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Guantanamo is an evolutionary experiment
US detention centre can remain open as long as the "war on terror" continues, with no end in sight.
Lisa Hajjar Last Modified: 29 Mar 2011 13:42
Experimenting in unfreedom
In total, 89 prisoners have been approved for transfer because it has been determined that they are "no longer an unprivileged enemy combatant".
The "no longer" denotes a stubborn refusal on the part of the US government to acknowledge mistakes, a whitewash of the deeply flawed process that landed 779 people in Guantanamo since the prison opened in January 2002.
Of the cleared prisoners, 58 are Yemenis. In early 2010 Obama froze repatriations to Yemen, declaring that the situation there is too "unsettled".
This decree came in the wake of the 2009 Christmas day underpants bombing attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian who allegedly was inspired by the Yemen-based US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki of AQAP (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) notoriety.
Hunger striking is one of the only means available to detainees to protest their unjust and endless predicament.
In the past, the military told journalists how many detainees at any given time were participating in the hunger strike.
Under Obama, that information is no longer provided, so it is impossible to know how many currently are force fed Ensure through nasal tubes to prevent them from starving themselves to death.