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WASHINGTON,
\n Sept. 17 – A hunger strike at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
\n has unsettled senior commanders
\n there and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military’s effort
\n to manage the detention of hundreds of terrorism suspects, lawyers and
\n officials say.<\/p>\n
As many as 200 prisoners – more than a third of the camp – have refused
\n food in recent weeks to protest conditions and prolonged confinement without
\n trial, according to the accounts of lawyers who represent them.<\/p>\n
from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n The headline of this article reads "Guantanamo prisoners The fact is that a hunger strike is an ugly and The true test of a Democracy is not how it treats its WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 – A hunger strike at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has unsettled senior commanders there and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military’s effort to manage the detention of hundreds of terrorism suspects, … Continue reading
\n go on hunger strike" as though it just started. We have been
\n reading about this hunger strike for a month on blogs and alternative
\n media sites. Frankly, we expected the mainstream media to ignore it for
\n a while longer, at least until someone dies or smuggles out photos of
\n emaciated prisoners cuffed and in irons as they are being force fed through
\n tubes.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n desperate measure taken only by men with nothing to lose and no other
\n way to kill
\n themselves. These unfortunate individuals have been penned up,
\n going on four years now, with
\n no habeas corpus, no Fifth Amendment, no hope for a fair trial, no way
\n to communicate with their families and
\n no way to question their incarceration. They have been pumped dry of
\n every fact, feeling and fantasy, they have nothing more to give, but
\n we can’t let them go. So there they lie, wasting away in ignorant
\n obscurity, out of sight, but not out of some minds.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n favorite sons, but how it treats its enemies.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"