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	(speaking in foreign language)	0:00
Interpreter	Toward the end,	0:13
	they allow people to learn language.	0:14
	And so after requesting repeatedly	0:17
	so many times, I got the dictionary.	0:20
	Then after I looked at the dictionary,	0:23
	learned some vocabularies then I got an English book.	0:26
	Very thin English book, but I will look up each word	0:30
	looking at the dictionary and try to learn the meaning.	0:35
	I will read two or three pages in whole week	0:39
	because it takes a lot of time and energy and hard work	0:43
	for me to look up every single word from the dictionary	0:47
	trying to understand what it means.	0:51
	And, and then I had the piece	0:53
	of paper with my ISN number, 281 on it.	0:55
	It's my paper and in their law and the rules	0:59
	and regulations, I am allowed to have a piece	1:02
	of paper and a pen and write down the words and learn.	1:05
	And that every day when I read this, I spent three	1:11
	four months finishing this one thing, English book.	1:13
	And if there are some words I can't find	1:17
	from the dictionary, I still don't understand.	1:20
	And I will write that down.	1:22
	Then when I go out for a walk, then I will look	1:24
	for anybody who can explain to me, meaning of that word.	1:27
	And then when I come back,	1:31
	I try to remember what it is and come back.	1:31
	And then when I come to my cell block	1:33
	I write down the translation of what it means.	1:35
	So for me, this piece of paper that I collected	1:38
	and I wrote down for like a, like a few dozen of words	1:40
	I spent so much energy on that.	1:47
	That's my, like, you know	1:49
Assistant	Project.	1:53
Interpreter	A part of,
	Yeah, project of learning my, learning English.	1:54
	And then one day when I went out for walk, when I came back	1:58
	that that piece of paper was gone.	2:01
	They take it away from me.	2:03
	So I asked, why did you take it away from me?	2:05
	And I want that back.	2:08
	And then they brought it back front of me and said,	2:09
	"This piece of paper belong	2:13
	to somebody else, don't belong to you."	2:15
	And I said, well, it has my ISN number.	2:17
	Why are you saying it belonged to somebody else?	2:19
	You are watching me from the camera.	2:22
	I spend last three four months collecting the vocabulary	2:24
	on this writing it down.	2:27
	You know, this, this piece	2:28
	of paper that I created and it's mine	2:30
	and it has my ISN number.	2:32
	Then the MP right front	2:34
	of my eye, he took a pen and changed 281	2:36
	which is my ISN number to 283.	2:41
	And I said 283 is Abubakar in Albania.	2:43
	This guy is being released Albania two, three years ago.	2:48
	How could you put 283 on this?	2:51
	This is mine and you just changed it to 283.	2:54
	And you even didn't change to somebody who's here.	2:56
	You changed to somebody who's released Albania.	2:59
	And then he changed to five something.	3:03
	Just some random number.	3:06
	And I was so upset and I was arguing with that.	3:08
	And they said, "Nope this doesn't belong to you.	3:11
	You took somebody else's paper without their permission."	3:14
	So they punished me.	3:17

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Title:

Rahman, Abdul Ghappar Abdul - short clip - learningenglish

Date:

January 3, 2010

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Rahman, Abdul Ghappar Abdul

Role:

Detainee

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Detainee Number US9CH-000281DP
Abdul Ghappar Abdul Rahman, male, age 36, a Uyghur from the Xinjiang autonomous region, was detained in Guantanamo from June 10, 2002 until October 31, 2009, when he was released to Palau.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

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oral histories

Language:

Uighur; Uyghur

Extent:

2:10:23

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