Huffington Magazine Issue 52 | Page 67

THE HUNGER GAMES AT GUANTANAMO who refuse to go to the medical facility are strapped to their beds and force-fed inside their cells. “It’s not a violent resistance,” one medical staffer in Camp Six said the day reporters visited. Nevertheless, medical personnel are accompanied at all times by guards in riot gear. Deghayes, the former Guantanamo detainee who was on a hunger strike for a few weeks during his time at the prison, described the effects of slow starvation. “It’s more difficult than if you were not a pris- HUFFINGTON 06.09.13 oner, because you’re in an isolated cell and all you have is nothing but walls,” he told HuffPost. “You become very hungry, you become very sick... You lose your senses, you can’t think properly, you have pain in your head and everywhere of course, you think about food. It’s difficult. It comes to a point where you can’t stand anymore.” While there are potential health risks to force-feeding ­— collapsed lungs, infections, pneumonia — the military in theory may continue “THE PROBLEM IS THE INDEFINITE DETENTION.” The sun rises outside Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.