Qaddafi's puppet 'Al-Hajjaji,' chairing Durban 'racist Arab controlled "anti-racism" conference' is "investigating" that country's Human rights?

Submitted by Maya (United States), Mar 8, 2011 at 19:08

Qaddafi's puppet 'Al-Hajjaji,' chairing Durban 'racist Arab controlled "anti-racism" conference' is "investigating" that country's Human rights?

Watchdog Group Demands Removal Of Libyan Human Rights Investigator…
U.N. Watch, an organization that monitors the world body, says Libyan envoy Najat Al-Hajjaji should be the 'last person' investigating human rights abuses, as Libyan jets drop bombs on rebel forces in her homeland. A watchdog group is asking the U.N. to immediately remove a Libyan envoy from her post as an investigator on human rights violations by mercenaries, saying that as a mouthpiece for a regime that's "deploying hired guns to massacre its own people" it's "outrageous" to have her in that position.

But it's not the first time Al-Hajjaji's been in a controversial post.

In 2003 she was elected president of the Human Rights Commission against objections from human rights groups and the U.S.

"It is not appropriate for a nation under U.N. sanctions — a nation with the horrible human rights record that Libya has — to be chairman of this commission," then U.S. ambassador, Kevin Moley, said at the time.

As someone who "whitewashed the crimes of the Qaddafi regime" for more than a decade, "she also shouldn't have been the head of the world conference on racism, the Durban II conference, which she chaired for two years," Neuer added.

But Neuer said it would be hard to imagine a position that would be more of an "obscene irony" than her current one.

"Everybody knew she was sitting on this mercenary group and no one said a thing…and the question is why not?"

In a letter sent Monday to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, U.N. rights commissioner Navi Pillay, and UNHRC president Sihasak Phuangketkeow, U.N. Watch demanded that the officials take immediate action to expel Al-Hajjaji.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/08/group-calls-libyan-envoys-removal-post-investigator-mercenaries/

Exposed: Qaddafi rep is UN council's "expert on mercenaries"

http://www.unwatch.org/cms.asp?id=1468682&campaign_id=63111

The U.N.'s Racist Conference On Racism – Forbes.com Dec 4, 2008 … Billed as an effort to fight racism, that Durban conclave focused instead on … is chaired by a Libyan ambassador, Najat Al-Hajjaji.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/03/racism-durban-conference-oped-cx_cr_1204rosett.html

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