Human rights and conditions at Guantanamo
But I would like to say humbly that it does not sound very appropriate coming from the representative of the US which has not been able to satisfy public resentment about the condition of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay nor justify the daily killings of innocent men, women and children in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The US has also been violating the universal principles and laws of human rights by using the excuse of 9-11 and the war on terror. And principles of human rights are also being violated in other Western democracies, which is no more hidden! The US, so-called bastion of democracy, can not shirk responsibility and liability by merely declaring that Guantanamo, where prisoners are being tortured and kept indefinitely without judgement, is not in the US." --, (held)in different countries, "without the benefit of rights stipulated under the Geneva Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights".
The UN has become obsolete due to the connivance of US and its (limited) allies as UN Security Council resolutions are applied to nations on a selective basis -- some are binding while some have no binding force (according to choice). As we all know dozens of UN resolutions in respect of the occupation of Palestine that have not been implemented only because of partiality and patronage of Israel by the US. Amnesty International also has slammed the terrorism law and said, "The legislation has created a Guantanamo Bay at their own backyard." So I beg to request biggest powers in the world, please do not talk about 'human rights' till you learn to honour human rights, and never grumble or talk aloud about 'terrorism' (national or international) if you cannot stop practising the same yourselves. And my last words are, give human rights to the Palestinians, and you will have peace in the Middle East. If they leave the world's people to sleep in peace, Americans will not see their progeny in body bags.