A historical case of a priest being tortured on a torture ship in 1973 has returned to a judge and has been turned into a travesty after most of the charges that were given to the people that were responsible for Michael Woodward's death were dropped. Nobody as been paying for his death or his human rights that were taken away from him. Now that the charges have been dropped, what's left of the ten officers that allowed the priest to be murdered are now being tried with abduction instead of crimes against humanity. I think this is very interesting because it shows that certain governments and people placed with in the governments aren't so quickly to give up on cases of neglect of human rights. To learn more about the "Esmerelda" click on this nifty little link right about
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I think the fact that certain governments do not give up easily when it comes to cases involving human rights shows how important they are. Everyone deserves to have rights, and when they are taken away from us it needs to be addressed. This also shows that human rights issues play a major part in everyones lives so it should be taken seriously and cases, even if they happened a while ago, should be followed through.
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