Work of Amnesty International
Sir,— I suggest that Diana Cropp and Monica Richards (August 2) get their act together with Peter Dowling, who, in his letter of July 29 states: “Amnesty International . . . has been concerned at the forced assimilation of the approximately one million Turkish Muslims into the majority Slavic culture,” which contradicts their claim that Amnesty International is “unable to align itself with the causes of ethnic minorities”. Can Amnesty International not select the case of one North American Indian in the United States to publicise the violation of his/her human rights? Or a Republican Catholic in Ulster’s occupied six counties who languishes untried in jail? I believe that Amnesty International has a selective policy of studiously avoiding human righto violations in the United States and Britain. It is also guilty of spreading false propaganda charges that the Soviet Union consigns dissidents who oppose the Government to psychiatric hospitals. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. August 2, 1985.
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