Suicide or Murder?

- Earlier this year in June 2006, 3 men died at Guantanamo Bay. The The US military and the government have been quick to label these deaths as, ‘suicides’ however former Guantanamo detainees including 9 British citizens claim that they are almost certainly accidental killings caused by excessive force used by US guards there.

- The US administration described the deaths as “an act of asymmetrical warfare” and a “PR stunt” by Al-Qaeda operatives being held at Guantanamo. This is possibly the most offensive and insensitive thing the military has said to date.

“There is no way to commit suicide at Guantanamo. We were not only under constant surveillance; also there were no points in the cells to hang anything, let alone a person,” said Mamdouh Habib, former Guantanamo prisoner.

From the National Guantanamo Coalition