LONDON (IFOC) - After calling the Guantanamo detainment center as a "gulag" and the Abu Ghraib prisoner torture scandal as barbaric, human rights group Amnesty International denounced itself today as a violator of human rights around the world.
"Based on our double-standard with regards to screaming loudest about the problems within free countries while remaining relatively silent on the abuses by totalitarian regimes, Amnesty International has become a tool for dictators to conceal their own violations behind," said Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Zubaida Khan. "By turning the spotlight on minor violations among free, democratic countries we're allowing others such as North Korea and the Sudan to continue gross abuses unhindered."
Khan explained the double-standard as one of fear "If I were to show up in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia with a laundry list of complaints, either I'd be dowsed with gasoline and lit on fire or beheaded i nthe public square," said Khan. "In America and England, I'm lauded by the media and allowed to speak at gatherings across the country. Heck, I'm already getting a state erected of me in London's Bethnal Green neighborhood."
Khan promised to work on the atmopshere generated by Amnesty International. "However, it's all Bush's fault. He's the new Hitler, you know."