Amnesty Secretary General Pierre Sané

‘The world is certainly more unstable now that the Cold War is over. In every region of the world it seems that human rights are being rolled back… Governments are prepared to go to great lengths to cover up their crimes… They use sophisticated public relaions techniques, lies behind lies… Plausible deniability is the new weapon in the secret policeman’s armory… Human rights abuses have not gone away. They have just gone further into the dark’ (Amnesty Secretary General Pierre Sané, The Observer, Dec 12 1993).