Coded letters from Briton in Guantanamo Bay reveal 'regime of violence'
Monday, August 9, 2004 at 01:56PM
TheSpook
Prisoner Martin Mubanga is using a mixture of slang and patois in his letters home to describe the conditions in Camp Delta.
Serious new allegations about the ill-treatment of
prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been revealed in a series of letters
from a British detainee, who has accused US guards of threatening him
with sexual assault and physical violence, The Independent on Sunday
can reveal. The letters from Martin Mubanga, one of the last remaining
British detainees in Guantanamo Bay, were carefully written to escape
the military censors, using a unique mixture of London street slang,
Cockney, Jamaican patois and rap lyrics. In his letters home to his
younger brother Anthony - all stamped "cleared by US Forces" - he talks
about "radix", slang for the authorities or police, and about the "bull
boy" guards "giving it large", a reference, his family says, to threats
and the use of violence. Other passages accuse the guards of
threatening him with sexual abuse: "expecting man n' man to bend over
so as them there can give to man n' man real good." [more]
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