Europe's human rights chief has accused European governments of complicity in what he called American crimes during the war on terror. With the details, here's Risto Pyykko.
欧洲人权机构指控欧洲政府在美国反恐战争中的罪行中起到同谋的作用。Risto Pyykko报道详细内容。
Thomas Hammarberg, the human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe, describes the US war on terror as a systematic violation of human rights, and he says European governments were deeply complicit in this. They had cooperated in a programme of renditions that saw suspects being flown to third countries to be tortured and had then sought to conceal their participation. Mr Hammarberg said the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks should lead to an urgent rethink of a misjudged and failed counter-terrorism policy.
欧洲委员会人权专员Thomas Hammarberg指控美国的反恐战争是系统的践踏人权行为。他说,欧洲政府完全是同谋。他们在许多项目中合作,将嫌疑人送到第三方国家遭受虐待,后来又隐藏自己曾经参加这些活动的事实。Hammarberg表示,在9.11恐怖袭击十周年之际,各国应该反思判断错误的反恐政策。
Health authorities in Guatemala say nearly twice as many unsuspecting Guatemalans were included in medical experiments carried out by US scientists in the 1940s than previously thought. The president of the Medical Association of Guatemala, Carlos Mejia, said up to 2,500 prisoners, psychiatric patients and orphans were deliberately infected with sexually transmitted diseases during penicillin studies. Doctor Mejia said the US ran the programme while German Nazi doctors were being tried for experimenting with typhus and malaria on prisoners of war.