Karadzic should soon be joining more than two dozen other former Yugoslav war criminals who have been convicted in the Hague. Charles Taylor is also a guest for his work in Liberia. Sudan’s al-Bashir and friends, with any luck, will find there way there soon. Is the Hague Tribunal imperfect? Yes. Slow? Yes. A joke? I think not.

Or is it “avian influenza?” It’ll infect anyone!

R. Elgin, I will contact AI in Seoul to complain about their translation. I support the organization overall, but they should be made aware of their mistakes.

Dimitar, please take a look at their website and then try to justify your rant.

Those “international” organizations are serving particular political interests and while they do something relatively useful in 10% of the cases, they themselves are used by the greatest terrorists the world has known.

LMB, PLEASE, sue those corrupted hypocrites to DEATH!!! I WISH YOU LUCK!

http://www.amnesty.org/en/contact

If it had been an honest mistake, a reproach would be in order. A deliberate misrepresentation such as this one, by an organization with as much influence and respect as AI, deserves a more severe punishment.

The AI has been the constant sponsor of the get-out-of-jail-free card for those convicted under the NSL — including those caught as spies. They have always blamed the police and NSI while not condemning Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun who were too busy emptying the jails of communists/spies and sending back home to the North as gestures of “good faith.”

The Amnesty International — like the National Human Rights Commission - Korea (NHRCK) — stood for chastizing the riot police (and those involved in enforcing the NSL) to make it appear that they were the problem. The painted them like they were a holdover from the Park Chung-hee days. Thus when the Hanchongryeon and the others sharpened the ends of pipes so they could slit the throats of the police in Puan, one could always count on the AI and NHRC to show up to criticize the policemen laid up in the hospital for using excessive violence and calling for the resignation of any police commissioner in office at the time.

When the radicals at Daechuri were using 8-foot bamboo poles that were splintered at the ends so that they were like having Ginsu knives attached to a stick. They used these to make sashimi out of the riot police. However, you could always count on the AI and NHRCK to condemn the police for causing the problems. At Daechuri, AI showed up right on schedule when the government finally got around to arresting the Daechuri protest organizers to interview them in jail. Want to see the reports? Just read the last one. They are all the same.

What has changed? The only difference is that now that Roh Moo-hyun is now out of office. Yes, the guy that wanted to “legitimize” the Hanchongryeon — the same guys that have been slitting the police throats or beating on them with pipes for as long as I have been in Korea. These are the ones that are now pretending to be “volunteer peace marshalls” at the latest anti-US beef protests.

Yes, I have no love for the AI nor the NHRCK. Though I support wholeheartedly the lofty principles both organizations espouse, I do not the support corrupted organizations that distorts the truth simply to justify the horrors of these radicals that are out to destabilize the government to fulfill their own agenda.

Yes, the LMB conservative ilk are out to get the radicals. For the first time after ten years (?) one of the people in hiding went on trial. His wife and he are die-hard North Korean lovers who violated the NSL. This makes them automatically the darlings of the AI. I agree that the NSL is an archaic leftover from the old days, but the Korean people have stated that it is still required even though KDJ, Roh and the AI have been trying for years to get it killed.

Do I think that the AI should be sued for libel — YES, if they did in fact make libelous remarks in the report. Like the MBC PD-Notebook mad-cow reports they are a public entity and use their organizations to promote their ideals. As such they have a responsibility to tell the truth — and if not, they deserve to be hammered.

Sorry — after seeing AI turn the truth around for so many years in Korea, I applaud the police for even considering to sue them.