U.S. and Western Countries Should Concern Themselves With Remedying Their Own Human Rights Plight

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/14534

 2022.3.15.

High-ranking officials including the heads of state and the ministers from several countries attended as guests of honor the recent 49th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and delivered the statements introducing their human rights policies and underlining their positions on the universal protection and promotion of human rights.

This time again, the representatives from the United States, Japan, Australia and other Western countries posed as “human rights judges” out of their inveterate vices, viciously condemning the human rights situation of other countries.

It is widely known that the U.S. and the Western countries are putting pressure on the countries disobedient to them by fabricating information while abusing the human rights issue as a political weapon.

At issue is the fact that these countries are keeping silent about the grave human rights violations committed on their own territories.

The United States which is professing itself to be the global “human rights guard” is the country of gravest human rights violation with too many human rights violation records to be enumerated even through years.

In 1999, it ignited a war against former Yugoslavia under the specious signboard of “protection of human rights and minorities”, infringed upon the sovereignty and massacred a number of innocent civilians.

In 2003, it fabricated the information about “possession of weapons of mass destruction” by Iraq, invaded the country by galvanizing several Western countries and took away lives of approximately 200, 000 civilians.

Human rights violations committed under the “Statue of Liberty” - such as deep-rooted racial discrimination, gun-related murder, police violence, maltreatment of immigrants, trafficking in persons, drug-related crime - become a commonplace.

It is the U.S. which has long failed defiantly to ratify major international conventions on human rights including the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, etc.

The same is true of Japan.

Japan, which militarily occupied Korea and other Asian countries, committing slaughter and plunder in the first half of 20th century, is rather finding faults with others, far from admitting its crimes, to say nothing of making apology. That is the height of brazenness.

Today this country has become infamous as a “kingdom of immorality” with frequent parricide and as the world’s number one “suicide kingdom” where people take their own lives, driven by the depths of despair of hard life.

The human rights situation is no better in Australia which plays the role of an American stooge.

Australia, having followed the road of modern development at the cost of slaughter and exploitation of aborigines, is now being censured from the international society for its maltreatment and discrimination against the descendants of aborigines and the immigrants as well as killing of Afghan prisoners and inhabitants with no scruple.

The aforementioned facts graphically indicate that those to be placed in the dock as international human rights criminals are none other than the U.S. and the Western countries.

It will be imperative for them to get down to remedying their serious human rights plight, rather than habitually finding faults with other’s human rights issue without any ground.

This is the priority to be given by the U.S. and the West in the field of human rights.