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Interview with Reed Brody, Human Rights Watch Lawyer
Brody | InterviewJuly 2nd, 2004
Transcription by Volunteer Citizen Journalist Matt Martin
ECHO CHAMBER PROJECT: Why don’t you go ahead and introduce yourself and your job here at Human Rights Watch.
REED BRODY: My name is Reed Brody. I am a lawyer with Human Rights Watch.
ECHO CHAMBER PROJECT: Okay. -- Can you speak to -- generally, Ken Roth’s article that he wrote about Human Rights’s perspective -- Human Rights Watch’s perspective on Iraq as a humanitarian intervention.
BRODY: Yeah -- There’s no doubt that Saddam Hussein is one of the great human rights abusers of our time. And Human Rights Watch has been consistently trying to get the world interested in the crimes of Saddam Hussein, but for a long time nobody was listening. In 19 -- What was it? -- 1989, 1990? ... --
Reed Brody Transcript Now Posted
Submitted by kentbye on Wed, 2004-12-08 02:00. Brody | HumanRights | Status | WebsiteThe Echo Chamber documentary interview with Reed Brody is now posted online here.
Brody is a lawyer with Human Rights Watch and has an interesting take on the human rights justification that is not heard very often within the mainstream media discourse.
I based this interview upon an article called "War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention" written by HRW's executive director Ken Roth. It was released on January 26th 2004 with little fanfare.
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"If you're going to upset the rules of international law, and go in -- invade a country without United Nations authorization in apparent violation of the traditional rules because you say, 'There's a humanitarian emergency. We've got to get in there.' Then you do it when the humanitarian emergency is real. You don't do it because a country is engaged in a lot of torture -- as bad -- as condemnable as that may be. You do it when you're actually going in to save tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of lives."
