Going on 7 years

Sunday is the seventh anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo to so-called detainees. Thirty of the 250 still there are on a hunger strike. One of them has been striking since August 2005. Here's how we deal with the strikers:

The forced-feeding regime has guards and medical staff strap a captive into a chair, Velcro his head to a metal restraint, then tether a tube into the man's stomach through his nose to pump in liquid nourishment twice a day.

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