Carter: "Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights"
not so very long ago, if a former united states president came out and said something like this, the world would be rocked to its foundations... what the hell has happened to us...?
Former President Carter says the U.S.
"has abandoned the basic principle of
human rights."
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Former President Carter says the U.S.
"has abandoned the basic principle of
human rights."
The United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Carter said Wednesday.
Former President Carter says the U.S. "has abandoned the basic principle of human rights."
"I don't think it. I know it," Carter told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
"Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights," Carter said. "We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we've said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they are accused."
Carter also said President Bush creates his own definition of human rights.
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Labels: CNNI, enhanced interrogation techniques, Geneva Convention, Guantánamo, international law, Jimmy Carter, torture, U.N. Convention against Torture
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posted by profmarcus at
5/10/2008
