Human Wrongs Watch
By Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service*
At Irish Congress of Trade Union, Belfast
Mairead Maguire
I would like to thank Eamon McMahon and the Organizers of this event for giving us the opportunity to discuss what I consider to be one of the most important issues of our time, namely, War and Peace and the right for public to be informed what their governments are doing in their name.
Julian Assange, an Australian journalist founder and Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, tried to uphold this right for us all and tell us the truth and for so doing he has been persecuted, demonized, suffered character assassination, and hounded like a criminal, by the USA government and media.
The current US charges against Assange centre on the Afghan War logs and Iraqi War logs, which the Guardian, New York Times and others published, and on the Collateral Murder in Baghdad, video showing an American helicopter crew gunning down civilians and the crew celebrating their murders.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 