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Letter to the Editor
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Sir--I want to express my deep indignation at the annual report published last Monday by US State Department on human rights conditions around the world. This notorious and hypocritical report claimed that China's human rights record deteriorated last year, saying China imprisoned thousands of Falun Gong followers and intensified a crackdown in Tibet.
It is a fact known to all that Falun Gong, an evil cult and a social menace, has brought severe harm to society by having destroyed tens of thousands of families and killed 1,660 people. The Chinese government, with a strong sense of responsibility, has the right to ban and crack down on Falun Gong in accordance with laws intended to safeguard basic human rights.
What's more, the Bush administration announced that it will sponsor a resolution censuring Beijing at the UN Human Rights Commission when it meets next month in Geneva. Although the United States has been a constant sponsor of similar resolutions in the past, the UN commission has never voted to condemn China. It will no doubt fail once again.
It is with ulterior motives that the United States does this while China is bent on bidding for the 2008 Olympic Games and on joining the World Trade Organization this year.
The whole world knows that there are rampant human rights violations in the United States such as escalating violence, unfair judicial practices, racial discrimination, ill-treatment of minorities, and so on. Yet the US government remains silent on its own human rights situation, and instead is obsessed with grossly distorted human rights allegations in other countries, even openly defending evil cults.
More and more voices are being heard condemning the annual US human rights report. Even some US European partners believe that such reports can easily arouse political sensitivities. It is time for the United States to correct its wrongdoings and stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs under the pretext of so-called human rights.
Jack Lee, Beijing
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