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Monday, September 18, 2006 |
CommonDreams: "Ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates called for world peace Saturday and took direct aim at the United States, asking an enthusiastic crowd of 7,000 youth to demand the U.S. pull back its military, spread its wealth and offer aid to developing countries.
Even the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who praised the United States for its fight against South Africa's apartheid and its history of justice and democracy, had stern words for the Bush administration.
'You taught us about the rule of law,' he said. 'You taught us no government worth its salt can subvert the rule of law. We believed you. That's part of what you have as a gift for the world. Then how can you commit Guantanamo Bay? Take back your country... How about exporting some of your generosity instead of your bombs?'"
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CommonDreams: "In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.
When the Americans formally turned over Abu Ghraib prison to Iraqi control on Sept. 2, 2006 it was empty but its 3,000 prisoners remained in U.S. custody, shifted to Camp Cropper.
Disclosures of torture and long-term arbitrary detentions have won rebuke from leading voices including the U.N. secretary-general and the U.S. Supreme Court. But the bitterest words come from inside the system, the size of several major U.S. penitentiaries."
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© Copyright 2006 Hetty Litjens.
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