(authorized release) 2021 U.S. Human Rights Violations Report
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 28. The State Council Information Office released the "2021 Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States" on the 28th. The full text is as follows:
2021 U.S. Human Rights Violations Report
People's Republic of China
State Council Information Office
February 2022
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Preamble
1. Manipulating the epidemic prevention and control pays a heavy price
2. Sticking to violent thinking threatens life safety
3. Playing with false democracy and trampling on political rights
4. Indulging racial discrimination aggravates social injustice
5. Deviating from Humanism to Create a Migration Crisis
6. Abuse of force to sanction violations of human rights in other countries
Preamble
In 2021, the human rights situation in the United States will further deteriorate.
Political manipulation has led to a surge in the number of deaths from new coronary pneumonia, shooting incidents have caused a record high, false democracy has trampled on people's political rights, violent law enforcement has made the situation of immigrants and refugees even more difficult, and discrimination against ethnic minorities, especially Asians, has intensified.
At the same time, US unilateralism has created new humanitarian disasters around the world.
——The number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States has reached 34.51 million, and the number of deaths has reached 480,000, far exceeding 2020. Both figures rank first in the world.
Life expectancy fell by 1.13 years, the biggest drop since World War II.
——The social security situation in the United States has deteriorated, and violent crimes have remained high.
There were 693 mass shootings throughout the year, a 10.1 percent increase from 2020.
The shooting killed more than 44,000 people.
——Forty-nine states in the United States have proposed more than 420 bills to restrict voter voting. Only 7% of young Americans believe that the American democratic system is still "healthy", and the public's trust in the government is close to the historical low since 1958.
- 81% of Asian-American adults believe that violence against Asian-Americans is on the rise.
Hate crimes against Asian Americans in New York City jumped 361 percent over 2020.
59% of Americans believe it is difficult for minorities to have equal employment opportunities.
-- In fiscal 2021, the U.S. detained more than 1.7 million immigrants, including 45,000 children, at the southern border.
Violent law enforcement claimed 557 lives, more than double the previous fiscal year and the highest number since 1998.
——The airstrike launched by the US military when it was withdrawing from Afghanistan killed 10 people in an Afghan family, including 7 children, the youngest was only two years old.
The United States still holds 39 people at Guantanamo Bay.
Fernand de Varena, Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council, stressed that the legal system of human rights protection in the United States is neither comprehensive nor outdated, and leads to growing inequality.
In response to the bad practice of the United States in creating human rights disasters in other countries in the name of human rights, Stephen Walter, a professor of international relations at Harvard University, pointedly pointed out that the United States "must first solve the problems that have arisen at home and rethink how to deal with other countries in the world".
①In 2021, the "human rights defender" in the United States will completely collapse, and the "Leaders Democracy Summit" under the guise of "protecting human rights" will become a farce.
At the 48th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, many countries condemned the United States as "the biggest destroyer of the cause of human rights in the world" and urged the United States to solve its own serious human rights problems.
1. Manipulating the epidemic prevention and control pays a heavy price
The United States has the most advanced medical equipment and technology in the world, but it has become the country with the highest number of new coronary pneumonia infections and deaths in the world.
The U.S. government does not think about governance strategies or anti-epidemic measures. Instead, it advocates "tracing the source of the virus", is keen to "shake the blame", and engages in political manipulation.
Disregard people's right to life and health.
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the United States, the prevention and control of the epidemic has always been highly politicized, and it has become a tool and bargaining chip for the Republican Party and the Democratic Party to criticize, veto, and confront each other. Politicians only focus on political self-interest, but ignore the lives and health of the people.
The federal and local governments go their separate ways and restrict each other, which not only makes the integration and coordinated management of medical resources very difficult, but also causes people to be at a loss for epidemic prevention and control policies.
Some Americans, misled by political manipulation, not only refused to wear masks, but even launched an "anti-vaccine" movement, which aggravated the spread of the epidemic.
According to data released on the website of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, by the end of 2021, nearly 30% of Americans have not been vaccinated against the new crown.
The Associated Press reported on December 19, 2021 that the number of new coronary pneumonia infections and hospitalizations continued to climb as unvaccinated people infected each other, and hospitals were overwhelmed.
Vox News Network pointed out on January 2, 2021 that the United States has fallen into a situation where states, local governments and the public have to seek their own happiness.
According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of the end of February 2022, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States exceeded 78 million, and the cumulative number of deaths exceeded 940,000, of which the number of deaths in 2021 far exceeded 2020.
Covid-19 has cut the average American's life expectancy by 1.13 years, the largest drop since World War II, according to research from the University of Southern California and Princeton University.
Among them, the average life expectancy of African Americans and Hispanics fell by 2.1 years and 3.05 years, while the average life expectancy of whites fell by 0.68 years.
The U.S. government's unscientific, unequal, and irresponsible epidemic prevention and control has seriously damaged the American people's right to life and health.
The "New York Times" commented on November 18, 2021 that the United States has failed in the tests of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the past two years, and "the American people's trust in the government has gone bankrupt."
Out of control of the epidemic has led to the deterioration of people's mental health.
According to a research report published online in October 2021 by The Lancet-Regional Health (Americas), the proportion of American adults with depressive symptoms before the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia was 8.5%, and it rose to 27.8% at the beginning of the outbreak in 2020. It rose further to 32.8% in October 2021.
The Associated Press reported on December 6, 2021, that more than one-third of Americans aged 13 to 56 cited the COVID-19 pandemic as a major source of stress, according to a poll.
The social trauma caused by the out-of-control epidemic has left a huge psychological shadow on minors.
The Los Angeles Times website reported on December 9, 2021, that the number of American girls attempting suicide in 2021 will increase by 51% compared with the same period two years ago, said U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
The number of homeless people is staggering.
The "Washington Post" website reported on December 7, 2021 that homelessness is one of the biggest challenges facing the United States, and the problem has swept cities large and small during the epidemic.
The Associated Press reported on September 9, 2021 that the number of homeless people in Rhode Island has increased by more than 85% since January 2021.
According to a report released on November 8, 2021 by the Association for the Advancement of Children, the number of homeless schoolchildren in New York City in the 2020-2021 school year once exceeded 100,000, accounting for nearly one in ten students in the city's public schools.
Some students live in homeless shelters, and some even have to live in cars, parks or abandoned buildings.
The New York Times website reported on December 19, 2021 that one in every 100 residents of San Francisco is homeless.
The right to life of the elderly is blatantly violated.
American politicians pursue the natural law of survival of the fittest, claiming that "the elderly can sacrifice for the country" and "the national economy is more important than the lives of the elderly".
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most of the patients who died from the new coronary pneumonia epidemic were over the age of 65.
The US "Instant Medical News" website reported on August 30, 2021 that as of August 2021, more than 500,000 elderly people in the United States have died from the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, accounting for four-fifths of the total number of deaths.
Discrimination in healthcare delivery, insufficient priority for nursing homes in the response to the pandemic, and segregation policies are making elderly People are more likely to be neglected or abused, and the number of nursing home deaths in the United States during the new crown pneumonia epidemic has been seriously missed.
Serious damage to international anti-epidemic cooperation.
Washington vigorously pursues "America First", not only withholding anti-epidemic materials from other countries, but also prohibiting the export of domestic medical materials, and buying out the production capacity of drugs that may be used to treat new coronary pneumonia.
The United States has repeatedly coerced the WHO, interfering and dragging down global anti-epidemic cooperation.
The United States has engaged in "vaccine nationalism", pushing some underdeveloped countries and regions into a desperate situation of "no vaccines to grow".
NBC reported on September 1, 2021 that the United States has scrapped at least 15 million doses of the new crown vaccine in half a year since March 2021, wasting vaccine doses far beyond what many poor countries have prepared for their entire national populations.
Sherifa Sekara, associate professor of global health law at the University of Warwick, commented that while developed countries, led by the United States, are hoarding and wasting vaccines, "many African countries have less than 5% of their population even vaccinated, which is a huge challenge. Fairness, it's a tragedy." South African President Ramaphosa pointedly pointed out, "Rich countries order more vaccines than their own populations need, and when we want vaccines, they only give us some 'leftovers', such as The performance is indeed very, very disappointing." The website of the US "Foreign Policy" magazine said: "The Biden administration is still pursuing the interests of the United States in a way that is detrimental to the interests of the rest of the world."
2. Sticking to violent thinking threatens life safety
The United States has consistently had one of the highest rates of violent crime in the world.
Gun control measures are stagnant, and gun violence is rife; police are discriminatory in law enforcement, killing innocent people indiscriminately and causing public anger; law enforcement officers are impunity, and judicial injustice has been criticized; wrongful and unjust cases cannot be effectively corrected and compensated, prison inmates are abused; domestic violence , youth violence has increased significantly, and people live in fear of lack of safety.
The deterioration of social order has accelerated the proliferation of guns.
The United States is the country with the largest number of privately owned guns in the world. The public has lost confidence in the government's social security governance, and is extremely insecure, and has purchased a large number of guns to protect themselves.
Statistics released by the Small Arms Survey show that of the 857 million civilian firearms in existence worldwide, Americans own 393 million, or about 46 percent.
There are 120 guns for every 100 Americans, more than 1 per capita.
There are more civilian firearms than people in the world like no other.
②The Urban Research and Policy Organization reported on December 21, 2021 that as of October 2021, more than 15 million guns had been sold in the United States that year.
"Ghost guns", which are assembled from parts purchased by private individuals online, are even more proliferating.
The New York Times website reported on November 20, 2021 that between 25% and 50% of the firearms seized at crime scenes by law enforcement officers in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego and San Francisco over the past 18 months were "untraceable". Ghost Gun".
As of October 2021, the San Diego Police Department alone has seized nearly 400 “ghost guns,” roughly double the total for all of 2020.
Since January 2016, law enforcement agencies across the United States have seized about 25,000 privately-made firearms.
Gun violence seriously endangers people's lives.
The United States has the worst gun violence in the world.
According to statistics released on January 5, 2022 by the Gun Violence Archives website, the number of fatalities from shootings in the United States rose from 39,558 in 2019 to 43,643 in 2020, and further to 44,816 in 2021.
There will be 693 mass shootings in 2021, up 10.1 percent from 2020.
The Milwaukee Sentinel reported on October 5, 2021, that children and teens in the United States are 15 times more likely to die by gunfire than in 31 other high-income countries combined, according to the Children's Defense Fund.
At least 30 shootings occurred on U.S. campuses during the school season from Aug. 1 to Sept. 15, 2021, killing at least five people and injuring 23, the highest number on record.
A total of 1,229 teens aged 12 to 17 were killed and 3,373 injured in shootings in the United States in 2021.
On November 30, 2021, four students were killed in a mass shooting at a Michigan high school.
The 15-year-old suspect used the same gun that his father bought on Black Friday.
CNN reported on November 26, 2021 that Jason R. Silva, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at William Paterson University, commented that the United States is the only shootings in developed countries.
The shooting caused a large number of casualties and posed a major threat to public safety.
According to an April 2021 Pew Research Center survey, 48 percent of Americans believe gun violence is a major problem in the United States that needs to be addressed.
The police brutally enforced the law to save lives.
According to statistics from the "Police Violence Map" website, at least 1,124 people will be killed by police violence in the United States in 2021, and most of them will be killed by police in the context of non-violent crime or no crime.
The "USA Today" website reported on June 21, 2021 that police in the United States shoot and kill about 1,000 people every year.
Police have shot and killed more than 6,300 people since 2015, but only 91 officers have been arrested, or just 1% of those involved.
The "USA Today" website reported on July 8, 2021, a survey showed that only 22% of Americans believe that the police enforce the law fairly.
People of color are frequently subjected to unfair law enforcement.
The "USA Today" website reported on July 15, 2021, that a 20-year-old African-American man in Minnesota, Dante Wright, was shot and killed by police after being pulled over outside Minneapolis for an expired license plate.
Wright's death is one of a string of incidents in which African-Americans were pulled over for traffic violations and killed innocently.
A study of 20 million traffic stops in North Carolina over a decade found that African-American drivers were twice as likely to be stopped and searched by police as whites.
The USA Today website reported on May 24, 2021, that in the year following the violent police killing of George Floyd, law enforcement officers have killed hundreds more of minorities in the United States.
More than 470 murders have been committed by law enforcement officers in Minnesota since 2000, but only one person has been convicted, a minority male law enforcement officer who killed a white woman.
The Christian Science Monitor website reported on November 23, 2021 that research from the Urban Institute shows that a white killing of a black person is 10 times more likely to be ruled "justified" than a black killing of a white person .
Human rights violations by prison staff are not uncommon.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate and the largest number of people incarcerated in the world.
③ An Associated Press investigation found that the US Federal Bureau of Prisons is a hotbed of corruption, corruption and abuse.
Canadian Television News Network reported on November 14, 2021 that crimes committed by federal prison staff in the United States are not uncommon.
Since 2019, more than 100 U.S. federal prison staff have been arrested and convicted of sexual abuse, murder and other offenses.
Prisoners held in private prisons are at risk of being abused.
The United Nations News Network reported on February 4, 2021 that according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, about 116,000 prisoners in the United States were held in private facilities in 2019, accounting for about 7% of all state prisoners and 16% of federal prisoners.
On April 20, 2021, nine experts from the Special Mechanism, including the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on People of African Descent, the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Independent Expert on the Rights of the Elderly, and the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, issued a joint statement condemning the The United States violated the human rights of African-American prisoner Mumiya Jamal.
The statement said that Jamal, who has been in prison for 40 years, was a social activist and journalist. The 67-year-old suffers from chronic heart disease, liver cirrhosis, high blood pressure and other diseases. February 2021 He was diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia; in late February, he was handcuffed to a hospital bed for 4 days while he was being treated for heart failure; when he was hospitalized again in early April for surgery, his family members, lawyers, etc., were denied visitation requests.
The statement called on the U.S. government to fulfill its international human rights obligations, take urgent measures to protect Jamal's life and dignity, immediately stop the practice of withholding information, allow outside visits to monitor his human rights situation, and take all necessary measures to protect all detainees, especially The lives of elderly and disabled prisoners who have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The credibility of the judicial system has been destroyed.
According to statistics released on January 11, 2022 by the US Excretion and Release Registration Agency, 2,933 people in the US have been wrongly convicted since 1989, with a total of 25,600 years in prison.
In the United States, 14 states lack relevant legal provisions for compensation for wrongful convictions.
④ The BBC reported on November 23, 2021 that Kevin Strickland, 62, has maintained his innocence since his arrest at the age of 18.
He was wrongly convicted of third-degree murder in June 1979, acquitted in 2021, and served more than 42 years in prison, the longest wrongful imprisonment in Missouri history.
But under state law, he is unlikely to receive any financial compensation.
"USA Today" website reported on July 8, 2021, surveys show that only 17% of Americans believe the criminal justice system treats everyone fairly.
3. Playing with false democracy and trampling on political rights
Political donations lead to the transfer of interests after the election. Political polarization further intensifies social opposition and division. Legislation and constituency divisions that restrict voting eligibility have become tools for political parties to suppress public opinion. Political operations are increasingly divorced from public will and social needs. The majority of people have the right to participate in politics. Essentially deprived, the international community's confidence in American democracy continued to decline.
American-style democracy has been reduced to a benefit-transporting game.
Money politics in the United States has intensified, and politicians are increasingly ignoring the interests of the people.
Noam Chomsky, a political critic and social activist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said there is a positive correlation between Americans' influence over policymaking and their level of wealth, with about 70 percent of Americans having no role in policymaking. Influence, they are at a disadvantage in terms of income level, wealth, etc., which is equivalent to being deprived of the right to participate in politics.
Jalalaja, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, published an article in the "Atlantic" magazine, saying that the current democracy in the United States is only a formal democracy, not a real democracy.
The nationwide primaries for presidential elections are completely rigged by the rich, famous, the media, and interest groups, and the presidential candidates voted for by the people often don't really represent the will of the people.
The British "Guardian" website reported on January 7, 2021 that candidates from both parties in the United States will spend as much as $14 billion on advertising alone in the 2020 election cycle.
The Consumer News and Business Channel website reported on April 15, 2021 that Wall Street spent as much as $2.9 billion on funding campaigns and political lobbying during the 2020 U.S. election.
The Politico website published an article on November 17, 2021, saying that a secret funding group provided Democrats with $410 million in 2020 to help Democrats regain control of the Senate.
In the 2020 presidential election, American pharmaceutical companies made a lot of political donations to the two parties. After the Democratic government came to power, it "returned the favor" and invested huge sums of money to give back to related companies. Moderna alone has benefited nearly $1 billion.
Subsequently, the federal government directly delivered benefits to pharmaceutical companies by purchasing a large number of new crown vaccines, resulting in a large amount of hoarding and waste of vaccines in the United States.
The U.S. government has let pharmaceutical companies in on the pricing of the new crown vaccine, which has led to a continuous rise in vaccine prices.
The British "Financial Times" reported that the unit price of Pfizer's new crown vaccine supplied to the EU rose from 15.5 euros to 19.5 euros, and the price of Moderna's new crown vaccine rose from 19 euros to 25.5 euros per dose, while it is estimated that each dose of Modena Nano vaccines cost less than $3 to produce.
Political polarization is causing society to become increasingly divided.
The electoral chaos in the United States has further intensified political polarization, and the society continues to be divided and turbulent.
On the afternoon of January 6, 2021, under the instigation and manipulation of extremist politicians, thousands of Americans who refused to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election poured into Washington, and a large number of demonstrators forced their way into the Capitol building and clashed violently with guards , resulting in 5 deaths and more than 140 injuries, and the statutory certification process for the results of the presidential election was forced to be interrupted.
The Brookings Institution website reported in May 2021 that after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, 77% of Republican voters questioned the legitimacy of the president-elect, citing electoral fraud, despite all 50 states certifying the results of the election. sex, for the first time in nearly a hundred years.
The change of government has not changed the polarization of American politics.
American society has become increasingly confrontational on issues such as epidemic prevention and control, race relations, abortion rights, and gun control. The political struggles between the Democratic and Republican parties in infrastructure construction, social welfare bills, and government debt ceilings have become more intense. Congress is nearly incapacitated.
Republican leaders even gave a record 8.5-hour speech in Congress to block and delay the vote on the Democrat-proposed bill.
The Pew Research Center website reported on October 13, 2021 that the U.S. is seen as the most politically polarized country, with 90 percent of U.S. respondents seeing supporters of different parties, according to a survey of 17 advanced economies. There are serious differences between them. Nearly 60% of the respondents in the United States believe that the public not only disagrees in the field of policy, but also finds it difficult to reach a consensus in terms of basic facts.
Partisanship suppression undermines voters' right to vote.
In order to win the election, Republicans and Democrats frantically suppress the votes of voters who are not conducive to themselves by means of legislation and constituency division.
In 2021, 49 U.S. states have proposed more than 420 proposals to restrict voter voting.
Some of these proposals compress the time it takes for voters to apply for or mail-in ballots, some limit the availability of drop-off locations, some impose stricter signature requirements for mail-in ballots, and some establish new and stricter requirements for voter identification, making mail-in ballots and Early voting has become more difficult, creating barriers for groups such as the elderly, the disabled, and minorities to exercise their right to vote.
The NBC website reported on March 8, 2021 that Georgia is pushing dozens of vote-restriction bills aimed at African-American voters.
Civil rights advocates argued that "the movement constitutes a national attack that will drive people of color out of the electorate."
Gerrymandering became a tool to suppress the political influence of minority voters.
The two parties have used their political manipulation in states to increase their chances of winning by redistricting congressional districts, often at the expense of minority rights.
The US Consumer News and Business Channel website reported on August 13, 2021 that the practice of redistricting congressional districts often targets voters of color, and the division of Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania alone can make Republicans more Get 16 to 17 congressional seats.
The "Chicago Tribune" reported on September 3, 2021, that the redistricting of Illinois is aimed at giving Democrats control of the state legislature for at least a decade.
The Civil Liberties Union website reported on November 30, 2021 that Ohio's redistricted districts are heavily skewed toward Republicans, who can get 67% to 80% of congressional seats even though they only get 55% of the state's voter support.
The Los Angeles Times website reported on December 8, 2021, that while the number of people of color has grown substantially in Texas, the Texas gerrymandering deliberately weakens the power of Hispanic and African-American voters.
Hispanics make up nearly 40 percent of Texas' total population, but only seven of the 38 congressional districts are predominantly Hispanic.
Texas has the largest African-American population in the U.S., but none of the state's 38 congressional districts are predominantly African-American.
In a survey of the American public on the fairness of congressional districts, only 16% of respondents believed that their state could divide districts fairly.
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The international community's confidence in American democracy continued to decline.
The website of the Institute of Political Science at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government reported on December 1, 2021 that only 7 percent of respondents in a national poll of 18- to 29-year-olds in the U.S. believe that the U.S. democratic system is “still”. health,” with 52 percent of respondents believing that U.S. democracy has been “troubled” or “failed.”
According to survey data released by the Pew Research Center in May 2021, the American public's trust in government is close to an all-time low since 1958, with only 2% of Americans saying they can trust the US government to "almost always" do the right thing , and only 22 percent of Americans say they can trust the U.S. government to do the right thing "most of the time."
The Washington Post website published an opinion article on June 12, 2021, stating that the chaos and dysfunction of American democracy in the past few years has shocked the world and has become a broken waste product in the eyes of allies.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the chaos on Capitol Hill "disgraceful".
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier believes that the violent incident in the U.S. Capitol is the result of the spread of lies, contempt for democracy, incitement of hatred and division by political leaders.
The survey showed that only 14% of Germans and less than 10% of New Zealanders believe that American democracy is the ideal model for other countries.
Despite its own democratic practice and international image, the U.S. government has held a high-profile so-called "Leaders Democracy Summit", politicized and instrumentalized democracy, engaged in electing sides, forming cliques, and dividing the world.
The so-called "Leaders Democracy Summit" is essentially a summit that "destroys global democracy" and has been widely criticized and condemned by the international community.
French political scientist Dominique Moisey believes that the United States promotes democracy everywhere, but it does it poorly.
"USA Today", "The New York Times" and other American media have also commented, "Democracy in the United States is falling apart, and we must first solve our own democratic failures." "When the United States faces many problems at home, people question whether the United States can act as a Qualified spokesperson for democracy".
4. Indulging racial discrimination aggravates social injustice
The deep-rooted racist "virus" in the United States has spread together with the new crown pneumonia virus, anti-Asian hate crimes have occurred frequently, discrimination against Muslim groups has continued unabated, racial persecution of indigenous peoples continues, and the racial economic divide continues to widen. Racial inequality is growing.
Asian Americans face increasing levels of discrimination and violent attacks.
Under the racist manipulation of American politicians, attacks against Asian Americans have increased dramatically.
According to a report released on November 18, 2021 by Stop Hating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, the organization received 10,370 racist attacks against Asian Americans between March 19, 2020 and September 30, 2021 Incident reporting, most incidents occur in public spaces such as streets, workplaces, etc.
According to data released by the New York City Police Department on December 8, 2021, hate crimes against Asian Americans in the city in 2021 jumped 361% compared to 2020.
The Washington Post website reported on April 22, 2021 that 81 percent of Asian-American adults believe violence against Asian-Americans is on the rise, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
The "New York Times" commented that "there is no vaccine to cure racism", Asian Americans in New York live in fear, and the psychological impact of anti-Asian violence has traumatized the Asian community.
The NPR website reported on October 22, 2021 that one in four Asian Americans feared that their family members would be attacked or threatened because of their racial identity.
On the evening of March 16, 2021, Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old white man, attacked three Asian-run massage parlors and spas in the Atlanta area with a gun, killing eight people, six of whom were Asian women.
This bloody case is a microcosm of the escalating discrimination and violent attacks against Asians in the United States in recent years, which has aroused unprecedented anger and fear.
Thousands of people of Asian and other ethnic groups continued to take to the streets in a massive "Stop Asian Hate" rally and march.
On January 28, 2021, an 84-year-old Thai-American man was struck to the ground by a deliberate blow to his death in San Francisco.
On April 23, 2021, Ma Yaopan, a 61-year-old Chinese man, was attacked from behind on the streets of New York and fell to the ground. He was repeatedly kicked on the head, causing facial fractures.
He died in hospital after being in a coma for eight months.
On November 17, 2021, three Chinese-American high school students in Philadelphia were violently attacked on the subway returning home from school. The local police stated that "the victims were selected because of their Asian identity."
On April 3, 2021, The New York Times focused on more than 110 anti-Asian racial hatred incidents in the United States with clear evidence in the past year.
"Over the past year, Asians have been pushed, beaten, kicked, slapped, verbally abused, even houses and shops in a series of apparently racially hostile incidents," the report said. to destruction.” And this is just the tip of the iceberg of racism against Asians.
The British Broadcasting Corporation reported on July 22, 2021 that being regarded as a "forever foreigner" is a painful experience shared by many Asian Americans, and under the combined effect of xenophobia and anti-communism, the US government has doubts about Chinese scientists It has existed for more than half a century.
Since the implementation of the so-called "China Action Plan" in the United States in November 2018, Chinese scientists have been frequently subjected to unprovoked harassment, surveillance and strikes by the US government, and various vile and absurd acts of law enforcement agencies have been continuously exposed by the media.
The New York Times website reported on November 29, 2021 that nearly 2,000 scholars from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University signed an open letter expressing concerns about the program's excessive targeting of Chinese researchers.
"Yale Daily News" reported on December 9, 2021 that nearly 100 Yale University professors jointly issued an open letter condemning the program as being extremely aggressive and discriminatory, disproportionately targeting Chinese scholars, and posing a threat to scientific inquiry and academic freedom. Urge the U.S. government to terminate the program.
The MIT Technology Review investigation showed that charges in most cases covered by the program were dismissed or largely ineffective.
Several Asian American civil rights agencies said the planned investigation into Chinese would lead to "discrimination and stigma."
Xi Xiaoxing, a Chinese scientist who was deeply persecuted by the program, said that the current situation of Chinese scientists is similar to that of Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps during World War II, almost like returning to the McCarthy era.
The U.S. "Foreign Affairs" website published an article titled "Don't Racist Competitive Relationships" on July 28, 2021, stating that "U.S. foreign policymakers consistently exaggerate the threat of China" is a key factor leading to the surge in Asian-American hatred incidents. China will inevitably demonize all Asian faces in the United States, "unless American policymakers stop using China as a punching bag for all America's woes, Asian Americans will continue to be in dire straits".
Bullying and hatred of Muslims continues unabated.
Bloomberg reported on September 9, 2021 that in the 20 years after the "9.11" incident, discrimination against Muslims in the United States has been on the rise.
The Associated Press reported on September 9, 2021 that 53 percent of Americans have a negative view of Islam, the survey found.
A 2021 report from the Council on American-Islamic Relations says the group receives more complaints each year about bullying and Muslim-hate speech.
According to a report released by the organization's California branch on October 28, 2021, more than 50% of students surveyed in California said they would be bullied because of their Muslim status and felt unsafe at school, the highest number since 2013 .
According to survey data released on October 29, 2021 by the Institute of Otherness and Belonging at the University of California, Berkeley, 67.5% of Muslim respondents have experienced the harm caused by "Islamophobia", and 93.7% of Muslim respondents said that Their physical and mental health is affected by "Islamophobia".
Indigenous peoples have long suffered inhumane racial persecution.
The United States has a long and dark history of violating the rights of Indigenous peoples, and indigenous peoples, including Indians, have experienced bloody massacres, brutal expulsions, and cultural genocide.
The U.S. "Foreign Policy" website published an article titled "America Must Face Up to Its Genocide" on October 11, 2021, stating that more than 350 indigenous boarding schools funded and established by the U.S. government between the 19th and 20th centuries forced indigenous Resident children are separated from their families and communities and enrolled in remote boarding schools, where they are culturally assimilated.
This policy continued into the 1970s, when hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal children were forced to flee their homes and many were abused and killed in schools.
In these boarding schools, the identities, languages, and beliefs of American Indian, Alaska, and Native Hawaiians were suppressed.
The United States committed genocide not only morally, but legally against its own people.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Navajo, Cherokee, Sioux and other Indians struggled with disease and poverty, but were systematically ignored.
The Navajo Indian settlement, which spans Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, once had one of the highest rates of COVID-19 infections in the United States.
The British "Guardian" reported on April 24, 2020 that compared with the proportion of the population, the infection rate and death rate of the new crown pneumonia among Indians are seriously disproportionate. Almost half of the states in the racial population data did not explicitly include Indigenous peoples in the classification, but instead classified them as "other."
"We have a small population because of the genocide. If we were excluded from the data, we wouldn't exist," said Abigail Eco-Hoke, chief research officer at the Seattle Indian Health Council. "Russia Today" reported on January 8, 2022 that research shows that since the 1950s, 928 of the more than 1,000 nuclear weapons tests conducted secretly by the United States have been carried out on reservations of the Indian Shoshone tribe.
These nuclear tests cumulatively produced 620,000 tons of radioactive fallout, nearly 48 times the amount produced after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.
Ian Zabat of the Shoshone tribe said the nuclear test program has killed thousands of people in the area, many with cancer.
种族间的经济鸿沟持续扩大。美国少数族裔与白人之间存在长期性系统性的经济不平等，表现在就业创业、工资收入、金融贷款等方方面面。⑥《今日美国报》网站2021年4月7日报道，美国劳工统计局的数据显示，截至2021年第一季度，亚裔群体约有61.5万人失业，其中48%的人已经失业6个月以上，这一数字比其他族裔长期失业的比例都要高。洛杉矶韩国城移民职工联盟执行董事亚历山得拉·苏认为，亚裔在美国受到种族歧视，被引导从事餐饮、洗衣、家政、护理等劳动报酬较低的行业，在疫情期间受到的冲击最大。《今日美国报》网站2021年7月30日报道，盖洛普的调查显示，59%的美国人认为少数族裔难以拥有平等的就业机会。《国会山报》网站2021年9月11日报道，27%的少数族裔拥有的小企业仍处于关闭状态，远高于白人拥有的小企业的关闭率，白人创业公司在成立之年获得贷款的可能性是非洲裔创业公司的7倍。疫情期间，少数族裔经营的企业没有通过工资保护计划获得公平的联邦援助，遭受了更大的经济打击。美国有线电视新闻网2021年7月15日报道，约17%的非洲裔家庭缺乏基本的金融服务，是白人家庭的近6倍。《洛杉矶时报》网站2021年12月15日报道，尽管拉美裔占美国总人口的19%，但拥有的财富仅占2%。白人家庭的净资产中位数是拉美裔家庭的5倍以上。
制度的结构性缺陷导致美国种族不平等日益加剧。2021年11月22日，联合国人权理事会少数群体问题特别报告员费尔南·德瓦雷纳在结束对美国为期14天的考察之后表示，在人权和少数族裔问题上，美国历史上对奴隶制的支持导致了世界上最残酷的内战之一，种族隔离制度一直延续到20世纪后期，土著居民几个世纪经历着暴行、掠夺甚至是种族灭绝。德瓦雷纳表示，美国法律体系在结构设计上就对富人有利、为其提供豁免，而只惩罚穷人，特别是少数族裔，使得非洲裔、拉美裔等少数族裔不可避免地陷入贫困代际循环。
五、背离人道主义制造移民危机
美国政府经常挥舞“人权大棒”干涉别国内政，但“骨肉分离”移民政策却严重危及移民的生命、尊严和自由等多项人权。移民难民危机已沦为美国党派攻讦与政治斗争的政治工具，政府朝令夕改、暴力执法，移民群体遭受超期羁押、酷刑和强迫劳动等不人道待遇。
寻求庇护者遭受暴力执法。2021年，美国南部边境移民潮日益汹涌，边境执法人员以不断升级的暴力手段驱赶寻求庇护者或阻止其入境，导致人道主义危机持续加剧。美国边境执法部门公布的数据显示，2021财年，美国南部边境有高达557名移民死亡，比上一财年增长一倍多，创下1998年有记录以来的历史最高值。媒体报道称，“真实的移民死亡数字可能更大”。⑦《今日美国报》网站2021年11月29日报道，2021年1月至11月，公开报道的针对寻求庇护者的谋杀、强奸、酷刑、绑架和其他暴力袭击案件已超过7647起。
2021年9月，超过1.5万名来自海地的寻求庇护者聚集在得克萨斯州边境小镇德尔里奥的一座桥下，在酷热的天气下睡在肮脏的帐篷里或泥地上，周围满是垃圾，生活环境十分恶劣。美国边境执法部门残酷对待这些寻求庇护者，巡逻队骑在马背上，挥舞着马鞭冲向人群，将他们驱逐到河水里。这些现场画面被曝光后立即引发众怒。美国有线电视新闻网评论称，这一场景让人联想到美国历史上用奴隶巡逻队控制黑人奴隶的黑暗时代。《纽约时报》评论称，“骑在马背上的执法人员像赶牛一样驱赶移民的画面令人发指”，与美国政府所说的漂亮话相比，“他们的行为总是存在反差”。面对舆论潮水般的批评，美国政府很快将成千上万的寻求庇护者强制遣送回到海地，而他们中的大多数自2010年海地大地震离开后，已经10多年没有在那里生活过。2021年10月25日，联合国人权理事会种族歧视问题特别报告员、非洲人后裔问题工作组发表联合声明，谴责美国未评估个人状况就系统性、大规模驱逐海地难民移民的行为违反国际法，“大规模驱逐延续了美国边境口岸对海地难民移民进行种族排斥的历史”。不满于美国政府处理海地难民移民的非人道方式，刚刚上任两个月的美国海地事务特使丹尼尔·福特愤而辞职。
移民儿童面临超期羁押与虐待。《今日美国报》网站2021年11月29日报道称，美国政府在疫情期间援引“公共健康法”相关规定，对所有试图跨越边境的难民移民进行集体驱逐，创造了“骨肉分离政策”的2.0版，⑧迫使许多未成年子女与父母分离。美国有线电视新闻网2021年4月23日报道，美国海关和边境保护局还羁押着超过5000名无人陪伴的移民儿童，很多儿童的羁押时间都超出法定时限。英国《卫报》网站2021年10月11日报道，有160多起美国南部边境执法人员2016年至2021年间对包括儿童在内的寻求庇护者进行性虐待和身体虐待的案例被曝光，涉及美国海关和边境保护局、边境巡逻队等主要执法机构。
羁押移民的私营拘留设施条件恶劣。美国羁押移民的拘留设施大多由私营公司建设运营。而私营公司以利润最大化为目的，想方设法压低经营成本，一般都按照与政府签订合同的最低标准建设，造成拘留设施条件简陋，内部环境十分恶劣。监管缺位导致拘留设施内部管理混乱，侵犯人权的现象屡屡发生，被羁押人员身心健康受到不同程度伤害。2021财年美国关押的170多万移民中，高达80%被关押在私营拘留设施中，包括4.5万名儿童。《埃尔帕索时报》2021年6月25日报道，私营承包商问题加剧了美国布里斯堡收容点的可怕混乱，那里有将近5000名儿童，大约有1500名儿童被关押在“牲畜围场”般拥挤、糟糕的环境中，给他们带来严重的身心创伤。
不少移民成为美国人口贩运和强迫劳动的受害者。美国移民政策收紧，加之国内监管不力，加剧了针对移民的人口贩运和强迫劳动现象。美联社2021年12月10日报道，多年来，偷渡至美国的移民被迫长期在农场干苦力，生活在肮脏、拥挤的拖车里，缺少食物，也没有干净的饮用水，同时还遭受监管者的暴力威胁。这些劳工的身份和旅行证件被扣留，无法寻求帮助逃离困境。美国司法部网站2021年11月22日报道，一份人口贩运案件起诉书记录了几十名来自墨西哥和中美洲的工人被贩运至美国南佐治亚州农场，在恶劣条件下被非法监禁和强迫劳动，成为美国“现代奴隶制”的受害者。他们被以每小时12美元的劳动报酬承诺骗入农场后，却在持枪者监控之下，被迫徒手挖洋葱，每挖满一桶洋葱只能得到20美分的报酬，其中至少两人死亡，一人被多次性侵。《纽约时报》网站2021年11月11日报道，数百名印度劳工被诱骗到新泽西、亚特兰大、芝加哥、休斯敦和洛杉矶等地，被迫从事艰苦且经常面临危险的建筑工作，几乎没有时间休息。他们的护照被没收，被禁止与外人交谈，人身受到限制和暴力威胁。
对移民排斥越来越走向极端。移民政策摇摆不定、前后矛盾、罔顾人权，是导致边境危机和移民境遇悲惨的主因，折射出美国政府移民政策深受极端排外主义影响。《华盛顿邮报》网站2021年8月22日报道称，美国的移民政策受到国内种族主义怨恨和反移民情绪的推动，与国内政治恶斗纠缠在一起，越来越倾向于采取武力和胁迫的方式对待难民移民。《华盛顿邮报》2021年10月20日报道，2021财年，美国政府边境执法部门在南部边境拘留了170多万非法移民，创1986年以来的最高纪录。美国政府希望通过严厉的执法手段震慑非法越境者，加大了非法移民的入境难度，导致他们被迫选择穿越更危险的地区，进而带来更大的人道主义危机。
六、滥用武力制裁侵犯他国人权
美国一贯奉行霸权主义、单边主义、干涉主义，频频动用武力导致大量平民伤亡，滥用单边制裁引发人道主义危机，以强权挑战公理，以私利践踏正义，肆意侵犯他国人权，已成为国际人权事业健康发展的最大阻碍者和破坏者。
“反恐”造成大量平民丧生。《今日美国报》网站2021年2月25日报道，布朗大学沃森国际和公共事务研究所战争代价项目研究显示，美国近20年发动的所谓“反恐”战争已经夺去超过92.9万人的生命。美国在阿富汗20年的军事行动，累计造成包括3万多平民在内的17.4万人死亡，受伤人数超过6万。《今日美国报》网站2021年8月26日评论称，美国在阿富汗的撤军行动是一场彻头彻尾的灾难。美军撤离阿富汗和当年撤离越南相似的悲剧表明，美国政府一贯为了一己私利而罔顾最基本的人道主义。在喀布尔机场的混乱中，一架美军C-17运输机不顾阿富汗民众生命安全强行起飞，有人被强行收起的起落架在轮舱内活活碾碎，有人从高空坠落身亡。就在仓皇撤离的最后时刻，美军发动的空袭还造成了严重的平民伤亡。美国国防部却公然表示，没有美军人员会因无人机空袭致平民死亡事件遭受处分。《纽约时报》网站2021年12月18日报道，调查发现，美国在伊拉克、叙利亚和阿富汗超过5万次的空袭行动鲁莽草率，目标选择不当，造成成千上万平民死亡。而军方一直隐瞒伤亡人数，实际造成的平民死亡人数远高于军方公布的数据。以2016年美军对叙利亚托克哈尔村发动的空袭为例，军方声称“可能有7至24名平民与战斗人员混杂在一起”被炸死，但美军实际上袭击的是民房，有超过120名无辜平民遇害。
持续的战争与动荡导致阿富汗近三分之一人口沦为难民，350万阿富汗人因冲突而流离失所，近2300万人面临极端饥饿，其中有320万名5岁以下儿童。⑨美国撤离阿富汗后，立即将阿富汗中央银行数十亿美元外汇储备冻结，导致阿富汗经济处于崩溃的边缘，人民生活雪上加霜。联合国粮食及农业组织和世界粮食计划署2021年11月的评估报告显示，阿富汗全国仅有5%的人能够每日获得足够的粮食。《纽约时报》报道称，美国国防承包商是“反恐”战争的真正赢家，美国在阿富汗的20年“真正建设的不是一个国家，而是500多个军事基地，以及为这些基地提供物资者的个人财富”。美国2020年至2021年向阿富汗提供的重建援助中，只有约12%的资金真正给了阿富汗政府，其余大部分资金都流入了路易斯伯杰集团等美国公司的腰包。阿联酋《今日海湾》网站2021年12月19日发表《美国是如何毁掉伊拉克的》一文称，食品供应不足和通货膨胀使伊拉克人长期忍饥挨饿。由于美军轰炸对发电厂和水处理设施造成的破坏，患腹泻病的人数是战前的4倍。而药品和医疗器材的缺乏，使得伊拉克卫生系统陷入危机，首当其冲的受害者是穷人、儿童、寡妇、老人等最脆弱的群体。
单边制裁祸及他国民众。联合国人权理事会单边强制措施对享受人权的负面影响问题特别报告员阿莱娜·多汉称，美国对委内瑞拉制裁造成的经济影响，已经转嫁到委内瑞拉人民身上，对其享有人权产生严重负面影响。美国对伊朗石油部门的制裁导致伊朗无法进口足够的医疗用品，影响伊朗人民的生命权和健康权。美国对叙利亚的制裁，严重影响叙利亚人民享有经济、社会、文化权利。2021年6月23日，联合国大会连续第29次通过决议，呼吁美国终止对古巴长达50年的经济封锁，与古巴开展对话，改善两国关系。古巴外交部长布鲁诺·罗德里格斯表示，在古巴面临新冠肺炎疫情的挑战时，美国却继续对古巴实施禁运和制裁，使古巴经济及社会遭受巨大损失，古巴人民正在承受这一极不人道行为造成的伤害。经济封锁是一种“大规模、公然和不可接受的对古巴人民人权的侵犯”“制裁就像病毒一样，令人窒息和死亡，必须停止”。
关塔那摩监狱再曝酷刑丑闻。2021年2月23日，联合国人权理事会在反恐中促进和保障人权问题特别报告员、酷刑问题特别报告员、任意处决问题特别报告员等16名特别机制专家发表联合声明称，很多仍被关押在关塔那摩监狱的人已经步入暮年，身体虚弱，他们长期被剥夺自由并无休止地承受精神和肉体的酷刑。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻网2021年10月29日报道，美国在关塔那摩监狱仍关押着39人。曾被关押在那里的马吉德汗首次公开揭露了自己遭受的酷刑，包括反复遭受殴打、水刑、强制灌肠、性侵犯，被长期剥夺睡眠。他描述说，“我大喊‘我要死了’，恳求他们停下来，但仍被长时间裸体悬挂在天花板的横梁上反复浇冰水，连续几天不让睡觉”。在遭受水刑时，他的头被长时间摁在水里，几近窒息。联合国人权理事会委派的人权问题独立专家组2022年1月10日发表声明表示，20年来，美国未经审判就将人任意拘押在关塔那摩监狱，并施加酷刑或虐待的做法，违背国际人权法，是“美国政府在法治承诺上的污点”。尽管遭到国际社会“强烈、反复、明确”的谴责，美国仍我行我素。专家组敦促美国关闭关塔那摩监狱，结束“肆意侵犯人权的丑陋一页”，同时按照国际法赔偿遭受酷刑和任意拘押的人，并追究相关人员责任。
①美国《外交政策》网站(https://foreignpolicy.com)，2021年7月15日。
②美国有线电视新闻网(https://edition.cnn.com)，2021年11月26日。
③皮尤研究中心网站(https://www.pewresearch.org)，2021年8月16日。
④美国有线电视新闻网(https://edition.cnn.com)，2021年7月7日。
⑤YouGov舆观调查网报道，2021年8月16日。
⑥《芝加哥论坛报》网站(https://www.chicagotribune.com)，2021年11月16日。
⑦美国有线电视新闻网(https://edition.cnn.com)，2021年10月29日。
⑧In April 2018, the U.S. government began to implement the policy of forcing immigrant children to be separated from their parents, detaining immigrant children and their parents separately.
The move seriously violated the principle of maximizing the interests of children and was strongly condemned by the international community.
⑨ United Nations website (https://news.un.org), December 3, 2021.