Like water on stone : the story of Amnesty International
"Starting with the personal story of his long-time friendship with one of Amnesty's best-known adopted political prisoners, Olusegun Obasanjo, now the democratically elected president of Nigeria, Jonathan Power looks at Amnesty's work worldwide, including Guatemala, where their personnel risked their own lives to help those facing the death squads, and in the Central African Republic, where they exposed the horrific massacre of defenceless children. Other chapters examine the attempt to bring General Pinochet to justice, Britain's dirty war in Northern Ireland and one of the black marks in Amnesty's own history, their mistaken support of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Finally, Power focuses on the USA and its failure to address its own widespread human rights violations."
Print Book, English, ©2001
Northeastern University Press, Boston, Mass., ©2001
History
xvii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781555534875, 1555534872
45845483
Introduction
Prologue: The wheel turns in Nigeria
1. Guatemala
'only political killings'
2. Bokassa, the dead children and the lessons unlearnt
3. The Pinochet case
4. Amnesty's forty years
5. Northern Ireland
Britain's dirty war
6. Amnesty's black mark
the Baader-Meinhof Gang
7. Amnesty's success stories
8. China
from better to worse?
9. The USA
land of the free?
10. Conclusion
the world is a better place
Includes index