Double Standard and Old Trickery of the US 　　-- By Commentator Gui Junsong 　　 Throwing its weight about to interfere in other nations' internal affairs is the US backed by its economic and military force, by flaunting the banner of "human rights transcending over sovereignty" everywhere. But as things stand in today's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, this "guardian of human rights", the US, has come to find itself in great blunder in that sovereign state. Its mask, its true nature as a hegemonic power, has been completely torn to pieces by all of its hegemonic crimes committed in the last 60 and more days in Yugoslavia. More and more people throughout the world have come to be taught what the US has much and long dubbed its "humanitarianism" and "protection of human rights" is. By its self-praised "humanitarianism", "democracy" and "freedom of press" are meant in actuality rule by force, rule by a small number of US hegemonists, and all world peoples under a US hegemonic power. 　　 Since nothing is compatible by nature by human rights with hegemony, humanitarianism with rule by force, and democracy with hegemonism as things are incompatible like water and fire, how can the US ruling clique achieve an integration of these? A few US stalwarts have produced many and various tricks to these. A major one is perverseness in the way a double standard is to be wickedly produced: Striving for a varied standard for itself as different from those for other nations. The Indians have by their ancestors' blood and tears soaked the early history of the US is one. As is known to world people this is by no means to add glory to that country, not to say great disparities and wide differences found between the poor and rich and racial and sex discriminations as chronic diseases to the society of the US as a whole. An investigation issued by a US human rights organization shows that poor people, according to 63 percent of respondents, and those of disabled and aged and indigenous people, according to over 50 respondents, are living under discrimination in the US. Still, according to 70 percent respondents of black origin, the black people as a whole are suffering from racial discrimination by their white counterparts in the US. 　　 The point is not that in the US there are found serious problems and grave violations of human rights. An accursed fact is that the US, known as a country claiming merely some "dark spots under lights", passes itself as a "judge of human rights" always to have a hand in others' internal affairs under the pretext of "human rights transcending sovereignty". Also, the point lies not in an ordinary intervention in the internal affairs of other countries (and to these the latter have already been used). A blamable fact is that it "often goes in for a fight" and does what it can. This time, as is in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, it goes to the utmost extreme of its atrocities. By flaunting the banner of "putting stop to a disaster of humanitarianism" it sees to it that a truly and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster is created. By bringing a fatality of over 1,200 Yugoslav people and over 5,000 serious injuries it has by its war brought about a tide of over one million of homeless refugees in a sovereign country like Yugoslavia within a matter of merely 60 and more days! It flagrantly bombed civilian targets, bridges, hospitals, power and water supply systems, aiming at demolishing the possibilities for existence of the whole Yugoslav people. Are all these out of "humanitarianism" and protection of "human rights" the US has always claimed? It decides on US double standard and its old trickery to be practiced. 　　 The US double standard on "human rights" also finds its manifestations in a double standard in its policy on external affairs. Racial problems as those in Yugoslavia can also be found as a matter of fact among the NATO countries. But the US merely turns a blind eye to those in the NATO countries. Contrarily, the US government shows a special interest in and kicks up a rumpus about problems of "human rights" in the developing countries. By the double standard of US "human rights", whether there is the problem of "human rights" to be found and the necessity for military actions to be adopted, it entirely depends on the interests of the US. 　　 A fact to be noted is that an increased number of people have to come to see through the true nature of US hegemonism under the mask of US "human rights" and its sinister intentions for strategic expansion of its military rule throughout the world. More people have come to awake before a disastrous way launched by the US-led NATO. They include those not to be long coerced in the NATO countries. This is a trend to mark the hope of things to be developed in the world, and an irresistible tide not to be blocked to history! 　　 　　 Indepth 1999-05-31 Page4 Full Story in Chinese