Banna, Jamil El- - short clip - WhenIRememberICan'tSpeak
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(foreign language) | 0:00 | |
Interpreter | I know inside of me | 0:12 |
that I haven't done anything | 0:15 | |
and I know that God is with those who are innocent. | 0:16 | |
And I feel that God was with me all the time. | 0:20 | |
(foreign language) | 0:23 | |
Interpreter | My mom passed away whilst I was | 0:29 |
in prison in Guantanamo. | 0:32 | |
And I lost four brothers whilst being locked up as well. | 0:33 | |
(foreign language) | 0:37 | |
Interpreter | When I remember all | 0:41 |
of this, I just can't speak. | 0:42 | |
(foreign language) | 0:45 | |
Interpreter | And how we were treated, | 0:49 |
it's all, you know well publicized. | 0:50 | |
(foreign language) | 0:54 | |
Interpreter | You know, I was going, | 0:59 |
(foreign language) | 1:00 | |
Interpreter | I was going on a business trip, you know, | 1:01 |
to do some work and this has happened to me. | 1:03 | |
And nobody even apologized to me. | 1:05 | |
(foreign language) | 1:08 | |
Interpreter | I have, | 1:15 |
(foreign language) | ||
Interpreter | one of my daughters, | 1:17 |
was born whilst I was away. | 1:18 | |
And until today I can't hug her. | 1:21 | |
She, she wouldn't, | 1:23 | |
(foreign language) | 1:25 | |
Interpreter | Like when I first, so my daughter, like, | 1:44 |
she wouldn't come very close to me | 1:46 | |
because it was the first time I saw her. | 1:48 | |
First time I saw when she was six years old. | 1:50 | |
It was a very, it's a difficult relationship. | 1:52 | |
(foreign language) | 1:54 | |
Interpreter | And my son, I left him, | 1:57 |
he was six years old, like a child. | 1:58 | |
And now he's, when I was released, he was 12 years old. | 2:00 | |
(foreign language) | 2:04 | |
Interpreter | So the first | 2:22 |
that I received was after six months. | 2:23 | |
My wife was saying in the letter that | 2:25 | |
it was time when she should have given birth. | 2:27 | |
She was, so she was telling about she was giving birth | 2:29 | |
but it was all redacted. | 2:32 | |
So I didn't know if everything was normal. | 2:33 | |
If she was okay. | 2:36 | |
The baby was okay. | 2:36 | |
Was it boy or girl. | 2:38 | |
I didn't know for anything there was. | 2:39 | |
It was all black out. | 2:40 | |
(foreign language) | 2:42 | |
Interpreter | I couldn't, | 2:46 |
(foreign language) | 2:47 | |
[Interpreter] I mean, I don't see the sense of security | 2:54 | |
in the sense that my wife is telling that she, | 2:57 | |
she gave birth to a baby girl. | 3:00 | |
Where is this? | 3:02 | |
Why would they redact it? | 3:03 | |
Other than they just don't want me to know about my family. | 3:05 | |
They don't want me to feel happy for my family. | 3:07 | |
They just, you know. | 3:10 | |
No sense in it at all. | 3:14 |
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