Amnesty International: Guantanamo = Gulag
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The voice of the international appeasement left, Amnesty International, apparently believes the United States is responsible for a worldwide decline in human rights:
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Amnesty International Takes Aim at US.
LONDON - Amnesty International branded the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay a human rights failure Wednesday, calling it “the gulag of our time” as it released a report that offers stinging criticism of the United States and its detention centers around the world.
The 308-page report accused the United States of shirking its responsibility to set the bar for human rights protections and said Washington has instead created a new lexicon for abuse and torture. Amnesty International called for the camp to be closed.
“Attempts to dilute the absolute ban on torture through new policies and quasi-management speak, such as ‘environmental manipulation, stress positions and sensory manipulation,’ was one of the most damaging assaults on global values,” the annual report said.
Some 540 prisoners from about 40 countries are being held at the U.S. detention center in Cuba. More than 200 others have been released, though some have been jailed in their countries; many have been held for three years without charge.
“Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time,” Amnesty Secretary General Irene Khan said.
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And as usual, when one of these hard-left groups condemns the United States, it’s accompanied by a similar attack on Israel.
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Yahad (Meretz) lawmaker Zahava Gal-On on Wednesday called for an urgent Knesset debate following the publication of the annual Amnesty International report on human rights violations, which accuses Israel Defense Forces soldiers of war crimes, including unlawful killings, torture, destruction of property, obstruction of medical assistance and targeting of medical personnel.The report says the IDF is responsible for the deaths of some 700 Palestinians, including 150 children, “most of them unlawfully.” Most of the deaths were caused by shooting, explosions, and aerial attacks on residential areas, according to the report. Advertisement
Amnesty said that in the same period Palestinian terror organizations killed 109 Israelis, of which 67 were civilians, including eight children. Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said the report seemed biased, although ministry officials had not yet read the entire document. “This accusation of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank being involved in war crimes, that is something we reject,” Regev said. “It would appear to be a very one-sided comment.”
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