Date: March 2, 2016
Pyongyang, February 23 (KCNA) — The DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies issued an indictment on Feb. 23 disclosing the miserable human rights situation and human rights abuses by the U.S. and western countries which are styling themselves “human rights champions”.
    The indictment referred to the fact that the political freedom and right, the most valuable right of the human being, are being seriously violated in the U.S. and western countries.
 Miserable Human Rights Situation in U.S. and Western Countries Disclosed (2)
 The DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies in an indictment issued on Feb. 23 disclosed that the U.S. and western countries wantonly violated rights of the peoples of other countries under the signboard of “human rights” and “democracy.”
According to it, the U.S. set up “cultural centers” and “information services” in more than a hundred countries of the world to systematically provide them with periodicals spreading the reactionary idea and American-style way of life.
Radio Free Asia set up in January, 1994 has broadcast in various national languages for 15 hours every day, 80 percent of its programs are aimed at spreading Yankee-style culture and slinging mud at the ideologies and culture of other countries.
Some countries of the EU and Japan have massively produced and spread reactionary publications slandering the ideologies and social systems of other countries and benumbing the sound thinking of people.
The U.S. and western countries put under their control the majority of international information exchange after seizing the three fourths of the world websites. They are making desperate efforts to quell the voices representing progress and justice and embellish their unpopular social system against human rights.
They prodded dissident forces in relevant countries into fostering social confusion and chaos and put pressure on their governments for taking actions against them under the pretext of “human rights abuses.” In the long run, they staged military intervention in sovereign countries under the excuse of “protection of human rights.”
The U.S. had committed over 900 cases of operations for assassination and terror against prominent political figures and leading government officials of various countries from 1961 to 1976.
Its scenario to overturn the regimes of sovereign states still goes on in such anti-imperialist independent countries as Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
The U.S. and western countries are wantonly violating international laws adopted to prevent genocide and punish those involved in it under the signboard of “anti-terrorism war.”
About 14 000-110 000 innocent people died every year from 2001 to 2011 due to the U.S.-led “anti-terrorism war.”
For just 5 years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March, 2003, 1 205 000 Iraqi people were killed, a million missing, and nearly half of them are children.
According to a UN report on February 4, 2012, civilians killed due to GIs’ operations for “combating terrorism” in Afghanistan numbered 3 021 in 2011 alone. 484 innocent civilians including 168 children were killed by GIs’ attacks in Pakistan from 2004 to June, 2012.
U.S. forces mounted attacks on dwelling houses, hospitals and storehouses of RC organizations, high-voltage cable for cities, etc., which are banned even in wartime by international law, destroying and plundering them.
GIs massively used chemical and germ weapons during the Korean War in the 1950s, massacring innocent Koreans, and used even depleted uranium bombs during the Gulf and Balkan wars in the 1990s.
They used horrible chemical weapons destroying even human bones, cruelly massacring civilians during the Iraqi War.
The U.S. and western countries are committing more serious human rights abuses in secret prisons overseas in wanton violation of international law.
Pursuant to the regulations for operating overseas secret jails set by the U.S. administration 6 days after the September 11 incident, CIA established and operated secret prisons in various parts of the world including Poland, Afghanistan, Iraq and Thailand.
U.S. Congress in its report on Dec. 9, 2014 opened to public that CIA had resorted to monstrous tortures baffling human imagination against hundreds of prisoners for several years.
Britain and 20 other western countries offered secret prisons and interrogation centers to CIA, thus closely cooperating with it in tortures.
According to the British Guardian in October 2013, the U.S. National Security Bureau wiretapped phone messages of 35 foreign heads of state in conspiracy with the White House, Department of State and Pentagon.
The Washington Post disclosed on December 5, 2013 that the U.S. gathered 5 billion pieces of information about common citizens in various parts of the world by tracking their mobile phones.
Even western countries were no exception in wiretapping of phone messages.
According to information, 360 million pieces of phone messages were eavesdropped in Germany, 70 million in France and 46 million in Italy by the U.S.
The U.S. large-scale phone wire-tapping operations conducted worldwide for the last several decades are, indeed, unpardonable human rights abuses against not only Americans but peoples of other countries.
Miserable Human Rights Situation in U.S. and Western Countries Disclosed (3)
 
The DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies in an indictment on Feb. 23 disclosed that the U.S. and the western countries are wantonly violating the rights of refugees after causing the worst refugee crisis.
The number of refugees went beyond 60 million in the world according to the recent data available from the UN, the indictment said, adding: This refugee crisis is the inevitable product of the U.S. and the West’s policy of interference for domination and hegemony.
It is the trite method of the U.S. and western countries to interfere in the social and political issues of the developing countries to aggravate antagonism and contradiction among nations and tribes and get craftily involved in disputes and escalate them.
U.S. tentacles were stretched to such countries as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen, destroying everything and reducing many war-torn countries to the states flooded with refugees.
The “anti-terrorism war” launched by the U.S. by taking advantage of the September 11 incident is state-sponsored terrorism against sovereign states and a war of aggression of new version.
Air strikes against Syria being made by the U.S. and the West under the pretext of “anti-terrorism war” are producing an unprecedented number of refugees.
Syria is now in the grip of the world’s worst crisis and 4 million Syrians are on the way for taking shelters.
The U.S. is making air raids on Syria with neither approval nor request.
Ceaseless war caused by “Arab spring” engineered by the U.S. and the West is turning the regional countries into ruins and their inhabitants are wandering in quest of means of living.
The refugee issue spawned by the U.S. and western countries is the human rights abuse and, therefore, it is their responsibility and duty under international law to settle the issue of refugees and guarantee their rights.
However, the U.S. and the West are evading their responsibility and wantonly violating the rights of refugees.
The U.S., chief architect of the crisis, remains a passive onlooker to it, claiming that the world should share the responsibility for it though Europe was embroiled in it for having toed the U.S. policy.
Even the European countries which had created good impression by receiving refugees in the early period of the crisis are taking such measures one after another as preventing refugees from entering their countries and maltreating and expelling those already entered under the pretexts of social unrest and factor of terrorism.
Germany, Austria, France and many other countries, in a bid to block the influx of refugees, reintroduced 6 months-long border security control system. It was followed by the decision of EU to extend the border control period in countries of Schengen area to 2 years and create “EU Border Coast Guards” involving 1 500 troops.
Sweden announced that it would expel over 100 000 refugees, 45 percent of them, Finland 20 000 and Austria 50 000 under various pretexts.
Switzerland took a measure to seize cash more than 1 000 Fr and valuables from refugees and give receipts instead. Following its example, Denmark adopted a bill on confiscating their properties.
Public demos protesting governments’ refugee policy are going on in Germany and Britain day after day. Hundreds of demonstrators are staging protest demos in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, causing social chaos.
When France, Germany and other west European countries suggested “proportional share” of refugees as a stopgap measure, east European countries are rejecting it as an unfair one.
A large chunk of refugees are drowning while traveling to Europe.
Even those refugees who could barely land in Europe are subject to unbearable misfortune and pain due to the intentional and undisguised human rights abuses by the European countries styling themselves “human rights champions”.
Britain is preparing a bill designed to tighten security control in such places where refugees may work as construction sites and private home cleaning companies and to fine organs and individuals that employed refugees and even sentence them to two years in prison.
More than 200 fire cases against refugees occurred in Germany and 70 odd dead refugees were found at an abandoned refrigerator car on an express highway of Austria in 2015.
According to a recent survey quoted by the European Police Organization, more than 10 000 children among incoming refugees were missing in European countries, most of whom fell victim to flesh trafficking and slave trade.
The British newspaper Independent on Dec. 17, 2015 recalled that 1 500 Kosovo people and 800 Iraqi and Afghanistan refugees, who had immigrated to Austria, expressed while going back home unbearable anger at bitter humiliation and treatment as “terrorists” there.
Now human rights abuses in the U.S. and other western countries are being committed institutionally due to policies of their governments and this matter can be settled only when a genuine human rights mechanism is built in those countries.
The U.S. and other western countries should no longer find fault with others’ human rights performance, describing themselves as “icons of defending human rights”, but focus on minding their own business.