Big deal.
I have the same amount of sympathy for this character as his organisation showed for the victims of their beloved al Qaeda and IRA.
Airing an opinion you could be locked up for expressing such opinions 😉
However I find it regrettable that Flood, from copying this from a website has basically jumped on the media band wagon and placed all the credit for founding Amnesty squarely at the feet of Peter Benenson, and yet the media ignore his co-founder Sean Macbride SC the Irish international lawyer.
When Amnesty was founded in 1961, Macbride, the former Irish Foreign Minister and Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, had already founded Justice, the international lawyers’ lobby group, in response to the Hungarian show trials following the 1956 uprising, Amnesty was/is an extension of his initial work.
It is particularly strange that he is still often excluded from comment on Amnesty by the British media, maybe because of his known Republican sympathies and the fact that he accepted the Lenin Prize for Peace as well as the Nobel – the only person ever to be awarded both.
Now that Peter Benenson, too, has gone is it not time to re-couple their names among the most important and successful humanitarians of the 20th century as the joint founders of the world’s premier humanitarian organisation for the assistance of prisoners of conscience?
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