Holdbrooks, Terry - short clip - Suicides

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-	There was two suicide incidences	0:00
	I think that took place while I was down there.	0:02
	I didn't necessarily see them,	0:04
	I was on the block when it happened	0:05
	but you hear it over the radio, you hear everybody respond.	0:07
	There wasn't a successful suicide	0:10
	nor do I ever think there will be a successful suicide.	0:12
	When I was there, we were walking up and down the block	0:15
	every five minutes.	0:17
	You know, there's always somebody	0:19
	within 10 to 30 feet of a cell.	0:20
	And other detainees obviously, aren't gonna stand by	0:24
	and let the brother, you know, commit suicide.	0:26
	If they see somebody trying to commit suicide	0:28
	they're gonna start screaming and shouting and yelling,	0:30
	as soon as they do, we're gonna respond.	0:32
	So I don't think a suicide can take place in Guantanamo.	0:34
	I know it's happened, I don't think it can be a suicide.	0:37
Interviewer	You're saying that the five suicides	0:41
	that the government-	0:43
-	Claims to be suicides,	0:45
	I do not believe it would be suicides.	0:46
	I simply just can't fathom the possibility	0:48
	of a suicide taking place.	0:50
	There's entirely too many individuals.	0:52
	There's entirely too much monitoring going on.	0:53
	There's too much hands-on viewing of detainees all the time.	0:56
	They don't have privacy even when they're in the shower,	1:02
	they're still being watched.	1:04

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Title:

Holdbrooks, Terry - short clip - Suicides

Date:

May 1, 2010

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Holdbrooks, Terry

Role:

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Prison Guard
Terry Holdbrooks, male, age 26, served as a prison guard at Guantanamo from June 2003 until July 2004, converting to Islam during this time.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United States

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:47:17

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Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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