During the months following September 11, the world was focused on efforts to bring those responsible for the attacks to justice, and to prevent additional terrorist attacks. However, many countries around the globe cynically attempted to take advantage of this struggle to intensify their own crackdowns on political opponents, separatists and religious groups, or to suggest they should be immune from criticism of their human rights practices. In other places, leaders exploited the situation to advance unnecessarily restrictive or punitive policies against refugees, asylum-seekers, and other foreigners. Human Rights Watch has collected and compiled a number such opportunistic statements and actions.
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http://hrw.org/campaigns/september11/opportunismwatch.htm
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http://hrw.org/campaigns/september11/opportunismwatch.htm
