U.S. stays silent on its own 'dirty wars'

Carlos Mauricio and Martin Almada can only marvel at the self-righteousness with which the United States has insisted on punishment for former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

The two former political prisoners -- both survivors of torture at the hands of U.S.-backed thugs -- know all too well of the U.S.' duplicity when it comes to bringing monsters like Milosevic to justice. While the U.S. has put on a good show in the Milosevic affair, it has helped stall the efforts of Mauricio and Almada to hold accountable the people they believe bear ultimate responsibility for human rights crimes committed not only against them, but against hundreds of thousands of other Latin Americans.

Mauricio and Almada sat on a bench across the street from the White House recently and recounted their stories of cruelty, terror -- and U.S. complicity.