China says US ‘tramples’ on human rights
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CHINA lashed out at the United States for its “terrible human rights problems” in a report yesterday, adding to recent international criticism of Washington on issues ranging from violence inflicted on minorities to American immigration policies.
China’s State Council, or Cabinet, in the annual report on rights in the US, said the country suffered from rampant gun violence and high levels of incarceration.
US air strikes in Iraq and Syria had caused thousands of civilian deaths, the report said.
“With the gunshots lingering in people’s ears behind the Statue of Liberty, worsening racial discrimination and the election farce dominated by money politics, the self-proclaimed human rights defender has exposed its human rights myth with its own deeds,” the report said.
The US “repeatedly trampled on human rights in other countries and wilfully slaughtered innocent victims,” the report said, referring to deaths in US drone strikes.
On Wednesday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said US President Donald Trump’s comments about migrants, Mexicans and Muslims were “harmful and fuel xenophobic abuses” and that his immigration policies could lead to breaches of international law.
Racial relations in the US continued to deteriorate last year, according to the report, titled “Human Rights Record of the United States in 2016” and published by the State Council Information Office. There were repeated incidents of African Americans being shot by white police.
Racial discrimination had heavily influenced law enforcement and justice fields, the report added, noting that there were systematic gaps between minority races and white people in employment and income.
Minorities had endured various discriminative treatments in schools and social lives. A Washington Post website account on police shootings in 2015 found that unarmed black men were five times as likely to be shot and killed by police as unarmed white men.
Wage gap between blacks and whites was the worst in nearly four decades, the report said, adding that Muslims suffered increasingly serious discrimination.
The US also had the second highest prisoner rate, with 693 prisoners per 100,000 of the national population, the report said. “Roughly 2.2 million people were incarcerated in the United States in 2014,” the report cited data released by a US market research firm as saying. There had been 70 million Americans incarcerated.
According to data released by the FBI last September, firearms were used in 71.5 percent of murders in the US, 40.8 percent of robberies, and 24.2 percent of aggravated assaults in 2015, the report said.
There were a total of 58,125 gun violence incidents, including 385 mass shootings, in the US last year, leaving 15,039 dead and 30,589 injured, the report said, citing the Gun Violence Archive.
Furthermore, rights of women, children and elders in the US was a worrisome situation in 2016. Women were paid much less compared to their male colleagues who did the same work, and they frequently fell victims to sexual harassment and assault.
An estimated 6.8 million people aged 10 to 17 in the US were “food insecure.” When faced with acute food insecurity, some youths engaged in criminal behavior such as selling drugs and stealing items to resell for cash, the report said.
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