UN expert: US failing to properly probe war crimes
31 May 2009 6:13 pm by spincitysd
http://tinyurl.com/mave6y
May 28th, 2009 | GENEVA — An independent U.N. human rights investigator said Thursday that the United States is failing to properly investigate alleged war crimes committed by its soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Although some cases are investigated and lead to prosecutions, others aren’t or result in lenient sentences, said Philip Alston, the U.N. Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings.
“There have been chronic and deplorable accountability failures with respect to policies, practices and conduct that resulted in alleged unlawful killings — including possible war crimes — in the United States’ international operations,” Alston said in a report dated May 26 and published on a U.N. Web site.
A spokesman for the U.S. mission in Geneva, Dick Wilbur, said Alston’s conclusions and recommendations would be reviewed closely.
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Reviewed and then filed–in the trash can.
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UN expert: US failing to properly probe war crimes
Like, NO DUH!
Obama thinks people aren’t paying attention. They’re not, at least not over here.
WOW! Lookit all da posts on dis subject!! They care, they really, REALLY care!!
I think Obama is waiting to be forced into acting. I think he will be.