Qasem, Abubakir - short clip - ChineseDelegation
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| Translator | The only mistreatment | 0:05 |
| they have ever received in Guantanamo | 0:06 | |
| was during the Chinese delegation visit in fall of 2002, | 0:08 | |
| the days they were there. | 0:13 | |
| They were in charge, basically, of the camp, | 0:15 | |
| they were doing whatever they wanted to do, | 0:18 | |
| they were abusing any kind of rights | 0:21 | |
| we had while we were there. | 0:26 | |
| So we thought that what they are saying is the truth, | 0:28 | |
| actually, how U.S. is going to turn us back to China. | 0:31 | |
| So it was the most difficult times, actually, | 0:35 | |
| we have faced in Guantanamo. | 0:38 | |
| For him, family means everything, for a man, | 0:40 | |
| for an Uighur man to protect his family, | 0:44 | |
| protect his relatives, is everything. | 0:46 | |
| How he trusted the United States, | 0:50 | |
| and for he thought, and like all the Uigurs, | 0:53 | |
| they felt all this, feel that United States | 1:00 | |
| is one and only country in the world | 1:03 | |
| that defends democracy and human rights, | 1:07 | |
| a country that helps weak people, | 1:11 | |
| and the most just country in the world, | 1:15 | |
| that then treats everybody equally and do the right thing | 1:21 | |
| and all the American values, and all that, | 1:24 | |
| he is aware of all that. | 1:27 | |
| Therefore, they trusted the United States government. | 1:31 | |
| Therefore, they turned all the detailed information | 1:34 | |
| about their families, their names, | 1:37 | |
| their addresses, and all that. | 1:39 | |
| For, when the Chinese delegation came, | 1:41 | |
| for U.S. government to turn | 1:45 | |
| all that confidential information to the Chinese government, | 1:47 | |
| knowing how the Chinese government | 1:52 | |
| may retaliate against the families, | 1:55 | |
| and putting their families in that jeopardy, | 1:57 | |
| that was the worst experience ever for him, | 2:01 | |
| especially that kind of high hope he had | 2:04 | |
| toward U.S. government and Americans, | 2:09 | |
| and that was just turned to zero overnight, | 2:13 | |
| he thought that was just the beautiful words, | 2:17 | |
| and dreams, and ideas, that they had, the U.S., advertised, | 2:20 | |
| and this is not the U.S., | 2:26 | |
| and maybe the Americans are the same, | 2:28 | |
| they don't protect the weak people, | 2:32 | |
| they are no different than the Chinese government, maybe. | 2:35 |
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