All Videos Tagged Torture (12160 Social Network) - 12160 Social Network2024-03-29T15:53:57Zhttps://12160.info/video/video/listTagged?tag=Torture&rss=yes&xn_auth=noOne Pound Of Flesh For Obamatag:12160.info,2016-05-18:2649739:Video:16244182016-05-18T00:33:35.194ZDeep Spacehttps://12160.info/profile/DeepSpace
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</a><br />November 01, 2013 MSNBC News <a href="http://MOXNews.com">http://MOXNews.com</a> Four Days in Guantanamotag:12160.info,2013-03-13:2649739:Video:11498102013-03-13T21:00:10.814ZRiahttps://12160.info/profile/Ria
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</a> <br></br>In July 2008, like millions of Canadians, we watched 10 minutes of video footage of the interrogation of Omar Khadr.<br></br>
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This material that Omar’s Canadian lawyers had just released stunned us. We were shaken by the moment in which Omar realises that the Canadian intelligence agents who showed up at his cell in Guantanamo had not come to help and…
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</a><br />In July 2008, like millions of Canadians, we watched 10 minutes of video footage of the interrogation of Omar Khadr.<br />
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This material that Omar’s Canadian lawyers had just released stunned us. We were shaken by the moment in which Omar realises that the Canadian intelligence agents who showed up at his cell in Guantanamo had not come to help and protect him as a Canadian citizen but rather to make clumsy attempts to cajole, manipulate and threaten him into making incriminating statements.<br />
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We felt compelled to use this footage as the basis for a short film.<br />
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Our mission would be to craft a documentary in which interviews would provide the context to help us understand what the recording of the interrogation was trying to tell us.<br />
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As is often the case in documentaries, the story evolved. Through contacts, we were able to obtain an additional seven hours of interrogation video, which the public had never seen. Some of the sound had been erased by the Canadian Security Intelligence Agency (CSIS), yet enough remained for us to realize that we had something special and rarely seen - the confrontation between an interrogator and a prisoner.<br />
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Indeed this is the only footage available that shows - partially - what takes place inside Guantanamo, the prison where, in the words of Dick Cheney, the former US vice president, the "cream of international terrorists" are supposedly locked up.<br />
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If you assume that documentaries reflect reality, you would also agree that reality includes segments that sit within the shadows of the invisible. Once in a while some of those segments leave their confinement to fall directly under the public spotlight. Making it public, as a documentary was, for us, a compelling though somewhat bizarre privilege.<br />
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Omar’s story was turned down almost everywhere. Disappointed but not defeated, we approached Canal D, a French-language private Canadian broadcaster. The channel gave us a small licence. It was not enough to cover production costs, but we invested our time and some of our own money.<br />
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As filmmakers we wanted to encourage a deeper dialogue over current Canadian security policy.<br />
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Since the US launched its global 'war on terror' following 9/11, there has been a corresponding shift in Canadian military and security policy. Omar’s video and other recently released documents mean that the Canadian government can no longer claim to be unstained by torture. In fact, Canada has sent several teams of interrogators to Guantanamo.<br />
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Before the Canadian interrogators visited Omar, Ottawa knew that he had been tortured. The military lawyer defending Omar established that in 2002, before his transfer to Guantanamo, Omar was detained at Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base. His chief interrogator there was Joshua Claus., who had pleaded guilty to torturing to death a young Afghani taxi driver named Dilawar.<br />
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Knowing all that, the Canadian government continued to claim that the American authorities treated Omar humanely and that he had committed a very serious crime.<br />
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International conventions that protect the rights of children in wartime, and in particular the rights of child soldiers, should have applied to Omar. But Ottawa was able to sidestep those laws.<br />
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In October 2010, Omar pleaded guilty to all the charges pressed by the US. It was clearly a plea bargain that allowed the young Canadian to serve eight years in jail, rather than 40. He became the first person ever convicted as a war criminal for acts committed as a juvenile. Over 100 Guantanamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike, Citing Threat of Return to "Darkest Days Under Bushtag:12160.info,2013-03-13:2649739:Video:11497142013-03-13T20:34:58.530ZRiahttps://12160.info/profile/Ria
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</a> <br></br>Over 100 prisoners in Guantánamo Bay's Camp 6 have reportedly joined in a hunger strike in protest of the worsening conditions amidst the "crushing reality" of indefinite detention.<br></br>
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Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the surveillance of US military police at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Photo: Shane T. Mccoy/…
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</a><br />Over 100 prisoners in Guantánamo Bay's Camp 6 have reportedly joined in a hunger strike in protest of the worsening conditions amidst the "crushing reality" of indefinite detention.<br />
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Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the surveillance of US military police at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Photo: Shane T. Mccoy/ AFP)<br />
Camp 6 houses an estimated 130 men, the majority of the 166 detainees still incarcerated at Guantánamo.<br />
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Reacting to the worsening "humanitarian crisis" at the prison, members from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) testified at a hearing Tuesday before the international human rights body, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), "marking the first time since President Obama's re-election that U.S. officials were confronted with questions about Guantánamo and its future in a formal public setting."<br />
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"In light of the humanitarian crisis unfolding at Guantanamo, it is indefensible that the U.S. government failed to answer the Commission's simple questions about how it plans to close the prison camp," CCR said in a statement released Tuesday. Representatives before the IACHR testified on issues including the "grave psychological impact of indefinite detention, the deaths of men at Guantánamo, the lack of access to fair trials, and illegitimate U.S. policies that restrict the closure of the prison, including the blanket ban on repatriating Yemeni men."<br />
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Protests within the prison have grown as well, with reports of over a hundred men having joined the hunger strike now in its fifth week.<br />
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Pardiss Kebriaei, an attorney with CCR representing Yemeni detainee Ghaleb Al-Bihani, said, "My client and other men have reported that most of the detainees in Camp 6 are on strike, except for a small few who are elderly or sick."<br />
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Prompted by concern over the failing health of the striking detainees, twelve attorneys sent a letter (pdf) last week to the commander of Guantánamo, Rear Admiral John Smith, denouncing "a matter that appears to be rapidly deteriorating and reaching a potentially critical level."<br />
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"We have received reports of men coughing blood, being hospitalized, losing consciousness, becoming weak and fatigued," said the letter. Checkpoint - Every Day Life in Palestinetag:12160.info,2013-02-03:2649739:Video:11112982013-02-03T17:58:27.433ZRiahttps://12160.info/profile/Ria
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</a> <br></br>What would be like if you had to go through Military checkpoint to cross the street, go to the Kitchen or the Toilet in your own home?<br></br>
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Checkpoint (original title: Machssomim) is documentary film showing the everyday harrassement of Israeli soldiers and the harsh realities for Palestinian civilians at several of the regions Israel Defence Forces checkpoints.…<br></br>
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Checkpoint (original title: Machssomim) is documentary film showing the everyday harrassement of Israeli soldiers and the harsh realities for Palestinian civilians at several of the regions Israel Defence Forces checkpoints.<br />
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It is made by Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir, Filmed over two years, 'Checkpoint' depicts the harsh and banal routine of these crossing points and documents the day-to-day situations that form a microcosm of the situation.<br />
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An ambulance is stopped, and the sick people inside brought out to explain their ailments. A mother is separated from her very young children. Young Palestinians laugh and throw snowballs at Israeli soldiers, who jovially respond in kind. One Israeli soldier harasses a pretty Palestinian girl. Another refers to the Arabs as "animals," and suggests the documentary crew is making a film for the Discovery Channel. Palestinians wait in the pouring rain while an Israeli soldier eats his lunch.<br />
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Another young soldier gets into a prolonged argument with a Palestinian man because he'd told the man an hour earlier that he would be able to cross back over the checkpoint to return home, and now a curfew is in effect.<br />
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After his superior reluctantly lets the man through, the embarrassed soldier turns to the filmmaker and pleads, "Try to make me look good...not like the bad guy." Language barriers constantly interfere with the soldiers' ability to do their jobs. "It's not my decision," is a constant refrain as they turn people away.<br />
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Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir once served his army reserve duty as a checkpoint guard, which was what inspired him to make this documentary, Checkpoint. For 80 minutes, Shamir simply shows us videotape of what happens at the various checkpoints that the Israeli government operates, which are in place to regulate the travel of Palestinians, purportedly in an effort to combat terrorism. The documentary uses no narration, and the soldiers and Palestinians at the checkpoints are never identified. The subtitles simply tell the audience where the checkpoint being videotaped is located. Checkpoint was shown by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.