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The Song Of The Captives: A Verse Adaptation Of Testimony Taken From Detainees At Abu Ghraib Prison

The Song Of The Captives: A Verse Adaptation Of Testimony Taken From Detainees At Abu Ghraib Prison

Van Cleef, Jabez L.

Paperback

Series: Human Rights Poetry, Book 6

Social Movements

ISBN10: 1438221088
ISBN13: 9781438221083
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: May 10 2008
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Limited resources, increasing populations, and unyielding political and religious systems have engendered conflicts around the world. As a consequence, commercial interests, established institutions, and government powers have threatened fundamental aspects of human rights. The poetry in this book interprets, in a metered format, sworn statements obtained at Baghdad Correctional Facility, Abu Ghraib, Iraq, January 16-21, 2004, and obtained by the Washington Post. It finds a dark music in the plain speech of men detained and manipulated by strangers: He said, If I give you some torture, What do you think? Would that be fair? I asked him, Why torture me then? He said, We need more information.

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