Amnesty International calls for an end to the US embargo against Cuba

Wednesday, September 2nd 2009 - 13:23 UTC

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President Barack Obama should take the first step towards dismantling the US embargo against Cuba by not renewing sanctions against the island under the Trading with the Enemy Act, said Amnesty International in an official Tuesday release. Read full article

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Dan
Is this not genocide? From Article 2c of the UN Genocide Convention, genocide includes, among other things:

“Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”

That is, not actively killing people (Article 2a), but inflicting conditions on the group simply CALCULATED to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

Isn't this precisely what the US embargo is doing? If these were Chinese sanctions on Tibet, Amnesty would most certainly be calling it genocide. Is there a double standard at work here?
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US embargo against Guantanamo Base has been......!
US embargo against United Nations....when!?
Sep 03rd, 2009 - 12:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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