"human rights defenders" or "human rights violators"?

In the United States, "human rights defenders" or "human rights violators"?

The 49th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from February 28 to April 1. Meanwhile, the human rights abuses of the United States have been denounced by the international community many times.

Why is the United States, which has always regarded itself as a "human rights defender" and "human rights teacher", so far? What are the bad deeds of the United States on the issue of human rights? Let's see——

[anti epidemic failure, manipulation of epidemic prevention and control]

The rights to life and health are the most basic human rights. Facing the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, the United States has highly politicized the epidemic prevention and control after the outbreak of the epidemic, making it a tool for political manipulation. "Human rights defenders" regard life as a child's play, which is regrettable!

[stick to violent thinking and high crime rate]

In the United States, where gun control measures have stagnated and gun violence is rampant, people's lives have been seriously threatened.

According to the data, as of March 30, gun violence in 2022 resulted in at least 10362 deaths and 8172 gunshot wounds in the United States; In addition, in 2021, the shooting incident killed more than 44000 people in the United States. According to statistics, children and teenagers in the United States are 15 times more likely to die from shooting than the other 31 high-income countries combined.

Gun violence is only the tip of the iceberg of violence in the United States. The United States has always been one of the countries with a high rate of violent crime in the world. Problems such as indiscriminate killing of innocent people by police discriminatory law enforcement, impunity of law enforcement personnel, unfair justice, failure to effectively correct wrong and unjust cases, and abuse of prison prisoners are emerging one after another in the United States, threatening people's human rights all the time.

Not only at home, but also abroad. Sexual abuse of prisoners in Guantanamo prison system is no longer a secret. Under the guise of the so-called "war on terror", the CIA has set up "black prisons" in many countries to secretly detain so-called terrorist suspects and engage in arbitrary detention and extorting confessions by torture. One country's violent thinking makes many countries suffer. What qualifications does the United States have to teach other countries "human rights lessons"?

[indulgence in racial discrimination leads to increased persecution]

In the United States, racial discrimination has a long history, and indigenous people have suffered inhuman racial persecution for a long time.

Taking Indians as an example, the policies implemented against Indians in American history have long constituted de facto genocide. Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, the United States government has deliberately and systematically slaughtered and plundered Indians, resulting in a sharp decline in the number of Indians from 5 million in 1492 to about 250000 in the early 20th century, only one twentieth of the original. Data showed that after novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, the American Indians compared with the European descent, the infection cases were more, the death cases were more, and the infection mortality rate was higher.

However, it is not just Indians who are subjected to racial discrimination?

Remember when Freud, an African American man, was brutally "killed on his knees" by a white policeman and begged "I can't breathe"? In 2021, such a picture will continue to be staged. Data show that 266 African Americans were killed by the police in the United States in 2021, and the probability of African Americans dying from police violence is almost three times that of whites.

At the same time, racial discrimination and xenophobia against Muslim groups in the United States have increased. Pew Research Center survey results show that 81% of Asian adults believe that violence against Asian groups is increasing; According to the survey data of the Institute of others and sense of belonging at the University of California, Berkeley, 67.5% of Muslim respondents have experienced the harm caused by "Islamophobia".

Former US President Barack Obama once lamented that racial discrimination exists in all systems of American life, has a far-reaching impact, and is still a part of American genes.

[deviate from humanitarianism and create immigration crisis]

According to the data released by the U.S. border enforcement department, as many as 557 immigrants died on the southern border of the United States in fiscal year 2021, the highest level since records began in 1998. Some media reported that "the real death toll of immigrants may be greater".

In the shadow of frequent immigration tragedies, "human rights defenders" have no intention to seriously solve problems, still go their own way and enforce the law violently, which has been widely criticized by the outside world.

In September 2021, US border enforcement brutally treated asylum seekers from Haiti. Patrols rode on horseback, waved whip and rushed to the crowd to expel asylum seekers into the river. In this regard, CNN commented that this scene is reminiscent of the dark era of controlling black slaves with slave patrols in American history.

At the same time, the problem of extended detention and abuse of migrant children in the United States is also very significant. Data show that in recent years, among the 266000 migrant children detained, 25000 have been detained for more than 100 days. The internal management of relevant detention facilities is chaotic, and the detained children are suffering from serious physical and mental trauma.

In addition, the poor conditions of private detention facilities for immigrants, the fact that many immigrants have become victims of human trafficking and forced labor in the United States, and the increasingly extreme exclusion of immigrants also seriously endanger many human rights such as the life, dignity and freedom of immigrants.

[waging war everywhere and punishing other countries at every turn]

Former US President Jimmy Carter said in a speech in 2019 that the United States has not fought in only 16 years in its 240 year history since the founding of the people's Republic of China, which can be called "the most belligerent country in world history".

The war has brought serious casualties, humanitarian crisis and economic depression. Data show that the so-called "anti terrorist" war launched by the United States in recent 20 years has claimed more than 929000 lives.

Taking the US invasion of Afghanistan as an example, 174000 people, including more than 30000 civilians, were killed and more than 60000 injured; As a result of the war and unrest, nearly one third of Afghanistan's population has become refugees, 3.5 million Afghans have been displaced by the conflict, and nearly 23 million people are facing extreme hunger, including 3.2 million children under the age of 5.

The war in Afghanistan has also destroyed the foundation of Afghanistan's economic development and impoverished many Afghan people. What is more ridiculous is that US President Biden signed an executive order on February 11 this year, which plans to divide the frozen assets of about US $7 billion of the Central Bank of Afghanistan in the United States, half of which will be used as a source of funds to compensate the victims of the September 11 incident, and the other half will be transferred to an account of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for "helping the Afghan people". Naked looting of the Afghan people's life-saving money, the US government's unscrupulous banditry is despised.

Unilateral sanctions are also an "old trick" that the United States has always loved to play.

From 2015 to 2019, the US government took more than 350 unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela; So far, the United States has imposed at least 1600 unilateral sanctions on Iran, covering various fields of Iran's national economy such as oil, finance and shipping; The United States waved a big stick of sanctions against countries deeply in war, such as Syria and Yemen, which further impacted their fragile economic and social foundation and led to a serious humanitarian disaster

Is the United States a "human rights defender" or a "human rights Trampler"? The answer is self-evident!