If we look in the World's history, you will see that there were far worse violation of human rights and religious or racial discrimination in the
past.
In my own studies, some (not all) reports on the cases of human rights abuses such as the "extra judicial killings" in the Philippines are somewhat
exaggerated.
In most cases, atrocities committed by the “other side”, i.e. rebel forces (against the country’s administration) insurgents & other opposing
forces, such as human rights abuses, killings etc. were rarely given emphasis in these reports by AI & other international organizations. It is always
easy to hit the Country’s administration.
Just for example, the communist rebels in the Philippines has their own “kangaroo court” where a suspect will be tried for his/her crimes against
the “people”, immiditiate execution usually follows after a speedy trial. Yet I rarely see a cry of foul from AI & other international
organizations. The government usually takes the blame.
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against AI & other international organizations. The point here, is that there are a lot of things happening in
the World beyond the reach of international media. It is easy to criticize some things the can be easily seen or known such as Government/Leader
actions.
When someone release such sweeping statements, it better be a fair statement.
But the "war on terror" provided an over-arching theme of the report's criticism, with Khan saying the United States was treating the world as
"one giant battlefield".
I just feel that somehow, something is not right with this statement. And of course; 'War On Terror' Dividing World?
Does this make any sense to you?
newsinfo.inquirer.net
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[edit on 23-5-2007 by searching_for_truth]
