Amnesty: US guilty of Katrina-related abuses

[deminks]

Source: Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. government and Gulf Coast states have consistently violated the human rights of hurricane victims since Hurricane Katrina killed about 1,800 people and caused widespread devastation after striking in August 2005, Amnesty International said Friday.

The report, entitled "Un-Natural Disaster," said the treatment of hurricane victims and government actions in housing, health care and policing have prevented poor minority communities from rebuilding and returning to their homes on the Gulf Coast.

In sum, government actions have amounted to human rights violations and "as a result, the demographics of the region are being permanently altered," the report said.

Amnesty took particular aim at New Orleans, where public housing was bulldozed, hospitals have been slow to reopen and the criminal justice system has been plagued by police brutality, lengthy pretrial detentions and an underfunded indigent defense system.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/09/AR2010040900721.html

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Now that is MIHOP I can believe in.

[No Elephants]

1. A modest donation to AI goes on my credit card automatically every month.

(She posted proudly, and in the hopes of encouraging others to make a similar arrangement with AI.)

Maybe someone should start making a list of things the U.S. HASN'T violated?

[pattmarty]

2. Just confirming what most here knew already. And, Obama is doing what?

[MsLeopard]

3. Looking forward?

...sigh

[earcandle]

4. I want two things: Justice and my country back in form.

[pattmarty]

5. Good luck on that. It seems the only good thing so far with Obama...........

...............is unlike Bush who took us all the way back to the 19th century, Obama goes one step forward and just two back. We fucking needed another FDR and what we got was a black Bill Clinton.

[Jefferson23]

6. Thanks for posting this, Amnesty, can't say enough good about

them...donate if you can folks.

[SpiralHawk]

7. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R) & Cabal O' Republicon Cronies

[EFerrari]

8. And Greg Palast was the first one to report most of these stories, iirc.

He reported about the no emergency plan plan, about the White House knowing the levees broke and not telling anyone, about the public housing that hadn't even flooded.

[sakabatou]

9. As if * really cares