U.N. Rejects Bid to Probe Gitmo Treatment

[cyberpj]

Apr 21, 9:08 AM (ET)
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS

GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. Human Rights Commission rejected Cuba's attempt Thursday to force an investigation into the treatment of detainees at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay.

The vote on Cuba's resolution was 22-8, with 23 other nations abstaining. The other nations supporting the failed effort by Cuba were China, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Sudan, Malaysia, Guatemala and Mexico.

The resolution, which noted the "serious concern" expressed by U.N. experts about the conditions for terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo, would have asked the United States "to authorize an impartial and independent fact-finding mission" to the center.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050421/D89JQBPO0.html

[NVMojo]

1. shame on them ....and when the shoe is on the other foot, will they

investigate the abuse inflicted on Americans???

[Dover]

2. They create the perception of themselves as irrelevant as a governing

body when they turn their backs on criminal human rights abuse anywhere in the world. Gitmo has all the earmarks of such abuse, but politics seems the greater concern.

[cyberpj]

4. Agreed. Perhaps afraid of more oil-for-food backlash if they interfered?

I'm so sick of the blatent bowing to Bush power that's happening everywhere!

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Wow, China was against this-- what a surprise!

Not!

China knows that it has plenty of abuse skeletons in its own overflowing closet.