By – Suhas Chakma, Director of ACHR at the HRC, Geneva
“We are not the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister is not our boss,” – General Winai Phattiyakul, Secretary of the Council for Democratic Reform under Constitutional Monarchy (CDRM) formed by the Thai military junta after the coup d’etat on 19 September 2006 while spelling out the way Thailand will be ruled. [1]
The ongoing second session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva reflects the amnesia on the coup d’etat in Thailand. Though international media has been covering the coup d’etat in Thailand, neither the governments nor the NGOs have found it important enough to make interventions. Only the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a statement following the request of the Asian Centre for Human Rights. It is as if the coup d’etat is a justified intervention against alleged abuse of power by deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. At the UN Human Rights Council, principles and morality no longer sell. The UN Human Rights Council has been failed.
Author: marga (Page 115 of 158)
Stand in solidarity with all immigrants, documented and undocumented
The IAC urges you to support the case of Elvira Arellano. Elvira is an undocumented worker who is taking a heroic stand against deportations and fighting for her rights. She is a native of Michoacán, Mexico who came to the U.S. like many of the other 12 million undocumented in this country, in search of work and a better life.
The Asia Times is one of the best newspapers on the web today, but one that I think does not get enough recognition out there. Here is a very interesting column by David Isenberg on how the administration thinks the press should be following its lead on finding Iran a strategic threat to the United States, one that justifies a war against it.
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News – Another US intelligence test
Middle East
Aug 29, 2006
Another US intelligence test
By David Isenberg
One might think that after all the post-mortems on politicization of intelligence leading up to the US invasion of Iraq, members of the US Congress might have learned a few things about not rushing in where angels fear to tread. But you would be wrong, if a recent report from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is any example.
Last Wednesday, Pete Hoekstra, a Republican congressman
from Michigan and chairman of the committee, released a report, “Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States”. [1] The not very subtle implication was that those who don’t agree Iran is a threat are fools.
This is exactly the same sort of tactic that the White House was using in 2002 and 2003 when Vice President Dick Cheney was talking about mushroom clouds rising into the sky due to an Iraqi nuclear weapon.
So I’ve installed the latest Movable Type – hoping I’ll be able to change the look of my blogs, but I still have to get some plug-in to do that – and I realize that I can now get subcategories as well as categories. Great, just what I need. Only problem, I don’t know how to use it. *sigh* It seems I /am/ going to have to look at the manual 🙁 Probably a good idea anyway.
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