Xinhua News Agency, Washington, April 8th: Summary: The eye-catching truth debunks the lies of the US "Human Rights Defenders"
Xinhua News Agency reporter
A few days ago, the U.S. pieced together the so-called "2020 National Human Rights Report" based on hearsay and out-of-the-box materials. As always, it has slandered and criticized the human rights situation in other countries.
In fact, the United States has its own human rights problems piled up like a mountain. In the past four years, the human rights record of the US government has been markedly bad.
The United States was unable to return due to its own system failure, which eventually caused the Capitol riots; the racial discrimination in the United States has never been eradicated, and has repeatedly led to the tragedy of the destruction of ethnic minorities; the United States has experienced a new crown epidemic that is far more serious than any country in the world due to its own ineffective epidemic prevention. ... The shocking truths about the US trampling on human rights have thoroughly debunked the shameless lies that the United States has long described itself as a "guardian of human rights."
-Democracy disorder creates tears
The disorder of the democratic system triggers political chaos, which tears apart American society.
The politics of money in the United States has distorted public opinion and turned elections into a "one-man show" for the wealthy.
Money is deeply rooted in all aspects of American elections.
Without enough money, it is impossible to compete for any important political office.
The Brennan Center for Judicial Studies of New York University pointed out that huge amounts of money dominate the current political campaigns in the United States to a degree that has not been seen in decades.
The "Super Political Action Committee" allows billionaires to invest unlimited amounts of money in campaigns, drowning out the voices of ordinary Americans.
"Dark money organizations" will cover up the identity of donors to prevent voters from knowing who is trying to influence their vote.
The “Wall Street Journal” website commented on November 9 last year that in the 2020 election, Americans’ confidence in their country’s democratic system fell to the lowest point in 20 years.
Political polarization has become increasingly serious, hatred politics has evolved into a nationwide "plague", and post-election riots have led to the fall of Congress.
In recent years, the U.S. gun trade and shooting incidents have hit record highs, and people have lost confidence in social order.
The two parties in the United States have difficulty reaching a consensus on gun control based on their partisan interests. The prolonged proliferation of guns is caused by political divisions and partisan struggles, and the cost is that tens of thousands of Americans become the souls of guns every year.
-Racial ills often occur
American minorities suffer systematic racial discrimination and are in a difficult situation.
The sensational case of the white American police "kneeling and killing" Freud, an African-American man, opened a public trial on March 29.
The Boston Globe exclaimed: "(The white police officer suspected of killing Freud) Xiao Wan will not be the only defendant in the court. The entire United States will be sent to the trial."
Freud's "I can't breathe" moaning is the dying cry of more than one African American who died of police violent law enforcement, and it is also the common aspiration of more ethnic minorities who have suffered the same bad luck.
US federal statistics show that young African-American men are 21 times more likely to be shot by the police than white young men. The shooting rate for African-American men aged 15 to 19 is as high as 31.17 per million, compared with whites of the same age. The male shooting rate is only 1.47 per million.
According to statistics from the "Police Violence Map" website, in 2013 at least 301 people of African descent were shot and killed by police in the United States, 320 in 2014, 351 in 2015, 309 in 2016, 282 in 2017, and 260 in 2018 There are 278 people in 2019 and 233 people in 2020.
Will American policemen who enforce the law violently receive fair sanctions by the law?
the answer is negative.
Juries hearing police violent law enforcement cases generally have "natural trust" in law enforcement personnel.
Jenina Bell, a professor at Indiana University School of Law, said the data show that jury members are more inclined to trust the testimony of the police and the police than the testimony of eyewitnesses.
African Americans are not the only victims of racism in the United States. Minorities such as Latinos and Asians have also suffered from racial discrimination for a long time.
Especially since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, some American politicians have stigmatized Asian Asians in order to shirk their responsibility for ineffective epidemic prevention, which has led to a surge in violent hate crimes against Asian Americans in the United States.
In the past two months, "Stop hating Asian Americans" has become the slogan of a new round of anti-racism movement after "Black people's fate is also fate." Related demonstrations have been one after another throughout the United States.
——The gap between the rich and the poor widens again
Today, the gap between the rich and the poor in American society is rapidly expanding, and the lives of the people at the bottom are miserable.
Since last year, the out-of-control epidemic has led to mass unemployment, tens of millions of people have lost their health insurance, and one in six Americans and one quarter of American children face the threat of hunger.
Vulnerable groups have become the biggest victims of the government's passive response to the epidemic.
Experts believe that the epidemic has aggravated the survival crisis of the bottom people in the United States, but the middle-class crisis caused by the unequal distribution of wealth in the United States has long existed and continued to worsen, triggering social and political unrest.
Chris Baskirk, editor of the American conservative website "America Great", said that the unequal distribution of wealth is caused by the stagnant real wage growth that has lasted for nearly half a century and other structural problems, which is likely to cause an unsustainable development. Situation.
——The out-of-control epidemic causes tragedy
The US population is less than 5% of the world's total population, but so far, the number of confirmed new crown cases has exceeded 25% of the global total, and the number of deaths accounted for nearly 20% of the global total. More than 550,000 Americans have lost their precious lives.
Deborah Burks, then the coordinator of the Trump Administration's White House Coronavirus Response Task Force, bluntly stated in a documentary broadcast by CNN recently that the federal government conveys conflicting information to the public. This is the process of the United States' response to the epidemic. The "number one mistake" committed.
In this documentary, Anthony Fauci, an important member of the Trump Administration's White House Coronavirus Response Task Force and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that the president's social media call for the lifting of the epidemic blockade and other speech orders People are shocked, the work to fight the epidemic is "a huge blow."
——Rampantly overbearing and ruining rules
Brazenly withdraw from the World Health Organization, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, threaten international institutions with bullying, brutally impose unilateral sanctions, cruelly treat asylum seekers, continue to forcibly repatriate immigrants during the epidemic, and pardon war criminals who massacred civilians in other countries...
The United States under the Trump administration has owed "human rights accounts" to the international community too many to list.
Over the past four years, the United States has insisted on pursuing its own country first, pursuing isolationism, unilateralism, and bullying. It has become the biggest "trouble maker" that endangers global security and stability.
On June 19, 2018, the self-proclaimed "Human Rights Defender" the United States announced its withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council.
The day before, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had just criticized the United States for forcibly separating immigrant children from their parents in border areas.
In September 2018 and March 2019, former U.S. National Security Adviser Bolton and then Secretary of State Pompeo respectively issued threats, stating that if the International Criminal Court investigates suspected war crimes committed by the U.S. and its allies, the U.S. will "directly Those responsible for the investigation have taken retaliatory measures such as prohibiting entry, freezing assets, and even imposing economic sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
American legal person James Goldstone commented that the remarks of these senior officials showed that the U.S. government "only takes international law seriously when it is in the interests of the United States."
From July 2017 to July 2020, in violation of international human rights law and international humanitarianism, the US immigration authorities forcibly separated more than 5,400 children from their parents who were refugees or illegal immigrants in the southern border area, resulting in a tragic separation of flesh and blood. Children died in custody.
In 2019, a total of 850,000 immigrants were arrested in the southern border of the United States. Most of them were treated roughly and their human rights were abused.
In 2020, the detention places where immigrants are held in the United States have become the "hardest hit areas" for the spread of the new crown virus. The US government has also forcibly repatriated large numbers of illegal immigrants as the epidemic spreads, increasing the risk of the epidemic in Central American countries.
In the past three months, more than 100,000 illegal immigrants have poured into the United States.
US law enforcement officers separated more than 5,000 children from their parents and detained them in crowded simple houses, creating multiple "children's concentration camps."
The U.S. government refused to acknowledge the immigrant crisis and even prevented reporters from reporting the real situation in the "children's concentration camps."
The US government’s policy of violating the rights of immigrants, especially the rights of immigrant children, has been strongly criticized and condemned both in the United States and the international community.
During the UN Human Rights Council meeting that ended not long ago, some country representatives pointed out that in the current epidemic, the United States is pursuing "vaccine nationalism". Vaccines; previous armed interventions by the United States have caused a large number of civilian casualties in other countries; the United States has imposed unilateral coercive measures against many countries that seriously violate international law, severely violated human rights in other countries, and even led to humanitarian crises.