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...human rights violations” in Iraq. The letter cites current international humanitarian laws that authors say are being violated in Iraq, including the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The letter said that though executive branch officials have admitted that interrogation methods used in Iraq may have violated international and domestic law, the prosecution of lower level personnel has been insufficient...
...Congress has an obligation to investigate and assess responsibility at all levels of the Executive Branch from the highest officers on down for the abuses in Abu Ghraib and other Iraqi prisons,” the letter stated...
...letter stated that while the executive branch should maintain its power to conduct military affairs, Congress should take charge of deciding whether to implement coercive interrogation methods...
...general election but was prevented by the junta from assuming power. Many hoped Suu Kyi would be released from house arrest to attend the event, but the generals chose to take their own idiosyncratic approach to democracy: keeping her locked up, while also shuttering her party's branch offices. As a result, the NLD has sent no delegates to the convention, reinforcing the impression that the conference is little more than a political show, clumsily designed to give the government a much-needed sheen of respectability...
...people! My people! From the earliest rocking of my cradle days, I have heard this cry go up from Negro lips. It is forced outward by pity, scorn and hopeless resignation. It is called forth by the observations of one class of Negro on the doings of another branch of the brother in black...