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Let's see, should a nation ran by a brutal dictator chair the Human Rights Convention?

Sounds kind of funny to me unless you're into Orwellian DoubleThink. Here's what the decidedly non-right wing Human Rights Watch said about Libya's record:

Over the past three decades, Libya’s human rights record has been appalling. It has included the abduction, forced disappearance or assassination of political opponents; torture and mistreatment of detainees; and long-term detention without charge or trial or after grossly unfair trials. Today hundreds of people remain arbitrarily detained, some for over a decade, and there are serious concerns about treatment in detention and the fairness of procedures in several on-going high profile trials before the Peoples’ Courts. Libya has been a closed country for United Nations and non-governmental human rights investigators.

As for Iraq, here's a nation that has ignored over a dozen UNSC resolutions that demanded it to disarm, and they'll be hosting a disarmament conference. Can't you see the absurdity of that? What will be the conference topics - how to thumb your nose at the UN and fool weapons inspectors?

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