U.S. Is Dissappearning Children
June 9th, 2007As someone who has studied U.S. atrocities in Central America, I initially passed this over for posting. But maybe people actually don’t know that this is routine behavior for the U.S. and its clients. Anyway… One more for your Family Values file.
Via: Obsidian Wings:
Today, six human rights groups released a report (pdf) on 39 people who they think the US government might be holding in undisclosed locations, and whose location is presently unknown. (Thus, they are not counting anyone known to be at Guantanamo or Bagram; just people who are missing.) That we have disappeared anyone is shocking, and a violation of treaties we have signed and ratified.
This report has gotten a fair amount of play, but in all the coverage I’ve read, only the Philadelphia Inquirer has mentioned what is, to me, the most awful allegation: that we disappeared young children. The report (pp. 24-26) lists five groups of family members; those who are discussed at greatest length are the sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Didn’t you always figure that the U.S. government would eventually start behaving just like the old Argentinian military junta, “disappearing” people in a Dirty War. We already have Argentina’s traditional economic model of borrowing and spending into bankrupcy, so it follows that we’d embrace their former political example too.
Our currency is about to collapse as well, and rampant inflation/devaluation is already rearing its ugly head. Militarism, fascism, cronyism, and third world nation – Argentina’s past and the US’s future have much in common.