says Mohamed Saleban Bare, a Somalian recently released after 8 years in the U.S. prison:
AFP, 12/22/09--[...] "At Bagram and Kandahar, the situation was harsh but when we were transferred to Guantanamo the torture tactics changed. They use a kind of psychological torture that kills you mentally," he said.
This included depriving prisoners of sleep for at least four nights in a row and feeding them once a day with only a biscuit, he said.
"And in the cold they let you sleep without a blanket. Some of the inmates face harsher torture, including with electricity and beating," he said.
[...]
"No human rights convention stands in Guantanamo. Interrogators force inmates to confess crimes they didn't commit by torturing them and sullying their religion," Bare said.
"They would throw Korans into the toilet and raise the volume of their music during prayers," he recounted.
Bare said the US authorities had never told him why he was arrested.
"They used to ask many questions, most of them relating to my background like what I was doing in Somalia and about the people I know. It was all about suspicions and not a clear case," he said.
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2 comments:
The Koran should be thrown in the toilet, and so should the bible,
and any other book that people think is anything other than
a stack of paper written by people who no longer are.
People are what experience pain.
And until people can get over the preciousness of objects, and thoughts of former people veiled in sememic radiation
we are utterly doomed.
The only mystery
only revelation on the damn planet
is life.
Life itself
the biological event,
is the singularity of interest here.
And these Goddamn cultural artifacts are veiling that
and breeding monstrous stupidities
whose fitness parameters
are rivalling life's own
because life itself is
an anti-entropic fitness crystal.
People need to be less damn precious about the impasses
in their understanding.
We are chemical machines.
Now that may be an unpleasant or vulgar reality, but it's the only goddamn reality there is in the long run.
And I often wonder about you Linh?
If you would teach the serenity of objects, instead of the contention of culture difference
people might begin to understand.
There is peace
in being material.
It's fun
to be a lamp.
It's not bad.
The more energy and attention
injustice is paid
the more it will go on.
Teach options like
DONT MAKE PEOPLE.
Instead of decrying injustice,
just say
LIFE IS A BAD IDEA.
that has much more truth
and impact in the end.
Life isn't a good idea,
and that is half the problem
with cultural difference.
These morons are squirting out people like its the best damn idea in the galaxy and its simply
not..
I'm sorry, but history
will bear this out.
people have to be made aware
of the paradox
that all things
are both
beautiful
and stupid
genius
and completely
unnecessary
wonderful
and terrible.
Only then,
with that fully
gnostic understanding
of what matter is
something fundamentally
non-metaphysical
can we proceed with dignity
otherwise
we are killing each other
because of messages
that build themselve
out of out own
funhouse mirrors.
Yo Lanny,
While I agree with you that procreation is mostly regrettable, but for those already plunked onto this earth, we should try to minimize the pains we'll inevitably inflict upon each other. Every decent act is always appeciated, while every instance of cruelty leaves a permanent wound. If I saw you lying in a ditch, I don't think I would spit and step over you, but I would take a photograph first, for art's sake, before I spit, step over you, then help you up.
Have a good weekend, Lanny.
Linh
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