[Peace-discuss] Miami Herald: Navy nurse refuses to force-feed Guantánamo captive

[Karen Medina via Peace-discuss]

That is inspiring. That Navy medical officer/male nurse is added to my
list of heroes.

-karen

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Rohn Koester via Peace-discuss
<peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> In the first known rebellion against Guantánamo’s force-feeding policy, a
>> Navy medical officer recently refused to continue managing tube-feedings of
>> prison hunger strikers and was reassigned to “alternative duties.”
>
>  . . .
>
>> Word of the refusal reached the outside world last week in a call from
>> prisoner Abu Wael Dhiab to attorney Cori Crider of the London-based legal
>> defense group Reprieve. Dhiab, a hunger striker, described how a nurse in
>> the Navy medical corps abruptly refused to “force-feed us” sometime before
>> the Fourth of July — and disappeared from detention center duty.
>
>
>> Crider called the male nurse the first known U.S. military conscience
>> objector of the 18-month-long hunger strike in the prison camps, and said
>> his dissent took “real courage ... none of us should underestimate how hard
>> that has been.”
>
>
> http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/07/15/4237720/navy-nurse-refuses-to-force-feed.html
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