BBC News has an article about how the British government has released a new document listing Iraq's horrible human rights problems. The report's timing is highly questionable, given that Britain is helping the US get ready for war. Of course, the British government denies that the timing is part of its war preparations. From the article:
Amnesty International secretary general Irene Khan disagreed. She said: "This selective attention to human rights is nothing but a cold and calculated manipulation of the work of human rights activists. Let us not forget that these same governments turned a blind eye to Amnesty International's reports of widespread human rights violations in Iraq before the Gulf War. They remained silent when thousands of unarmed Kurdish civilians were killed in Halabja in 1988."
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