Guantánamo's Child Soldier The Trials of Omar Khadr

ANDY WORTHINGTON

...On his arrival, in October 2002, just a few weeks after his 16th birthday, he was immediately subjected to a regime of humiliation, isolation and abuse, including extreme temperature manipulation, forced nudity and sexual humiliation, which had just been introduced in an attempt to increase the meager flow of "actionable intelligence" from the prison. He told his lawyers that he was "short-shackled by his hands and feet to a bolt in the floor and left for five to six hours," and that "occasionally a US officer would enter the room to laugh at him." He also said that he was "kept in extremely cold rooms," "lifted up by the neck while shackled, and then dropped to the floor," and "beaten by guards." In one particularly notorious incident, the guards left him short-shackled until he urinated on himself, and then "poured a pine-scented cleaning fluid over him and used him as a 'human mop' to clean up the mess." As if further humiliation was required, he added that he was "not provided with clean clothes for several days after this degradation." Confirming its disregard for the rights of children, the administration proceeded, in November 2005, to designate Omar as one of ten Guantánamo detainees to be tried by Military Commission....

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