Some
troubling connections contradict Amnesty’s image as a benevolent
defender of human rights and reveal key figures at the organization
during its early years to be less concerned with human dignity and
more concerned with the dignity of the US and UK’s image in the
world.
by
Alexander Rubinstein
Part
1
Amnesty
International, the eminent human-rights non-governmental
organization, is widely known for its advocacy in that realm. It
produces reports critical of the Israeli occupation in Palestine and
the Saudi-led war on Yemen.
But it
also publishes a steady flow of indictments against countries that
don’t play ball with Washington — countries like Iran, China,
Venezuela, Nicaragua, North Korea and more. Those reports amplify the
drumbeat for a “humanitarian” intervention in those nations.
Amnesty’s
stellar image as a global defender of human rights runs counter to
its early days when the British Foreign Office was believed to be
censoring reports critical of the British empire.
Peter
Benenson, the co-founder of Amnesty, had deep ties to the British
Foreign Office and Colonial Office while another co-founder, Luis
Kutner, informed the FBI of a gun cache at Black Panther leader Fred
Hampton’s home weeks before he was killed by the Bureau in a gun
raid.
These
troubling connections contradict Amnesty’s image as a benevolent
defender of human rights and reveal key figures at the organization
during its early years to be less concerned with human dignity and
more concerned with the dignity of the United States and United
Kingdom’s image in the world.
Source,
links:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/amnesty-international-troubling-collaboration-with-uk-us-intelligence/253939/
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