Gadaffi To Head Human Rights Body

SkyNews ^ | Tue 20 Aug 2002

[gubamyster]

Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi is to head an international watchdog on human rights.

Libya is to be elected chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights - despite its links with terrorism and torture.

The move sparked a storm of controversy as it emerged British officials did nothing to block the appointment.

Libyan terrorists were responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people, and Gadaffi's regime has been criticised for violence against its own people.

Isolate

Human rights groups and Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith united to criticise the appointment.

But a Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "Our policy is to engage constructively with Libya, rather than isolate them."

Gadaffi's one-year term begins next March.

[general_re]

Boy, the FR synchronicity meter is getting a real workout these last few days. A couple of threads about dentistry pop up just before you head off to the dentist, and now this thread pops up just before my wife heads out tomorrow to buy new drapes.

Spooky...

[mhking]

You can't make up stuff this good...

[davisdoug]

I certainly hope that this "change" was not paid for by the taxpayers of San Francisco. Willie Brown has some questions to answer. Where is the media on this lol???