Wolfgang - I find it interesting that you claim that 'force feeding' of hunger strikers makes them more healthy. That is probably true most of the time, but I would guess that it depends on how the procedure was carried through.

I doubt, as has been reported, that if a tube is taken from one hunger striker and inserted into another hunger striker without being cleaned, it could be considered healthy. I would say that force feeding of hunger strikers is usually done for humanitarian reasons. That does not mean it is never used as an instrument of torture.

It is because it is being reported as an instrument of torture that the U.N. wants to interview the detainees.