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Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out (Hardcover, New)
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Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out (Hardcover, New)
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'When you are suspended by a rope you can recover, but every time I
see a rope I remember. If the light goes out unexpectedly in a
room, I am back in my cell.' Binyam Mohamed, Prisoner #1458. For
eight years the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba has
been home to hundreds of men, all Muslim, all detained in the
aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on suspicion of varying degrees of
complicity or intent to carry out acts of terror against American
interests. Labelled 'the worst of the worst', most of these men
were guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the
wrong time. Many fell prey to a US military policy of paying bounty
money for anyone the Pakistani secret service, border guards or
village leaders on both sides of the blurred Afghan-Pakistan border
considered a possible or potential 'suspect', thereby becoming
currency in the newly defined 'War on Terror'. Held in legal limbo
for years and repeatedly interrogated, almost all have been
released without charge and only a very few have been tried in the
special military commissions set up for the purpose. Guantanamo: If
the light goes out illustrates three experiences of home: at
Guantanamo naval base, home to the American community; in the camp
complex where the detainees have been held; and in the homes where
former detainees, never charged with any crime, find themselves
trying to rebuild lives. These notions of home are brought together
in an unsettling narrative, which evokes the process of
disorientation central to the Guantanamo interrogation and
incarceration techniques. It also explores the legacy of
disturbance such experiences have in the minds and memories of
these men.
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