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Essence of 'Liberation of Human Rights' Seen Below Surface
In recent years, styling itself as a "model of democracy" and the "defender of human rights", the United States has created a "report on the human rights situation in different countries" each year to teach other countries and regions a lesson. It has even unhesitatingly allocated an annual sum of money as high as US$700 million used to promote the "great cause" of "opening democracy" and "conducting restructuring" abroad, euphemistically dubbing it "liberation of human rights".
In the eyes of the US government, the world lacks human rights, and there is a shortage of the "elite", so when a heavy task is to fall from heaven upon someone, it seems that only the United States can undertake the "great cause" of "opening democracy" and "liberating human rights". In fact, human right is not a patent of the United States, rather, it is a kind of right which people throughout the world are striving to achieve.
In the Charter of the United Nations passed as early as 1945, the universality of this kind of human rights is affirmed. The base of human rights is the existence and development of life, human right is, first of all, the right to subsistence and development. In the era of today wherein "peace and development" are the themes, the people of various countries around the world, including the American people, are striving to create a better environment for subsistence and development, if there is anything like the "liberation of human rights", then, the people are the real defenders of human rights, the genuine heroes who are engaged in the "liberation of human rights". Isn't it ridiculous that the United States boasts of itself being the defender of human rights?!
How will this self-styled "defender of human rights" "liberate human rights"?
In its foreign affairs, the United States often flaunts the banner, called "protecting human rights". Ironically, however, it was under this banner that the United States sent out troops to Iraq, bombed Kosovo and dropped nearly 1 million radiation depleted uranium shells there, the consequences of which had been published in newspapers, many soldiers had contracted the "syndrome of the Gulf War" or the "Balkan syndrome", countless victimized Iraqi and Yugoslavian people in the explosion spots had contracted illness and died and numerous mothers consequentially gave birth to deformed babies. Even the United States itself admits that excessive use of force in international conflicts is inhuman; in the explanations of the US Declaration of Independence, human right is, first of all, the vital right. No matter what ideas the United States uses to denounce those countries, the thousands upon thousands of common people there are absolutely innocent, so are women and children in existence there! The rights and interests of women and children that have always been under the key protection of the international community have been inflicted extremely cruel damage by the US "humanitarian mission"!
Another banner often flaunted by the United States in its foreign affairs is the "liberation of human rights". So, countries labeled as "despotic dictatorship" and "autocracy" by the United States have become US subversive targets.
On January 17 this year, a "Western Hemisphere Security Cooperation Institute" was set up by the defense department of the United States. This represents another move taken by the United States under the name of exporting "democracy". What is the purpose of this move? Insiders say the predecessor of this institute was the "school of America", a military academy under the US Army. This school was named by US non-governmental institutions and international human right organizations as a base for training dictators, butchers and assassins. In 1996, Pentagon was forced to publish the contents of seven training handbooks, almost all were contents about teaching Latin American servicemen the trial techniques-how to torture suspects, carry out secret execution, intimidate dissidents, etc., each of the contents is an infringement on human rights.
In fact, human right is only a political card in US foreign affairs. One of the aims of the United States in playing the human right card is its hope to use its concept of value to remake the world. Some Americans are invariably proud of "electors of the God" and "model of morality". After the conclusion of the Cold War, its status as the only superpower greatly inflated the feeling of this Salvation Army. Its second aim is to push through its global strategy. After the end of the Cold War, with the disappearance of the opposing camps, the United States lost the reasons to interfere in and control sovereign countries, but the scramble for benefits has not ended, neither has its ambition to control the whole globe, human right has become a high-sounding pretext it uses under the new situation.
US human right diplomacy under this purpose, or the "liberation of human right", on the one hand, makes gesticulations relating to the human rights of other countries, on the other hand, it, under the banner of humanitarianism and democratic morality, has created tragedies characterized by infringements on human rights. That is the US-brand "liberation of human rights". Actually it has wantonly trampled upon the idea of human rights and the human rights of other countries. Former US President Kennedy admitted that the American people must give up their oversimplified views about international affairs, and abandon the theory of remaking the world in the image of the United States, which is US mission.
As the world has entered the new century, should the new US government also change its train of thought?
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