[Peace-discuss] AI and Syria

[David Green]

Amnesty rightlycalls on the international community to refer to situation to the International Criminal Court and to impose an arms embargo on the Syrian government, specifically naming Russia and China, but does not call on nations to impose the arms embargo on all parties to the conflict; in fact, it gives its blessing to the arming of rebel forces with the caveat that “any country considering supplying arms to the armed opposition should have in place the necessary mechanisms to ensure the material supplied is not used to commit human rights abuses and/or war crimes.”
 
While openly criticizing Russia and China, Amnesty declines to criticize the U.S. for its openly admitted policy of supporting the rebel forces, including by coordinating funding and arms shipments through its regional proxies, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
 
Thus, Amnesty International seems to have lost is objectivity and is taking up the role of acting in unison with U.S. policy to overthrow the regime and escalate the conflict rather than acting as an independent rights group seeking to mitigate the violence, such as by reporting the facts of Houla accurately, calling for an arms embargo against all parties, and criticizing the U.S. for acting to push the country into civil war.
 
http://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2012/06/16/the-houla-masscre-and-u-s-effort-to-foment-civil-war-in-syria/
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