21.05.2004, 17:19
China condemns US two-faced human rights report
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Zitat:BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhuanet) -- The US annual report on its endeavor to "improve human rights", mentioning no word about the recent abuse scandal by its own troops in Iraq, has infuriated Chinese people of various social strata and incurred indignant denouncement.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao warned Tuesday that the United States should look more into its own problems and think more of how to improve its own human rights situation, rather than meddling in the internal affairs of other countries under the pretext of human rights. (...)
Entitled "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The US Record 2003-2004", the report summarizes in 270 pages US actions in 101 countries to promote freedom and to end abuses, including torture,the very crime American soldiers are accused of in Iraq. The US State Department had postponed its publication for 12 days after the abuse scandal triggered a global uproar. (...)