US ‘world rights champion’ : Only an Idiot believe that!
Posted by musliminsuffer on June 10, 2007
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US ‘world rights champion’ : Only an Idiot believe that!
From correspondents in Washington
June 08, 2007 07:05am
Article from: Agence France-Presse
THE US views itself as the world human rights champion, a senior US spokesman said today, despite reports this week that it runs secret prisons and flouts civil liberties.
A new report this week found that 14 European countries had either colluded with or tolerated the secret transfers of terror suspects by the United States. Two of them, Poland and Romania, may have harboured CIA detention centres, the report said.
Meanwhile, six human rights groups named 39 people believed to be held in Central Intelligence Agency prisons.
But State Department spokesman Tom Casey said none of the criticism would diminish Washington’s commitment to safeguarding human and civil rights.
“We recognise that the United States … does not always have a perfect record, and historically has not always done so,” Mr Casey said.
“That does not lessen the fact that the United States has been and continues to be the world’s leading advocate for human rights around the world,” he said.
“In fact, it would be a dereliction of our responsibility and a negation of our values if we didn’t,” he said.
Mr Casey quoted his boss, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who, defended America’s rights record in a US report earlier this year on global civil rights.
“We do not issue these reports because we think ourselves perfect, but rather because we know ourselves to be deeply imperfect,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had said upon the report’s release in March.
US President George W. Bush admitted to the existence of the secret prisons in September but said all remaining prisoners had been moved to the US naval facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Six rights groups overnight, however, released a list of 39 people still missing from Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan and Spain, and suspected to be detained by US authorities.
The list was released by Amnesty International, Cageprisoners and Reprieve, along with US-based Human Rights Watch, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.
source:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21870353-5005961,00.html
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