DES MOINES REGISTER – by Sangina Patnaik
This past month, Colin Powell submitted the State Department’s 2003 “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” to Congress. Its findings document human-rights violations around the world and, according to Powell’s introduction, informs U.S. policy changes in regard to those violations. The report includes a paragraph documenting the killing of my cousin, Rachel Corrie, by an Israeli military bulldozer. […]