While it's bad enough that this country abandoned the main missions, with cheers from the majority, of why we sent our military into that region thus destroying another country and it's people and spreading the hatreds of our policies with our terror that now has reached to the younger generations, who were but little kids when it all started, Guantanamo is the Very Real Symbol of this Nations now reality. In All Our Names, who not only once prided itself as being a law abiding and human rights advocate of justice for all, leading and helping in writings of International Law, and condemning others, still doing same for their violations of, it's a rallying point for even more hatreds that build from same now long run policies set forth over a decade ago!!
April 21, 2013 - The number of inmates taking part in the Guantanamo Bay hunger strike has reached 84, which is just over a half of the prison’s population, US military officials have stated, as reported by AP news agency.
The hunger strike in the infamous US detention center is steadily growing with 32 detainees joining other protesters refusing to eat in just the past few days.
A military spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Samuel House said that 16 of the 84 prisoners are being force-fed, while five have been hospitalized.
However, the lives of those hospitalized men are not under threat, the official assured in a statement. read more>>>
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