The Duck Shoot blog supports the Amnesty International campaign for accountability for the war crimes we witnessed in Gaza. Amnesty members and supporters took action by writing and emailing their own governments to support the UN resolution. Here’s an email I received from Kristyan Benedict the campaign manager.
Amnesty is appealing for lovers of justice and peace to take a small action to help make war criminals accountable.
While Amnesty applauds the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ condemnation of the verdict in Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial, the 10-nation ASEAN bloc must ratchet up pressure for the release of Suu Kyi and thousands of other political prisoners in Myanmar.
The US Supreme Court is to wait till after the summer recess before considering the habeas corpus petition of Troy Davis.
There is an urgent need to highlight Troy’s case and further bring to the attention of the court and to the Georgia authorities that Troy’s case is riddled with inconsistency and injustice.
To allow this system of punishment to continue makes murderers of us all.
The Taser gun has become the favourite toy of police world-wide. They just just love using it on innocent and defensive people. It’s use on genuinely dangerous people is tiny in comparison to the total mostly unnecessary times this lethal weapon is used. What do you think?
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