Larry Cox, head of Amnesty International, silent as guard assaults activist.

Ken So Wala | 26.11.2008 03:25 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Zapatista

Larry Cox, head of Amnesty International, stood silent as a guard violently assaulted a human rights activist who asked him a question at a public gathering at the Ethical Culture Society.

The four minute Youtube video was posted at:

Banner, you can do it too.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qHqDjL8gR18

The activist was there to draw attention to AI's support of the Merida Initiative, aka, Plan Mexico, a military aid package that arms the Mexican army and police who are involved in the murder and arrest of activists in Oaxaca and Chiapas and the massacres in Atenco.

As the activist is dragged out forcibly, Larry Cox says, ironically, "We believe very strongly in freedom of speech."

Is this the face of modern mainstream human right activism? Shame on Amnesty International.

The four minute Youtube video was posted at:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qHqDjL8gR18

Ken So Wala
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Comments

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Crazy, only in USA

26.11.2008 04:39

That crowd is like a bunch of zombies... what is going on in the world to allow this kind of passivity. this is a group of human rights people letting this man be thrown out for speaking up, even if they don't agree?

usa usa down you go

Jon

eviction, not violent assault.

26.11.2008 10:21

The article claims the person was "violently assaulted". I've just watched the video, and I can tell you that's not the fact - the poster of the article writes like a reported for the Sun.

Yes the person was evicted while trying to make a point at an Amnesty conference - but I've been "violently assaulted" in the past, and I can tell you it's a very different thing. By lying about what exactly happened, the poster is discrediting the issue as a whole.

gaz

thanks

26.11.2008 12:19

for wasting 4 minutes of my life

don´t care

OTT but

26.11.2008 15:27

OP is a bit over the top but I'd never heard of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9rida_Initiative makes you wonder what on earth Amnesty is backing that for - here's their excuse

http://www.amnestyusa.org/mexican-foreign-aid/page.do?id=1051219 seems pretty weak.

interesting

embarrasing

26.11.2008 23:52

The guy wasn't 'violently assaulted' byt the looks of the video.
Stop telling lies to get publicity.

Just was just bleating on about something and had his banner scrunched up.

charlie