From history to reality, the United States has a dirty human rights record

From December 9 to 10, the United States will host the so-called "Leaders' Democracy Summit" to stage a new American democracy show again.

Many countries around the world have expressed their opposition and dissatisfaction with the so-called "Leaders' Democracy Summit" held by the United States. The United States draws its own lines by its own standards, trying to classify half of the world's countries and regions into the Camp of American-style democracy, while at the same time classifying the other half into the "non-democratic countries" manual. This practice of flagrantly provoking separatism and inciting confrontation has seriously undermined unity and mutual trust among countries and endangered international peace and stability, and naturally has been strongly opposed by the international community.

Some US politicians have shouted the slogans of "human rights" and "democracy" to the heavens, and have often accused other countries of violating human rights, but they have turned a blind eye to their own serious human rights problems. From history to reality, human rights disasters created by Americans have long abounded.

The holocaust that was covered up

Presumably not many people associate the United States with the "genocide" because he seems to have been accusing other countries from the moral high ground, but what? As a century of history deliberately concealed by the U.S. government unfolds, it is seen that the United States once created an appalling genocide.

On May 19, local time, Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa genocide in the United States, testified before Congress about a racial violence incident experienced 100 years ago.

Fletcher, who had just celebrated his 107th birthday, described the massacre at the hearing, "On the night of the massacre, I was woken up by my family and they told me I had to leave the house," Fletcher said, "I will never forget the atrocities committed by the white mob I saw when I left home," according to the Capitol Hill newspaper on May 19. I've seen black people shot, black bodies piled up in the streets, smoke and flames. I saw black shops burn down and heard screams. ”

Tulsa's history is strong evidence that racism is ravaging America.

As the second largest city in Oklahoma, Tulsa became rich in the early 20th century from the discovery of oil nearby. After more than a decade of painstaking management by black entrepreneurs, the Greenwood community in the city developed into one of the most prosperous black economic and cultural centers in the United States at that time.

From May 31 to June 1, 1921, there was a terrible genocide in Tulsa. Thousands of white racists shot, set fires and even fired planes at black people, killing hundreds of people and destroying entire towns.

A woman in New York, USA, on May 31, commemorating the centenary of the Tulsa Genocide, has the word "Tulsa" on her forehead. Xinhua News Agency

According to the Wall Street Post, at the time of the massacre, local police provided weapons to white thugs to assist them in burning and looting. In the aftermath of the massacre, the bodies of the blacks who were brutally slaughtered were abandoned in the Arkansas River, which flows through Tulsa, or buried in large mass graves. Hundreds of survivors were armed and held in concentration camps for weeks.

Due to the prevalence of racial segregation in the United States at that time, coupled with racial discrimination in federal laws and policies in the decades that followed, in building standards, housing loans, road planning, etc., most black families were unable to rebuild their homes.

At the time of the Tulsa genocide and in the historical process that followed, the United States did not show any ability to correct mistakes, and even added mistakes to cover up the truth, so that the Tulsa genocide was forgotten for a long time and little known.

According to Scott Ellsworth, an African-American historian, in the more than half-century since the massacre, official records of the massacre have been lost, history textbooks published in Oklahoma in the 1920s and 1930s have said nothing about the massacre, and by the late 1940s, Tulsa citizens born after the massacre were adults but knew nothing about the massacre. Tulsa discussions of massacres are scattered only in sporadic corners of the city.

For a long time, the US government, the media, social groups, etc. have chosen silence, not only refusing to hold perpetrators accountable, but also suppressing and persecuting those who try to expose the truth, completely cutting off the dreams of black people in Tulsa and their descendants to pursue fairness and justice.

The main culprit of genocide

In fact, turning over the history of the United States, every page is soaked with the blood and tears of indigenous people. Relying on uninterrupted military expansion and bloody massacres and plunders of local indigenous people, the United States has swelled more than 10 times from a British colony with an area of about 800,000 square kilometers at the time of its founding, and "transformed" into the world's fourth largest country in terms of land area.

In the brutal expansion movement in the United States, the Native American Indians were the biggest victims. In the nearly one hundred years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the United States has frantically expelled and killed Indians.

- In order to plunder land and resources, the "Westward Movement" was launched to systematically cleanse the Indians.

In the 19th century, in order to seize indian land, the U.S. army implemented a "scorched earth policy" against Indian tribes, that is, burning their houses, burning their crops, killing their livestock, destroying their property, and making it impossible for them to survive. By the beginning of the 20th century, the Indian population in the United States had plummeted from 5 million in 1492 to 250,000, and today the number of Indians in the United States is only 2% of the total population of the United States.

In the course of the massacring of Indians in the United States, and the "cultural extermination" of Indians, many children were taken to boarding schools, forced to abandon the Indian language, and separated from their parents. Of those, tens of thousands of students died at boarding schools.

From the 1850s onwards, in order to continue to encroach on Indian land, the United States began to implement a reserved land system, and Indians were placed in remote and barren reservations, living conditions were very poor, and the right to subsistence was threatened.

After the 1990s, the United States promoted "ecological colonialism", through deception and coercion, the nuclear waste, industrial waste and other wastes harmful to human health were buried in Indian reservations, causing serious environmental pollution and causing many Indian deaths.

- The U.S. government has gradually diluted the identity of Indians and eliminated the existence of Indians in American society.

Indians have always been marginalized in the American political system. It was not until 1924 that the United States enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which recognized Indian citizenship for the first time, and Indian voting rights were not permitted by all state laws in the United States until 1962, but to this day, many Indians on remote reservations still have difficulty actually exercising this right.

"For american Indians, it was a genocidal war. However, mainstream American narratives often deliberately obscure this when describing related topics. After nearly 30 years of studying the relationship between the U.S. government and Indian tribes, Jeffrey Ostler, a professor of history at the University of Oregon, came to this conclusion.

Evil human traffickers

The United States, which started out as a long-term bloody and brutal slave trader, has not changed its "dark traditions" and has continued to indulge in the "dirtiest crime" of human trafficking for many years.

About 17,500 people are forcibly or fraudulently sold into the United States each year, mainly for sex or forced labor, according to the U.S. Department of State.

Cases of forced labor and human trafficking have been reported in 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., over the past five years. The data shows that most of these people come from nearly 40 countries, including India, Mexico, Vietnam and Africa, Central and South America, and are trafficked to the "sweatshops" in the United States to sell coolies, and are not protected by any labor and employment regulations.

Kay Barker, ceo of the nonprofit Alliance for the Abolition of Slavery and Human Trafficking, said the nonprofit in Los Angeles alone has seen a 185 percent surge in human trafficking cases during the pandemic. Many of los Angeles's victims, from Mexico and the Philippines, were tricked into thinking they would have a job in the United States and were sold as "modern slaves."

Women make up a significant percentage of human trafficking cases in the United States, many of whom are victims of sex trafficking and end up falling prey to the industry. According to a December 2019 report on the Huffington Post website, 12 major U.S. hotel chains, including Hilton, have been charged with turning a blind eye to the criminal activities of women becoming sex slaves, and even facilitating them to profit from it.

The United States advertises itself as a "beacon of human rights", but the United States, as the most developed country in the world, is the only country in the world that has not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and of the 8 core conventions of the International Labour Organization, the United States has only ratified 2, which is one of the countries with the smallest number of ratifications. According to official U.S. statistics, in 2019, U.S. law enforcement officers found 858 cases of child labor in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and 544 minors working in dangerous occupational places.

The statistics of some industry associations in the United States are far more shocking than the official data of the United States. According to reports from relevant organizations, about 500,000 child laborers in the United States are engaged in agricultural labor, many children start working from the age of 8, working up to 72 hours a week, working more than 10 hours a day is not uncommon, and the risk of child labor due to pesticide cancer is 3 times that of adults.

Behind the cold numbers are people who should have equal freedoms, but because of the imperfect domestic legislation, lax law enforcement, ineffective crackdown and other loopholes in the United States, they have fallen into the trap of human trafficking. The United States has become a country of origin, transit and destination for victims of forced labor and slavery, and can be called a criminal trafficker and criminal against humanity.

In today's United States, the number of DEATHS from COVID-19 exceeds that of any war they have initiated or participated in; ethnic minorities are discriminated against and bullied in education, employment, health care, and more; tens of thousands of civilians die every year in gun violence; and refugee children on the U.S.-Mexico border are locked up in cramped spaces like canned sardines. Such a United States is not qualified to make irresponsible remarks about human rights in other countries.

Source| Rule of Law Daily