Rossdale, Polly - short clip - MomentsofHope

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	(marker scribbling)	0:00
-	Humans are capable of the most terrible things	0:03
	and the most wonderful things and some.	0:06
	You know I got to meet some very extraordinary men	0:09
	who were really very resilient despite	0:12
	the phenomenal abuse that they'd been through.	0:16
	And it's not just that, it's that, you know	0:22
	there are those small moments when, you know	0:24
	you get a call from someone, you know,	0:27
	you've worked with who,	0:30
	to tell you that they've had a baby or	0:31
	gee my favorite is someone who told me	0:34
	that he'd managed to go fishing	0:36
	for the first time again and he'd caught an octopus.	0:37
	That's	0:40
	(laughs)	0:41
	those small moments	0:42
	are pretty good.	0:45
	And, and yeah, and seeing people, you know	0:48
	make meaningful lives again, you know.	0:51
	Yes. You know, Guantanamo set out to destroy the person.	0:54
	I mean, that really is what to see a regime,	0:58
	the psychological regime was about.	1:01
	It was about destroying the personality,	1:03
	but actually you know, and,	1:07
	but actually some,	1:11
	you know some people managed to resist that	1:12
	and it takes huge amount of time to recover from that.	1:14
	But, you know, there are,	1:18
	there are moments of hope.	1:19

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Title:

Rossdale, Polly - short clip - MomentsofHope

Date:

December 14, 2016

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Rossdale, Polly

Role:

Human Rights Advocate

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Deputy Director, Reprieve
Polly Rossdale, female, age 38, was Deputy Director of Reprieve for two years, and for four years before that coordinated the Life after Guantanamo project, the only program dedicated to the rehabilitation of prisoners freed from Guantanamo.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United Kingdom

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:30:55

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Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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