US objects to UN reports of poorly investigated military murders
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The Obama administration charged Wednesday that a U.N. investigator violated his mandate by accusing the U.S. of failing to properly investigate allegations of unlawful killings by American forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.Philip Alston, the U.N. Human Rights Council's investigator on extrajudicial executions, claimed that while some killings are investigated and lead to prosecutions, others aren't or result in lenient sentences.
Alston, a New York University law professor, is the U.N. Human Rights Council's so-called special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions. The post, which is unpaid except for expenses, gives him broad scope to investigate alleged abuses. Alston has probed the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Other U.N. investigators have examined the extraordinary rendition of terror suspects around the world.
"We do not believe that military and intelligence operations during armed conflict fall within the special rapporteur's mandate," said Larry Richter, acting deputy at the U.S. mission in Geneva.
In his report made public last week, Alston cited the case of Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer, convicted of negligent homicide in the death of Abed Hamed Mowhoush, an Iraqi general who had turned himself in to military authorities. Mowhoush suffocated after his head was covered with a sleeping bag and an electrical cord wrapped around his neck. Welshofer was fined and ordered reprimanded, without jail time.
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wayseeker
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This doesn't supprise me. I support Obama but in this area he doesn't seem to be doing his job and I'm angry about it..
- 8 months ago
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WakeUpPeople
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Rule of Law must always be at the top of our society. No one should be above it. Not the president, not the corporations, not the military, not the police.
- 8 months ago
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