Report exposes US humanitarian-veiled war crimes, trips it off ‘human rights protector’ high horse

Hadi Ghusoun, a retired English teacher in his late 60s, stands on the porch of his shattered house in Homs city in central Syria, March 11, 2021. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)

 
An article published by the China Society for Human Rights Studies on Friday lashed out at the US for severe humanitarian disasters and aggressive wars against foreign countries since the end of World War II, stripping Washington of the human rights highland as the Biden administration tries to wield weapons of “human rights violation” to crack down on Beijing.

The US has waged wars on foreign countries and regions such as North Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria under the banner of "humanitarian intervention," causing a massive loss of military lives, serious civilian casualties, as well as property damage, said the article titled “Severe Humanitarian Disasters Caused by US Aggressive Wars against Foreign Countries.”

Since the end of WWII to 2001, roughly 248 military conflicts occurred in 153 regions around the world, of which the US waged 201, accounting for 80 percent of all wars worldwide, according to the article.
 
The large number of wars has devastated numerous lives and families. For example, in Afghanistan alone, there were an estimated 11 million who have become refugees as a result of the US-initiated war. 

The humanitarian crisis caused by military actions stems from the hegemonic mentality of the US, the article read, noting that it is ridiculous to expect a hegemonic country to defend the human rights of other countries.

Photo taken on Feb. 22, 2020 shows disabled children in Surkh Rod district of Nangarhar province, eastern Afghanistan. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has documented more than 10,000 civilian casualties in 2019, of these more than 3,400 had been killed, said a report of the body released. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)

 
Humanitarian disasters can only be avoided with the US abandoning hegemonic thinking motivated by self-interest. Only in this way can mutual benefits be achieved and human rights be enjoyed by all people across the globe.

Yet the US, with hands all covered in the blood of innocent lives, posing itself as a “human rights” fighter, points the finger at other countries, especially China, for so-called human rights violations. 

Xinjiang cotton has fallen into the recent muzzle of the US’ barrel of attacking China. In January, the US began barring entry of all cotton products and tomatoes from China’s Xinjiang region, citing the excuse of “forced labor,” which China has repeatedly denied with solid evidence and statistics. 

The US’ hypocrisy was also exposed when it, hand-in-hand with other Western powers including the UK and France, used the “chemical weapon” excuse to attack Syria. The White Helmets, known officially as Syria Civil Defense, an organization which was later found financially supported by the US and the UK, exposed the so-called chemical attack by publishing a video of victims and rescue personnel in a Douma hospital in April 2018, actively contributing to and taking part in staging chemical attacks in Syria.

As to an earlier report by chemical weapons watchdog OPCW, suggesting that the chemical used in Douma could be delivered by cylinders dropped from the air, Russian officials later presented an engineering assessment saying that it was more likely that the cylinders in question had been "manually placed" in the spot where they were found.

Observers noted that the detailed report issued by the Chinese research institution has tripped Washington off its human rights high horse. The Biden administration aims to crack down on China by picking up its weapon of claiming human rights violations, yet how persuasive and efficient can it be when itself has committed ugly and disastrous humanitarian catastrophes worldwide, they asked. 

Global Times