The UK's actions must not weaken its own moral authority to speak out on human rights abuses internationally I do not take liberty for granted. As a child I lived through the bloody war that gave birth to Bangladesh, in which the quest for liberty of an aspiring nation was brutally repressed by the Pakistani army and its collaborators. As a student in Northern Ireland in the mid-1970s, I saw yet more human rights abuses in the name of liberty on one side, and security on the other. As an official of the UN refugee agency for 20 years, it was my daily business to deal with the humanitarian consequences of human rights failures from Cambodia to Kosovo. Now, as secretary general of Amnesty International, I see how readily freedom is trampled in the name of security, but also the incredible courage and resilience of individuals...
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