Enough to Make You Gag; Guantanamo Bay  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 407 no. 8834 (May 2013), page 10-11.
Topik: Prisons; Prisoners; Hunger Strikes; Military Bases; Human Rights; Ethics

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Many prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are participating in a hunger strike, and authorities at the prison say those prisoners have a choice. They can eat or, if they refuse to, they will have a greased tube stuffed up their noses, down their throats and into their stomachs, through which they will be fed. This can cause gagging and bleeding in a compliant patient, and is a lot nastier when done against his will. It takes up to two hours, during which time an uncooperative prisoner must be restrained to stop him pulling out the tube. Lawyers for the 23 or so men who are being subjected to this treatment report that it is deliberately being done roughly. Approximately 100 of the 166 detainees still in Guantanamo are now on hunger strike, and extra doctors were brought in this week to help with what the administration refuses to call force-feeding. No matter what they have done, this is wrong. Four years and three months ago, Barack Obama, in one of his first official acts as president, wrote an executive order to close the prison camp. And yet it goes on. Some of the 166 have been there as long as 11 years, without ever even having been charged. The evil of "Gitmo" has recruited far more people to terrorism than a mere 166. Barack Obama should think about America's founding principles, take out his pen and end this stain on its history.

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