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The irony

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I breaking my old decision not to right about the UN Human Rights Mockery Council, I simply can’t resist the irony:

Switzerland’s Jean Ziegler has been appointed to a United Nations advisory body for human rights.

He won most votes for the seat designated for western countries at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in the Swiss city of Geneva.

[…]

Ziegler has been criticized for supporting authoritarian leaders in developing countries.

I love the euphemism of calling murderous dictators “authoritarian leaders”, it stand in the grand tradition of the UN.

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