UN calls for end to exaggerated terror talk

August 5, 2004

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A United Nations investigator has called on governments to stop whipping up exaggerated fears of terrorism among their populations, in an apparent reference to the United States and Britain.

And in implicit criticism of Russia and China, Greek Lawyer Kalliopi K. Koufa said in a report that the world community should be more alert to a growing trend to label as terrorists groups seeking to exercise the right of self-determination.

Fear of terrorism “out of proportion to its actual risk and generated by states themselves or other actors” can be exploited to make people accept “counter-terrorism measures that unduly curtail human rights and humanitarian law,” the report declared on Thursday.

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