{"id":47286,"date":"2020-10-02T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T15:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47286"},"modified":"2020-09-18T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:46:03","slug":"guantanamo-voices-true-accounts-from-the-worlds-most-infamous-prison-by-sarah-mirk-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/guantanamo-voices-true-accounts-from-the-worlds-most-infamous-prison-by-sarah-mirk-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Guant\u00e1namo Voices: True Accounts from the World&#8217;s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47295\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/Guantanamo-Voices-Sarah-Mirk-BookDragon-540x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/Guantanamo-Voices-Sarah-Mirk-BookDragon-540x800.jpg 540w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/Guantanamo-Voices-Sarah-Mirk-BookDragon.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nFor this project 10 years in the making, journalist\/writer Sarah Mirk gathered a diverse dozen comic artists; fellow journalist\/writer Omar El Akkad (<em>American War,\u00a0<\/em>2017), who provides the searing introduction; and historian\/journalist Andy Worthington (<em>The Guant\u00e1namo Files,\u00a0<\/em>2007), who contributes fact-checked accuracy. Together, this creative village exposes the surreal inhumanity and documents the humane attempts at justice-seeking for the so-called \u201cdetainees\u201d in the \u201cdetention facility\u201d known as Guant\u00e1namo.<\/p>\n<p>Mirk transforms her \u201coriginal interviews,\u201d combined with additional interviews from Columbia University\u2019s Rule of Law project, into a disturbing eyewitness account of unprecedented violations, abuses, flagrant disregard of both the U.S. Constitution\u2019s Sixth Amendment (\u201cthe right to a speedy and public trial\u201d) and the Geneva Conventions\u2019 Article 103, which limits pre-trial confinement.\u00a0Confronting U.S. officials and employees, tormented prisoners held without charge, attorneys, and activists, interviews are turned by\u00a0Mirk\u2019s collaborating artists into affecting, often gruesome panels (the palette cleverly pre-determined to \u201cevoke the surreal contrast\u201d between Guant\u00e1namo\u2019s beauty and the horrors within).<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the interview chapters, supplementary content \u2013 map, facts, timeline, survivor Abu Zubaydah\u2019s original sketches of torture, Guant\u00e1namo gift shop (!) photos, exhaustive sources \u2013 further unmasks the abominations, amplified by the fact that Guant\u00e1namo remains an active facility. \u201cWe created an entire new legal system for brown men,\u201d prisoners\u2019 attorney Alka Pradhan starkly contends. \u201cIf these were white men from France or Germany, there is no way Guant\u00e1namo would exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Guant-namo-Voices-True-Accounts-from-the-World-s-Most-Infamous-Prison-\/pid=9738499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, September 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW For this project 10 years in the making, journalist\/writer Sarah Mirk gathered a diverse dozen comic artists; fellow journalist\/writer Omar El Akkad (American War,\u00a02017), who provides the searing introduction; and historian\/journalist Andy Worthington (The Guant\u00e1namo Files,\u00a02007), who contributes fact-checked accuracy. 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