Clashes break out as Guantanamo guards seek to break hunger strike | World news

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  • Heurts (= tirs de flash balls apparemment) à Guantánamo quand des gardiens veulent isoler des grévistes de la faim.

    Clashes break out as Guantanamo guards seek to break hunger strike | World news | guardian.co.uk
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/13/guantanamo-bay-prisoners-hunger-strike

    Guards clashed Saturday with prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay prison, as the military sought to move hunger strikers out of a communal section of the detention center on the US base in Cuba, officials said. The confrontation occurred after the commander decided to move prisoners into single, solid-walled cells so that prison authorities could monitor them more closely during the hunger strike, the military said.

    When guards arrived in the communal to move the men, the prisoners fought back with makeshift weapons, prompting troops to fire four “less-than-lethal rounds” to quell the disturbance, according to a statement issued by Miami-based US Southern Command, which oversees the prison. There were no major injuries, military officials said.

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    For several weeks, prisoners in the communal section had been covering up security cameras and windows used by the guards to monitor them, one of the reasons the commander decided to move them into single cells. Officials were also concerned that some men were surreptitiously starving themselves to avoid being classified as a hunger striker and force fed. The military said it was conducting individual assessments of all the prisoners.

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    “This is exactly the opposite of what they should be doing,” said Carlos Warner, a federal public defender in Ohio who represents several prisoners held at Guantánamo. “The military is escalating the conflict.”