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>>> Amnesty International podkresla ze 'wojna z terrorem' to przykrywka dla
rzadow w ich ograniczaniu praw cywilnych obywateli, niszczeniu prawa
miedzynarodowego i bezkarnosci rzadow w imie 'bezpieczenstwa panstwowego'.
Amnesty: 'War on Terror' Has Made World Worse
Wed May 28, 2003 07:43 AM ET
By Gideon Long
LONDON (Reuters) - Washington's "war on terror" has made the world more
dangerous by curbing human rights, undermining international law and
shielding governments from scrutiny, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
Releasing its annual report into global human rights abuses in 2002, the
London-based watchdog made one of its fiercest attacks yet on the policies
pursued by the United States and Britain in response to the attacks of
September 11, 2001.
If the war on terror was supposed to make the world safer, it has failed,
and has given governments an excuse to abuse human rights in the name of
state security, it said.
"What would have been unacceptable on September 10, 2001, is now becoming
almost the norm," Amnesty's Secretary-General Irene Khan told a news
conference, accusing Washington of adopting "a new doctrine of human rights
a la carte."
"The United States continues to pick and choose which bits of its
obligations under international law it will use, and when it will use them,"
she said, highlighting the detention without charge or trial of hundreds of
prisoners in Afghanistan and in a U.S. military camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"By putting these detainees into a legal black hole, the U.S. administration
appeared to continue to support a world where arbitrary unchallengeable
detention becomes acceptable."
Amnesty urged the world to do more to sort out Iraq's problems now the Gulf
War is over.
"There is a very real risk that Iraq will go the way of Afghanistan if no
genuine effort is made to heed the call of the Iraqi people for law and
order and full respect of human rights," Khan said.
"Afghanistan does not present a record of which the international community
can be proud."
Amnesty's 311-page report was not concerned solely with the crises triggered
by the attacks of September 11.
It said the intense media focus on Afghanistan and Iraq in 2002 meant human
rights abuses in Ivory Coast, Colombia, Burundi, Chechnya and Nepal had gone
largely unnoticed.
Amnesty said the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
remained "bleak, with continuing fighting and attacks on civilians."
"In Burundi, government forces carried out extrajudicial
killings, 'disappearances', torture and other serious violations," it said.
Amnesty said the Colombian government had "exacerbated the spiraling cycle
of political violence" by introducing new security measures.
It accused Israel of committing war crimes in the occupied territories and
the Palestinians of committing crimes against humanity by targeting
civilians in suicide bombings.
"At least 1,000 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army (in 2002), most
of them unlawfully," it said. "Palestinian armed groups killed more than 420
Israelis, at least 265 of them civilians..."
Khan said it was vital that the world "resist the manipulation of fear and
challenge the narrow focus of the security agenda."
"The definition of security must be broadened to encompass the security of
people, as well as states," she said.
