human rights abuses

Continued from here. So maybe there wasn't a sealed indicment after all... Washington Post reports:

Has anyone here read this book?:http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780241953846/case-pope Will there be a prosecution now that Ratzinger is no longer a head of state? How would anyone go about arresting him? Has Robertson got it wrong and old Popey Pants has nothing to answer for? Should I...

Didn't see one yet, so... Maybe 4/5 or more of Tripoli really is in rebel hands as they say. But the area around the Rixos hotel is still in government hands, and so is Seif al-Islam. The BBC just heard from him: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14625516 He said in fact the rebels had...

? (was supposed to be in title) Alright, there's been much noise about the Gaddafi regime's human rights violations. One crime that seems to have slid a bit from the public radar is the deadly cluster bombig of Misrata by Gaddafi forces, April 13-15. Here's the CT version, backed up with...

Before I nod off, it occurred to me to put this before the forum community. Warning: all subject matter is gruesome, of the type now tolerated by Youtube and Facebook as essential for the cause of freedom in Libya. First, the rebel version, complete with survivor, who I guess explained the...

Jaysus, looks grim, there's some photo's in the link, I don't think I've got the stomach to look for the video :( http://www.theage.com.au/world/horrifying-swat-valley-executions-worry-us-20100930-15z87.html

'...US President Barack Obama has ordered the imposition of sanctions on eight senior Iranian officials for "sustained and severe violations of human rights". The treasury department said they would face a travel ban and asset freeze. ...' From...

In various water-boarding threads, the pro-boarders have all but admitted that water-boarding is torture. Most of them have brought up effectiveness and efficiency as part of their argument as to why it's ok to do, thus evading the actual argument as to whether it's torture or not. However...

While I'm always somewhat skeptical of released detainees claiming horrific abuse--seeing as how it is a good way for them to get some fame--there is documented and incontrovertible evidence that abuse of detainees did happen on a number of occasions. What gets me is that an excuse, that is...

The last crackdown against pro democracy protesters in Burma killed thousands, and the Burmese military is now cracking down against protesters again. What can be done to stop the Burmese military junta ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3662935.stm A former military commander convicted of murder was killed at a jail outside Kabul last week, it emerged on Tuesday. Abdullah Shah received a single shot to the head after President Karzai gave his approval, the attorney general's...

Who says so. Why the US of course. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6225352%255E401,00.html