http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/politics/09gitmo.html (reg. req.) or
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/politics/09gitmo.html?ex=1297141200&en=0dc89ad985ac6d20&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssFrom the NYT on 2/9/06:
"United States military authorities have taken tougher measures to force-feed detainees engaged in hunger strikes at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, after concluding that some were determined to commit suicide to protest their indefinite confinement, military officials have said.
In recent weeks, the officials said, guards have begun strapping recalcitrant detainees into "restraint chairs," sometimes for hours a day, to feed them through tubes and prevent them from deliberately vomiting afterward. Detainees who refuse to eat have also been placed in isolation for extended periods in what the officials said was an effort to keep them from being encouraged by other hunger strikers.
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The lawyers said other measures used to dissuade the hunger strikers included placing them in uncomfortably cold air-conditioned isolation cells, depriving them of "comfort items" like blankets and books and sometimes using riot-control soldiers to compel the prisoners to sit still while long plastic tubes were threaded down their nasal passages and into their stomachs."Of course, no one would be so insensitive as to accidentally feed one of these prisoners a pork chop. No, that would be torture! :eyes:
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