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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2022
- Mohamedou Ould Slahi - who has never even been charged - spent fourteen years in Guantánamo Bay. Despite his horrible imprisonment and decreased confidence in humanity, he has found a way to go on.
During his imprisonment, his autonomy was taken away from him. Now, he refuses to be defined by this for the rest of his life. He pleads forgiveness, and refuses to remain trapped in a vicious cycle of hatred. How do you go on with normal life when they unjustly robbed you from your freedom? How to live at all, when they tortured for nothing?
For this evening, Ould Slahi and De Balie have invited film director Kevin Macdonald, whose feature film The Mauritanian is based on Ould Slahi’s memoir Guantánamo Diary.
Programme editor: Ianthe Mosselman & Veronica Baas
Moderator: Yoeri Albrecht
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DE BALIE
De Balie is a Dutch organization in the center of Amsterdam that engages in art, politics, society and science. View the diverse program and purchase tickets online.
MOHAMEDOU OULD SLAHI
This program is part of a four-part series in collaboration with Ould Slahi, De Balie’s artist in residence. Other programmes in the series will feature his editor Larry Siems, his lawyer Nancy Hollander and his former prison guard Steve Wood. The public gets to witness his route to forgiveness.
The most powerfull moment 36:49 - a man recorgnizing the emotional need of another man. It is something so special and when they follow their impulse to actualy do something, express them selfes - thank you
شكرا لكم علي كل حال أسرة الفلم أنتم أكثر رحمة وأكثر عدالة من أهلنا وإن كان الفلم وضع الكثير من المساحيق علي سياسة أمريكا وما قامت به ضد الكرامه الانسانية
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This gentleman is so special. It’s so terribly sad and incomprehensible what Mohamedou has had to go through. With him many other falsely imprisoned people did too.
Many parts of the Muslim world still suffer immensely under US oppression, the UK and even the Netherlands have contributed immensely.
These leaders must be held accountable in a court of law. I fear that will not happen or succeed even if they are brought to trial.
The world has become more divided since.
Thankfully it’s films like the Mauritanian and the people behind the movie, the makers who are showing us that there is a form of healing possibly taking place here.
Thank you.
What a great interview, interviewer, and guests!
What a gifted writer in his FOURTH language
The readings were so amazing heartfelt and respectful. I could listen to him read a lawnmower manual
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