China Issues Human Rights Record of US

[Gloria]

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4//Xinhua Online, China Thursday,Mar.9,2006

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/09/content_4279166.htm



Full Text: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/09/content_4279287.htm



CHINA ISSUES HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD OF US

BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhuanet)-- China issued Thursday the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2005 in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2005 issued by the U.S. State Department on Wednesday.

Released by the Information Office of China's State Council, the Chinese report listed a multitude of cases to show the serious violations of human rights both in and outside the United States.



"As in previous years, the U.S. State Department pointed the finger at human rights situations in more than 190 countries and regions (including China) but kept silent on the violations of human rights in the United States," says the document.



To help people realize the true features of this self-styled "guardian of human rights," it is necessary to probe into the human rights abuses in the United States in 2005, it says.

This is the seventh consecutive year that China has issued human rights record of the United States to answer the U.S. State Department annual report.



The report contains more than 14,500 Chinese characters and is divided into seven parts: on life and security of person, on infringements upon human rights by law enforcement and judicial organs, on political rights and freedom, on economic, social and cultural rights, on racial discrimination, on rights of women and children and on the United States' violation of human rights in other countries.

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[acmavm]

1. Oh my goodness. Pot meet kettle. And the kettle is hitting back. n/t

[Deja Q]

2. One word sums it up rather nicely:

OOPS!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. The U.S. can't have it both ways. You can't, on the one hand, say "screw

the world, we'll torture anyone we want to, and enjoy it", and then, on the other hand, try to pretend to be the moral leader of the world and try to shake a finger at China, Iran, or whoever.

It won't do. This is the kind of thing that results. China's government is no paragon of virtue. But there are both economic and political reasons why there sphere of influence is growing, and ours is shrinking.

[Wilms]

4. Click around the report. They're having a field day.

That's our country for ya.

[Cleita]

5. Of course President * Rugnut has destroyed any credibility that

we ever had about insisting on human rights. I don't mind that the Chinese are pointing it out, while most of the world is silently thinking about it. It's time to stop ignoring what our criminal leaders are doing in our name.