding-prisoners-criminal-act%3famp