USA: A reflection on justice

17 May 2011 By Amnesty International staff "We understand the uniqueness of an operation like this, but we make no apologies for the fact that Osama bin Laden needed to be found and brought to justice, and that's what we did." - White House press secretary, 9 May 20111 In his announcement on 2 May 2011 that a team of US Special Forces had entered Pakistan and killed Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama said that “justice has been done”.2 In a television interview two days later, he repeated that “justice was done”, adding that “anyone who would question that the perpetrator of mass murder on…

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