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By Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> –<\/strong><\/p>\n

The United Nations says the United States has failed to prosecute cases of criminal acts among Bush-era officials, while insisting on the release of a report on its terrorism program.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bush and Mahinda<\/p><\/div>\n

Ben Emmerson, U.N. special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism\u00a0called on the United States on Monday to publish its findings on the CIA’s Bush-era program of rendition and secret detention of terrorism suspects.<\/p>\n

“Despite this clear repudiation of the unlawful actions carried out by the Bush-era CIA, many of the facts remain classified, and no public official has so far been brought to justice in the United States,” Emmerson said in a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n

He said that Bush\u2019s “war on terror” waged after 9\/11 led to “gross or systematic” violations involving secret prisons for Islamic militant suspects, clandestine transfers and torture.<\/p>\n

Emmerson went on to criticize US President Barack Obama\u2019s administration for failing to prosecute criminal acts committed under the Bush administration, while allowing \u201cimpunity for the public officials implicated in these crimes” by citing the “superior orders defense” and secrecy based on national security grounds.<\/p>\n

Source agency reports.<\/p>\n

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