http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld...n/14542595.htm
Why am I not surprised... Of course, that being said, I'm certain that any non-nordic nation would be accused as well, but please, don't select countries that embrace genocide and the killing of their own citizens. It is much different if you embrace the killing of OTHER nation's citizens
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WASHINGTON - Cuba and four other nations accused of widespread human rights abuses won seats Tuesday on the U.N. Human Rights Council, newly created to replace a controversial agency where abusers were often members.
Cuba's candidacy was viewed as a test case for the fairness of the future council.
Other nations singled out by human rights groups as being unworthy of membership yet still elected were Russia, China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
U.N. General Assembly President Jan Eliasson, who oversaw the negotiations that created the 47-member council, downplayed the controversy, saying the council was nonetheless a "truly historic occasion."
But critics were unconvinced. Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said calling the new council an improvement was "farcical" and its composition "irresponsible."
"Like a juvenile delinquent with indulgent parents, the U.N. will persist in its course toward destruction until it is decisively held to account," she said.
The council replaced the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, where violators like Cuba, Zimbabwe, Sudan and Libya regularly got themselves elected and then worked from the inside to block commission condemnations of their abuses.
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