Human rights violations, precendents and circumventions

[akbarkhan]

Dear all,

Here I will be posting and addressing human rights violations carried out under the pretext of war on terrorism, democracy and sustainable development. I urge the team of moderators not to delete or 'merge' this thread so that we can bring to light the crimes of those who try to lecture us on human rights and universal freedoms. Furthermore, I urge the moderators to delete all irrelevant junk that people will try to post to steer the youth away from realities and truths.

Unlike many others who like to make allegations, I will be backing up everything I post here with conclusive evidence - as much as humanly possible. The bulk of the evidence will be scholarly and official material i.e books, research documents, witness accounts and official memos.

With thanks,
Akbar

[akbarkhan]

Memorandum for George Bush from Alberto Gonzales

Memorandum for George Bush from Alberto Gonzales, then Chief Legal Counsel to the President, highlighting various rationales for circumventing Geneva and War Crimes Act.

Dated 01/02/02 this is the official memo to the president. Official Memo

[akbarkhan]

Secret Detentions, Torture and Illegal Transfers of Detainees

What was previously just a set of allegations is now proven: large numbers of people have been abducted from various locations across the world and transferred to countries where they have been persecuted and where it is known that torture is common practice.

Below is a rendition report by Swiss politician, **** Marty, for the Council of Europe-- an organization which oversees the European Court of Human Rights. Marty uncovered black sites in Romania and Poland and concluded the CIA's rendition program gave "rise to repeated serious breaches of human rights"

Official document

[شمله ور خراساني]

sorry for flooding. wont happen again

[akbarkhan]

sorry for flooding. wont happen again

eh? flooding? where?

[akbarkhan]

Sangar khan,

What do you think of operation mongoose and northwoods? What human rights and international law violations were involved? Also to what extent did the US administration approve of the planned tactics?

Do we see an implementation of Operation Northwoods in current day political arena?

[akbarkhan]

nice initiative.

Yep, I am still waiting on the 'human rights activists' on this forum to come and beat their chests on human rights in this thread.

[akbarkhan]

Human rights only exists in the USA as opposed to Afghanistan

Think of any human rights violation that crosses your mind and I will see if I can provide you with evidence that US has committed it.

[Azmatullah]

Great thread.. i look forward to reading more.

[akbarkhan]

Great thread.. i look forward to reading more.

I am still waiting for human rights champion Ozymandias and his band lol

[شمله ور خراساني]

I am still waiting for human rights champion Ozymandias and his band lol

he is probably on some other Muslim community forum bashing Islam.

[akbarkhan]

he is probably on some other Muslim community forum bashing Islam.

No he is here but he knows he is going to get slated like a kiddie over human rights in the light of international law, he rather stick to arbitrary threads where he can talk gibberish and get away with it

[murad afghan]

dear akbar khan have u ever criticised the Sudanese chauvinist arab govt for human right violation against African people in darfor region?have u ever criticised the turkish,syrian and iranian govts for their atrocties against Kurdish people?have u ever criticised the Pakistani praetorian Punjabi establishment crimes against oppresses ethnic minorities?

[akbarkhan]

dear akbar khan have u ever criticised the Sudanese chauvinist arab govt for human right violation against African people in darfor region?have u ever criticised the turkish,syrian and iranian govts for their atrocties against Kurdish people?have u ever criticised the Pakistani praetorian Punjabi establishment crimes against oppresses ethnic minorities?

Yes, I have even criticised Afghans for their double standards as far as Hazaras are concerned, so don't you for a second think that I am biased or ethnocentric!

The issues you have brought up are familiar to many. There are countless other violations of human rights and international law that most people are oblivious to i.e Turkish annexation and oppression against Cyprus!

I am not here to obsecure our own faults and only point out American empire's human rights violations, but rather it is to examine every nation's track record and their double standards.

What I find interesting is that the same people who start threads under the pretext of human rights to bash Islam, dont dare to come and discuss things in the light of international law and UN charter.

[akbarkhan]

Excerpt from a documentary book written J Jaffer titled Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond

The government’s own documents tell a starkly different story. In October 2003, the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Physicians for a Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense, and Veterans for Peace
fi led a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for government records concerning the treatment of prisoners apprehended by the United States in connection with the “war on terror.” A lawsuit filed in New York to enforce the FOIA request has since resulted in the release of thousands of government documents. While the government continues to withhold many key records, the documents that have been released show that the abuse and torture of prisoners was not limited to Abu Ghraib but was pervasive in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay, and that the maltreatment of prisoners resulted in large part from decisions made by senior civilian and military officials. These decisions, moreover, were reaffirmed repeatedly, even in the face of complaints from law enforcement and military personnel that the policies were illegal and ineffective, and even after countless prisoners—including prisoners not thought to have any connection to terrorism—were abused, tortured, or killed in custody.