BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- A report on human rights in the United States in 2016 was published Thursday, once again uncovering the contradictory and hypocritical nature of a nation that styles itself as a "judge of human rights."
Wielding "the baton of human rights," the United States has long-busied itself casting blame for human rights abuses on any number of countries, while seemingly refusing to take a minute to reflect on the horrific human rights situation in its own country. The nation's human rights problems are a litany of high crime rates, widening income gaps, deteriorating race relations and corporate money polluting its political process.
With 693 prisoners per 100,000 of the national population, the United States had the second highest incarceration rate in the world. Last year saw a total of 58,125 gun incidents of violence nationwide, including 385 mass shootings, leaving 15,039 dead and 30,589 injured. The proportion of adults who have full-time jobs in the country is at its lowest since 1983, while one in seven Americans, at least 45 million people, live in poverty.
Not only has it not got its own house in order, worse still, the United States's has repeatedly and aggressively trampled on the human rights in other countries, particularly the Middle East. From Aug. 8, 2017 to Dec. 19, 2016, it launched 7,258 air strikes in Iraq and 5,828 in Syria, causing 733 incidents with an estimated number of civilian deaths between 4,568 and 6,127. It seems the old adage that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, means little to America.
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