Charlottesville Words

From an article in yesterday’s New York Times:

A new, long-term hunger strike has broken out at the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, with more than a dozen detainees subjecting themselves to daily force-feeding to protest their treatment, military officials and lawyers for the detainees said.

I can’t make any sense out of that sentence. Maybe it’s time to re-read “Politics and the English Language.”