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Innocent Guantanamo detainees speak out on abuse, murder.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo...646014,00.html
Note the disturbing parallel between the Nazi camp guards humilation of Jews by the desecration of the trappings of their religion (e.g. forcing them to wear underclothing made from cut up prayer shawls etc) and the Guantamo regime: "When they handed out Korans to us in Bagram I remember seeing the Americans passing them through the airlocks and throwing them onto the ground. People might think that well, its just a book, but if you believe like you do as a Muslim that this is the unadulterated revealed speech of God and it is the most sacred thing that a Muslim would have in his house. To see them do that for me brought about a sense of complete desperation," Of course, such dehumanisation and contempt for your captives is necessary if you'r egoing to have to shovel them into a gas oven one day.. "And it was of course part of the dehumanising process again. And one of the guards there of that unit told me when I used to have discussions with them, that when we see you people we can't look at you as human beings. Our psyche does not allow us to do that - because if we did we wouldn't treat you this way. It's easy for us to dehumanise you. First of all most of you guys don't speak the same language. Secondly, you look different. Thirdly, you're dressed different. Fourthly, you're in cages and we're out here with the guns. The people who claim to be the upholders and defenders of freedom are debating now whether it is legitimate to use torture. After all of what the world has been through arguing against the fact. And if it does in one way or another become legitimised, either mental torture or physical or psychological, which has been clearly used by several countries, then I think the world will spiral into something that nobody will be able to control." |
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