US leaving UN Human Rights Council -- 'a cesspool of political bias'
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the body of bias against US ally Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable. The move, which the Trump administration has threatened for months, came down one day after the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border as "unconscionable."
Speaking from the State Department, where she was joined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Haley defended the move to withdraw from the council, saying US calls for reform were not heeded. "Human rights abusers continue to serve on, and be elected to, the council," said Haley, listing US grievances with the body. "The world's most inhumane regimes continue to escape its scrutiny, and the council continues politicizing scapegoating of countries with positive human rights records in an attempt to distract from the abusers in its ranks."
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:21AM (2 children)
You need to add, "caused by the US." to that statement. They are fleeing nightmare conditions that the US created.
Reagan murdered over a million indigenous in Guatemala*, and (illegally) funded and armed far right death squads in El Salvador.
Hondurans are victims of a coup supported by then secretary of state Hillary Clinton to put a far right government in place of a popular moderate (center left) democratically elected president..
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, in addition to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have all had their governments overthrown in US backed coups to install bloody right-wing dictators and/or direct US military involvement with same goal. Haiti too (two US backed coups, one by papa Bush and one by baby Bush).
And the US provided training in torture to these new far-right regimes (School of the Americas). We also deported kids that grew up in the US who are now disproportionately gang members. Los Zetas was a US created/funded paramilitary force before they went rogue in Mexico and became one of the most violent drug cartels in Mexico.
*Reagan backed the genocide in Guatemala (in the 80s) that occurred during the latter part of the the civil war (l1960-1996). But, Guatemala was originally destabilized by a US orchestrated coup that overthrew the democratically elected president Arbenz and installed a right-wing bloody dictatorship in 1954 (the year after we overthrew the democratically elected government of President Mosaddegh in Iran and installed a bloody right wing dictator there too which directly led to the theocratic mess in Iran today).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:22AM
I've been a massive critic of US foreign policy all my life but many of these countries would be shitholes without any US involvement.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 21 2018, @12:41PM
Thank you for saying this! There's more to it as well. Look up Unaoil, which was a company operating out of Monaco whose whole reason for existence was to subvert democratically elected governments through bribery, murder, and everything else if that democratically elected govt did something the megacorps who wanted to exploit their natural resources didn't like.
The megacorps, the bankers, they've been destabilizing the rest of the world and creating these refugees in the first place. They exemplify evil and must be brought to justice. They are the existential threat to humanity.
Washington DC delenda est.