More than 200 detainees in Guantánamo Bay are in their fifth week of a hunger strike, the Guardian has been told.
Statements from prisoners in the camp which were declassified by the US government on Wednesday reveal that the men are starving themselves in protest at the conditions in the camp and at their alleged maltreatment - including desecration of the Qur'an - by American guards.
The statements, written on August 11, have just been given to the British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. They show that prisoners are determined to starve them selves to death. In one, Binyam Mohammed, a former London schoolboy, said: "I do not plan to stop until I either die or we are respected.
It could be worse Mr. Mohammed, you could have your head sawed off and the decapitation broadcast throughout the world...just to give you some perspective.
1 comments:
I think we shouldn't send the family a funeral bill,since they are being cooperative and logical,if you want them to reconsider their choice,(and all leftists should be happy we allow prisoners their choice, and they wanted to be in control of their diets so whats the big deal)Maybe we could send in some christian ministers to lead them from the darkness of their pagan beliefs,and into the saving arms of Christ, 'cause no man comes to the father but by Jesus,I don't care what Oprah says.
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