Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) (AFP) - Behind the barbed wire of Guantanamo Bay prison, hunger-striking inmates are routinely force-fed, a practice defended by officials as necessary medical treatment but labeled by critics as torture. But, for all the debate surrounding the practice, information about it is scarce, and force-feeding remains shrouded in secrecy. "We don't talk about this," said Rear Admiral Kyle Cozad, commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, arguing the silence is designed to prevent inmates scoring misleading propaganda points. "Detainees manipulate the media, on a routine basis, and I say that with confidence and conviction," Cozad added,...
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