US and human rights abuses
On 11-03-2008, the United States released its State Department's 2007 Human Rights Report on Asia where North Korea and Myanmar have been ranked the world's worst violators of human rights and condemned other Asian countries, including Bangladesh for alleged human rights abuses. But the report has dropped China from the category of worst violators, noted progress in Thailand's return to democracy and hailed India and Indonesia for generally respecting citizen's rights. However, the government of Bangladesh has termed the report disappointing for its “lack of balance” in presenting the country's ground realities.
But what is about the United States and its number one friend Israel? What are they doing themselves in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan? What is the definition of human rights abuse? Don't activities like occupying and destroying other countries, killing innumerable number of people, detaining and torturing thousands of human beings, violate human rights? The United States and Israel are protecting the rights of their own citizens and showing utter disrespect to that of the people of other countries, particularly those who do not blindly obey them. The US should stop playing this double standard game and end the injustice before judging others for human rights abuses.
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