In a recent trip and speech in Moscow, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton remarked "People must be free to take unpopular positions, disagree with conventional wisdom, know they are safe to peacefully challenge accepted practice and authority. That's why attacks on journalists and human rights defenders here in Russia is such a great concern because it is a threat to progress."
She criticizes Russia's "attacks on HUMAN RIGHTS defenders"? People around the world are shaking their heads with disbelief at her words. They remember well how Americans who questioned the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were demonized and called "unpatriotic" and how captured prisoners of war in America's wars were abused, even though those abuses were AGAINST international laws. These prisoners were held for YEARS with no representation. Perhaps the U.S. needs to clean up it's OWN interpretation of "human rights" before criticizing another country's problems?
Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 75 U.N.T.S 135, entered into force Oct. 21, 1950
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/y3gctpw.htm
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