UN Human Rights Council Disgraces Itself (Again)

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	UN Human Rights Council Disgraces Itself (Again)

Gul Agha

5-28-2009 6:07 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e55c3130-856f-4130-bdda-f8ea409f172a/40EE2E85-FDA9-4AE6-B160-F6F14D979684/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6382331.ece" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6382331.ece" style="font-size: 11px;">www.timesonline.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6382331.ece"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.timesonline.co.uk/img/82E22EC1-CF1D-4880-A4E7-EBFD5AE22AEA" alt="Internally displaced Sri Lankan people wait behind barbed wire during a visit by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6382331.ece"><P class="small color-666">Internally displaced Sri Lankans: the UNHCR decided not to press for an inquiry</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6382331.ece"><P>
The vote by the United Nations Human Rights Council to congratulate the Sri 
Lanka Government on its victory over the Tamil Tigers and to ignore calls 
for an inquiry into possible war crimes is a disgrace. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6382331.ece">It marks a victory for all those countries facing domestic insurgencies who 
fear any serious investigation into their behaviour.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6382331.ece">the usual suspects — China, Russia, India and 
Pakistan — who supported the Sri Lankan resolution, on the grounds that the 
conflict there was an internal matter and that the council should not 
intervene on the conduct of the war. A clutch of Asian and Muslim countries, 
also wary of outside inspection of their record, also voted not to launch an 
inquiry</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6382331.ece">This fails the most elementary test of what the council is supposed to do. 
Human rights violations occur largely as a result of conflict.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/40EE2E85-FDA9-4AE6-B160-F6F14D979684/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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