US Human Rights Report Distorts Truth
The United States recently published its 2013 "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices." Among the many countries and regions in the report, China and Hong Kong were criticized on human rights and leveled with unwarranted charges based on willfully misrepresented facts. The State Council of the People’s Republic of China promptly released its "Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013" in order to set the record straight and strike back against these accusations.
The truth is that America's own human rights problems are dreadful. First, dozens of shootings occurred last year, killing 137 people. Second, the U.S. government has implemented the PRISM program for many years, conducting illegal domestic and international surveillance that violates human rights. Third, domestic racial discrimination has led to the arbitrary arrests and shootings of African-Americans, and currently 38 percent of the prison population is black. Fourth, youth unemployment has reached 21 percent while the homeless rate has increased to 16 percent. Fifth, the U.S. has violated the human rights of other countries. Ten years in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in millions of deaths and tens of millions of displaced peoples, while drones have killed 926 people in Pakistan. Sixth, the U.S. has still not ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights or the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women and other international agreements. What qualifications does the U.S. have to regard itself as an instructor on human rights and make thoughtless remarks on China’s human rights situation? To put it bluntly, the U.S. uses "human rights" and "democracy" as an excuse to export American-style human rights, infringe upon the sovereignty of other nations, and interfere with their internal affairs.
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