AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S BLIND SIDE
August 5, 2022 -Durt Fibo

The overall vision of Amnesty has been smitten with homonymous hemianopsia these days. They seem unable to see that the Ukrainian military and fighting citizens were forced to defend urban and residential civilian areas because that’s precisely where the Russians attacked. The Black Zaporizhia (of the 72 brigade) fought off thousands of Russians attacking Kyiv, at times merely yards away…just one example from the first months of this illegal war on Ukraine. A month after assuming her position, Amnesty International’s Secretary-General Agnes Callamard was rebuked by the organization and her 2013 statement that Shimon Peres “admits” that Yasser Arafat was assassinated was revealed to have been her own mental extrapolation from a New York Times article in which neither Peres nor anyone else even implied it. Both Callamard and the organization deplored the blunder, with AI officially writing “The tweet was written in haste and is incorrect. It does not reflect the position of Amnesty or Agnès Callamard.” That was April 16th, 2021. Now Callamard is likely just trying to protect Donatella Rovera, the actual author of the report AI issued yesterday. Rovera herself has a history of inconsistency, writing, for Al Jazeera in 2012, “Israel’s bombardment of residential areas in the densely-populated Gaza Strip caused much civilian collateral damage….Once again civilians bore the brunt. The impunity afforded to those responsible for similar attacks in the past has no doubt contributed to their recurrence during this latest escalation of the conflict. What is needed now is an independent investigation to ensure that victims are not once again denied justice and reparation.”