Volume 44, Number 5 · March 27, 1997
With Malice Toward Many
By Murray Kempton
Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events of 1996
Human Rights Watch (distributed by Yale University Press), 424 pp., $25.00 (paper)
Human Rights Watch has tolled the passing of one more year with the release of another annual report on the advances of harshness on Earth and official ill will to the helpless. These findings at once appeal to our conscience and define the bipartisan compact that has put our conscience to sleep. Human Rights Watch takes account of infamies around the world and of our government's response to each and every one. To put what foreign despots do together with how little our governors care is to understand that, when we speak of our two-party system, we are talking about two Republican Parties, the dubiously Grand Old one and the New Democrats it has ingested.
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