The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp

by moonwolf | April 18, 2008 at 12:01 pm | 260 views | 1 comment

The human rights issue has become the centerfold of media disinformation.

China is no model of human rights but neither are the US and its indefectible British ally, responsible for extensive war crimes and human rights violations in Iraq and around the World. The US and its allies, which uphold the practice of torture, political assassinations and the establishment of secret detention camps, continue to be presented to public opinion as a model of Western democracy to be emulated by developing countries, in contrast to Russia, Iran, North Korea and the People's Republic of China.

Human Rights "Double Standards"

While China's alleged human rights violations in relation to Tibet are highlighted, the recent wave of killings in Iraq and Palestine are not mentioned. The Western media has barely acknowledged the Fifth "anniversary" of Iraq's "Liberation" and the balance sheet of the US sponsored killings and atrocities perpetrated against an entire population, in the name of a "global war on terrorism".

There are more than 1.2 million Iraqi civilian deaths, 3 million wounded. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) indicates a figure of 2.2 million Iraqi refugees who have fled their country and 2.4 million "internally displaced persons":

"Iraq’s population at the time of the US invasion in March 2003 was roughly 27 million, and today it is approximately 23 million. Elementary arithmetic indicates that currently over half the population of Iraq are either refugees, in need of emergency aid, wounded, or dead." (Dahr Jamail, Global Research, December 2007)

The Geopolitical Chessboard

There are deep-seated geopolitical objectives behind the campaign against the Chinese leadership.

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at 14:17 on April 18th, 2008

Where I agree that America has to get its act together. I would like the evidence that detainees are being killed as a matter of practice. I am aware of one detainee killed in Cuba. If you noticed that was publicized and those responcibile were punished. I do think that since an officer is ultimatly responcible for whatever happens under their command, they too should be held responciple as well. Busting a couple of enlisteds just don't cut it.

But here is where we differ. To compare war crimes like the Killing fields or China with America is way off base. Unless you have had training on how we treat detaininess in any war, I think you are barking up thhe wrong tree.

I do think American's should set the standard and we should be ashamed of some of what we have done. Lets not call Provate First class Doe with Hitler it doesn't stand up in a court.

You keep harping on the 600K now 1.2 million deaths. Give me the study done by a non partision study without a political agenda and the numbers are much differant.

I hate war, any soldier does, but lets not make Americans out to be killers with abandon.

Maybe we should focus closer to home where haitians are dying from the enemy Hunder everyday. How about we pull our resources and send a buck or two to a haitian family. An issue you and I agree on.