Re: Freedom in Pakistan And the Muslim World
About as dull as when certain individuals follow an arrogant path of misinterpreting the context
of a discussion or debate and using dry sarcasm to promote some sort of argument that neither
has a head or tail, hence exposing their flawed ideology and intent.
By the way, these people are not Pakistani, nor are they pro terrorisim or pro muslim, they are human beings who understand the suffering on these souls:
http://www.fairtrials.org.uk/
Quoting: We have never had a trial. We were found guilty without one. We are imprisoned indefinitely and probably forever. We have no idea why. We have not been told what the evidence is against us. We are here. Speak to us. Listen to us. Tell us what you think and why. The Forgotten Detainees, Belmarsh Prison
http://www.respectcoalition.org/index.php?ite=106&rlid=5
Socialist Worker 1882, 20 December 2003 (www.socialistworker.co.uk)
News
Belmarsh prison - New Labour’s own Guantanamo Bay
IN A damning report Amnesty International has accused the government of creating a “Guantanamo Bay in our own back yard”.
Home secretary David Blunkett threatened to resign his membership of Amnesty after it published its report, Justice Perverted Under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, last week.
Blunkett has got a nerve. Amnesty is a body dedicated to upholding international standards of justice. That is a far cry from what Blunkett is doing.
New Labour has created its own mini-version of the US internment camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
At Belmarsh maximum security prison in south east London 17 foreign nationals have been held under the powers Blunkett granted himself in the wake of 11 September 2001. Fourteen of them continue to be held. They have not been charged or appeared before a court. They are caged indefinitely on the “suspicion of the home secretary”.
Amnesty’s report last week found that the Home Office’s secret tribunal, which upheld the incarceration, admitted that it was prepared to rely on “evidence extracted under torture”.
The men held in Britain, some for two years, are suffering from mental breakdown. This is exactly what is happening in Guantanamo Bay. Yet Blunkett has been secretly undermining attempts to have British prisoners returned for an open trial in Britain rather than a secret US military tribunal.
The military court due to sit in Guantanamo is such an affront that even the US army lawyers appointed as the defence team have resigned. They do not believe their clients will receive a fair trial.
The Guardian’s James Meek spent months talking to former internees and US army insiders. He recently revealed the torture at Guantanamo Bay inflicted on hundreds of internees, some of them children.
One of the victims is British citizen Moazzam Begg, who was seized in Pakistan two years ago.
His father Azmat says, "We do not know what is happening to him in Guantanamo Bay. The authorities censor everything. Neither the family nor lawyers are allowed any contact. And despite what the British government claims, we now know they have been working to keep him there rather than bringing him here.
“Mr Blair has no right to go around the world pretending to be a champion of human rights. He should resign.”
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/print_article.php4?article_id=603
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O’ Yee who judge others, judge us not for thy too shall be judged:
In 2001, without support from the majority of member countries, the United States was voted out of the United Nations Human Rights Commission and the International Narcotics Committee. This shows, from one aspect, that it is extremely unpopular for the United States to push double standards and unilateralism on such issues as human rights, crackdowns on drug trafficking, arms control and environmental protection. We urge the United States to change its ways, give up its hegemonic practice of creating confrontation and interfering in the internal affairs of others by exploiting the human rights issue, go with the tide of the times characterized by cooperation and dialogue in the area of human rights, and do more useful things for the progress and development of the human society.
For many years, the US government has year after year published reports on human rights conditions in other countries in disregard of the opposition of many countries in the world, cooking up charges, twisting facts and censoring all countries except itself. It also publishes a report every year to make a so-called appraisal of anti-drug trafficking campaigns of 24 countries including all Latin American countries. The United States deals with any country it deems “inefficient in cracking down on drug trafficking” with condemnation, sanctions, interference in the latter’s internal affairs, or outright invasion.
The Third UN Conference Against Racism held in Durban of South African in September 2001 was an important gathering in the area of international human rights at the beginning of the new century. It attracted representatives from more than 190 countries, which reflected the burning desire of the international community to eliminate hatred accumulated over time and eradicate the remnants of racism through dialogue and cooperation. The United States, however, turned a deaf ear to the voices of the international community. Ignoring its international obligations, it asserted openly to boycott the conference before it was opened. Although the United States sent a low-level delegation to the conference as a result of prompting and persuasion by the United Nations, it took the lead in opposing discussing slave trade and colonial compensation, expressed opposition to putting Zionism on a par with racism, and walked out of the conference midway. Behaviors of the United States at the conference revealed its hypocrisy when it professes itself as “a world judge of human rights” and show how arrogant and isolated the hegemonic acts of the US government are.
The United States has announced its withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol, refusing to bear the responsibilities of improving the environment for human survival and bringing about negative impacts on environmental protection efforts in the world.
The US government has until this day refused to sign the Basel Convention, which restricts the transfer of waste materials. It often transfers dangerous waste materials by different methods to developing countries, damaging the health of the people of other countries. The Associated Press reported on February 25, 2002 that, according to an estimate by environmental protection organizations, as much as 50 percent to 80 percent of the electronic wastes collected by the United States in the name of recycling have been shipped to a number of countries in Asia for waste treatment, causing serious environmental and health problems to the local people.
Treatment of Children:
The United States has also conducted irradiation experiments with the dead bodies of babies from overseas. The Daily Telegraph and the Observer of the United Kingdom disclosed in June of 2001 that the United States has recently declassified some top-secret documents, which indicate that in the 1950s the United States carried out what was called “Project Sunshine” experiments. For these experiments, about 6,000 dead babies were obtained from overseas and cremated without permission of their parents. The ashes were sent to laboratories for irradiation studies.
Freedom of the Press:
The United States always flaunts the banner of “freedom of the press”. Yet according to an Agence France-Presse report on February 21, 2002, the annual report of International Journalism Institute published on the same day pointed out that the way in which the US government dealt with the media during the Afghan War and its attempt at suppressing freedom of speech by independent media were “the most amazing in 2001.”
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Sensible Military Operator:
Available data indicate that in the Gulf War the United States dropped more than 940,000 depleted uranium bombs with a total weight of 320 tons onto Iraqi land, causing serious destruction to the environment of Iraq and the health of its people. The Ministry of Health of Iraq pointed out in a report that the number of cancer patients in Iraq increased dramatically after the Gulf War, from 6,555 in 1989 and 4,341 in 1991 to 10,931 in 1997. In the ten years since the end of the Gulf War, the incidence rate of leukemia, malicious tumors and other difficult and complicated cases in areas hit by depleted uranium bombs in southern Iraq was 3.6 times higher than the national average and the proportion of women with miscarriage was ten times as high as in the past. On February 22, 2002, Emad Sa’doon, a medical expert with Basra University in southern Iraq, disclosed to the media that after many years of research the medical group led by him found that in the 1989-1999 period, the number of patients with blood cancer doubled and the number of women with breast cancer increased 102 percent.
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World Leader and Peace Maker:
The United States ranks first in the world in wantonly infringing upon the sovereignty of, and human rights in, other countries. Since the 1990s, the United States has used force overseas on more than 40 occasions. On April 1, 2001, a US military reconnaissance plane flew above waters off China’s coast in violation of flight rules, causing the crash of a Chinese aircraft and the death of its pilot. It presumptuously entered China’s territorial airspace without permission from the Chinese side and landed on a Chinese military airfield, seriously encroaching upon China’s sovereignty and human rights. After the incident, the United States made all sorts of excuses to defend itself, refusing to make a public apology for the serious consequences of its intruding aircraft and trying to shirk its responsibilities. This aroused great indignation and strong protests from the Chinese people.
The United States has built many military bases all over the world, where it has stationed hundreds of thousands of troops, violating human rights everywhere in the world. Before the September 11 incident, the United States had stationed its troops in more than 140 countries. Today, the United States has expanded its so-called security interests to almost every corner of the world. In recent years, US troops stationed in Japan have frequently committed crimes. In 1995, three American soldiers raped a Japanese schoolgirl in Okinawa, sparking massive protests by the Japanese people and arousing the alert of world public opinion. In fact, scandals like this happen almost every year. On January 11, 2001, an American soldier was arrested for molesting a local schoolgirl in Okinawa. On January 19, the Okinawa parliament adopted a resolution of protest against frequent criminal activities by American soldiers, calling for reduction of US troops in Japan. However, in an e-mail message to his subordinates, the US commander in Okinawa insulted the Okinawa magistrate and parliament. On June 29, another soldier of the US air force sexually assaulted a Japanese girl in Kyatan of Okinawa.
Full Article :
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zt/zfbps/t36544.htm
