The United State on Thursday released its annual human rightsreport in which it made arbitrary attacks and irresponsible remarks on the human rightssituation in almost 200 countries.
However, as a poor human rights performer, Uncle Sam should clean out its own yardfirst.
Just one day before the release of the report, a 41-year-old unarmed black man died afterbeing shot by three police officers at his home. A total of 19 bullet casings were found atthe scene.
This is not an isolated case. Since 2014, the United States has witnessed a series ofincidents in which white U.S. police officers killed unarmed black men.
All of these can remind the United States that there are a lot of human rights violations onits own soil.
As a matter of fact, U.S. human rights violations go far beyond violence against ethnicminorities, immigrant issues and torture allegations. They have also long existed in themonitoring of emails and mobile phones of ordinary Americans as well as leaders of othercountries, including traditional U.S. allies like Germany and France.
The United States has also committed numerous human rights violations abroad, forexample, in its use of stomach-turning torture methods and in its indiscriminate dronestrike killings.
Moreover, the United States is one of the only two countries in the world that have notratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a human rights treaty that protectschildren. It also does not seem keen on promoting the ratification of such internationalfundamental laws as the Forced Labor Convention.
Wu Hailong, China's ambassador to the UN Office in Geneva, said that the United States isridden with systematic and massive human rights violations, which are hard to get rid of.
Though loving to portray itself as a vehement human rights watchdog on the world stage,the United States has not done much to address its own human rights problems, butprefers to point fingers at other countries.
Indeed, pursuing human rights is a process and no country can have an absolute perfectrecord. Regrettably, the U.S. report, which has been issued since 1977, deliberately ignoredthe achievements other countries made in improving their human rights.
Thus, it is advisable for Washington to refrain from making wrongful accusations againstother countries over human rights issues and work hard to put its own yard in order so asto live up to its self-styled title as a "human rights defender."
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