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  • The 2008 Hall of Shame: Awards for the World's Worst Human Rights Abusers and their Enablers
    John commented on the article | about 3 years ago
    The 2008 Hall of Shame: Awards for the World's Worst Human Rights Abusers and their Enablers

    While I wouldn't argue that any of the award winners are "undeserving", I do think the article is a bit biased. The US/UK/Israel could be equally deserving of many of the awards

    How about an Utter Hypocrisy award:

    1st) The US government, for all its moralistic, holier-than-thou condemnation of human rights abuses, genocide and war crimes in Darfur... while at the same time uncritically funding and supporting Israel to bomb Gaza to pieces and failing to even call for a ceasefire (not to mention its own actions in Iraq). Is it any wonder Arab states are concerned about US motives on Darfur, and that Bashir has been so successful in painting the atrocities in Darfur as some kind of US/Zionist exaggeration?

    2nd) The US government, for its insistence that Bashir gets hauled to court at the ICC - a institution that Sudan has never ratified - while at the same time the US still refuses to ratify the ICC itself

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