Posted on 12/06/2016 6:21:59 AM PST by Enlightened1
CNSNews.com) – Delegates of the U.N. Human Rights Council opened a meeting in Geneva on Monday by standing silently with heads bowed, after the delegation of Venezuela’s leftist government requested a minute’s silence to “honor” the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Not everyone in the chamber took part. U.N. Watch executive director Hillel Neuer described the honoring of “human rights abuser Fidel Castro” as “despicable” and said that his non-governmental organization “stayed seated.”
In an official U.N. webcast, a member of the Israeli delegation, seated behind Venezuela’s representatives, can be seen walking out as Venezuelan ambassador Jorge Valero asked members to honor Castro.
CNSNews.com) – Delegates of the U.N. Human Rights Council opened a meeting in Geneva on Monday by standing silently with heads bowed, after the delegation of Venezuela’s leftist government requested a minute’s silence to “honor” the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Not everyone in the chamber took part. U.N. Watch executive director Hillel Neuer described the honoring of “human rights abuser Fidel Castro” as “despicable” and said that his non-governmental organization “stayed seated.”
In an official U.N. webcast, a member of the Israeli delegation, seated behind Venezuela’s representatives, can be seen walking out as Venezuelan ambassador Jorge Valero asked members to honor Castro.
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someone should have had a nice bean burrito in advance of this and let one rip loudly in the middle of that ‘minute of silence’
How about a minute for each of his victims?
Who do you bow your head and pray to for a genocidal atheist?
Go Israel- glad they walked out. Hope they went and took a pi$$ during this sad episode
Seems like it would have been a good minute for playing cork popping and bubbly pouring sounds from smart phones.
They only care about the rights of brutal dictators.
Not a bad idea. Maybe if we’re all very quiet for a minute we can hear him screaming in Hell.
We must eject this travesty from out nation and quit it immediately!
Wonder what they will do when Robert Mugabe finally goes to his reward?
Maybe they will recommend a monument to him in front of the U.N.... a perpetual reminder....they can;t just let him go.
Maybe they will recommend a monument to him in front of the U.N.... a perpetual reminder....they can;t just let him go. ................................. Yeah, holding up a dead chicken. (For thew few of us who remember.)
Trump would see his popularity go through the roof if he were to get us out of that putrid swamp called the UN.
Defund the UN. What have they done for the USA?
That would shut them down for months - I'm in favor of that.
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