One of the most shocking revealments of the recent months was about how deeply Europe and especially Blair's Britain is involved in the American dirty war against human rights.
Craig Murray was Britain's ambassador to Uzbekistan until October 2004 and was fired after he criticized American and British collaboration with Uzbekistan's murderous president Karimov, one of the American allies in Middle Asia until summer 2005.
Since then, his efforts concentrate on revealing the dirty human rights record of the US foreign policy. From a European perspective the deep involvement of a variety of European governments, especially (again) Great Britain.
This week, Murray has given evidence to the Council of Europe's inquiry into the extraordinary rendition and secret detention cases revealed last automn. Murray has continouosly criticized the British participation in this US programme. In the last months, in connection to the Council of Europe's inquiry, more disturbing details have been revealed. With European cooperation, the US has allegedly transported over 100 suspects to countries where they face torture reported Swiss senator Dick Marty to the Council of Europe. (See Telegraph article on this issue)
Extraordinary rendition - the practice of shipping suspects to third countries - is illegal ... and the British government was aware of that, as a secret memo revealed by The New Statesman shows. The involvement and cooperation of Britain and other European countries known to this day are disturbing. The cooperation of European governments with the inquiry remains unsatisfying, as the interim report of the CoE criticizes.
The duty of the European political parties - especially the PES, where Blair's Labor Party is member - is now to push forward for a clear and transparent completition of the CoE's inquiry - and to press the governments to comply.
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