As Congress continues to debate the imposition of new sanctions on Russia for human rights abuses, the Russian Foreign Ministry has fired back today that the US is holding themselves to a different standard, committing many of the same violations they lash other nations for.
The statement in particular noted that the Obama Administration has still failed to close the extra-judicial detention center at Guantanamo Bay, the detention of prisoners without charges and without any access to the legal system.
The statement went on to criticize the US government for extraordinary rendition, which it termed “sanctioned kidnappings,” as well as the torture of detainees. The report was delivered to the lower house of Russia’s parliament.
The trading of charges of human rights violations has a history dating back to the Cold War, and Russian officials seem to hitting some pretty sensitive topics for the shaky American record on human rights in the past decade. Russian activists criticized the government’s use of US human rights violations as a political tool, noting that it was unseemly and the exact same thing they were accusing the US of doing in the first place.
Maybe if they slap sanctions on us we'll all overthrow DC.
Putin is far more democratic, rational, and humane than either Obama, and Romney. Furthermore, Russia, unlike the United States has no Zionist influence anywhere in its government. When they did, they purged it , and tossed it to the curb. This was when Israeli oligarchs were buying up state owned Russian oil, and gas companies..thankfully Putin would have none of this. The US is the biggest instigator of terror, and murder on the planet..just look at its track record.
During 5 tours to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, there can be no doubt of human rights abuses. Torture, extra-judicial executions, carpet bombing of rural villages, marauding helicopter gunships that shot at everything that moved on the ground, and fashioning anti-personnel mines to appear as toys which claimed the limbs and lives of Afghanistan's children, are just a small part of the horror that I witnessed during my tours as an independent journalist. But then, when we observe the U.S. war we see the same abuses taking place. For either the U.S. or Russia to accuse that the other is a war criminal is emblematic of extreme-hypocrisy.
Except that this what you describe is their communist past. What we are doing today to children all over the world — is our present. Guantanamo is our present. NDAA is our present. Drones are out present. Abuses of regimes we support, like Saudi Arabia, Gulf, Bahrain — is our present. Try to list any such abuses by Russia since the end of communism.