^#smrgSAHAF Amnesty International Report 1991 - This report covers the period January to December 1991 - 1991

This annual review of human rights violations, covering 141 countries, reports on prisoners of conscience, political prisoners denied fair trials, victims of torture, “disappearances” and political killings, and those who have been judicially sentenced to death or executed.

In a world where governments continue to order or permit these violations and remain selective about the abuses they are prepared to condemn, the Amnesty International Report 1991 shows why global efforts to protect human rights, independent of the political and economic interests of national states, remain so necessary. '

The world has heard too often governments' excuses that political and economic interests override human rights issues. In the face of all that has happened there must be no more excuses.