Zemmouri, Mosa - short clip - HungerStrike

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Interviewer	And did he tell you how it was?	0:00
	How he's suffered as- in a hunger strike?	0:03
	Did he tell you anything?	0:05
-	Yes, they put it in his nose, in his stomach.	0:06
	Then when they finish, maybe every three days,	0:11
	they put in him, like this.	0:16
	Then they take away food.	0:18
	So they want to show him they are angry,	0:19
	because he don't want to eat.	0:21
	But they didn't want some people to talk to him.	0:23
	Maybe he has some sickness,	0:27
	psychologic sickness or something, but it was not.	0:28
	I talk with him, I talk with him.	0:32
	I try to understand why he do this and that.	0:34
	I try to tell him even, stop.	0:37
	And then he told them one time, he want to come next to me.	0:40
	And then it change, and I never saw him,	0:44
	but he never stopped.	0:46
Interviewer	And do you know why he was so angry?	0:50
-	Because the treatment.	0:53
	Can you understand someone when they beat you	0:57
	with your head on the wall.	1:00
	Can you understand this?	1:02
	Or someone takes this chair you close up,	1:04
	and they put on your head.	1:07
	Or someone beat you with this on your neck.	1:09
	Or they stand on your knees when you are on the ground.	1:16
	Or they put you in the metal,	1:22
	and they leave you there for hours.	1:24
	And they put the air cold higher and lower, and like this.	1:26
	And you have no right.	1:35
	You are only number and you have no right to admit.	1:37
	You have no lawyers.	1:41
	You have no right to call your family.	1:43
	You have no right to anything outside.	1:45
	Even a right to newspapers, nothing. What do you think?	1:48

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Title:

Zemmouri, Mosa - short clip - HungerStrike

Date:

July 30, 2013

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Zemmouri, Mosa

Role:

Detainee

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Detainee Number US9MO-000270DP
Mosa Zemmouri, male, age 35, a Belgian citizen of Moroccan heritage, was detained in Guantanamo from February 15, 2002 until April 25, 2005, when he was returned to Belgium.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

Belgium

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:16:52

Digital Collection:

Witness to Guantanamo

Source Collection:

Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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