Gitmo Hunger Strikers "will die"

[Commandante_Ant]

From Sky.com:

Guantanamo Bay detainees on their fifth week of hunger strike say they are prepared to die.

Recently declassified statements quote prisoners saying they were determined to starve themselves in protest over living conditions and alleged maltreatment.


According to The Guardian newspaper the statements, that were written on August 11, have just been given to the British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith.

In one statement, reported in the paper, Binyam Mohammed, a former London schoolboy, said: "I do not plan to stop until I either die or we are respected.

"People will definitely die."

Mr Stafford Smith told The Guardian that many men had been starving themselves for more than four weeks and the situation was becoming "desperate".

However, the US military says the men will not be allowed to die and claimed there were 89 prisoners involved - not 200 as quoted in reports - and 13 are being fed through tubes.

It is the second hunger strike at the facility since late June.

The first ended after authorities promised better access to books, bottled drinking water and other terms.


I think its going to be an entirely fruitless experience, Bush will do nothing, he doesnt follow the rules of the Geneva Convention. But through their sacrifice and possible death, they are bringing to light the inhumane treatment of "terrorists" and "threats to national security". I really hope that something happens before someone has to die but i really dont see it happening.

[tiger]

Good to see that they are protesting.

Just, if this makes any diffrence or not; well, proably not, but you have to try.

[PRC-UTE]

Good luck to them!

I imagine a lot of them will die, but they may embolden resistance to this intolerable oppression.

[bolshevik butcher]

I'm surprised the U$ is willing to create another bobby sands. Well good luck to them, if any of them die tehy will go down as martyrs.

[MiniOswald]

I imagine they will go unconcious from lack of nutrition and then you can force feed them, so i cant see it working really, it has brought media attention back to guantanamo momentarily but it will go again soon enough and thatll be the end of that.

[slim]

By the time you lose consciousness from it i would imagine that digesting food would kill them. It would have to be the drip.

[bunk]

Can Cuba do anything. If it goes long any longer i'd like them to attack Guantanamo. If the US reacts then Chavez will cut oil to the Americans and the rest of the world watching is outraged by the conditions at the bay anyway

[patria grande]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2005, 07:58 AM
Can Cuba do anything. If it goes long any longer i'd like them to attack Guantanamo. If the US reacts then Chavez will cut oil to the Americans and the rest of the world watching is outraged by the conditions at the bay anyway
Is not that easy. The U.S is waiting for a single excuse to invade Cuba, and this will be the perfect one, don´t you agree? Remember, Cuba can´t afford to start a war against the U.S, the achievements of the revolution will be completely destroyed by the "hawks".
I believe the only weapon available for Cuba to fight against the empire is its moral authority.
As we all know, Guantánamo is a part of Cuba, and is the only part of the island were Human Rights are constantly violated.
I hope the whole world turns their eyes to what is happening in this outrageous concentration camp, especially the "free and democratic" Europe, that seems to be completely blind about this awful situation!!!!

[bolshevik butcher]

yeh, i think that for cuba to declare war on america would be a rather foolish move. Look at the logistics of it. The U$ is several times more powerful than cuba.

[Hampton]

U.S. Military Tube-Feeds 13 Hunger Strikers

By ALEXANDRA OLSON
Associated Press Writer

09/09/05 "Guardian" -- -- SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The U.S. military is tube-feeding more than a dozen of the 89 terror suspects on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, a spokesman said Friday.

Some of the 89 striking detainees at Guantanamo have not eaten for a month, said Guantanamo detention mission spokesman Sgt. Justin Behrens. The others have refused at least nine consecutive meals, he said.

Fifteen have been hospitalized and 13 of those were being fed through tubes, Behrens said in a written response to questions from The Associated Press. Medics are monitoring all 89 and checking their vital signs daily, he added.

Previously, the military has said that 76 inmates were participating in the hunger strike.

British lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith, who represents one of the hunger strikers - Briton Omar Deghayes, 36 - warned Friday that some of the inmates were willing to starve themselves to death.

Full. (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10217.htm)

[MiniOswald]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10 2005, 02:11 PM
Can Cuba do anything. If it goes long any longer i'd like them to attack Guantanamo. If the US reacts then Chavez will cut oil to the Americans and the rest of the world watching is outraged by the conditions at the bay anyway
Unfortunatly in the eyes of the international community that there land is still leased by the americans and as its a military post, attacking it wouldnt be a good idea, america is just looking for an excuse to smash cuba and a couple of dead american guards would be perfect. And Although it would hurt america to lose venezuelan oil, theyve still got enough other sources to survive. As for the rest of the world, we can be outraged but when did a couple of pissed off eurotrash ever stop anything?

[bcbm]

Originally posted by Clenched [email protected] 10 2005, 10:04 AM
I'm surprised the U$ is willing to create another bobby sands. Well good luck to them, if any of them die tehy will go down as martyrs.

Since most of the people in Gitmo are unknown and have little to no access to the outside world, I don't think this will create any Bobby Sands. If someone died, we probably wouldn't know about it until some weeks or months later and to most it would just be "another terrorist dead," not the death of someone fighting for justice.

[CubaSocialista]

Whether or not they die, I hope that in all ways imaginable, their bodies will be full and satisfied. People with such dedication and indomitable spirit stun me every day.

Gitmo Inmates, I'm with you all.

[Anarchist Freedom]

good luck to them I hope the prevail.

[Intifada]

My thoughts are with their struggle.