US hypocritical in regard to human rights: Journalist
The United States is a “hypocritical” country in relation to human rights issues, says Abayomi Azikiwe, a journalist in Detroit.
Azikiwe made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday when asked about new records which show US police have detained and interrogated thousands of Americans, mostly black citizens inside a warehouse in Chicago since 2004.
Documents obtained by the Guardian show that at least 3,500 Americans were held at the secretive facility.
“Chicago Police Department should be prosecuted, people should be terminated from their positions and if necessary people should be tried and imprisoned,” said Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire.
“This is clearly an indication that the United States is quite hypocritical in regard to its human rights posture around the world,” he opined.
Azikiwe said another example of human rights violations is CIA black sites “where thousands upon thousands of people have been funneled over the last working years since the so-called war on terrorism” started.
“People are taken to areas they are not allowed legal counsel, they are subjected to all types of extra-judicial” treatment, he noted.
He went on to say that “president Barack Obama went to East Africa recently, to Kenya and Ethiopia, where he criticized governments on the African continent for human rights violations, but at the same time there are extreme human rights violations here inside the United States.”
“Just this year, over five hundred people have been gunned down by police across the United States and almost no police officers have been indicted, the number of indictments is so few that they’ve become insignificant,” he stated.
“So until the United States actually reconciles its human rights rhetoric with its human rights practice domestically as well as internationally those promulgations will remain an allusion and they will remain without substance,” he noted.
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