Amnesty ignores violence against men...

Maybe they should change the name of Amnesty International to Amnesty for Women.

Kosovo is another example of a recent civil conflict that killed thousands of innocent civilian men. One report from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe documented the widescale abductions, torture, and executions, and noted, "young men were the group that was by far the most targeted in the conflict in Kosovo."

But don't forget, the notion of male victimization is just another example of patriarchal revisionism.

So when the matter of the sex-specific slaughter in Kosovo was raised at a recent meeting of the Canadian section of Amnesty, the issue was met with derision and contempt. And a resolution calling for the group to "condemn all large-scale gender selective human rights violations of men and women" in Kosovo was soundly defeated.

No doubt the correct-thinking AI delegates reasoned, "We certainly can't approve that, it might distract from the good work we're doing to highlight the human rights violations of women."

As human rights activist David Buchanan recently put it, Amnesty International has "flinched from clearly documenting large-scale patterns of male-specific conflict during armed conflict."