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US Policy on Human Rights Condemned in Bangladesh
Human rights organizations and intellectuals in the country Sunday blamed the United States for it's "wrong policy on human rights towards global community."
Talking to Xinhua Sunday, Justice KM Sobhan, a human rights activist who heads the Bangladesh Human Rights Commission, said that "I congratulate the countries, especially the European countries who did not vote the United States to be a member of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC)."
Sobhan said that "the United States, who used to do bossing over the global community on the human rights, proved wrong."
Prof. Muniruzzaman Mia, former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University said Sunday he felt that "some moves the new US administration has taken or going to take have influenced in its failure in becoming the member of UNHRC." These moves include sale of arms to Taiwan, proposed nuclear defense Shield and the flying of spy plane over Chinese territory, he said.
Prof. Miah, also a former Bangladesh diplomat, said what surprises him most is whether the United States could not have sensed this earlier. "Anyway if the United States wants to remain as a leader of the world Community, they have to rethink some of their policies."
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