THE HUNGER GAMES
AT GUANTANAMO
victims in the World Trade Center,
which attendees said left many
participants in tears.
Additionally, guards at Guantanamo — like all other members of the military — are barred
from doing their own research on
WikiLeaks, and in theory any news
websites that present information
from WikiLeaks. Such research may
tell them more about the detainees.
The consequence of accepting the
government’s side of the story and
excluding everything else is a strict
us vs. them mentality.
“Many of the guards are not informed about the details of the sit-
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uation at Guantanamo or the legal
process of it, that there are some
people who are cleared for release.
They’re kept away from all that,”
said Omar Deghayes, a former detainee who was released in 2007 after a five-year incarceration. “They
tell them these are the worst of the
worst. All they know is ‘Oh, these
people are connected to Sept. 11.’
That’s the mindframe.”
“We have the keys at the end of
the day, they are on the other side
of the cell,” states a sign hanging in the Camp Six observation
room, where guards monitor detainees via cameras.
Zak, the Muslim adviser, said the
hunger strike began when a small
group of detainees he described as
A cell block
sits empty in
Guantanamo
Bay’s Camp
Five.