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(TALKZIMBABWE) Bush should be tried for human rights violations - Mugabe

Bush should be tried for human rights violations - Mugabe
Ranganai Chidemo
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:15:00 +0000

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has said United States President George Bush should be tried for human rights abuses before any talk of his trial is entertained. Speaking to the Associated Press on the sidelines of the ongoing 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Mugabe said the world was mistaking him for George Bush as he was the one who had to be tried for human rights violations.

"I'm sure they forget I am not Mr. Bush who invaded Iraq,” he said, adding that “Probably they mistake me for him.” The President also asked: “Isn't that the man who should be tried before I am tried?"

President Mugabe also said that the regional bodies, the African Union and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), had not leveled such allegations against the Government of Zimbabwe.

He also said bodies like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International should “keep out” if they are to be used as Western tools for regime change in the country.

There has been widespread demands for the impeachment of President Bush over concerns about the legitimacy, legality, and constitutionality of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the controversial electronic surveillance of American citizens by the National Security Agency.

On June 9, 2008 Dennis Kucinich – a member of the United States House of Representatives and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States – gave official introduced 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush to the U.S. House of Representatives.

The New York based Human Rights Watch has also attacked the US Government for human rights abuses.

America's human rights abuses have provided a rallying cry for terrorists and set a bad example to regimes seeking to justify their own poor rights records, a leading independent watchdog said yesterday.

The torture and degrading treatment of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay have undermined the credibility of the US as a defender of human rights and opponent of terrorism, the New York-based Human Rights Watch says in its annual report.

"The US government is less and less able to push for justice abroad because it is unwilling to see justice done at home," said Kenneth Roth, the group's executive director in 2005.

"When the United States disregards human rights, it undermines that human rights culture and thus sabotages one of the most important tools for dissuading potential terrorists. Instead, US abuses have provided a new rallying cry for terrorist recruiters, and the pictures from Abu Ghraib have become the recruiting posters for Terrorism, Inc." said a HRW report.

Labels: GW BUSH, MUGABE, WAR CRIMES

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