Belarus Accuses U.S. of Rights Abuses

[maddezmom]

UNITED NATIONS - Angered at being targeted by the United States for its poor human rights record, Belarus hit back with a resolution accusing the U.S. government of disenfranchising voters, abusing prisoners and other rights violations.



Last week, the United States introduced a resolution in the General Assembly's human rights committee attacking electoral violations in Belarus' recent presidential election and harassment of the political opposition. Belarus countered with a rival draft attacking the United States.


It was a clash between the world's lone superpower and a former Soviet republic whose authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has been in power since 1994 and has been branded Europe's last dictator.


By Thursday evening, both draft resolutions were dead, and Belarus was claiming victory.

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[trotsky]

1. Damn, that's funny and sad.

More sad, I guess, that another country can make a case for U.S. human rights abuses.

[russian33]

2. Pot meet kettle

[lil-petunia]

3. Hey, you're black!

[billyoc]

4. Oh, man, that's awful. What next,

economic sanctions brought against the U.S. by Ethiopia?!

We are rapidly becoming a true rogue state. :(

[DownNotOut]

5. Sad but true...

I wish it would have come from a coutry with more credability.... America is the worlds greatest violator of human rights thanks to * .

D.N.O

[lil-petunia]

7. Hey, can't ignore, Cheney, Gonzales and Rice-a-wrongie

They all played their part in getting bush to move in this direction.

[htuttle]

8. Well, it's more ironic this way

Somehow, that seems fitting.

:shrug:

[bullimiami]

6. pot looked into kettles soul

there he saw the reflection of his own black soul

and he knew they were brothers.

[damntexdem]

9. Hey, come on, Belarus!

That's like shooting fish in a barrel.