Confrontation between guards and prisoners with Guantanamo

For the first time of the prisoners a trap with their guards on the American basis in Cuba • They had tightened simulated a suicide • Bilan: six wounded.

It is the first time that that arrives since the opening of the camp of Guantanamo in January 2002: the commander of the center of detention revealed Friday that a confrontation had burst Thursday between guards and prisoners who had tended to them out of trap while making believe in a suicide attempt per hanging. “Six prisoners were treated for light wounds”, declared the commander of the camp, levice-admiral Harry Harris, at the time of a telephone press conference with journalists in connection with the incident. “No military guard was wounded”, it added.

The guards of the camp intervened Thursday evening in a dormitory of Camp 4 whereas a prisoner was apparently on the point of hanging himself and had hung cloths with the ceiling of the cell. This suicide attempt was in fact “a trick to insert the guards in the enclosure to attack them”, affirmed the Harris vice-admiral. “When the guards entered the enclosure to intervene, they were then attacked by the other prisoners. The prisoners had covered the ground with excrements, urine, soapy water for fairetrébucher the guards. They then attacked the guards with broken lamps, blades of ventilators and parts of metal”, it explained.

“The prisoners jumped of the beds on the guards. Some guards fell to ground. Frankly, at this time, we lost ground”, told colonel Mike Bumgarner, another person in charge for the camp Of the rubber balls were then drawn to neutralize the prisoners.

The confrontation which opposed ten guards to ten prisoners lasted approximately four minutes, specified colonel Bumgarner. In all, it took one hour to take again the control of the situation completely. The prisoners rebel were transferred in sections from high safety from the camp According to the vice-admiral Harris, “that was the strongest eruption of violence” recorded in Guantanamo since the opening of the camp in 2002. “I think that the prisoners wanted to draw the attention”, it estimated, adding that cemouvement was not related to repatriation the same day in Saudi Arabia of 15 Saoudi prisoners.

Two other prisoners had tried a little earlier Thursday to commit suicide by introducing drugs. They are currently hospitalized and are in a state insconscient. The direction of the camp also believed in a third suicide attempt to the drugs, but it proved that the prisoner wanted only to draw the attention.

Guantanamo holds mainly prisoners captured in Afghanistan after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Following the last transfers and releases, there remain from now on approximately 460 prisoners, of which 10 formally were accused but no still judged. The details provided by the American army on what occurs to Guantanamo are very rare. They were provided the day when the Committee of UNO against torture published a report inviting the United States to close the Washington camp rejected this call del’ UNO and justified the existence of Guantanamo by the need for protecting the Americans.

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