Shaker Aamer: Gitmo is run to destroy human beings

12th January 2016

Guantanamo Bay is run by psychologists with the sole purpose of destroying the human beings it holds, Shaker Aamer has told news channel RT.

“Guantanamo is being run by one concept: how to destroy a human being,” Aamer, who regained his freedom on October 30 of last year after being held at Gitmo without charge since 2002, said.

According to the 49-year-old, the most effective measure used by the prison authorities over the years has been to denigrate the Muslim faith, which is practiced by most Gitmo inmates.

“Guantanamo is being run by psychologists, by psychiatrists. They know nothing will affect us more than insulting our religion. Nothing will make us break like grabbing our Holy Quran and throw it in front of us or just opening it like that, you know, searching in them: ‘Oh, you know, you are hiding something,” he said.

Aamer blasted the term “enhanced interrogation techniques,” which is used by the US politicians to describe what is being done to the prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay.

“Let’s practice that enhanced techniques on you!” he said addressing “all these senators, all these congressmen.”