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-
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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.