Guantanamo inmates on hunger strike

Australian News.Net
Wednesday 30th April, 2008

Detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba have begun a new hunger strike.

The U.S. commander at Guantanamo, Robert Durand, says he believes the strike is short term protest to gain sympathy prior to new war-crimes trial proceedings.

He said the inmates were trying to elicit media attention to bring international pressure on the United States to release the inmates back to the battlefield.

The U.S. military has not disclosed the names or nationalities of hunger strikers but said the 10 men facing war-crimes trials were not among them.

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