WW has its own ideology for which I am not responsible, as I am not its member. My own charge against Human Rights Watch is not that it is "_neglecting repression_ of the Kurds in Turkey" but that it actually went so far as to help persecute them, for instance by pressuring the Italian and other governments to prosecute Abdullah Ocalan for "crimes against humanity," while merely recommending that the Turkish government "investigate and hold accountable those members of its security forces responsible for serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed against the Kurds" (@ <http://www.hrw.org/press/1999/jan/tur0120.htm>).
Has Human Rights Watch honestly catalogued repression in Iraq, regardless of the political ideologies of those who committed repression? I don't think so. Human Rights Watch's catalogue has been consistently shaped by its political work on behalf of the empire. I recommend that you turn, instead, to Amnesty International for conscientious documentation of human rights violations as well as its sensibly left-wing political stance: <http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/iraq/>; and <http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/ar2001.nsf/webmepcountries/IRAQ?OpenDocument>. -- Yoshie
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