‘Less-than-lethal rounds’ shot at Gitmo inmates resisting transfer to individual cells
from RT:
The US military says guards have clashed with prisoners at Guantanamo as officers were moving detainees from communal to single cells in attempt to end a hunger strike that started in February.
The detainees used self-made weapons to resist the transfer, thus forcing guards to fire, the US military said in a statement.
“Some detainees resisted with improvised weapons, and in response, four less-than-lethal rounds were fired,” Navy Captain Robert Durand said in a news release.
Officials say no guards or detainees have been seriously injured.
But given the restricted nature of the prisoners’ lives, it is virtually impossible that they had the means to arm themselves with any sort of weapon, Cindy Panuco, a lawyer for one of the detainees, told RT.
2013-04-14 20:15:13
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