Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 43351
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2006/6/11-13 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:43351 Activity:nil
6/11    US military commander calls Gitmo suicides "act of war"
        http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5068606.stm
        \_ General Jack Ripper is alive and well.
        \_ When I first read that, I thought it was from the Onion.
        \_ yes, act of war... let's kill them... wait... they already died.
        \_ 'The US military said the men's bodies were being treated "with the
           utmost respect".'  Oh good.  As long as we treat _dead_ bodies at
           Gitmo w/ respect.
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Printable version Guantanamo suicides 'acts of war' A watchtower at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba These are the first suicides at the base, despite dozens of attempts The suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says. The camp commander said the two Saudis and a Yemeni were "committed" and had killed themselves in "an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us". Lawyers said the men who hanged themselves had been driven by despair. A military investigation into the deaths is now under way, amid growing calls for the detention centre to be moved or closed. Walter White, an international lawyer who specialises in human rights, told the BBC the Guantanamo camp was likely to be considered a "great stain" on the human rights record of the US. There have been dozens of suicide attempts since the camp was set up four years ago - but none successful until now. The men were found unresponsive and not breathing by guards on Saturday morning, said officials. They were in separate cells in Camp One, the highest security section of the prison. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of warfare waged against us Rear Adm Harry Harris Camp commander They hanged themselves with clothing and bed sheets, camp commander Rear Adm Harry Harris said. He said medical teams had tried to revive the men, but all three were pronounced dead. "They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us." If it's perfectly legal and there's nothing going wrong there - well, why don't they have it in America? Harriet Harman UK Constitutional Affairs Minister All three men had previously taken part in some of the mass on-and-off hunger strikes undertaken by detainees since last August, and all three had been force-fed by camp authorities. They had left suicide notes, but no details have been made available. The US military said the men's bodies were being treated "with the utmost respect". White House spokesman Tony Snow said Mr Bush had "expressed serious concern" at the deaths. "He also stressed that it was important to treat the bodies humanely and with cultural sensitivity," he said. A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Tony Blair described the suicide as a "sad incident". "If it's perfectly legal and there's nothing going wrong there - well, why don't they have it in America and then the American court system can supervise it?" Send us your comments William Goodman from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights told AFP news agency the three dead men were "heroes for those of us who believe in basic American values of justice, fairness and democracy". Mr Goodman, whose organisation represents some 300 detainees, said the government had denied them that. Ken Roth, head of Human Rights Watch in New York, told the BBC the men had probably been driven by despair. "These people are despairing because they are being held lawlessly," he said. They're not being brought before any independent judges. On Friday, Mr Bush said he would "like to end Guantanamo", adding he believed the inmates "ought to be tried in courts here in the United States".