THE HUNGER GAMES
AT GUANTANAMO
tanamo during his State of the
Union address in February. The
mass hunger strike began a few
weeks later — the last resort of
desperate men seeking attention.
“I just hope that because of the
pain we are suffering, the eyes
of the world will once again look
to Guantánamo before it is too
late,” one prisoner, Samir Naji al
Hasan Moqbel, wrote in The New
York Times in April, detailing his
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experience of being force-fed.
After 11 years, he continues to be
held at Guantanamo because the
Obama administration refuses to
send detainees home to Yemen
while the country remains a hotbed of terrorism.
Accounts like his did turn public
attention toward Guantanamo, at
least briefly. A day after al Hasan
Moqbel’s op-ed was published,
the Boston Marathon bombings
shocked the nation and pushed
Guantanamo off the front pages —
the same week the military granted
Col. John
Bogdan
speaks to
reporters
in April.
Weapons
confiscated
from
detainees
during a raid
lay on the
table.