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Qasem, Abubakir - short clip - nofuture

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Interpreter	The worst effect in my life	0:04
	came out of my experience in Guantanamo is,	0:08
	basically my future is gone because of this.	0:11
	When people look at us,	0:16
	they don't look at my 36 years of life prior to Guantanamo,	0:19
	they'll look at my four years of life in Guantanamo.	0:25
	Doesn't matter of what they say,	0:29
	they say that I am innocent, they released me and all that.	0:31
	But when people hear that I have been to Guantanamo,	0:34
	they look at me differently.	0:38
	Some people don't even say hi to me	0:40
	because they know that I was in Guantanamo.	0:41
	So this one Guantanamo,	0:45
	this name became a big black stamp on my head,	0:47
	a lot of people judge me because of that,	0:51
	all this, like, terrorists in Guantanamo and this and that,	0:53
	people take cautious.	0:58
	And my future, whatever I want to do,	1:00
	this is really affecting my future.	1:04
	So that makes me sad, when I think about	1:06
	how my future is gone now	1:10
	because of that, my life in Guantanamo.	1:11

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Detainee Number US9CH-000283DP
Abubakir Qasem, male, age 40, a Uyghur from the Xinjiang autonomous region, was detained in Guantanamo from June 8, 2002 until May 5, 2006, when he was released to Albania.
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