Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes | Guardian Animations
In March 2012, reports of a hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay, the US detention camp in Cuba, began to surface.
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Details were sketchy and were contradicted by statements from the US military. Now, using testimony from five detainees, this animated film reveals the daily brutality of life inside Guantánamo.
Today there are 17 prisoners still on hunger strike, 16 of whom are being force-fed. Two are in hospital• Warning: contains scenes some viewers might find disturbing! In this Sunday's Observer read the extraordinary story of the making of Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes, plus an interview with David Morrissey about why he got involved
Watch Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) go through the Guantánamo Bay force feeding procedure here ► • Yasiin Bey (aka Mos De...
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#Gitmo #GuantanamoBay #Guantanamo #HungerStrike
‘’ I BEEN DETAIN AT GUANTANAMO FOR 11 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS I NEVER BEEN CHARGE WITH ANY CRIME, I NEVER RECIVE A TRIAL ‘’
Wait, that would mean you have terrorized the US before....😑😑😑
American Army&CIA are terrorists organisations
@@xplatinumalfa2518 no it only means that he is being detained without charges or trial
You dont get a trial. Enemy combatant.
@@patriot8399 that IS NOT TRUE , you need to read about it ❌❌❌
14 years in a torture camp for no reason. From age 32 to age 46. He lost his best years, couldn't work, couldn't accumulate wealth, couldn't marry, couldn't have children. His most important years were basically stolen from him.
Imagine sleeping and then waking up to hear the FBI screaming *”EAT”*
CIA
Imagine a tube going from your nose to tour stomach. My stomach hurts when i imagine that...
FBI only works inside the US.
its sad if some of them are innocent and were charged and tortured just because of a stereotype.
IF they are innocent, it is a crime agains humanity! If...
Duolingo Owl unfortunately America doesn’t do IF...
@@FoxyBoxery That's not how it works, bucko. It's a crime to torture people regardless of whether they're innocent.
Who?
this prison breaks all human rights anyways.
Incredibly powerful animation.
It's truly barbaric, no other word for it.
its that or they die lol
the terror attacks and amout of people they killed also.
@@dvanz7002That’s besides the point? As prisoners here were kept without evidence? This was 10 years ago are you slow?
@@dvanz7002majority did nothing of the sort. no evidence. no truth to ur claim.
@dvanz7002 the same people who sold u the wmd lie, also held these people on lies and deceit
Welcome to USA, the country of liberty.
Liberty is holding and force feeding an innocent man who's been cleared to leave GTMO.
xxx xxx, but they doesn't need to torture them. Why not let them sit in prison at lifetime without torturing them? That's more humane. If they don't want to eat, they just don't. Force feeding isn't the solution.
+SN - Old channel for what should they even be in there? Why aren't they given a trial? Why the secrecy?
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+xxx “JOKER” xxx So when they accuse you of terrorism and put you there, without a trial, indefinitely and secretly, you remember that. Seriously, it might do you good to volunteer to be placed under similar circumstances, so you can empathize. How do you know they are guilty? How do you know the government isn't lying? Why the secrecy and since when do we treat even rapists or pedophiles like this? And they are convicted!! These men have been said they were free, yet they are still keeping them.
As I get older, you figure out who the real enemies are.
Yup. They do it to our own too.
Americans
@@rrrrr43196I-e-w-s
All the people saying these prisoners deserve it don't understand the implications that being cleared for release imply. They are arguing for those wrongly placed in Gitmo who are truly innocent of wrongdoing. Under the Patriot Act the US imprisoned people who were accused of terrorist activities whether there is evidence or not. Prisoners who have been cleared for release should be simply released. Torturing and imprisoning people innocent of crime is against the internationally and in basically every developed country. This shit is sick.
***** Its more like rounding up a couple hundred German and Japanese citizens and locking them up in a cell for life
***** Yes. They are simply prisoners. Who are the REAL terrorists? Who killed more people? Who were the invaders/aggressors? The corrupt/criminal governments of the world & their armed forces.
***** ad hominem. "We", So are you seriously pro-government (I believe a minority these days especially on the internet) & defending so much so to the point of seriously defending the terrible actions of the U.S. government including the recent wars?!
***** Well if so then number one I'd say you have a very bias perspective & I would disagree with most of what you say. Another point is what the U.S. government did after 9/11 is pretty bad and not defensive but offensive. Also the fact that it has been and still is basically the largest & most corrupt/criminal government ever with things like the TSA, NSA, DHS, NDAA (most after the (un)patriot act) & police state in general.
***** I'm not anti-American I'm pro freedom for the people (which requires little to no government) for the more/bigger government the less freedom. Also where have you been? 9/11 was likely an inside jobs anyways (false flag attacks) & the wars were primarily for the profits of the Military industrial complex.
You have to realize that the people who sign up to be prison guards in these places have sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies of their own.
Look up Florida governor Ron Desantis' involvement in this.
@@octoscorpion2506You wrote my comment for me mate, thank you.
somone has to take the job
So sad. So messed up. The story based on this emprisonment of reminds me of a concentration camp from Nazi Germany.
I know it's an old comment but I've hoped.youce learned the difference between the two since then. Also it's just an NG tube, and they could also just eat
@@bouttobreak12 they were tortured
@@bouttobreak12 not different, imagine even the guard and nurse have PTSD after they left Guantanamo bay, just show what inhuman act they have see and commit inside the prison
reminds me of the H Block Hunger Strikers
to any bootlicker who might defend Guantanamo Bay as legal... Why is it in Cuba and not Madison Square Garden? This is an unconstitutional embarrassment.
ADX does the same thing and it's in USA
this disgusts me.
Jesusfreak zionwarrior you discus me!
Jeremy Corbyn how
Maybe they should eat 🤣
@@THUGHOMIE96 you're just a little kid not gonna know why they do that
Omg
This is absolutely sickening
Why is the us so disgusting?
Yura Uro they call others terrorist when they re actually the real terrorist
Aren Voyage all are not terrorists some are innocent
Aren Voyage The bush administration are the terrorist. Not the country.
@@jewels8773 true
I was watching this on the amnesty international and was moved by this story so now that i support the amnesty international to fight for human rights!
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." - 8th Amendment to the US Constitution. "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." - Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed by the United States of America on December 10, 1948.
This only implies to U.S Citizens....
@@gradycarl3853 not the universal declaration of human rights that applies to every human being regardless of nationality
you're forgetting an important detail - those rights are reserved for US citizens.
@@thebiggestofchungi3538 only ig the country signs it
Hitman2679 Well that’s even worse meaning they can completely ignore human rights when the accused isnt a US citizen
this is just cruel. no one should ever be like this. it's unhuman
US has the right to officially charge someone for terrorism, detain the individual as long as he is in US soil (or if he's in a country where he's wanted as well), start a fair trial based on law. US has no right to kidnap people from other countries and detain them without legal basis. If you think US has that right, you accept that any other country (e.g. Russia, Iran, China) has the same right to do the same thing to US citizens...
But think of how many future 9/11's we stopped
@@mannyman3vevo650 none? Because a majority of the people in Guantanamo Bay were innocent?
@@mannyman3vevo650 More like creating, because this only further radicalizes people
@@mannyman3vevo650 most of these people were trafficked and sold to the cia
@@mannyman3vevo650 2000 Americans vs 300,000-1,000,000 Iraqis killed. Most of which were innocent. A war based on a lie.
Some people have harmed others but got away. You haven't ever harmed anyone have you? Everyone I've ever known has looked the other way to torture and attempted murder, nevermind striving to survive.
Why, if UN has any influence at all, is this treatment continued. It's sick
Bc the UN doesn’t have influence. They’re a joke.
The UN is basically a big U.S. China EU and Russia
The UN? Lol
Useless nations
No human deserves that
People get nasogastric tubes all the time at the hospital and they don’t have to be this way. You lube up a thin tube, insert threw the nostril, and advance the tube down as the patient sips on water until you get it to the stomach (we measure before hand from tip of the nose, to pinna of the ear, to xiphoid process, and that’s the length you go). You tilt the person’s chin to their chest to close off the windpipe and open up the esophagus. Then once it’s down, you keep the tube in place until the order is discontinued. Everyone I’ve talked to says it’s unpleasant and I always feel bad when I have to do the procedure on patients. But if you do it correctly, it’s placed in a matter of seconds. If you have an incompetent person performing the procedure, there’s choking, vomiting, blood and snot. How they are depicting ng tube insertion in this video is unnecessarily cruel. And wtf is up with jamming whole cans of tube feed down?! That’s gonna make someone puke! Everything about this is preforming it wrong to intentionally inflict pain.
Btw I got a nasogastric tube in the past and got inserted when I was sedated and sleeping after a surgery so I didnt even felt it. They taped the tube in place and I was fed for a month with the same tube. What they do in Guantánamo it's ruthless 😢
They purposely use large tubes (this has been noted in official documentation) in order to make it more painful and unendurable.
Like ECT, still used in resistant patients, unfortunately. My Grandma died from it last december, glottis edema, she was healthy but eating very little and was very skinny but ALIVE, she just want to pass naturally, but because of my radical dad, she's done, it's over.
@@intel2133I’m confused was your poor grandmother dying and the hospital forced fed her to keep her alive?
I hope this comes in history books as quick as possible.
Yeah im doing history on Germany and we are learning about it
@@hisfavoritegirl8252Germany isn't the one who owns Guantanamo
i hope the people who run guantanamo bay and who have anything to do with it get same treatment as the detainees get performed by the detainees
I feel so helpless in all of this. Almost like the story. Because the people in charge don't care what is happening to these individuals. God shows mercy onthose who are wrongly accused and stay steadfast in their faith. May God be with them...........
The greatest conflict one man, one woman or one nation state will ever confront is the conflict of becoming that which they dislike the most. Our American government & those who still choose to take part in this torture have lost that conflict.
i know its not enough but at least one person was realesed (4 years after he was supossed to) does anyone know if they're still being deteined ?
One day, the punishments for these cruel actions will come.
you mean punishment?
Judgement day is coming
More like lies I worked there
@@niedarle yes
Why do none of these poor souls receive a fair trial? Might it be because there is no evidence?
Wow great video ❤️
So what can we do to change things because this has got to end and the sooner the better?
Oh shoot this made me cry
Oh shoot!
My dad works in Guantánamo. He even recorded him doing the force feeding.
Cool
@@den845 do I have to worry about u mate?
Tf
**CHAMPIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS**
americans are right
USA is the greatest superpower in all of mankind deal with it
theyre not@@daddyelon4577
They still should recieve a trial...
Impressive and super sad that something like that is happening in 2013!!
And still happens
It’s still happening in 2023 🤯
Actually he is right. Everything he said is right. Mesoamerica was divided in many little territories, the Aztecs were the most powerful in that time, but they were very hated by other territories. So when the Spanish came, a lot of them were helped by the enemies. I think he uses that example refarring to the USA.
They’re trying to morally break a person.
speechless
Guardian: Can you also make an animation of Falungong detainees in China based on their testimonies? Thanks
@Bulkhari Mohamad He sure is lol. Can't stand seeing the truth,
Are these still there or released?
Astagfirullah
Killary is going to love this place!
Then USA teach Human Rights
the sad part is torture never works, they only admit to it bc they are tired. In the end these men come out with physical and psychological pain that will never leave them and the worst part is the US never compensates or says I'm sorry.
The real face of western world
I remember when I used to think anyone there deserved any kind of torture. Ignorance is bliss
Why are people who are cleared to release being kept 5 years afterwards? What purpose does it serve?
What is the piano song?
This is America 🇺🇸
No,, this is Cuba
look it up, controlled by america@@user-kd3xr5ft9k
"If this isn't terrorism, what is?" Unknown
if you ate a sandwich or something, they wouldnt do that.
Omg. This is inhumane
the usa for u
Check the documentary series called المعتقل 552 / Detainee 552 (English subtitle available), where the former Kuwaiti detainee Fayez Al-Kandary talks about his 14 years of unjust imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay.
Does this still occur ;-;.
Yes
With Trump as potus have a guess
And the American say's why they hate me?
this guy is obsessed with the feeding tube thing
alfamale05 Well when it happens two times a day, sometimes keeping you from sleeping at night, what the fuck do you expect?
***** But at the same time, are the circumstances of this punishment even close to humane?
***** There isn't a single popular religion that hasn't had extremists kill others in the name of their beliefs.
***** Oh wow, an ad homined. The greatest rebuttal. Please give me another unconstructive argument.
***** Yup. I'm such a meanie. You've undone my ruse.
I really dont know what to say... Why this kind of things still happens... WHERE IS THE LOVE?!?!?!?!? Planet Earth is big enough to everybody... Why this still happens?!?!?! Why so much suffer?! I tought when we get to the future we were able to learn to live in a peace and love society and learn with each other, but thats is kind like something from the stones age, something kind like second war... Really sorry for my english, I'm learning how to speak it. God bless you All!
powerful animation.
i cant imagine what these men are going through, its disgusting. If they dont want to eat then they shouldnt be forced to, -__-
I mean, jail is cruel enough, they don’t have to do that!!
Should be shown in schools.
I wish it was easier to land a job in human rights law/journalism. Supposedly it's so hideously underfunded that lawyers, sociologists or professors just take it up as a secondary occupation and barely get by. It's also so vivaciously competitive that you need to be in the top 1% of your game to receive a qualifying glance. These features are seemingly not unintentional. Sigh.
This man is right😭😩😭
لا حول ولا قوة الا بالله ‼️ لهم رب العالمين الله يفرج همهم ويفك اسرهم من هالمجرمين
فهمني ايش بيحصل لانو انا ما بفهم انجليزي الله يخليك
@@hafsahafsa9515 عن الاضطراب عن الطعام واساليب التعذيب في غوانتنامو
هؤلاء سجناء منهم من إغتصب أطفال وقتلهم منهم من قام بأبشع الأشياء وفي السجن ممنوع عليهم إضراب الطعام لأنهم سيطعمونك بالقوة
some of them might be innocent.. shame on devil people who have no heart
Peter Capaldi is one of the guys narrating?
This is so called humanity
সহমত ভাই.. এগুলোই পশ্চিমাদের মানবতা
Как я хорошо живу.
Poor thing I just don't think he should have not gone through this
Murica. *Tear drops as eagle screeches*
Oh my-
and the peace nobel is for...
I wish the people would overthrow the government
these ppl should b heard
that's not fair, they ought to get out of there.
For the innocent ones, your right. For the ones who were actually terrorists, let them rot in there for the rest of their lives.
That's so wrong! Terrorist need to be helped, not punished! Don't you know how crushed your soul needs to be, to become a terrorist? Think about it!
+LostJomper lol i literally made this comment 3 years ago and wasnt clear obvs, but i was referring to the innocent ones bc in guantanamo there actually are innocent people who wind up there by accident. but the others get what they deserve
I wanna know what happened in 2002 😭 they all went at the same time
Watch the mauritanian you will find it out
sick
It don't care what people have done, or what they believe.. No one deserves this, and I mean NO ONE!
You are among the few people in this comments section who has any sense.
I get cranky too when my flat mates make noise too.
Uhhhhhh not true
Untrue, we can all think of several people from personal life, history or displayed on the news that deserve a zenith form of this. Perhaps not him though but still we doesn’t know what he did.
There is a similar situation in China Instead with 1 000 000 innocent people
Scary!!! 😨
How brutal.... Disturbing
A gastric or stomach feeding tube would be less tormenting than this. It's a simple procedure and can be done as an outpatient procedure.
yea sure if you are willing to do the prosedure and it is done in a way to minimize uncomfort. that is not the case here
Damn.....
I'm confused. If they were set to be released, how come they are still being detained? I came from the Mos Def video that i've seen and still hard to watch.... I couldn't imagine... If these people are truly innocent.... smh.
damn i cried
Oh god The second narrator is Peter Capaldi!
Well that’s a little bit depressing :
I spent 5 years here. All solitary in the hole I was a pilot.
what did you do?
what did y do are u ok
If they get released then they sue Gitmo
If they do want a feeding tube then eat their food on the tray.
True..
What is the point of this prison, I mean seriously do they want a ****ing war!? I'm really pissed off picking up innocents and do whatever they want
Why do they do that and were?
This disgusts me of our Western civilization. How can we fall so low???
You were always low
Si alguien me lo explicará en español 🥰
After seeing this I won’t be surprise if someday all those behind Gitmo are shredded in a blender.
just one thing kids DONT GO BOOM BOOM PEOPLE!!!!
Some people were innocent.
This is horrible why hasn't this been stopped?
omfg this is madness man
Yeah poor terrorists... Use your brain not your feelings. They chose to go on hunger strike. That was THEIR choice. All to get to the mighty Allah faster. Fuck Islam and fuck anyone who defends these people. You like em so much move to the desert and enjoy the law of Sharia.
+Mitch Mazzolini Sigh. I don't feel like copy pasting my same argument over and over again, so I'm gonna state the basics and then let you do the research. Many of those people were innocent. They were handed over by terrorists in exchange for money. If they were Christians, you wouldn't be saying the same thing about their god. You're an uneducated fuck. Go learn something new. Good day.
IAM Soo sorry