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Big_Bird
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 Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: Tutu enters Gaza to start investigation into deaths |
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Desmond Tutu, the South African archbishop, met the former Palestinian prime minister and Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Gaza at the start of a much-delayed UN investigation into the shelling by the Israeli military of a Palestinian house which killed 18 members of a single family in Beit Hanoun.
Tutu was sent by the UN human rights council to lead the inquiry only days after the incident in November 2006. However, the Israeli government did not give him a visa and complained that the council was politicised in its criticism of Israel.
Yesterday, after several months of delay, Tutu crossed into Gaza from Egypt at the Rafah crossing point, which is usually closed and almost never used for UN or diplomatic visits, but where he did not require any Israeli travel permit.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/28/israelandthepalestinians.southafrica |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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Ah the UN human rights commission. 
Was he sent by Libya ,the Sudan or Zimbabwe?
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Zimbabwe's Election to UN Human Rights Commission
Australia is disappointed that Zimbabwe has been re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for a further three-year term after it was nominated unopposed by the African group.
Given Zimbabwe's consistent efforts to block resolutions critical of egregious human rights during its current term on the Commission, including resolutions critical of its own record, Zimbabwe's re-election is particularly unacceptable.
Robert Mugabe's regime has repeatedly demonstrated its complete lack of respect for democratic norms and basic human rights as it clings desperately to power. Its record is one of harassment and violent intimidation of opposition supporters and non-government organisations, arbitrary arrests and detention as well as anti-democratic legislation which severely curtails freedoms of the press, speech and assembly |
http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/releases/2005/fa053_05.htm |
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