Rwanda joins international push for a global moratorium on executions

[struggle4progress]

Source: The Associated Press

Published: September 28, 2007

UNITED NATIONS: Rwanda joined other countries Friday in appealing for a global moratorium on executions, saying that if its government could abolish the death penalty while perpetrators of the 1994 genocide still await sentences, no country should use it.

Diplomats and human right organizations met at the United Nations to push for a global moratorium on executions with the goal of ending the death penalty altogether.

Rwandan Minister for Cooperation Rosemary Museminali said that her country, which passed a bill outlawing the death penalty earlier this year, should serve as a model for others.

"Those who killed in Rwanda ... some of them are still littered in our neighborhoods, in our region and in the rest of the world. But we still feel it is our moral obligation to preserve the right of life," said Museminali ... http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/28/news/UN-GEN-UN-Death-Penalty.php

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[LuckyLib]

1. And like the Kyoto Accords, * would refuse to sign it.

[Lautremont]

2. The guy has a very good point.

If they're going to decline to use it on genocidal maniacs, other countries should really be giving it some second thoughts.

[flashl]

3. K&R n/t

[Solon]

4. This will be yet another international agreement that the U.S. will go "rogue" on...

Kinda like the Kyoto Protocol, the landmine and cluster bomb treaties, the ICC, etc. To be honest, I'm fucking sick and tired of the U.S. ignoring this shit, we are the worst example of a world leader that I can think of at the moment.

[annabanana]

5. They must have heard that Paris Hilton was on her way..

They'll do anything to keep the swarming paparazzi away from their borders ..

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-09-26-paris-hilton_N.htm

[leaninglib]

6. Rwanda...? Wow, I am really impressed.

Seriously, Rwanda needs to deal with its own problems instead of concerning itself with the affairs of other nations.

[applegrove]

7. Like Nelson Mandela and South Africa... out of vicious brutality comes

a message of peace.