Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Meanwhile, Guatamala, China Open Records to Reveal Human Rights Abuses

From "Al Jazeera English News":

"The Guatemalan president has ordered the release of military archives from the country's brutal civil war in a bid to shed light on human rights abuses during the period.

"Alvaro Colom ordered the release on Monday during ceremonies held to mark the conflict, which left around 200,000 people dead or "disappeared" from 1960 to 1996.

"We are going to make public all military archives ... so the truth can be known, and so that once and for all we can build on truth and justice," Colom said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A68469B7-B588-4023-A136-CE2E69175A5D.htm

and in China:

"China has agreed to grant the US access to its military records which might help resolve the fate of thousands of US soldiers who had gone missing during the Korean War and other Cold War-era conflicts, US defence officials say.

"The deal is expected to be publicly announced on Friday after final talks to work out details, the Pentagon said.

"Washington has been asking China to open up military archives that it believes could help trace more than 8,100 American soldiers who went missing in action (MIA) or were taken as prisoners of war (POW) during the Korean War."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C0721E08-2233-42EC-A055-7F7979D73AB8.htm

Lets do that ourselves, why don't we? Oh I know, why don't we be honest about where weapons of mass destruction are/came from/things like that too? Nah...would screw up the grand dictatorship we have in the works. "Party at Ground Zero" folks.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A68469B7-B588-4023-A136-CE2E69175A5D.htm

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