Guantanamo suicides a PR move, says US
A top US official has described the suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a "good PR move to draw attention".
Colleen Graffy told the BBC the deaths were part of a strategy and "a tactic to further the jihadi cause", but taking their own lives was unnecessary.
But lawyers say the men who hanged themselves had been driven by despair. There have been dozens of suicide attempts since the camp was set up four years ago - but none successful until now.
[Ken Roth, head of Human Rights Watch in New York, said the men had probably been driven by despair.
"These people are despairing because they are being held lawlessly. There's no end in sight. They're not being brought before any independent judges. They're not being charged and convicted for any crime." ]
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