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Amnesty slams U.S. on human rights
May 25th, 2005 at 16:41 Björn Hallberg
CNN: From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe the picture is bleak. Governments are increasingly rolling back the rule of law, taking their cue from the U.S.-led war on terror, it said.
"The USA as the unrivalled political, military and economic hyper-power sets the tone for governmental behavior worldwide," Secretary General Irene Khan said in the foreword to Amnesty International’s 2005 annual report.
"When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a licence to others to commit abuse with impunity," she said.
U.S. President George W. Bush often said his country was founded on and dedicated to the cause of human dignity — but there was a gulf between rhetoric and reality, Amnesty found.
It is also interesting to read their comments on the U.N. Commission of Human Rights which has, largely thanks to the US, been rendered impotent. Which is obviously also a deliberate act that can later be turned up by the US as proof that the UN needs to be reformed in its image, made into some sort of US-centered world government, placed under direct US control or simply disbanded.
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