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To be frank, I am neither a Russian hugger nor a Western opinion hugger.I'm not your human rights naive activist. I have no illusions about the state of World human rights affairs, especially for those powerful countries, I'm merely stating one of the compelling reason for Polish attitude against Russia (I know we have a sizable Russia-huggers here in this forum).
I am but a realist who sees events as fairly and neutral as humanly possible.
If one sees the events of human rights, one will find that it is the western viewpoint which is taken to be the correct and only viewpoint regarding the violation of human rights and the actions taken by the western world as the best way to address the same.
If it were fair, then I would not have quibbles. But is it ALWAYS fair? That s the vexing issue!
Visit the issues of Belgium Congo where insurrection continues and where people are dying daily and there is no accountability and why?
The killing of Patrice Lumumba. Why?
Rwandan genocide. Why is there nothing constructive being done to get the perpetrators? And when it was a worse genocide than Saddam, why did the Western world not intervene here first and not in Iraq, where there was not much going on in comparison?
Zimbabwe. Mugabwe is a tyrant no better than Saddam, and possibly even worse. How come Zimbabwe did not come into the realm of 'Bringing Freedom' that was applied to Iraq?
Iraq. Where was the WMD? And was the insufferable regime of Saddam any less than many others around those parts? How come suddenly Syria is in the focus. Has Syria become so horrible in the last couple of years?
What about Sudan undertaking genocide on the Black Sudanese? How come the human rights abuse there not becoming a cause célèbre?
Why is Charles Taylor the only one indicted by the court at Hague? It takes two hands to clap!
Any more examples you want?
My point is that all these issues are selective and it does not always indicate the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
In so far as the Communist Countries or colonial or imperial powers it requires none to elaborate their human rights abuses.
If one digs up history or sees the events happening even now, there is human rights abuses by all countries without exception.
However, the countries which have the media hold over the English speaking world shapes the international opinion.
However, that grip is also going. See Al Jazeera. It proves a fitting challenge to the media Tsars of the western world.
In so far as the media controlling countries, why go far. What Murdoch has done proves that the book Almighty was not terribly wrong!