There's a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones. Those responsible for the crimes are being asked to define what is and is not legal.
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Posts Tagged ‘ amnesty international ’
A New Kind of War is Being Legalized
Abuses on the Path to Salvation
All told, one has to credit the AI researchers for being uncompromising in their denunciation of army abuses. This has always been the honest liberal’s central virtue: unremitting defense of everyone’s right to have rights. Years ago, in his conclusion to The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon observed acerbically that those who never...
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Obscuring Empire
Amnesty’s approach seeks to surgically extract the conflict in Pakistan from its broader geopolitical context. Back in April 2012, Pakistan’s Parliament unanimously called on the United States to end its drone strikes in the country. The resolution was backed by the country’s powerful military apparatus. Nevertheless, the US has continued its drone strikes in...
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