Ferguson: American
Society a Human Rights 'Graveyard' (Korea Central News Agency, North Korea)
The last
country in the world in a position to criticize the human rights of others has
issued this broadside against the United States over recent events in Ferguson,
Missouri. The state-run Korea Central
News Agency reports that an unnamed spokesman for the North Korean Foreign
Ministry has taken the opportunity to criticize the U.S. State Department's
annual report on the human rights around the world.
Pyongyang: On Tuesday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman issued
the following statement in answer to a question put by
KCNA in regard to the serious racial discrimination
in the United States, which has sparked a worldwide public uproar:
Some days ago in Ferguson City, of the state of Missouri, a Black
teenager was shot to death by a White policeman. Police ruthlessly cracked down
on protesters, leveling their rifles at them and firing tear gas and smoke-emitting
shells. Against this backdrop, another shuddering incident took place in
another nearby city, in which a policeman shot another young Black man to
death.
Indeed, the United States is a country that wantonly
violated human rights, where people are subject to discrimination and
humiliation due to their race, and are seized with horror since from one day to
the next, any one of them could be shot to death.
The protests in Ferguson and other parts of the United
States are an eruption of pent-up discontent and resistance of the people
against the racial discrimination and inequality that are so deeply rooted in American
society.
Posted By Worldmeets.US
These cases again bring to light the human rights
performance of the United States and underscore the urgent need to put the
country in the dock of a human rights court.
Every year, the United States issues a report taking issue
with "human rights performance" of other countries as if it were a global
human rights judge. This time, however, the U.S. is itself disgraced and has become
a global laughing stock.
The U.S. must sincerely accept the accusations of the broad international
community and mind its own business, instead of interfering in the internal
affairs of other countries.
Furthermore, it should not seek to resolve its problem by
suppressing demonstrators, but instead bring to light the true picture of the
American society, which is a graveyard for human rights, so as to come to a
correct understanding of what genuine human rights are like and how they should
be guaranteed.
The United States should realize that unless it behaves with
discretion, it is bound to get itself into a big trouble.
