Force-Feeding at Guantanamo Acknowledged
N.Y. Times
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WASHINGTON — The military commander responsible for the American detention center at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, confirmed Tuesday that officials there last month turned to more aggressive methods to deter prisoners who were carrying out long-term hunger strikes to protest their incarceration.
The commander, Gen. Bantz J. Craddock, head of the United States Southern Command, said soldiers at Guantnamo began strapping some of the detainees into “restraint chairs” to force-feed them and isolate them from one another after finding that some were deliberately vomiting or siphoning out the liquid they had been fed.
“It was causing problems because some of these hard-core guys were getting worse,” General Craddock said at a breakfast meeting with reporters. Explaining the use of the restraint chairs, he added, “The way around that is you have to make sure that purging doesn’t happen.”
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