Binyam (Mohamed) breaks silence at (Guantanamo Justice Centre) launch

[sabra]

Source: BBC

A former detainee of Guantanamo Bay who is taking legal action against the British authorities says he is not doing it to win compensation.

Speaking in public for the first time since his return from Guantanamo, Binyam Mohamed asked: "How much money can you give me that would make me forget the seven years I have gone through?"

He was appearing at the launch of the Guantanamo Justice Centre, set up by former detainees at the US military facility to help others released from the camp.

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At times struggling to control his emotions, he said: "You have to live it to explain it. It's very hard. If I enter a room and the light turns off for some reason I wonder if I'm back in the 'dark prison'."

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"What the world doesn't understand is that most people love to hear about torture stories.

"Someone was hanged here. Blood here, blood there. What remains is every time you see a rope, you always go back to the time when you were hung. That doesn't go away."

He hailed the opening of the Guantanamo Justice Centre as an important event for the former detainees, saying: "We are here and we are living in a torture world."

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8177089.stm

[MisterP]

1. b-but, we're fighting monolithic totalitarianism! just like in Chile and Nicaragua

we have to use dictatorial methods so that we can deal with the moderates; whoever we indicate as "extremist" must be wrong because they're extremist!

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[Winterblues]

3. USA..USA..USA..USA..USA

Obama is making the greatest mistake of his Presidency by not following the Rule of Law on these matters.IMO

[No Elephants]

4. It's a mistake. Whether it will be the greatest mistake of his Presidency remains to be seen.