Uighurs: U.S. Let Chinese Abuse Us At Gitmo

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

While at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2002, Uighur detainees were interrogated, abused and threatened by a delegation from the People's Republic of China, recently liberated Uighurs told the Huffington Post in a phone interview from Bermuda.

"When the Chinese delegation came we didn't really want to meet with them and answer their questions. They brought us out anyway," said Khalil Manut through a translator. "They made threats, turned down the temperature in the room, made the room very cold."

The Chinese interrogated each of the detainees in 2002, said Manut and the other Uighurs.

"Basically they made many, many threats against them and against their families and even said, 'We will either take you back or we will make sure that you end up here for a long time. You will never be free,' and things like that,' said Manut.

The Chinese delegation -- which the Uighurs estimated at five total interrogators -- questioned some of the Uighurs for 18 hours straight in the extreme cold, depriving them of food and sleep. Ablikim Turahun, one of the freed Uighurs, endured such an interrogation. He said that after six hours he was sent back to his room to eat, but before the meal came he was taken back to the Chinese for another six hours. He was then sent back to his room and given a meal. Just as he was falling asleep, he was brought back again for a third straight six-hour session in extremely cold temperatures.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/16/uighurs-us-let-chinese-ab_n_216332.html

[grantcart]

1. but the Chinese did not waterboard them, interesting.

[timeforpeace]

2. No sweat then.

[mtowngman]

3. I guess having the Chinese torture prisoners at Guantanamo

was shrub administration's way of responding to allegations of human rights violations IN China.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[zonkers]

5. I thought cooperation among nations was a good thing.

[marshall]

6. Those Chinese don't fool around!

No wonder they were scared to death of returning to their homeland.