Reply #5: US denies guards force-feed Guantanamo hunger strikers [View All]

The United States is denying allegations that its methods of force-feeding hunger strikers at the Guantamano Bay military base constitute torture. The United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, says visiting lawyers have made well-substantiated allegations of cruelty.

It is alleged prison guards, rather than doctors, have been inserting tubes into prisoners' noses and forcing them down into their stomachs, causing vomiting and bleeding.

A spokesman for the Pentagon, Lieutenant Colonel Brian Maka, has denied this is happening.
"They suppose that these people are being left bleeding - I know of no instance of that," he said.

"There's been no reports of that. There's no credible evidence produced by any investigation of that fact.
"So what I'm telling you is that I do not believe his allegation."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1540061.htm