Peter Jan Honigsberg, Professor of Law from the University of San Francisco, is the director of the project which was launched in 2009 to document stories of former detainees which include Uighurs.
The project has brought them to countries of Albania, Bosnia, France, Germany and England and now Palau.
The interview which will be 2 ½ hours in length, Honigsberg said the interviews will show “ human rights abuses and rule of law violations at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba.”
He said that these interviews will be archived at the University of San Franscisco for scholar’s future use.
“This is for the future generation, no one can say that Guantanamo did not happen,” Honigsberg said.
Palau has agreed to take in Uighur detainees from Guantanamo. The Uighurs, Muslim separatists from western China and been judged not to be enemy combatants.
The six Uighurs arrived in Palau on November 1 and is slowly settling in the country.
Three of the Uighurs has agreed to be interviewed by the team.
He said that the Uighurs tells in narrative form the circumstances of their arrest and their experience while in incarceration.
The ordeal of the ex-detainees will be part of the hundreds of the detainees stories.
There have been a total of 760 detainees in Guantanamo, 550 of them have been released and 200 are still in Guantanamo.
There are 22 Uighurs detained in Guantanamo, 15 has been released and seven remains in prison.
Earlier United States President Barack Obama signed an executive order soon after taking office to close the Guantanamo Bay facility by January 2010, saying it has hurt the image of the U.S. and negatively impacts national security.
U.S. Congress however blocked funding to close the facility.
Honigsberg said they are planning to conduct interview to as close as 200 detainees.
He said that the interviews will educate the public and mobilize pressure to hold U.S. government officials accountable for human rights abuses and violations of the U.S. and international law.
“We are not putting the interviews in publication, this is for history,” Honigsberg said.
These ex-detainees are telling their stories.
He said that the project aims to interview at least 200 ex-detainees in two years.
