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Archbishop of York compares Bush and Guantanamo to Idi Amin

Brian | 01.03.2006 06:04

First hes like Hitler, Now Bush is compared to Idi AMin..Guantanamo is the key


Director Options Dismissed U.K. Diplomat's Book
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Director Michael Winterbottom has taken an option on "Murder in Samarkand," the forthcoming book by Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, detailing his dismissal in October 2004 "after exposing appalling human rights abuses by the U.S.-funded regime of President Islam Karimov," according to the publisher.

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In a related story, Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York and formerly a High Court judge in Uganda who fled during the regime of Idi Amin, has called for Guantanamo to be closed. He objects to Tony Blair's description of Guantanamo as an "anomaly."

Dr. Sentamu said: "By declaring 'war on terror' President Bush is perversely applying the rules of engagement that apply in a war situation. But the prisoners are not being regularly visited by the Red Cross or Red Crescent, which is required by the Geneva Convention. They were not even allowed to be interviewed by the U.N. human rights group.

"In Uganda President Amin did something similar: he did not imprison suspects because he knew that in prison, the law would apply to them so he created special places to keep them. If the Guantanamo Bay detainees were on American soil the law would apply. This is a breach of international law and a blight on the conscience of America."
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 http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/02/director_option.html

Brian

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What's about his own people?

01.03.2006 22:56

Very well, the archbishop Sentamu speaks about the human rights violations at Guantnamo and gets the first page of The Independent. Why can't he speak about his own people? They can be arbitrarily arrested and disappear to any 'safe house' in Uganda where they will be torured and raped for weeks or months and they'll be lucky to come out alive.
Idi Amin was bad, Museveni is not much better. Yet the UK governemnt wants to keep friendly relationships with Museveni's regime merely because of economic interests. It was on today's Guadian the UK cut a deal for selling arms to Uganda just before the election.
In the meantime a large number of Ugandan refugees in the UK are detained and deported to Uganda. A while ago a group of Ugandan women in Yarl's Wood went on hungerstrike for over a month, against their plenned deportations and the conditions in the detention, did the bishop say anything? I did not hear.
Sentamu was a refugee when he came to the UK, wasn't he? Is he saying anything about his own people being deported back to torture?

Katie