Guantanamo hunger strikers: Force feeding tactics "abusive"

More detainees than ever before are being force-fed liquids to keep them alive at the war on terror U.S military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

As of Sunday, 37 of 103 detainees acknowledged by the military as participating in a four-month-old hunger strike were receiving enteral, or tube, feedings administered by military medical personnel.

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The process involves forcibly strapping a detainee to a chair, inserting a tube down his nose and throat, and pumping liquid Ensure into his stomach.

"For those of us being force-fed against our will, the process of having a tube repeatedly forced up our noses and down our throats in order to keep us in a state of semi-starvation is extremely painful and the conditions under which it is done are abusive," wrote nine of those detainees in a letter sent Friday to an unnamed Guantanamo doctor.

The letter called on the military to allow "independent medical professionals" to treat them instead of military doctors. Last month, around 40 military doctors, nurses, and aides joined staff deployed at Guantanamo to cope with the hunger strike.

"I cannot trust your advice, because you are responsible to your superior military officers who require you to treat me by means unacceptable to me, and you put your duty to them above your duty to me as a doctor," the detainees' letter said.

Those who signed the letter included Shaker Aamer, 47, the last British resident held at Guantanamo and Younous Chekkouri, 44, a Moroccan. Both Aamer and Chekkouri were was approved for transfer from Guantanamo in 2010.

So were four other signatories, according to a list of 56 cleared detainees composed by the Justice Department: Nabil Hadjarab, 33, from Algeria; Ahmed Belbacha, 43, from Algeria; , 41, from Syria; and Adel-Hakeemy, 48, from Tunisia.

All of these men have been held for more than 11 years without charges.

"I do not wish to die, but I am prepared to run the risk that I may end up doing so, because I am protesting the fact that I have been locked up for more than a decade, without a trial, subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment and denied access to justice. I have no other way to get my message across," their letter said.

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Guantanamo hunger strikers: Force feeding tactics "abusive"

Guantanamo hunger strikers: Force feeding tactics "abusive"

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