Posted on 09/23/2013 11:51:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
U.S. military officials at the Guantánamo Bay prison announced Monday that they will stop releasing daily hunger strike updates because they say the number of protesters has steadily dropped to a core group of 19 defiant prisoners.
For months, the U.S. military has issued reports each day listing the number of hunger strikers during one of the most sustained protests at the prison on the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The prison opened in January 2002 to hold “enemy combatants” in the early days of the war in Afghanistan. …
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When I skip lunch sometimes, I wonder if it’s considered a “hunger strike?”
Let ‘em die and dump their bodies in the ocean, the fish can use the food.
How about just a daily report of the ones who passed on from the strike and how many left to go.
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