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Suicide is now an 'act of war' according to US administration |
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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".
Rear Adm Harris said he did not believe the men had killed themselves out of despair.
"They are smart. They are creative, they are committed," he said.
"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. 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.
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. |
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