Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel the 35 year old Yemeni, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps has published an article in The New York Times titled ‘Gitmo Is Killing Me’. Moqbel states “…I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity. I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial. I could have been home years ago — no one seriously thinks I am a threat — but still I am here. Years ago the military said I was a “guard” for Osama bin Laden, but this was nonsense, like something out of the American movies I used to watch. They don’t even seem to believe it anymore. …Where is my government? I will submit to any “security measures” they want in order to go home, even though they are totally unnecessary. I will agree to whatever it takes in order to be free. I am now 35. All I want is to see my family again and to start a family of my own. The situation is desperate now. All of the detainees here are suffering deeply. At least 40 people here are on a hunger strike. People are fainting with exhaustion every day. I have vomited blood. And there is no end in sight to our imprisonment. Denying ourselves food and risking death every day is the choice we have made. I just hope that because of the pain we are suffering, the eyes of the world will once again look to Guantánamo before it is too late.”  Inspired by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, New York Times ow.ly/kuHp7 Image source Wikipedia ow.ly/kuHoz Gitmo Is Killing Me (May 24 2013)

 

Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel the 35 year old Yemeni, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States’s Guantanamo Bay detention camps has published an article in The New York Times titled ‘Gitmo Is Killing Me’. Moqbel states “…I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity. I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial. I could have been home years ago — no one seriously thinks I am a threat — but still I am here. Years ago the military said I was a “guard” for Osama bin Laden, but this was nonsense, like something out of the American movies I used to watch. They don’t even seem to believe it anymore. …Where is my government? I will submit to any “security measures” they want in order to go home, even though they are totally unnecessary. I will agree to whatever it takes in order to be free. I am now 35. All I want is to see my family again and to start a family of my own. The situation is desperate now. All of the detainees here are suffering deeply. At least 40 people here are on a hunger strike. People are fainting with exhaustion every day. I have vomited blood. And there is no end in sight to our imprisonment. Denying ourselves food and risking death every day is the choice we have made. I just hope that because of the pain we are suffering, the eyes of the world will once again look to Guantánamo before it is too late.”

 

Inspired by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, New York Times ow.ly/kuHp7 Image source Wikipedia ow.ly/kuHoz