'US leads in human rights violations' (Amnesty Intl) THANKS W!!!

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'US leads in human rights violations'

REUTERS< THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2005 01:01:37 AM>
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LONDON: FOUR years after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, human rights are in retreat world-wide and the US bears most of the responsibility, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Wednesday. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe the picture is bleak. Governments are increasingly rolling back the rule of law, taking their cue from the US-led war on terror, it said.

“The US as the unrivalled political, military and economic hyper-power sets the tone for governmental behaviour world-wide,” secretary general Irene Khan said in the foreword of Amnesty International’s ’05 annual report. “When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a license to others to commit abuse with impunity,” she added.

London-based Amnesty cited the pictures of detainees at Iraq’s US-run Abu Ghraib prison from last year, which it said were never adequately investigated, and the detention without trial of “enemy combatants” at the US naval base in Cuba. “The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has become the gulag of our times, entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law,” Ms Khan said.

Accused of being too harsh on the US, Mr Khan replied that the facts speak for themselves. Hundreds of people were being held in Guantanamo and the US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan — some for more than three years — without either charge or trial and no access to legal representation. “By actively undermining human rights, the US, the EU and others have actually made the security situation worse,” she said.

She also noted Washington’s attempts to circumvent its own ban on the use of torture.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1121934.cms

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Match this with Bush's rhetoric. Oh the hits just keep on comin'!!

[hiley]

1. so ashamed..

Sign our Petition Letter and Pledge Your Commitment to Denounce Torture
As part of the Denounce Torture: Stop It Now! initiative, Amnesty International USA is hoping to have at least 250,000 people living in the United States sign a special statement against torture. Amnesty International USA will use this petition letter in our efforts to show the Bush Administration, Congress, and others that those living in the United States are strongly opposed to torture and ill-treatment in all circumstances.

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Torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment are despicable, immoral, illegal and always wrong. The highest authorities in my country should publicly denounce these acts in the strongest possible terms, and never utilize them, not least in my name.

Governments around the world should not only condemn but prosecute to the full extent of the law any of these acts by our own agents, whether in this country or anywhere else we have control. No one should be held in secret, beyond the eyes of
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http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/petition/Index.asp?id=30

[NorCalDem]

2. USA!

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! :grr: :grr:

[Dudley_DUright]

3. We're number one!

:woohoo: :sarcasm:

[Chicago Democrat]

4. We're number one!

Woooohhoooo...

Oh wait that's bad...

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[killbotfactory]

5. Nonsense....

Muslim's don't count as humans...