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UN Rights Chief Says Anti-Terror Measures Can Backfire
[Ynet] As Britannia, La Belle France consider tightening anti-terror laws, Navi Pillay says 'grave violations' of human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
 during counter-terrorist operations are 'self-defeating'
This is true. Our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrated time and again that we understand this. Petraeus -- first at the 101st and then overall -- demonstrated that providing security and putting your own troops at risk to protect the population works. The population notices. Security improves. For all the mistakes we made in Iraq, the Iraqis came to understand that we punished the occasional soldier who committed an abuse while al-Qaeda gloried in their abuses. After a while even the most embittered Sunni came to understand who was there to protect him and his family.
United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
 human rights chief Navi Pillay told governments on Monday that trying to fight terrorism by limiting personal freedoms and mistreating suspects could only worsen the problem.

She spoke as Britannia and La Belle France were considering tightening anti-terror laws and surveillance after the killings of two soldiers in London and Gay Paree, and as US President Barack Obama
I am the change that you seek...
renewed his efforts to close the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba.

Pillay, speaking at the opening of the spring session of the UN's Human Rights Council, said she had received allegations of "very grave violations of human rights that have taken place in the context of counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency operations."

"Such practices are self-defeating. Measures that violate human rights do not uproot terrorism, they nurture it," she said.

Pillay made no direct reference to the killing of an off-duty British soldier in London last Wednesday by two men saying they were acting in the name of Islam and the stabbing of a soldier in the French capital.
Because to do so would undermine the case she wishes to build. And would cause her to confront her own mortality...
Many politicians in both countries have called for toughening of anti-terror measures in the wake of both incidents and media reports have suggested such moves, including some that could affect free speech, might be in the works.

Pillay also said the US failure to close down the Guantanamo detention center was "an example of the struggle against terrorism failing to uphold human rights, among them the right to a fair trial."
Pillay is exactly wrong. Terrorists are like pirates: they exist outside international law and human rights, precisely because they themselves refuse to respect either. That is why we can hold them (or drone-zap them). We are not required to extend any recognition of human rights to those who at every opportunity stage outrageous acts to bring down society.
"The continuing detention of many of these individuals amounts to arbitrary detention, in breach of international law, and the injustice embodied in this detention centre has become an ideal recruitment tool for terrorists," Pillay said.

She noted Obama's statement last Thursday outlining how he planned to close the centre down, a move opposed by many in Congress, but said the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo must conform to international human rights law.
Pissy little diplomat, isn't she?

Posted by: trailing wife 2013-05-28
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