Anti-torture group urges Swiss to probe Bush

[sabra]

Source: expatica

The rights group World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has called on Swiss authorities to open an investigation into former US President George W. Bush if he sets foot on Swiss soil next week.

Bush has reportedly been invited to a fund-raising gala evening by a Jewish organisation on February 12 in the Swiss city of Geneva, prompting an outcry by several groups about the use of "torture" during interrogations of US "war on terror" detainees.

The Geneva-based OMCT on Thursday released a letter it sent to Swiss President and Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey to underline Switzerland's obligation under domestic law and the UN Convention Against Torture to investigate such allegations.

"This would have to include also former President G (W) Bush who had the overall control as commander in chief and as all information suggests authorised, knew and acquiesced into the practices that constitute the crime of torture," the letter said.

Read more: http://www.expatica.com/ch/news/swiss-news/anti-torture-group-urges-swiss-to-probe-bush_127578.html

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1. We should be doing that right here in the US

but it'll never happen. Glad to see someone is taking initiative.

[RKP5637]

2. We let too much slide by us. n/t

[Kurovski]

3. We're looking forward, not behind.

We're so fucking special and full of largesse and other horseshit.

[RKP5637]

9. Yep, one of the problems I've always had with the US is the ego of this country, that

only we know anything about anything. Then we're always meddling in other countries affairs with our really bad foreign policy, like we are king of earth with only 5% of the population, and we want the rest of earth just like us. Yet we do our own share of horse shit while condemning others.

[hootinholler]

6. That is why the notion of universal juridiction is so important. n/t

[Bette Noir]

4. "Probe Bush." In the alien abduction sense?

[Wait Wut]

5. Thank you.

I'm so glad someone said it before I did. ^.^

[cstanleytech]

8. There is one problem with such a probe though

and that is that the aliens might not be able to tell which end to probe because he uses both ends for the same thing.

[Wait Wut]

10. ++++++++1

Damn I needed that laugh!!!

[RKP5637]

11. "Probe Bush." Yuck!!! n/t

[defendandprotect]

7. Longer US history of TORTURE is ignored, the more normal it will seem ....

[Solly Mack]

12. k/r

[Rex]

13. I urge the Swiss to probe GWB too!

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