Friday, February 24, 2006

UK and US: Partner in Crime

Yesterday, had excellent timing.

Just on the day that the European Parliament was to open formal investigations of human rights violations by the USA's CIA in the secret Europe detainment camp, they also delivered a full report on one of the EU's members and their violations of human rights: the UK. You can read the full report in English here: United Kingdom, Human Rights: A Broken Promise.

In the report, the strategic alliance against terror is analized on its faults to keep human rights as an elementary principle in this "struggle". It shows how the UK has willingly participated in unlawful detentions, collaboration in processes which has led to torture and avoiding basic diplomatic concessions. This means that not only has support for the "war on terror" been military, but also has turned out to be a partnership in crime.

As Amnesty says, this report should be a wake up call for Europe. It's not sufficient to hold the USA responsible for human rights violations on their soil. They must also hold each and everyone of its members, specially the UK, to the highest human rights standards possible no matter who they ally themselves with & not allow their eyes to remain closed to them.

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posted by RodoMXOZ @ 22:32   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 09 March, 2006 17:42, Anonymous Anonymous said...

After the 2nd World War the world saw the horrors of the concentration camps and heard of the worst acts of barbarity. The world was shocked…normal people could not contemplate a situation where torture or inhuman or degrading treatment could be justified.

Liberty, the UK based Human Rights organisation believes that by involving ourselves torture – even if we are not actually torturing people ourselves – we make a mockery of our status as a civilised country and we lose any ability to press other countries to halt this practice.

Article 3, European Convention on Human Rights says “No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

It is the job of every voter to put pressure on their Government to take a moral stance against complicity with torture, through parliament, the press and courts. Please do what you can to support the campaign and defend the most fundamental element of the post-holocaust human rights legacy.

 

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