Mirroring some portions of the UN Human Rights Council Review on US Human rights with a focus on Indigenous People, China is fighting back. We've discussed the abuses of tribes such as Pechanga, which is practicing Apartheid on their reservation in Temecula, and the Picayune Rancheria which terminated 50% of their tribal population. Recall that the Redding Rancheria terminated the Foreman family, the descendents of a woman whose DNA proved their right to be in the tribe and whose first chairman brought Indian Health to Northern CA.
The United States is beset by violence, racism and torture and has no authority to condemn other governments' human rights problems, China said on Sunday, countering U.S. criticism of Beijing's crackdown.
The row between Beijing and Washington over human rights has intensified since China's ruling Communist Party extended its clampdown on dissidents and rights activists, a move which has sparked an outcry from Washington and other Western governments.
Recall when AIRRO held listening sessions on the human rights abuses? “The UN is going to look at the United States record of enforcing and protecting the basic rights of people within its borders, especially indigenous people,” Gomez said. “I think this will be the first time it will be shown not only to the State Department but to the UN that there really is a problem in Indian Country.”
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is the most prominent of the activists to be detained by police or held in secretive custody in the latest crackdown.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday she was "deeply concerned" about it, and cited "negative trends" including Ai's detention. We in Indian country wish Secretary Clinton would be as "deeply concerned" about the issues of disenrollment, banishments and apartheid on CA's Indian Reservations
A U.S. State Department report on global human rights released on Friday said Beijing had stepped up restrictions on lawyers, activists, bloggers and journalists, and tightened controls on civil society.
It has also increased its efforts to control the press, Internet and Internet access, the report said.
But China has shown no sign of bowing to foreign pressure.
Its Foreign Ministry on Saturday dismissed the U.S. report as meddling, and its own annual report about U.S. human rights stressed Beijing's dismissive view.
"Stop the domineering behavior of exploiting human rights to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries," it said, according to excerpts published by the official Xinhua news agency.
"The United States ignores its own severe human rights problems, ardently promoting its so-called 'human rights diplomacy', treating human rights as a political tool to vilify other countries and to advance its own strategic interests," said a passage from the Chinese report
Produced by the State Council Information Office, the government's public relations arm, the report dwelled on what it said were severe deprivations and threats facing many Americans, as well as Washington's invasion of Iraq.
It also cited the United States' refusal to ratify a number of international human rights pacts, and listed poverty, hunger and homelessness as stains on the country's rights record.
"The United States is the world's worst country for violent crimes," said the report. "Citizens' lives, property and personal safety do not receive the protection they should."
"Racial discrimination is deeply rooted in the United States, permeating every aspect of social life," it said.
China is politicizing the issue of indigenous people to further its own violence against its people. Lest we forget Tiananmen Square understand that I am not in agreement with the US on their Indian policy, yet it get on my nerve that a communist dictatorship will use propaganda and pretend nothings wrong. I guess most if not all of the governmental agencies around the world are flawed, but as I see the US is perhaps the best of them all. I ask again why so many people would be trying to get in to the country if it was so bad. I do not think China has an influx of immigrants. Do you think the world really care’s? Our own county does not care about us. We should listen to the wind, for she sings a simple song that only the quiet of heart and sprit can hear.
ReplyDeleteCHINA HAS NO ROOM TO TALK, THE WAY THEY TREAT THERE PEOPLE REMINDS US OF " GERMANY IN THE 30'S AND 40'S. PEOPLE ARE STARVING OVER THERE IN CHINA AND THEY COULD CARE LESS. CHINA HAS SO MANY PEOPLE THAT IF YOU TOOK EVERYBODY ELSE OFF THE PLANET, THEY COULD REPOPULATE THE WORLD. IN 1950'S KOREA, THEY SENT IN TROOPS AND COULD CARE LESS HOW MANY OF THERE PEOPLE DIED. A DROP IN THE BUCKET TO THEM.
ReplyDeletePechanga has put people back on welfare, destroyed the health of others. They've taken away voting rights and recently tried to steal water rights from those who have the right to it.
ReplyDeleteWe have problems right here in our backyard.
OH, BIG TIME. WE WATCH OUR ELDERS DYING OFF, WITHOUT ANY VINDICATION, ONE BY ONE ALL FOR "GREED". THE "MACARRO CARTEL" WILL BE DELT WITH, MARK MY WORDS.
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