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Guantanamo Kid

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L'histoire d'un jeune Tchadien, vivant avec sa famille en Arabie saoudite, qui pour avoir pris un faux nom afin d'obtenir des papiers lui permettant d'aller étudier l'anglais et l'informatique au Pakistan, a été soupçonné d'appartenir à Al-Qaida. Il raconte ses conditions de détention par les Américains à Kandahar puis pendant sept ans à Guantanamo.

176 pages, Paperback

Published June 2, 2023

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160 reviews3 followers
June 16, 2023
Une bd hyper importante à lire pour prendre conscience de l'injustice au camp de Guantanamo. Je ne connaissais pas l'histoire de Mohammed El-Gorani et j'ai trouvé que les auteurs ont fait un travail de recherche très important et riche, mettant en lumière son histoire. Ce livre m'a ouvert les yeux sur les tortures et les mauvais traitements que subissent les détenus mais aussi sur le fait que beaucoup sont arrêtés sans aucune raison, sans procédure d'enquête, de manière complètement injuste et injustifiée ! C'était également intéressant de voir que même après être reconnu non coupable et après être libéré, ces personnes ne peuvent plus mener leur vie tranquillement et sont toujours surveillés, envoyer de pays en pays, arrêté sans n'avoir rien fait.
Il faut vraiment lire cette BD !
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January 6, 2025
“I had left my home to study, but had been prevented from doing so. I had been treated like a criminal, and they had taken eight years of my life.” Jérôme Tubiana and Alexandre Franc’s Guantánamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani is a graphic novel based on the true story of a person who lost his adolescence and early adulthood imprisoned illegally, under false pretences, by the US state in Guantánamo Bay in the wake of 9/11. His devastating, maddening story is captured with simple yet striking black-and-white illustrations alongside his words. It is well crafted, visually excellent, starkly emotive. I wonder though how we go on living in a world in which we are complicit with such atrocities. I had written more about this subject, about how Mohammed’s story, its undertones of Western complicity and impunity, reflect the ongoing genocide in Palestine. It was bleak and hopeless and hand-wringing: it’s hard to do much else in the face of such senseless evil. Mohammed is inspiring in his resolute outlook, but his story is a grim reminder of the endless harm that can be done on collective and individual levels, and, so many years later, a reminder that we’ve not learned, we’ve not changed a thing.
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98 reviews15 followers
December 18, 2024
Amazing how powerless a poor person is against powerfull countries-like u.s.-or corruptgovernment officials who simply sold this boy and others as slaves for the bounties the u.s.paid-5000/person allegedly member of al quaida or other so-called terrorist organization.This poor man should have the means to sue the fuck out of the u.s.I hope he eventually found some well deserved rest and happiness.I hope his health problems got better;too much to expect them to go away after all that torture and the nonstop-beatings.What an eye-opener this book was.Very good execution and art.Amazing how he kept his spirits up onder these inhuman conditions.Five stars.
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December 27, 2024
Insensée et révoltante, l'histoire de Mohammed El-Gorani (et de ses co-détenus) est racontée et illustrée avec brio. Sa force de caractère et sa résilience m'ont laissée sans voix. Puisse-t-il retrouver un semblant de paix et de stabilité.
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