Irony Alert: US Expresses “Concern” Over Pakistan Holding Prisoners Without Charges, Torture and Extrajudicial KillingsBy: Jim White
Thursday December 30, 2010 2:45 pm
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Without even a hint that they realize the deep irony in their story, the New York Times yields front page space on Thursday http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/world/asia/30disappear.html?_r=1&hp to a report that the Obama administration now suddenly is concerned about prisoners who are being held without being charged, possibly subjected to torture or even killed without a judicial pronouncement of guilt. The irony, of course, is that although there is strong documentation that the U.S. engages regularly in these same acts, the U.S. now condemns Pakistan for these injustices.Here is how the Times describes the concern:
The Obama administration is expressing alarm over reports that thousands of political separatists and captured Taliban insurgents have disappeared into the hands of Pakistan’s police and security forces, and that some may have been tortured or killed.
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The concern is over a steady stream of accounts from human rights groups that Pakistan’s security services have rounded up thousands of people over the past decade, mainly in Baluchistan, a vast and restive province far from the fight with the Taliban, and are holding them incommunicado without charges.
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Separately, the report also described concerns that the Pakistani military had killed unarmed members of the Taliban, rather than put them on trial.
In breathlessly repeating the U.S. concern over prisoners being held without charges, the Times seems to have forgotten the status of prisoners the U.S. holds at Guantanamo and elsewhere without charging them and the ridiculous attempts by the Obama administration to provide a substitute for due process, which the Times even praised earlier this week in an editorial.
Torture plays a huge role in the reason true legal proceedings can’t be held for the prisoners the U.S. keeps in legal limbo, and yet the Times sees no reason to point this out while relaying the “concern” from the U.S. over the potential torture of Pakistan’s prisoners.
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