The European Union should press Bhutanese authorities to release dozens of political prisoners held for decades in dire conditions, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. An EU human rights dialogue with Bhutan is scheduled later this month, just weeks after UN human rights experts issued a communication raising concerns over reports that the […]
  • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
    10·
    1 month ago

    So because they criticized the wrong military that one time, we don’t have to care about political prisoners in Bhutan? Convenient.

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          The main issue was takes like “The Ukrainian army should station itself in forests instead of defending cities so that Russian bombardment would not hit civilians”. Anyone with a single strategically thinking brain cell of course readily sees that if you’re not defending cities, the Russians would’ve been free to Bucha everything.

          They somehow misunderstood the “no human shields” thing as “you can’t be near civilians, ever”. You need to be close to civilians if you want to protect them from massacres. How else are you supposed to do that, with telepathy?

          • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
            6·
            1 month ago

            They talked much shit about how Ukraine treated POWs but was completely silent about how Russia treated Ukrainian POWs

            Is that so?

            Russian authorities have subjected Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian captives to torture, prolonged incommunicado detention, enforced disappearance and other inhumane treatment, which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said in a new report today.