Gitmo: The Dark Chapter
Mohamedou Slahi was wearing blackout goggles. A guard dragged him onto a boat and someone forced him to drink seawater. “It was so nasty I threw up...They stuffed the air between my clothes and me with ice cubes from my neck to my ankles...every once in a while one of the guards smashed me, most of the time in the face” (Davee-Attlee). Slahi paints a horrifying picture of life as an inmate in Guantanamo. He depicts the many beatings, humiliations, and treacheries he was subjected to: “I was left shaking like a Parkinson’s patient,” he utters (Davey-Attlee). Guantanamo Bay was constructed in 2002, under the Bush administration. It was meant to act as the focal point for the war on terror, however, it has failed immensely. The infamous prison is still open despite President Obama’s numerous attempts to close the facility. Supporters of the U.S. prison …show more content…
According to a report done by the Center for Constitutional Rights, detainees of Guantanamo have been held in solitary confinement for periods exceeding a year, deprived of sleep for days and weeks and, in at least one case, months, exposed to prolonged temperature extremes, beaten, threatened with transfer to a foreign country for torture, tortured in foreign countries or at U.S. military bases abroad before transfer to Guantánamo, sexually harassed and raped or threatened with rape, deprived of medical treatment for serious conditions or allowed treatment only on the condition that they “cooperate” with interrogators, and routinely “short-shackled” (wrists and ankles bound together and to the floor) for hours and even days during interrogations (5). Other acts of inhumane treatment have been performed in the detention facility including waterboarding and force feeding hunger strikers. Mr. Al Murbati disclosed his experience as a
Mohamedou Slahi was wearing blackout goggles. A guard dragged him onto a boat and someone forced him to drink seawater. “It was so nasty I threw up...They stuffed the air between my clothes and me with ice cubes from my neck to my ankles...every once in a while one of the guards smashed me, most of the time in the face” (Davee-Attlee). Slahi paints a horrifying picture of life as an inmate in Guantanamo. He depicts the many beatings, humiliations, and treacheries he was subjected to: “I was left shaking like a Parkinson’s patient,” he utters (Davey-Attlee). Guantanamo Bay was constructed in 2002, under the Bush administration. It was meant to act as the focal point for the war on terror, however, it has failed immensely. The infamous prison is still open despite President Obama’s numerous attempts to close the facility. Supporters of the U.S. prison …show more content…
According to a report done by the Center for Constitutional Rights, detainees of Guantanamo have been held in solitary confinement for periods exceeding a year, deprived of sleep for days and weeks and, in at least one case, months, exposed to prolonged temperature extremes, beaten, threatened with transfer to a foreign country for torture, tortured in foreign countries or at U.S. military bases abroad before transfer to Guantánamo, sexually harassed and raped or threatened with rape, deprived of medical treatment for serious conditions or allowed treatment only on the condition that they “cooperate” with interrogators, and routinely “short-shackled” (wrists and ankles bound together and to the floor) for hours and even days during interrogations (5). Other acts of inhumane treatment have been performed in the detention facility including waterboarding and force feeding hunger strikers. Mr. Al Murbati disclosed his experience as a