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U.S. Has Two Sets Of Laws, One For Themselves One For Others
"Not paying a fair wage is wrong," he wrote commenting on the Khobragade case, but "What is also wrong is for the State Department to be following a double-standard in what it expects from foreign diplomats, and what it expects from its own."
Citing court documents, he mentions the case of US diplomat Linda Howard and her husband accused of raping and enslaving an Ethiopian woman tricked into accompanying them as their domestic servant to Japan, and forced to work for less than $1 per hour.
A Virginia federal judge awarded the victim $3.3 million in damages on a default judgment against the couple. But the diplomat retired from the State Department with full pension and then fled the country.
Earlier this year in Kenya, an American diplomat who police say was speeding, crossed the centre line in his SUV and rammed into a full mini-bus, killing a father of three whose widow is six months pregnant. The embassy, according to Van Buren, then rushed the American and his family out of Kenya the next day, leaving the crash victims with no financial assistance to pay for a funeral and for hospital bills for the eight or so others who were seriously injured.
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Source: IANS
