Rasul, Shafiq - short clip - flighttoGuantanamo
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- | The day we were taken, | 0:00 |
we were | 0:02 | |
moved from our cells in the night | 0:04 | |
into a separate part of the camp in Kandahar. | 0:07 | |
And we were woken up in the morning | 0:10 | |
and told to sit at the back of our cells. | 0:13 | |
We all had numbers and they were calling | 0:15 | |
that two by two in numbers of all the people. | 0:17 | |
So we, my number would come up and we'd be taken | 0:21 | |
to the front of the cell. | 0:23 | |
Might to lie down on the floor. | 0:25 | |
Two soldiers would come and basically | 0:27 | |
sit on us and search us | 0:30 | |
and shackle us up and drag us to the processing place. | 0:32 | |
They would, they made us sit down | 0:37 | |
on these like wooden benches. | 0:39 | |
Chained our hands to the wooden bench, | 0:44 | |
so we couldn't move. | 0:45 | |
Shaved our heads, shaved their beards off, | 0:46 | |
cut all our clothes off us | 0:48 | |
and then we were marched naked out of the tent. | 0:51 | |
In front of I do not know how many soldiers are there? | 0:56 | |
Just that was basically done to humiliate us. | 0:58 | |
There was no other reason that they did that. | 1:01 | |
Into another tent. | 1:03 | |
And there was a guy with a camera there. | 1:05 | |
And we were naked when they're taking the photos. | 1:10 | |
We don't have to taken head shots or full body shots of us. | 1:12 | |
And we were given an orange uniform | 1:17 | |
and told to put it on. | 1:20 | |
And put the uniform on and then we were marched out | 1:22 | |
to that tent outside. | 1:25 | |
And then they put these mitts on our hands | 1:29 | |
and taped them up. | 1:32 | |
What else? | 1:36 | |
They put goggles over our eyes so we couldn't see anything. | 1:37 | |
And then they put these hats on their heads, | 1:42 | |
which was probably to keep us warm | 1:45 | |
'cause it's freezing there. | 1:47 | |
And they put these denim jackets over us | 1:47 | |
and made us sit down on the floor, | 1:50 | |
and for a really long time. | 1:52 | |
Then it was at night time | 1:56 | |
when we were actually taken, | 1:58 | |
by groups 'cause they did that same thing, | 2:02 | |
putting the rope around our arms | 2:05 | |
and marching us in groups of, I think about, 10. | 2:06 | |
Then we were put onto the plane, | 2:10 | |
with our ears covered. | 2:12 | |
Our mouth covered, our eyes covered. | 2:15 | |
So we didn't know what was going on | 2:17 | |
and put on the plane. | 2:19 | |
And about, I think it must've been about an hour, | 2:21 | |
we were on the plane and then it took off. | 2:23 | |
And that first journey was, it was horrendous | 2:26 | |
'cause we were sitting on these wooden planks | 2:31 | |
and it was impossible to sit on them | 2:33 | |
for more than five minutes. | 2:35 | |
And we couldn't move 'cause we chained to the floor | 2:36 | |
and it was causing us a lot of pain. | 2:39 | |
We'd lost a lot of weight at that time. | 2:41 | |
And it was impossible to sit in one position for that long. | 2:43 | |
And we had nothing to lean back on. | 2:48 | |
So I had sit constantly in one position | 2:50 | |
and not be able to move. | 2:53 | |
And I was in a lot of pain | 2:54 | |
and I was shouting, "I'm in pain, I'm in pain." | 2:57 | |
And somebody came, took the mask off me | 3:02 | |
and put something in my mouth | 3:05 | |
and made me some kind of medicine. | 3:07 | |
I don't know what it was but after that, | 3:10 | |
after just felt really, really drowsy. | 3:12 | |
And I didn't know if I went to sleep, | 3:15 | |
but I was, I could still feel the pain in my body. | 3:18 | |
And then that journey must have lasted about | 3:23 | |
it felt like it was forever, | 3:27 | |
but it was, we landed somewhere. | 3:29 | |
I must've been about 10, 12 hours later. | 3:31 | |
We were taken off the plane, | 3:34 | |
searched | 3:36 | |
and it seemed like they took us off the plane. | 3:39 | |
They might've put us onto a different plane | 3:44 | |
or they brought us back onto the same plane. | 3:46 | |
And that must've took about two or three hours. | 3:50 | |
And then we were just waiting there. | 3:53 | |
And where we landed, it was really hot. | 3:58 | |
That's the only thing that I remember about that place, | 4:00 | |
'cause they kept our faces covered. | 4:03 | |
So we couldn't see anything. | 4:06 | |
They would put back onto the second plane. | 4:08 | |
And that's the one that took us to Quantanamo. | 4:10 |
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