Released Detainees Refute US Guantanamo Suicide Cover UP
Three men are tortured to death. The world is told it was a suicide pact. To rub salt in the wounds even more, the US claim this was an "act of war" and a "publicity stunt". Some ex-detainees give their opinion of what happened below.
CAGE PRISONERS
PRESS RELEASE: Tuesday 13th June 2006
London – Former Guantanamo detainees, including the 9 British nationals released from the camp, have poured scorn on allegations that the three deaths at Guantanamo were suicides and claim that they are almost certainly accidental killings caused by excessive force used by US guards there.
Moazzam Begg, in a statement on behalf of all the freed British detainees elucidates that the camp’s regime is designed to dehumanise detainees and to make them bereft of hope and believe they have no rights – framing and encouraging suicide amongst them – and suggesting imaginative ways to do so.
Tarek Dergoul, who spent significant time with two of the deceased, provides the first in depth insight into their time in Guantanamo. He describes both Manei al-Otaibi and Yasser al-Zahrani as having indefatigable spirits, never once discussing or contemplating suicide, and being the foremost in their lack of cooperation with their captors and long term committed hunger strikers; leading them to be punished by frequent reprisals and beatings by guards. That it was camp policy to systematically beat incompliant prisoners, Tarek says, makes it hardly surprisingly that such vicious attacks could result in death.
He further elaborates that in Camp One, where he was also held – it would have been physically impossible for them to have committed suicide successfully.
Abdullah Alnoami a former detainee from Bahrain substantiates this accusation, exposing the true nature what was previously believed to be the most oft-quoted suicide attempt at the base, of a Saudi detainee in December 2002. Following an ERF attack, Mishal Al Harbi was left in a coma and permanently paralysed and restricted to a wheelchair for life.
Dr. Adnan Siddiqui of Cageprisoners said “It is clear that the US administrations claim that these deaths were suicide does not stand up close scrutiny and we call on the US administration to allow a full and independent inquiry to debunk the cover up and lies that these deaths were suicide and not murder.”
Statement on the Deaths in Guantánamo Bay
By Joint Former British Detainees
Another Guantanamo Whitewash
Statement by Tarek Dergoul
Statement by Abdullah Alnoaimi
Cage Prisoners is a human rights organisation that exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror. We aim to give a voice to the voiceless.
Contact: Asim Qureshi:
Email: asim.q@cageprisoners.com
Number: 0044 (0) 7973264197
http://www.cageprisoners.com/
PRESS RELEASE: Tuesday 13th June 2006
London – Former Guantanamo detainees, including the 9 British nationals released from the camp, have poured scorn on allegations that the three deaths at Guantanamo were suicides and claim that they are almost certainly accidental killings caused by excessive force used by US guards there.
Moazzam Begg, in a statement on behalf of all the freed British detainees elucidates that the camp’s regime is designed to dehumanise detainees and to make them bereft of hope and believe they have no rights – framing and encouraging suicide amongst them – and suggesting imaginative ways to do so.
Tarek Dergoul, who spent significant time with two of the deceased, provides the first in depth insight into their time in Guantanamo. He describes both Manei al-Otaibi and Yasser al-Zahrani as having indefatigable spirits, never once discussing or contemplating suicide, and being the foremost in their lack of cooperation with their captors and long term committed hunger strikers; leading them to be punished by frequent reprisals and beatings by guards. That it was camp policy to systematically beat incompliant prisoners, Tarek says, makes it hardly surprisingly that such vicious attacks could result in death.
He further elaborates that in Camp One, where he was also held – it would have been physically impossible for them to have committed suicide successfully.
Abdullah Alnoami a former detainee from Bahrain substantiates this accusation, exposing the true nature what was previously believed to be the most oft-quoted suicide attempt at the base, of a Saudi detainee in December 2002. Following an ERF attack, Mishal Al Harbi was left in a coma and permanently paralysed and restricted to a wheelchair for life.
Dr. Adnan Siddiqui of Cageprisoners said “It is clear that the US administrations claim that these deaths were suicide does not stand up close scrutiny and we call on the US administration to allow a full and independent inquiry to debunk the cover up and lies that these deaths were suicide and not murder.”
Statement on the Deaths in Guantánamo Bay
By Joint Former British Detainees
Another Guantanamo Whitewash
Statement by Tarek Dergoul
Statement by Abdullah Alnoaimi
Cage Prisoners is a human rights organisation that exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror. We aim to give a voice to the voiceless.
Contact: Asim Qureshi:
Email: asim.q@cageprisoners.com
Number: 0044 (0) 7973264197
http://www.cageprisoners.com/
posted by Abu Abdullah @ 11:57 p.m.
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BOOK OF CONDOLENCES - CAGEPRISONERS
Cageprisoners has opened an e-book of condolences on their website whereby they will endeavour to forward all messages to the families of the deceased.
http://www.cageprisoners.com/campaigns.php?id=330
INTERIM REPORT BY REPRIEVE INTO GITMO DEATHS
Reprieve, the London-based legal charity representing 36 prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, today released an interim report regarding the three suicides in Guantánamo Bay. The report provides for the first time personal information about the dead men, including personal insights by former Guantánamo prisoners Tarek Dergoul and Shafiq Rasul and information from fellow prisoners about the hunger strikes in which the men were taking part. The report corrects misinformation released by the United States Department of Defense about the number of suicide attempts in Guantánamo. It also discusses the cultural issues regarding autopsy and burial and the need for an independent investigation into the deaths.
“The United States is working desperately to paint these three men as jihadists, beasts, without providing any evidence whatsoever to back up these allegations. The United States claims it is handling everything surrounding these suicides with cultural sensitivity. Well, it is worth noting the question of talking ill of the dead. The prisoners were not given the chance to defend themselves when alive, and now they are being slandered when dead. Enough. Let us see the evidence against them – if there is any. Let us learn who they truly are as people. Let us treat them with respect,” said Clive Stafford Smith, Legal Director of Reprieve.
http://reprieve.org.uk/documents/06.06.13ReprieveInterimSuicideReport.pdf
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