As known to everybody, the US State Department is very good at
framing up the "Human Rights Report" of other countries (abbrev. as
Report). Although the Report is?in great detail, the State
Department still feels not enough to express itself and whenever it
is going to be published, officials are sure to be sent for its
explanation in detail for fear that it?is not appropriate or
cut to the point.
A report in such a big detail should normally have nothing to be
left out. But whoever in this world read the report will come to
find out that a big "chunk" has been "neglected" in each and every
report, namely the missing of the report on the US human rights.
With regard to this, many American people are not satisfied, saying
that "why the government failed to speak of itself?"
Don't worry! The American soldiers have done a fine job. They've
made up the part with actions that the US State Department has left
out in the "Report". The prisoner abuse taking place in the Abu
Ghraib Prison in Iraq serves a fine example. The supplementary
report made by the US soldiers with thousands of pictures,
videotapes and notes jotted down according to their oral accounts
is far more wonderful and persuasive than the "Report" elaborated
by the US State Department. Judging from the present media reports
the supplementary contents are still on the increase. From the US
soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Guantanamo Base the contents
supplied by them are getting richer and richer.
However, the worldly known prisoner abuse is by no means all.
What's more attractive is the latest additional piece, i.e. the US
racial discrimination and sabotage of religious belief. According
to the US military investigators, what is in vogue among the US
prisoner-abuse soldiers in Iraq is their serious racial
discrimination. They hold a view quite extensively that the Muslim
is terrorism. An American soldier for training and using the
military dog said, " Even the dog feels disagreeable to these
Iraqis for their features and bodily smells." Some other reports
say the US soldiers force the Iraqi prisoners to drink wine and
have pork.
"This obviously goes against the Islamic doctrines and creeds."
It is not only a prisoner-abuse but also a blasphemy of religion.
Is it the US that is gesticulating everywhere, reprimanding others
about their "discrimination of ethnic minorities" and "violation of
or calling a halt to religious belief"? The examples mentioned
above indicate that the US has acted even worse than others have in
the record of human rights. In addition to all this, while the US
soldiers are humiliating and maltreating the prisoners in foreign
countries they've even gone further in putting them to death by way
of beating, strangling and choking. At present the Pentagon has
recognized there were at least 37 people in Iraq and Afghanistan
who had been put to such a tragic death. The US has been nagging
about the "human rights" and "humanitarianism" day in and day out.
How could it be so forgettable that it has even left out from its
human rights report content of such a great importance?
Of course, what the US soldiers did could only serve as "a
modest spur for bringing about greater contributions". Recently the
US media including newspapers, major and minor, broadcasting and TV
and even the court hearings are all helping the US State Department
make up the left out materials and even the whole world is helping
it to make complete the US human rights report. As is expected, the
supplementary contents will turn out to be on an increase
ceaselessly and become richer and richer as time goes on.
Some say the human rights record as shown in the prisoner abuse
in Iraq is only a small piece of an ice-mountain. Actually the
record of human rights in the US is attracting more and more
attention of the people in the world. How the US has done in this
respect? Everybody in the world has a clear account of it in his or
her mind. A thing you did but omitted in your report is still yours
and wouldn't go to others. If you write something in your report
that does not fit for others, others won't take it. For this we
should offer a piece of advice that the US State Department has to
make a change.
(People’s Daily May 25, 2004)
