The men who committed suicide are Ali Abdullah Ahmed from Yemen, and Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi and Yassar Talal Al-Zahrani from Saudi Arabia. (via Katherine at Obsidian Wings and WIIIAI).
WIIIAI expresses my thoughts better and more forcefully than I've been able to do myself:
When you’ve been trying to reduce these prisoners to entirely passive bodies, employing physical violence to break even their attempts to refuse food, only to see them retake their autonomy one last time in the only way not closed off to them, perhaps that seems like an “act of asymmetrical warfare” to you. The more totalitarian the system, the louder any act of defiance seems.
The rot began the moment the Cheney-Bush regime announced that the Geneva Conventions would not be applied to detainees of their endless 'war'.
From that initial refusal, it was clear that there would be no law and no process. Right that minute the Guantanamo prison regimen lost the the benefit of the doubt about torture, abuse, and illegal detention.
All the subsequent refusals to the Red Cross, to the UN, and to lawyers simply confirmed the worst suspicions.
The poison spread through the rest of the military detention system, which continues today to operate in a state of functional impunity.
seems as if Harris took "the life of brian" a bit too serious...
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