Secret Garden

[Dystopian]

Guantanamo Bay prisoners plant seeds of hope in secret garden
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 29 April 2006

With their bare hands and the most basic of tools, prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have fashioned a secret garden where they have grown plants from seeds recovered from their meals. For some of the detainees - held without charge for more than four years and who the US say are now cleared for release - the garden apparently offers a diversion from the monotony and injustice of their imprisonment
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article360820.ece

[Wilms]

1. Thanks for the article. Recommended.

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Mr Turkistani said he and other prisoners held in part of the prison known as Camp Iguana softened the ground with water overnight and then used the spoons to dig. Every day they managed to loosen more soil until they had enough for a bed for planting. "We have lots of time here," he said.

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