Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes | Guardian Animations

In March 2012, reports of a hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay, the US detention camp in Cuba, began to surface.

Details were sketchy and were contradicted by statements from the US military. Now, using testimony from five detainees, this animated film reveals the daily brutality of life inside Guantánamo.

Today there are 17 prisoners still on hunger strike, 16 of whom are being force-fed. Two are in hospital• Warning: contains scenes some viewers might find disturbing! In this Sunday's Observer read the extraordinary story of the making of Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes, plus an interview with David Morrissey about why he got involved


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[TheEnginator]

14 years in a torture camp for no reason. From age 32 to age 46. He lost his best years, couldn't work, couldn't accumulate wealth, couldn't marry, couldn't have children. His most important years were basically stolen from him.

[jhony]

‘’ I BEEN DETAIN AT GUANTANAMO FOR 11 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS I NEVER BEEN CHARGE WITH ANY CRIME, I NEVER RECIVE A TRIAL ‘’

[Chidlingz]

All the people saying these prisoners deserve it don't understand the implications that being cleared for release imply. They are arguing for those wrongly placed in Gitmo who are truly innocent of wrongdoing. Under the Patriot Act the US imprisoned people who were accused of terrorist activities whether there is evidence or not. Prisoners who have been cleared for release should be simply released. Torturing and imprisoning people innocent of crime is against the internationally and in basically every developed country. This shit is sick.

[asmaaelbamby]

It's truly barbaric, no other word for it.

[ggteew]

its sad if some of them are innocent and were charged and tortured just because of a stereotype.

[maximilianC]

So sad. So messed up. The story based on this emprisonment of reminds me of a concentration camp from Nazi Germany.

[SebbyNilsen]

Welcome to USA, the country of liberty.

[flighted]

You have to realize that the people who sign up to be prison guards in these places have sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies of their own.

[beagruy]

As I get older, you figure out who the real enemies are.

[turnip]

Imagine sleeping and then waking up to hear the FBI screaming *”EAT”*

[dorkasaurus_rex]

to any bootlicker who might defend Guantanamo Bay as legal... Why is it in Cuba and not Madison Square Garden? This is an unconstitutional embarrassment.

[Technodreamer]

"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." - 8th Amendment to the US Constitution.

"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." - Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed by the United States of America on December 10, 1948.

[jimhellas]

US has the right to officially charge someone for terrorism, detain the individual as long as he is in US soil (or if he's in a country where he's wanted as well), start a fair trial based on law. US has no right to kidnap people from other countries and detain them without legal basis.

If you think US has that right, you accept that any other country (e.g. Russia, Iran, China) has the same right to do the same thing to US citizens...

[dizzydaisypeace]

I was watching this on the amnesty international and was moved by this story so now that i support the amnesty international to fight for human rights!

[willisball]

this is just cruel. no one should ever be like this. it's unhuman

[dikshabaruah]

I hope this comes in history books as quick as possible.

[patricialeejacobo]

Why, if UN has any influence at all, is this treatment continued. It's sick

[noname]

Some people have harmed others but got away. You haven't ever harmed anyone have you? Everyone I've ever known has looked the other way to torture and attempted murder, nevermind striving to survive.

[ms.ashanti]

I feel so helpless in all of this. Almost like the story. Because the people in charge don't care what is happening to these individuals. God shows mercy onthose who are wrongly accused and stay steadfast in their faith. May God be with

[krisd]

People get nasogastric tubes all the time at the hospital and they don’t have to be this way. You lube up a thin tube, insert threw the nostril, and advance the tube down as the patient sips on water until you get it to the stomach (we measure before hand from tip of the nose, to pinna of the ear, to xiphoid process, and that’s the length you go). You tilt the person’s chin to their chest to close off the windpipe and open up the esophagus. Then once it’s down, you keep the tube in place until the order is discontinued. Everyone I’ve talked to says it’s unpleasant and I always feel bad when I have to do the procedure on patients. But if you do it correctly, it’s placed in a matter of seconds. If you have an incompetent person performing the procedure, there’s choking, vomiting, blood and snot. How they are depicting ng tube insertion in this video is unnecessarily cruel. And wtf is up with jamming whole cans of tube feed down?! That’s gonna make someone puke! Everything about this is preforming it wrong to intentionally inflict pain.