Pinochet to be set free

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Wed Jan 12 08:02:28 PST 2000


The Blair government showed another (after bombing Serbia) sign of its humanitarianism - it decided to set Pinochet free rather than extraditing him to Spain, citing the dictator's poor health. The dtory can be found at

http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Pinochet_on_trial/Story/0,2763,121705,00.html

I always knew that US politics are full of shit, but I expected the UK (and Europeans) to hold to somewhat higher standards. Well, the Blair government once again demonstrated that no hypocrisy is too debasing for them. The British gov't is even more despicable than that of the US - the latter at least does not have any pretenses to uphold human rights and international law.

wojtek



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