Last week in Argentina, a trial began, charging five former intelligence and military officials of kidnapping, torturing, and killing left-wing activists under the country’s military rule which lasted from 1976-1983.
Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations formally adopted the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration during the group’s annual summit in Cambodia a few weeks ago.
In drone strikes Sunday, Washington employed the controversial “double tap” tactic favored by terror groups like Hamas.
The 132 page report catalogs hundreds of incidents of alleged excessive use of force and the violation of basic rights and liberties by police officers against protesters, journalists, legal observers and bystanders at Occupy Wall Street protests over the course of the last nine months.
Former president Jimmy Carter in a New York Times op-ed titled ‘A Cruel and Unusual Record’ says the United States and specifically the Obama Administration is engaged in such widespread abuse of human rights that we can “no longer speak with moral authority on these critical issues.”
President Obama’s drone death estimates are facing increasing skepticism for being too low and contradictory.
Human rights activists decry the use of drones as inhumane assassinations, citing the secrecy under which various government departments utilize them, and questioning the approval process for targeted killings.
