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UN Rights Chief Says Anti-Terror Measures Can Backfire | ||||
2013-05-28 | ||||
[Ynet] As Britannia, La Belle France consider tightening anti-terror laws, Navi Pillay says 'grave violations' of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... during counter-terrorist operations are 'self-defeating'
...where theory meets practice and practice loses... human rights chief Navi Pillay told governments on Monday that trying to fight terrorism by limiting personal freedoms and mistreating suspects could only worsen the problem. She spoke as Britannia and La Belle France were considering tightening anti-terror laws and surveillance after the killings of two soldiers in London and Gay Paree, and as US President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... renewed his efforts to close the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba. Pillay, speaking at the opening of the spring session of the UN's Human Rights Council, said she had received allegations of "very grave violations of human rights that have taken place in the context of counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency operations." "Such practices are self-defeating. Measures that violate human rights do not uproot terrorism, they nurture it," she said. Pillay made no direct reference to the killing of an off-duty British soldier in London last Wednesday by two men saying they were acting in the name of Islam and the stabbing of a soldier in the French capital.
Pillay also said the US failure to close down the Guantanamo detention center was "an example of the struggle against terrorism failing to uphold human rights, among them the right to a fair trial."
She noted Obama's statement last Thursday outlining how he planned to close the centre down, a move opposed by many in Congress, but said the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo must conform to international human rights law.
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Posted by:trailing wife |
#4 ... then off to a five-star restaurant! |
Posted by: Raj 2013-05-28 13:46 |
#3 Harrumph harrumph harrumph... |
Posted by: tu3031 2013-05-28 13:31 |
#2 Of course then there's the Tamil Tigers. Problem seems to be solved, the old fashion way. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-05-28 08:42 |
#1 Give 'er half a brick. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-05-28 04:19 |