USA is used to release a report on Human Rights for every country in the world. Every country but the USA. So China thought about filling the gap and presented The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2004. (i read the comment in Italian by Repubblica). Interesting reading, full of data, numbers and stats. This is a link to Yahoo Cache version, just in case.
Of course nobody could argue that China is better than USA about Human Rights. But it is interesting that China is explicitly attacking USA on such a topic: can you imagine any other country releasing such a report? By the Information Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. I can’t. With this report, China is saying “we are as powerful as you and we can judge you, as you judge all the world”. This is a scary situation for our future.
Following is the full text of the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2004, released by the Information office of China’s State Council Thursday, March 3, 2005.
The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2004
By the Information Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China
March 3, 2005
In 2004 the atrocity of US troops abusing Iraqi POWs exposed the dark side of human rights performance of the United States. The scandal shocked the humanity and was condemned by the international community. It is quite ironic that on Feb. 28 of this year, the State Department of the United States once again posed as the “the world human rights police” and released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2004. As in previous years, the reports pointed fingers at human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions (including China) but kept silent on the US misdeeds in this field. Therefore, the world people have to probe the human rights record behind the Statue of Liberty in the United States.
obviously, some people who really care about the united states’ image already took care of removing the content of the link you provided, also the cached version is not available any more. a coincidence? it is a pity anyway. rises some questions about censorship in the internet doesn’t it..
obviously, some people who really care about the united states’ image already took care of removing the content of the link you provided, also the cached version is not available any more. a coincidence? it is a pity anyway. rises some questions about censorship in the internet doesn’t it..