Oh, you can bet on it!
Posted on 04/27/2011 10:13:33 AM PDT by Eyes Unclouded
The brutal crackdown by Syrian President Bashar Assad may finally be getting the attention of world leaders -- but apparently not enough to stop Syria from becoming the newest member of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
And despite calling for an independent investigation into the crackdown, which has left hundreds dead, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apparently won’t do much about blocking Syria’s path to the human rights group.
"That's not really for the secretary general to suggest to a member state," said Martin Nesirky, a spokesman for the secretary-general, when asked if the U.N. chief would ask Syria to drop out of the running for the post. When asked if Ban had brought up the point during his telephone conversation April 9 with Assad, Nesirsky told Fox News, "that's not really something the secretary general would raise specifically, because it's for other member states to decide on the membership of the Human Rights Council."
Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian human rights activist based in Washington, called on the secretary-general "to have a greater sense of decency and courage, and to realize that his position gives him a certain moral authority and puts him exactly in the position to tell the Assads that their candidacy at this stage is unwelcome." Abdulhamid was forced to flee Syria in 2005 following criticism of the Assad regime, and still finds himself under attack by the regime. His website was recently hacked and now posts the latest videos and news on his blog
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council#Members
Quite an outfit. Too bad we have to pay for their flights, steaks, and hookers in New York and elsewhere.
odumbi could make some point here by doing SOMETHING.
Brutality? Thosands dead is mere brutality? Tanks charging, random live fire by Iranian troops, snipers picking off anyone who shows a head in Daraa or Hama... well, there you go. (47th Brigade and the 132nd Brigade of the Fourth Division).
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An obvious good choice for the so-called U.N. Human Rights Council ...
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Oh, you can bet on it!
Isn’t mistreating civilians a requirement for the UN-Human Rites Council?
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