Politics of fear makes Come back

Irene Khan, Amnesty International Secretary General writes;

"Fear of the outsider is a powerful totem for governments who mean to isolate and control their populations. In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe continues to tout the threat of the former colonial power and others in the west to justify his policy of forced eviction of people from their homes and a crackdown on all who criticise him. In Russia the government talked up fears of mysterious foreign financiers to introduce a tough law on NGOs that was then used to shut down a human rights organisation working in Chechnya. At the same Russia has done little to tackle the alarming rise in hate crimes against foreigners and minorities."

Here is the latest Amnesty International Report 2007 on Human Rights

See their blog as well.