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Statement for the International Commission on Human
Rights
Mumia Abu Jamal
(dictated 3/25/98)
Brothers, sisters, honored delegates –
It has been fifty years since the UN published its universal
declaration on Human Rights. Since then, various international
covenants have been released, published and projected into the annals
of international law.
However, while the volume of paper increases, so too does the frequency
of State repression, legalized murders and political persecutions. I
write you from a state with one of the largest death rows in America;
a state that has just savagely restricted the meager property rights
of men on death row. The state rushes to cull the human herd with its
destiny of certain death by eliminating Habeas Corpus, slashing
resources for appeals, and isolating those to die in living tombs of
glass and steel. What is needed here are not more noble proclamations
or covenants or protocols, but actions advanced on behalf of Life and
the living. Here, where we are regarded as less than human, there are
no rights.
It is time for your august body to make those rights that are claimed
in covenants and documents and declarations a reality.
I thank you all.
Ona Move –
MAJ
From: Mumia <Mumia@aol.com>
Date sent: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:26:46 EST
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