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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2003
Speaker addresses problems of rights of political prisoners
By Kevin Flaherty
kflaherty@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The executive director of Amnesty International discussed human rights and the plight of political prisoners at the Kansas Union Ballroom last night.
Amnesty International faces a tough task in trying to help those people, said Bill Schultz, who has been the human rights organization's executive director for nine years.
"I've heard from certain pollsters that 31 percent of all Americans worry about if heaven is boring," he said. "It is our job to make sure that somewhere in that litany of worries we find a place for human rights."
Amnesty International is an organization with more than 2 million members in almost 150 countries. Schultz said. Founded in London in 1961 to save two people imprisoned for toasting freedom at a bar, Amnesty International is now a Nobel Prize-winning organization for human rights.
Schultz spoke on the rights of people and how Amnesty International fought for those rights. He
said the United States did not handle the terrorist conflict properly.
"The way to beat the terrorists is not by being a bully," he said. "It is by becoming a model of justice."
After Schultz's speech, the audience asked questions. Questions focused on his opinion on the war in Iraq to "what can I do" type questions. Afterwards, he chatted with people and signed copies of his book, In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits All Americans.
The speech was sponsored by the Unitarian Universalists of Lawrence and Kansas City. Schultz formerly was president of the Universalists, so he made a logical choice for a speaker, said Elizabeth Collins, co-leader of young adult Unitarian Universalists
Collins said the event wasgeared to teach people about human rights, a relevant topic today.
"This is all part of a media campaign in the Lawrence and Kansas City areas to make our religion better known," Collins said. "It focuses on a search for individual truth. It is a very liberal version of Christianity. Some people have those types of beliefs, but don't want the Christian dogma."
Matt Schwabauer, Lawrence Free State High School senior, said he attended because he received extra credit in his politics class for writing a short report over the speech.
"I didn't know that much when I came here and I really learned a lot," Schwabauer said. "It was just interesting to see a different perspective from the mainstream media."
The attendees included a few other high school and University students but was mostly an older crowd.
Amnesty International is dedicated to freeing prisoners of conscience, gaining fair trials for political prisoners, ending torture, political killings and disappearances and abolishing the death penalty throughout the world.
The crowd gave Schultz a standing ovation after he explained the purpose of Amnesty International.
"Amnesty International exists to keep the Angel of Death waiting," Schultz said. "It allows the children of life to finish the great and glorious dance."
Edited by Jason Elliott
The Associated Press
Iraqis met under American auspices to shape a new government yesterday and said "the rule of law must be paramount" following Saddam Hussein's fall. In a war dividend, U.S. officials said they had taken Palestinian terrorist Abul Abbas into custody in Baghdad.
New Iraqi government discussed
Four weeks after U.S.-led forces unleashed their assault, President Bush promised to "liberate every corner" of Iraq and American troops hastened to redeem his pledge. Marines solidified their grip on Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, and American officials said fighting had ended in Qaim, a town near the Syrian border.
Acting on a tip, commandos searching a home in Baghdad found a weapons cache with a sizable chemical laboratory and documents they said were instructions on making chemical and biological weapons. They also reported finding a bomb concealed inside a bottle, another in an umbrella and a third in a telephone.
The U.S.-organized meeting on a new government drew scores of Iraqis to a gold-colored tent erected in Ur—birthplace of the biblical patriarch Abraham — and anti-American protest in a nearby city.
"No to America and no to Saddam," chanted thousands of Shiite protesters in Nasiriyah, exercising their new freedom of speech to object to the imminent creation of an American interim governing authority.
Inside the meeting. White House envoy Zalmay Khaillzad said the United States has "no interest, absolutely no interest, in ruling Iraq."
He added, "We want you to establish your own democratic system based on Iraqi traditions and values."
A 13-point statement released after the session envisioned a democratic country where "the rule of law is paramount." It said Saddam's "Baath party must be dissolved and its effects on society must be eliminated."
Abbas, the leader of a Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner Achille Lauro in 1985, was captured by U.S. commandos on Monday, U.S. officials disclosed.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the paper was drafted by U.S. officials in advance of the meeting.
A number of his associates also were detained during raids at several sites around Baghdad, these officials said on condition of anonymity.
Abbas, whose name actually is Mohammed Abbas, led a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front, a Palestinian splinter group. His faction was in Tunisia until the attack on the Achille Lauro, after which it relocated to Iraq. Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly American, was shot and tossed overboard in his wheelchair during the hijacking.
There was no major combat during the day, but at least 10 Iraqis were reported killed and 16 injured in a clash between U.S. Marines and a stone-throwing crowd in Mosul in northern Iraq, The New York Times reported. Lt. Cmdr. Charles Owens, a spokesman at U.S. Central Command in the Persian Gulf, denied reports that U.S. troops shot into the crowd but said he didn't have other details about the incident.
While anti-American sentiment flared in Iraq, U.S. forces also won cooperation from civilians eager to restore order and vital services.
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