Omar Khadr documentary looks into CSIS interrogation at Guantánamo Bay
The past eight years of Omar Khadr‘s life are well documented: in July 2002, the Toronto-born 15-year-old was accused of killing an American soldier with a hand grenade in Afghanistan. In 2003, Khadr was interrogated by a CSIS agent at Guantánamo Bay and has been imprisoned there ever since.
Now, a new film from two Montreal directors takes a closer look at what happened during that four-day CSIS interrogation. In You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo (view the trailer above), co-directors Patricio Henriquez and Luc Côté paint a sympathetic picture of Khadr’s alleged mistreatment at the hands of Canadian officials.
The pair spent two years analyzing seven hours of grainy surveillance from the interrogation while gathering commentary from Khadr’s lawyers, a psychiatrist and various high-ranking officials. The film weaves these interviews with the footage, including one chilling scene in which the teenage Khadr cries out for his mother, lifting his shirt to reveal bullet wounds before pleading with the Canadian agent to save him from further alleged torture.
The film premiered at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal last week and will be shown at a special screening on Parliament Hill on October 20. You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo opens in select theatres across Canada on October 29.
• Unanswered Questions: The story behind the Omar Khadr documentary, You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo [CBC News]
Booooorrriiing!!!!
C’mon. Enough of this guy already
Omar Khadr was a child soldier and as such, needs to be rehabilitated, NOT punished. Where’s our compassion?
a lot of people died solders from america and afghans tan how come no one cares about the other solder who were killed too instead of holding this young boy ……….you people should have sympathy. torturing someone who is already been shot that way and still in pain is not the solution .sometimes you leaders out there should go back and ask your selves what if that was me how would you feel ………..is painful to see this boy suffering and at the end he is proved NOT GUILTY ……….THE QUESTION IS OUT OF THOUSANDS OF SOLDERS WHO DIED WHAT WAS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THIS ONE SOLDER THAT NO OTHER SOLDER HAD ………THINK BEFORE YOU LEAP