Desperately Alone in a Crowd Without a common language to speak, St. Augustine wrote, “a man would be more cheerful with his dog for company than with a foreigner.” For eight years, Sunnat, a sixteen-year-old Uzbek captured in Afghanistan in 2001, didn’t even have that: in 2002, he was transported to Guantánamo, where he did not know the linguae francae, English and Arabic. For all the talk he heard from his cellmates every day, he might as well have been in solitary confinement. Until his release, in 2010, he was, in the words of Peter Jan Honigsberg, a professor of law at the University of San Francisco, “alone in a sea of voices.” Every morning, Sunnat told Honigsberg, he awoke to a crushing sensation of loneliness. His only coping strategy: “I cried, and then I felt better.” A must read, please click on the link below to read the article
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:38:17 +0000
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