[Circle Time Depth] Lift off the American mask layer by layer! The United States is a human rights "pseudo Taoist" who disregards life!
[Global Times Special Correspondent Li Zhun in the United States] Editor's words: "Why did the United States only resettled 12 Ukrainian refugees in March?" On April 12, Reuters issued a "soul torture" to the Biden administration.
On the same day, the UN refugee agency said more than 4.65 million Ukrainians had fled their country since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict.
Under pressure from all parties, the United States, the initiator of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, promised to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
This action is in stark contrast to its role in the situation in Russia and Ukraine, which is constantly fueling the flames and adding fuel to the fire.
There are many signs that the United States does not want to take on the responsibility of accepting refugees, but is trying to make Europe suffer from the spillover consequences of the conflict.
In fact, the decades of wars the United States has waged overseas have spawned a large number of refugees and owed a shocking "human rights debt".
The tragic experience of the refugees shows that the United States claims to be a "guardian" of human rights, but it is actually a "pseudo-monitor" of human rights.
Pretending to Ukrainian Refugees
"If Ukrainian refugees do come here (the U.S.), we will welcome them with open arms." From U.S. President Biden to Vice President Harris, from Secretary of State Blinken to White House Press Secretary Psaki, there have been similar remarks.
However, the United States has always said the best things and done the most disgusting things. On the Ukrainian refugee issue, it is even more pretentious.
The Ukrainian refugee crisis has become the largest refugee crisis in Europe after World War II, while the number of refugees received by the United States, the initiator of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, is pitiful.
Reuters reported on April 12, citing data from the U.S. State Department, that the U.S. only accepted 514 Ukrainian refugees in January and February this year.
From March 1 to 16, only 7 Ukrainian refugees were resettled in the United States, and throughout March, after the intensifying conflict between Russia and Ukraine led to an influx of refugees, the United States accepted only 12 Ukrainian refugees through the refugee resettlement program.
It is worth noting that Biden promised on March 24 that the United States would accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
Through simple addition and subtraction, we can find that after Biden made his promise, the number of Ukrainian refugees accepted by the United States in late March was 5.
Perhaps from the beginning, the United States was ready to dump the refugee problem on Europe.
Psaki said on March 10 that the U.S. government believes that the vast majority of Ukrainian refugees want to stay in neighboring countries.
Blinken also said that most Ukrainian refugees may prefer to stay in Europe.
Although the U.S. State Department said that if Ukrainian refugees lacked protection in Europe, Washington would bring them to the United States, but it reminded refugees that being resettled to the United States "is not a quick process."
The White House has pledged to take in up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
Not to mention that 100,000 is only a drop in the bucket compared to the current total number of Ukrainian refugees. Just by analyzing the way the United States accepts refugees, it can be found that Washington's promise is also "lip service but unrealistic."
According to Reuters, the main ways refugees enter the United States include refugee resettlement programs, existing visa channels and a relief program called "humanitarian parole."
The "Washington Post" recently published an article saying that although Biden raised the ceiling on the number of refugees accepted by the United States in 2022 to 125,000, the United States has already passed half of the 2022 fiscal year, and the total number of refugees received in the country is less than 9,000.
At this rate, it could take years for the United States to achieve its commitments.
According to the analysis of "Forbes" magazine, to enter the United States through a visa, the entrants need to prove that they will return to their home countries. However, for Ukrainian refugees, in the context of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, how to prove it is a difficult problem.
Furthermore, qualifying for entry into the United States on "humanitarian parole" is no mean feat.
Even when entering the United States through this program, applicants generally cannot obtain public benefits and work authorization.
"Manufacturing" refugees with bloody debts
The millions of Ukrainian refugees are just the latest victims of America's push for global hegemony.
After World War II, the United States launched a series of wars, which not only caused the death of a large number of civilians, but also spawned tens of millions of refugees, and seriously affected the economic development and social stability of relevant countries and regions.
According to a February report by USA Today, a study by Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs shows that the so-called "anti-terrorism" war waged by the United States in the past two decades has claimed the lives of more than 929,000 people.
The Vietnamese government estimates that as many as 2 million civilians died in the Vietnam War, some of them systematically massacred by the U.S. military in the name of "fighting the Viet Cong."
The New York Times said that the U.S. military has been concealing the number of casualties in its overseas military operations, and the actual number of civilian deaths caused is much higher than the data released by the military.
For these crimes, the U.S. military often chooses to cover up or impunity.
In August last year, 10 civilians, including seven children, were killed in a drone strike on a car before U.S. troops left the Afghan capital Kabul.
Although the United States has repeatedly expressed "sorry" for this action, its Defense Secretary Austin announced that the relevant military personnel will not be punished and held accountable in any form.
At home, the United States has used the advantage of its voice to create an "information cocoon", so that the American people do not understand the humanitarian disaster caused by its military in overseas wars.
When it comes to "creating" refugees, the United States is even more exhausted.
Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs says at least 38 million people have been displaced by wars waged by the U.S. in the "post-9/11 era." This is a "very conservative estimate," but the actual number could be between 49 million and 6,000. between ten thousand.
Take the war in Afghanistan, for example. The 20-year war has left about 11 million Afghans as refugees, displaced 3.5 million Afghans, and faced extreme hunger for nearly 23 million people, including 3.2 million children under the age of five.
Not to mention the Syrian war.
According to the UNHCR 2022 report, the number of Syrian refugees has exceeded 610,000 for six consecutive years, and the number of refugees in need of resettlement in the Middle Eastern country in 2022 is expected to account for 42% of the total global demand.
According to the Global Times reporter, there are still 5.6 million Syrian refugees living in neighboring countries, accounting for 26% of the pre-war Syrian population.
So how many Syrian refugees have been accepted by the US government?
The New York Times said that since 2016, the United States has accepted fewer than 23,000 Syrian refugees.
The United States exported wars overseas, leading to economic recession and turmoil in the invaded countries, which further affected the development of these countries and violated the rights of the people of these countries.
The United Arab Emirates "Gulf Today" website published an article titled "How the United States Destroyed Iraq" at the end of last year, saying that the number of people suffering from diarrheal disease in the country due to the damage caused by the US bombing to Iraq's power plants and water treatment facilities is pre-war. 4 times.
The lack of medicines and medical equipment has put the Iraqi health system in crisis, and the most vulnerable groups such as children and the elderly are the most affected.
In addition, food shortages and inflation have kept Iraqis chronically hungry.
Syria used to have a prosperous tourism industry, but after the U.S. aggression, poverty has increased, employment opportunities are scarce, children’s education opportunities have declined, and the future of a generation will be threatened.
The United States is also keen to pass sanctions and wantonly trample on the rights to development and health of the people of other countries.
Dohan, Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures and Human Rights at the UN Human Rights Council, said the U.S. sanctions on the Venezuelan government have had a severe negative impact on the rights of the Venezuelan people, while Washington’s sanctions on Iran have prevented Tehran from importing enough medical care supplies that affect the right to life and health of the Iranian people.
flout international conventions
Overseas, the United States has a bad record of human rights; domestically, the phenomenon of human rights violations in the United States is also not uncommon, with racial discrimination, violent law enforcement and other incidents emerging one after another.
Fagan, director of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Essex, said the United States has long rejected social rights as human rights.
Alston, a professor at New York University Law School, pointed out that international human rights law stipulates that people have the right to education and medical care, while the United States is the only developed country to insist that human rights do not include freedom from starvation and death from death. A country that has no rights such as money for medical care.
The United States is one of the richest countries in the world, but some 40 million Americans live in poverty.
The United States is one of the most unequal countries in the developed world.
According to the 2021 OECD report, the relative poverty rate in the United States ranks third among 37 respondents.
The U.S. has one of the "highest" infant mortality rates in the developed world.
The United States has shown a blatant disgust for international human rights conventions.
According to the "Global Justice Center", an international human rights organization, the United States is the only country among developed Western countries that is unwilling to ratify core international human rights treaties.
Important human rights treaties that the United States has yet to ratify include the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Covenant on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
The neglect and violation of human rights in the United States has further extended to its foreign policy.
The American Civil Liberties Union says the United States not only fails to honor the Convention against Torture, but also selectively interprets the convention, which has led to widespread torture and ill-treatment of Guantanamo prisoners.
nailed to the pillar of shame
From the "My Lai Massacre" in the Vietnam War, to the abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Prison, to the airstrikes on civilians in Syria, the United States has committed numerous crimes of human rights violations overseas, which have been nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
Searching the Internet for "US war crimes" brings up a long list of search results.
For a long time, international public opinion has widely criticized the overseas humanitarian crisis created by the United States.
At the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council in 2021, the representative of Syria denounced that the United States evaded its obligations under international law and made excuses for its military aggression. "How can the United States call itself a country under the rule of law?" engage in double standards.
Jubri, a law professor at the University of Iraq, said that in doing so, the United States is actually using human rights as a tool to safeguard its hegemony.
Libyan political analyst Tikbali believes that the United States not only ignites wars overseas, but also points fingers at other countries on human rights issues. "The United States should reflect on its crimes of human rights violations."