UN Official Loses Job After Exposing US Abuse in Aghanistan

[rabians]

CAIRO, April 25, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – The UN's top human rights investigator in Afghanistan has been forced out of his job just days after presenting a report criticizing the US military for detaining suspects without trial and holding them in secret prisons, a major British daily reported on Monday, April 25.

The UN eliminated Cherif Bassiouni’s job last week after Washington had pressed for his mandate to be changed so that it would no longer cover the US military, said The Independent.

Just days earlier, the Egyptian-born law professor, now based in Chicago, presented a 24-page report to the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.

“There is a very unusual practice in Afghanistan, mainly foreign forces, who have taken upon themselves the right, without any legal process of arresting people, detaining them, mistreating them and possibly even torturing them,” he reported.

Bassiouni also stressed that it was a “matter of great concern” that an independent expert had been denied access to Bagram camp, 50 kilometers north of Kabul.

He has needled the US military since his appointment a year ago, repeatedly trying, without success, to interview alleged Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners at the two biggest US bases in Afghanistan, Kandahar and Bagram.

The report, based on a year spent traveling around Afghanistan interviewing Afghans, international agency staff and the Afghan Human Rights Commission, accused US troops of breaking into homes, arresting residents and abusing them.

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[aasmi]

we all know about the double policies. obviously this is the propaganda war. one side doesnt want the atrocities to come out. also speaking the truth doesnt really matter anymore what matters is that you are either with us or against us.

[Brutus]

U.N becomes irrelevant when their is a conflict of interest or opinion with U.S. United Naions is a tool U.S uses to spread its hegemony around the world when it suits her purpose. When it doesn't, she just discards the opinion, and does it anyway.

[zohairz]

well.....if ur not with USA ur against them...thats their agenda...and they carry on with it no matter who we r talking about...but the UN official had done good job

[Aries007]

This is what they have been doing for a long time now. They have no laws but law of force. No country in the world is standing up for themself. This is very sad times in the history of human kind

[jameskpl]

yes yaar....as we have seen the soldiers have been treating the civilians probably much worse than they might have had at Saddam's hand...civilians might be thinkin..atleast when Saddam was there..they could call Iraq as their country and also could walk along the street without much fear...

[labcadet]

UN is worth nothing

[kashmiri]

UN ki aho

[its-umair]

i agree Doube standard Hypocrits... but wen ppl thought Rome was great and would live for ever it had a downfall, same with the british empire, let america enjoy for some time too, they are not far from having issues in their own home country...

Jobs are being outsourced, do u think american ppl like that, its just Bush's administration is dealing with the rich class, business owners, landlords, normal public here is as unhappy as ppl in pakistan... or afghanistan... so its not far, justice will be done Inshallah.... we will just have to be patient...

[Dr_Eggman]

I say it's not so much Americans in nature, it's the current regime. Specifically the recently appointed Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said:
"The point I want to leave with you in this very brief presentation is where I started: is that there is no United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world, and that's the United States, when it suits our interests and when we can get others to go along..."
"The United Nations Building in New York City has 38 stories. If you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference..."
"This kind of mindless creation of the United Nations as something different than what is in the United States interest to do isn't going to sell here or anywhere else..."
"The United States makes the UN work, when it wants it to work. And that is exactly the way it should be because the only question, the only question, to the United States is what's in our national interest. And if you don't like that, I'm sorry, but that is the fact."

[stupidres]

That's what happens with everyone these days.