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Obama Challenges China on Human Rights

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A previous article addressed China's documentation of US human rights abuses, accessed through the following link:

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Below are some of its revelations, and while China is no human rights model, America is far more guilty of crimes against humanity and the supreme international crime against peace - waging unjustifiable wars of aggression.

Last November, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) cited others "carried out on the pretext of combating terrorism." Specific human rights violations were covered, notably torture and other abuses at Guantanamo, ones America won't address or correct as well as similar practices overseas and in homeland gulag prisons. America notoriously commits the most egregious human rights crimes repeatedly. Pointing fingers at others exposes its gross hypocrisy.

Yet on March 11, 2010, mostly with no source documentation, the US State Department issued its "2009 Human Rights Report: China (including Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau)," calling the People's Republic of China (PRC) "an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) constitutionally is the paramount source of power," practicing:

-- "cultural and religious repression;"

-- harassment of human rights activists;

-- persecution and disbarment of lawyers who defend them;

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