The Worst Barren Land of Human Rights

 2022.5.5.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/15116

On April 12, the U.S. State Department released what is called “2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” appraising human rights situation in 200-odd countries worldwide. This has evoked discontent from many countries.

On the very same day, a terrible incident took place where a gunman showered more than 30 bullets to passengers on the subway in New York City, throwing all people into consternation.

After detonating a smoke bomb in a subway train in rush hour, the criminal reportedly sprayed bullets at the passengers, seriously injuring 29 people. Among them were also a pregnant woman and a 12-year-old child.

On April 16, three gunmen, who burst into a department store in Columbia, fired blindly, wounding twelve people. On April 17, a criminal fired at 200 guests in a banquet, killing 2 minors and wounding dozens of people in Pittsburgh.

According to the data released by a civil organization in the U.S., there occurred 144 cases of large-scale gunfights which claimed more than 13, 000 lives.

Moreover, it is said that the number of guns possessed by civilians in the U.S.－330 million pieces－accounts for 46% of the sum total of the world, while the population of the U.S. accounts for mere 4.2% of the world population.

Innocent people are dying almost every day from a gun-related crime known as a malignant tumor in the U.S. It has become an everyday occurrence to everybody. But there is an issue which can’t be overlooked.

It is the fact that the “report”, which gives an individual appraisal of human rights situation in about 200 countries all over the world, is issued annually in the U.S. which hits the world record of deaths from gun-related crimes not in wartime, but in peacetime.

Gun-related crimes are prevalent with each passing day and innocent people lose their lives in broad daylight owing to the anti-popular policy of the government on the land of the U.S. But it is staging a farce of appraising human rights situation of other countries in an arbitrary manner. It cannot but be the height of abnormality.