Omar Deghayes: How I Fought To Survive Guantanamo

The Guardian:

It is not hot stabbing pain that Omar Deghayes remembers from the day a Guantánamo guard blinded him, but the cool sen­sation of fingers being stabbed deep into his eyeballs. He had joined other prisoners in protesting against a new humiliation -- inmates ­being forced to take off their trousers and walk round in their pants -- and a group of guards had entered his cell to punish him. He was held down and bound with chains.

Read the whole story: The Guardian

Comments

[wwoody]

07:22 PM on 01/21/2010

I know things do happen in combat, and things do happen when combat cease. That why they say war is "PURE HELL".

[amalfedup]

09:21 PM on 01/21/2010

This was not combat. This was ignorant guards drunk with their own powerwhich they used to humiliate captives.

[sviolette]

10:12 PM on 01/21/2010

Sounds more like CIA did this not the regular enlisted guards.

[wwoody]

11:24 PM on 01/21/2010

You're right.

[wwoody]

07:15 PM on 01/21/2010

The first casualty, of war is the truth.

[CigarGod]

02:00 PM on 01/21/2010

Brilliant article.

[Dangerous Dan]

12:21 PM on 01/21/2010

I fought hard to survive GITMO.
I only ate1800 calories of the 2400 calorie daily diet.
I asked that they keep my air conditioner at 82F instead of 78F.
I only got involved in traditional sports activities and never picked up a basketball.
I did not change my cloths daily as we were allowed. I changed ever other day.
I only spit when spitten to.
I'm glad I left before the new neighbors came in.
I hear many Haitians are Christians.

[blueskybigstar]

12:25 PM on 01/21/2010

flagged for obscene taste

[sviolette]

01:44 PM on 01/21/2010

Ignorance is Dangerous Dan.

[blueskybigstar]

11:34 AM on 01/21/2010

Where is the outrage? Why isn't there any justice? A poster said that a friend of his is suffering ptsd after witnessing torture where they would gouge people's eyes out.

Supposedly, over a hundred people lost their lives during torture. This was not about getting information, this was to get them to say what they wanted to say, to get rid of those who knew too much, and to discourage others who may know too much from talking.

Why are we allowing people in our country to get away with war crimes?

[DevonTexas]

11:01 AM on 01/21/2010

A facinating story! Thanks for the link.
I'm afraid that it will take a very long time to bring light to this dark hour in US history. The events at Gitmo are as bad as the Chienese and North Korean treatment of US prisoners in the 50's.
We'll probably never recover the high moral ground we stood upon since World War II.
I'm especially ashamed that Presicent Obama hasn't moved more quickly to close Gitmo and bring the people responsible for the criminal acts there to justice.

[CigarGod]

02:03 PM on 01/21/2010

Have a cigar.
Unfortunately, my Dad tells me we behaved badly in Korea, too.

[sviolette]

06:53 PM on 01/21/2010

Are you saying that because we behaved badly in Korea we should continue to behave badly? After all we are better than them.

Someone robbed a bank yesterday, so I can today.