Role of China

By A F Rahman On e-mail
20 March 2006, 18:00 PM
I want to hail China for the courageous stand that they recently took against the one-sided claim by the United States against weaker and poorer countries of so called human rights violations. I take this opportunity to call upon all other nations repressed and dictated by those powerful nations to stand straight and strong against any sort of blame and or claim or demand of following their dictates. I would reiterate in the language of the Iranian President that “days are over for issuing threats or dictations.” The US or the other powers don't have the exclusive right to put pressure on others or to possess nuclear power. And I am confident the Iranians will face any consequence valiantly that might result from possible sanctions by the UNSC.

The US published 'Human Rights Record 2005', mentioning Bangladesh's human rights condition as 'poor' doesn't hold good when the veracity of the very report isn't beyond doubt, and especially when the US itself could not vouch for such a quality any more. We haven't forgotten about the state of affairs at Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib and the recent merciless torture of innocent Iraqi youngsters. Only closure or shifting of such inhuman detention & torture camps won't clear the US of unprecedented violation of human rights. These killers should not dare to publish statistics of others' records. China has listed the severity of a few violations by the US authorities which include 287 incidents of illegal electronic surveillance of innocent civilians, phone calls, emails and house trespasses by FBI agents. They are talking about actions by the Rab & police , whereas according to records, Los Angeles police shot dead, last July 14, a child of 19 months while arresting another person; a New Orleans police officer mercilessly assaulted on 9 October a retired teacher. According to the Los Angles Times report of last March only seven complaints were settled from over two hundred of police misbehaviour and torture. And as per the report of last year by the Justice Department 22 lakh 67 thousand and 787 are behind bars till the end of the year 2004. Isn't this brief info enough to justify that the US doesn't have the credibility to judge the state of human rights in other countries?