US denies guards force-feed Guantanamo hunger strikers.

US denies guards force-feed Guantanamo hunger strikers.


"The United States is denying allegations that its methods of force-feeding hunger strikers at the Guantamano Bay military base constitute torture."

I do not think they are denying they are force feeding them. I think they are denying the methods are cruel. There were reports about these people being force fed a few weeks back. If they didn't feed them they would probably be heavily criticised too. So stop position bargaining and look at the problem and then look at the solutions. Yes, it is that simple, but people will suffer because other people position bargain. The big problem is these people have been captured and put in Guantanomo Bay which appears to be outside of any international law. These people are persona non grata. They are kept there at the President's pleasure and /or leisure. The people have obviously decided it is too awful to stay there under those conditions and have chosen to starve themselves and commit slow suicide because they would rather die than be in Guantanomo Bay. Like Baxter, when you do something like that to people, when you put them in a place where they will choose a slow , painful death over hope and living, then I think you have to admit there is a fundamental problem. It is inhumane to make people want to die. Feeding them is trying to give them a chance to survive and shows you actually have some concerns about what this all means. Lawyers have said the process is cruel, but I believe the Red Cross asked to go in and then couldn't for some reason or another. In any case, as wrong as we were with Baxter, we got the experts in and fronted up to the problems and we are still fronting up to them. Putting people away if you genuinely believe they are dangerous is one thing, thinking they might be dangerous is another, but getting yourself into this kind of a tangle in the richest country in the world that ought to be able to manage everyone in their country adequately because the famous infrastructure is there, appears to be a challenge and I do not understand why. A well organised country ought not get itself into a position like this and it seems to me, like Baxter here, you just have to go in with the experts and the skilled people and resolve the humanitarian disaster. Pretending it's not there won't make it go away. So many people choosing to starve themselves to death is a sign that Guantanomo Bay needs all the help it can get.