Report of the Korean Institute for the

Research of Human Rights

on Violations of Human Rights

by the United States and Western Countries

   September 7, Juche 104 (2015)

   Pyongyang

   Preface

   Recently, the US and Western countries, while professing themselves as “defenders of humanrights”, are becoming even more undisguised in their acts of interference into the internal affairs of other countries and infringement upon their sovereignties over their alledged “human-rights issues”.

   In particular, the US and Western countries have placed the cap of “human rights violators” over the anti-imperialist and independent countries such as DPRK and those who stand in the way of their ambitious attempt to dominate the world. With this brand on, they are resorting to mean tricks to lead them by their noses, impair their international images and seek an eventual “regime changes” in those countries.

   But, it is none other than the US and the Western countries which should be the first target of condemenation as most brutal states of human rights violation and human rights crimes in the world.

   There is a Korean saying “Mind your own business”. The US and the Western countries are well advised to admit their own appalling human rights abuses and take steps to set right their own shameful records of human rights violation before making fuss about the human rights situation of the others.

   The Korean Institute for the Research of Human Rights Institute, out of its intention to speark for justice and consciousness of the world which wants to defend and enjoy genuine human rights, issues this report to make a comprehensive exposure to the worst human rights situation and savage human rights abuses of the US and the Western countries, main barriers to independence and progress, peace and security of the present world.

   The report was written in such a way of analyzing and appraising criminal nature and injustice committed by the US and Western countries in different theaters, which is based on the verified and authentic evidences and the international laws such as International Human Rights Law.

   The drafting of this report was assisted by such state organizations as the Supreme Peoples’ Assembly and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DPRK as well as by the educational institutions, mass media, scientific research institutes including KIM IL SUNG University, Academy of Social Science, Research Institute of international Issues and other social organizations. This report also used reference materials from various libraries and publications both at home and abroad.

   The US became the focus in this report. It is based on recent data and “in some cases, on the past data”.

   1 Infringement upon Political Freedom and Rights

   Political freedom and rights are the most valuable rights for the mankind and the most important rights for the nations which are all bound by international human rights legislations, but these freedom and rights are wantonly violated in the US and the Western countries.

   Criminal acts of the US and the Western countries violating political freedom and rights find their typical expressions in the fields of ideas, religion, press, assembly and association, election, etc.

   1-1 Ideology and Freedom

   1-1-1 Restriction of Ideas and Freedom of Conscience

   An independent human being has his or her due right to choose for and believe in any ideas. Nobody can put a curb on the other’s wish to study and desseminate progressive ideas and give a free expression to one’s view and stand thereon, according to one’s belief and conscience.

   “Universal Declaration of Human rights” made it clear that everyone has the right to freedom of thought and conscience and “International Covenant on Civil and Political rights” stipulates that everyone has the right to freedom of ideas and conscience, this right includes right to maintain, believe and express ideas one has chosen and should not be subject to coercion detrimental to this right. (Article 18 “Universal Declaration of Human rights”)

   But, the US and the Western countries have become the ones that do not allow freedom of ideas and conscience which are stipulated by the international human rights covenants. They are also the ones devoid of democracy as they restrict freedom of choice for ideas.

   According to data, 200,000 personnel are engaged in suppression of progressive ideas and there are 21,000 violent criminal organizations in the US.

   CIA and FBI of the United States are running a vast intelligence network to keep a watch on ideological tendencies of the citizens. Investigative and finger-print cards are well kept for the citizens. By relying on this, CIA and FBI of the US are watching on almost all adults while making a detailed survey and control over the data of private life of the indivisuals, let alone their political and ideological views, and, if one is considered to be in question, he or she is arrested, put into jail and tortured at all events.

   As New York University professor deplored that “the United States is more and more turning into a military and police state”, United States and the Western countries are covered with the network of plain clothesmen and secret agents, and ideas and conscience are restricted by clubs, prisons and chains.

   The number of prisoners in the United States constitutes 25% of total prisoners in the world, and majority of them are prisoners of conscience who had once opted for political freedom and rights including the freedom of ideas and conscience.

   Many of the US laws stipulate for the control of freedom and rights of the citizens to choose and believe progressive ideas freely and for the suppression of those freedom and rights under the pretext of “national security”. Typical laws are “Internal Security Act” (September 1950, so called “McCarran Act”), “Smith Act” (Jun 1940) and “Communist Movement Control Law” (1954), etc.

   “Internal security act” strictly prohibits dissemination of the progressive books in the US.

   The US and the Western countries disregard the requirements of the international human rights covenants to respect freedom of ideas and cultural diversity of other countries and disseminate their corrupted and reactionary ideas and cultures by coercive means using all leverages such as travel, export of goods and economic exchanges and through various kinds of publications, radio network, newspapers and periodicals.

   In particular, the US runs “Cultural Centers” and “Information Centers” in 100 countries in the world and publishes the large number of periodicals, which includes “America”, “Span” and “Trait U.S.A.”, and disseminates them systematically to specific countries and regions with a view to imbue them with reactionary ideas and American way of life.

   The US Foreign News Exchange Agency is notorious in transmitting reactionary publications and pictures to foreign countries through Foreign Publications Production and Dissemination Agency and TV network and “International Radio of the US Government” under the US Intelligence and Cultural Exchange Bureau. The “Voice of America” and “Free Radio”, which serve as US foreign broadcasting centers, are infamous in disseminating on “Superiority” of the American way of “Democracy”.

   The US established “Radio Free Asia” by dint of law passed in US Congress on January 25, 1994. It is running a 15-hour broadcast on a daily basis in different languages (Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc.), and more than 80% of which is consistent with the infusion of American ideology and culture while slandering and criticizing ideas and cultural systems of other countries.

   In order to rationalize its criminal act of violating freedom of ideas in foreign countries, the US went the length of saying that only “American civiliazation” holds value and Islamic civilization in southeast Asian countries can’t give a rise to democracy due to its “backwardness”, and it makes an absurd allegation that it is an American mission to disseminate “freedom” and “democracy” to “backward and uncivilized” countries and nations and that it is also tantamount to fulfillment of its moral duty to wage a war to alleviate conflicts between different cultures.

   Several EU countries, Japan and south Korea, following in the footsteps of the US, are also engaged in the criminal acts of slandering and criticizing other countries’ ideas and systems and mass production and dissemination of the reactionary publications that paralyze sound ideological consciousness of the people.

   1-1-2 Suppression of the Freedom of Religion

   The US and Western countries severely violate and suppress the freedom of other nations for region and its faith.

   The US Senate Judicial Committee released a data of showing that those, who believe in Islam, took up 14% of the religious discrimination though they constitute only 1% of US citizens.

   According to the data released by human rights activists, there exist 30 groups in the US which agitate the theory of “Islamic Conspiracy”. 15~20% of US citizens believe that Muslims should not be allowed to work in the government.

   The police report obtained by AP said that the New York Police, since 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001, have conducted regular surveillance on those who make pilgrims to Islamic mosques as well as those who get together at bookstores and kiosks.

   The Islamic world was in a rage of anger when an anti-Islamic film under the title of “Naivety of Islam” was on internet in September 2012. In April of the same year, a Christian priest in Florida was reckless enough to have burnt the Koran and the portrait of the founder of Islam.

   US, at the time of its invasion of Iraq in 2003, drove a wedge between Shi’a and Sunni and egged them to fight each other in the country where Islam is a state religion.

   In relation to this, Al Jazeera TV reported as follows: “Once a unified, strong country is now in a bloody civil war. Shi’a and Sunni in Iraq lived in harmony without even trying to interfere into religious activities of each other before the U.S. invaders set their feet on this land. However, due to the American “Model of Democracy”, Iraqis are now divided into Shi’a and Sunni. Each is trying to eliminate the other and take grips to power.”

   In February 2012, the US soldiers based in Afghanistan burned scores of Islamic books including the Koran and threw them into dust-bins at secret prison in Bagram US air-base on the outskirts of Kabul.

   On January 13, 2015, Tokyo Shimbun reported that there were series of vicious cases of maltreatment and violence against Islamic mosques and Muslims in every corner of France.

   According to AFP, almost 20 cases of profanity against Muslim broke out in France recently. These include incendiary to Islamic mosques, violence and scribbling against it.

   For instance, a pig head, a forbidden food to Muslims was placed at the entrance of Islamic mosque in South Corsica. A scribbling was found which read “Out you go, Arabs!” in the northern part of the island. An Islamic mosque was on fire in the middle of the night in one province.

   The French Weekly Newspaper Charlie Hebdau published recently millions of copies that carry a caricature of insulting the Prophet of Islam. For this, the newspaper became the subject of international condemnation.

   Anti-Islamic movement is well-organized in its nature in Germany. In October 2014, Pegida (Europeans that stand against the Islamization of the Western World) was organized in Dresden. This was followed by the formation of 8 regional anti-Islamic bodies in Bayern, Germany.

   On October 26, 2014, an anti-Islamic organization, which has its members as football hooligans, waged violent anti-Islamic demonstration in the range of 5,000 people in Koln, Germany.

   For almost 10 years since 2001, more than 200 mosques were attacked in European countries.

   39 mosques were under attack in 7 European countries by the end of 2014.

   In 2014, 44% of Islamic mosques in Sweden received threat and 66% of them suffered material loss from violence.

   Deliberate act of incendiary was committed in the mosque of the central part of Sweden leaving 5 people to be burnt in December 2014. Another incendiary also occurred in the southern part of Sweden.

   The wanton violation of the freedom of the religion and faith by other nations finds its typical expression in suppression of Islam. This is a clear violation of the Article 18.2 of the “International Convention on Civil and Political Rights” which stipulates that “no one shall be subject to coercion which would impair his freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice.”

   1-2 Freedom of Speech and the Press

   1-2-1 State Interference in and Control on the Media and the Press

   Several international human rights instruments including the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and the “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” provide that everyone shall have the freedom to choose for and express opinions free from intervention by others.

   The US, however, showed once again that it is the worst in keeping tight control on the media under the pretext of “national security” when the US Senate adopted “the Law on the Protection of Cyberspace as State Property” on June 24, 2010.

   This law gives the US administration an absolute right to shut down the internet when deemed necessary and any individual or organization must obtain permission from the US administration when they want to run websites even in the limited system of the internet. BBC criticized the US for making a legal framework for the internet restriction in the US territory, recalling that the US has the way of talking to other countries taking steps to restrict the internet that they must ensure the freedom of the internet, while calling them “closed societies” or whatever.

   The US government holds sway over the media in all manners in order to keep them from expressing opinions which would not stand in favor of realizing its dominating policy. The case in point is the official apology by “Newsweek”, US magazine, after its report about profanity to Koran by the US military.

   The delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross proved, after their contacts with the Muslim inmates at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, that the profanity to Koran is still going on there by the US military. The White House, however, pressured “Newsweek” to apologize, blazed in fury that it was put to shame in the world. In the end, “Newsweek” had to make an apology for reporting the truth.

   “Transnational Journalists”, an international organization of journalists, stated in its annual “Universal Freedom of Report” that “the US continues to put pressure on the media and restrict its freedom when it comes to the issue on “counterterrorism”.

   According to the data, the Western countries take control of a quarter of internet infrastructure and most of the exchange of international information worldwide. The Western countries, just relying on their economic might and latest science and technology, take a monopoly of the modern, large-scale means of public information, suppress the righteous voices as being dictated by their own interests and demands, and paint a rosy picture of their own unpopular social systems against human rights.

   The US and the Western media is the bullhorn of the monopolist capitalists who have close ties with the political circles. The media, therefore, has lost freedom in its activities and is reduced to being a tool under the thumbs of a handful of the rich and in service for the implementation of their aggressive and dominant policies.

   Actually, journalists and media persons in the US and the Western countries cannot make free speeches or expressions, and they cannot but speak and write that only pleases their governments.

   1-2-2 Crackdown and Persecution on Freedom of Speech and the Press

   The US is bluffing as if its citizens were ensured with the freedom of the speech and the media activities through the stipulated law on it, but, in reality, it has turned away from it by strict censorship on the above activities.

   According to “Transnational Journalists”, 80 or more journalists got injured by the police during their coverage of the “Occupy Wall Street ” campaign in the US. According to the survey done by the Independent Association of Lawyers, over 18 correspondents were rounded up in the New York City alone from September, 2011 to July, 2012.

   On August 4, 2012, a cameraman of “New York Times” was arrested for taking photos of a little girl being arrested by the police during his coverage of the “Occupy Wall Street” campaign and one policeman took away his camera and beat him in the face with it. In November 2012, two reporters of “Russia Today” TV Broadcast were apprehended during their coverage of the assembly in front of the Fort Benning Military Base in Georgia for the reason of attending a not-permitted assembly and disobeying the authorities. Six people including Bradely Maning, the information provider to the “Wikileaks”, web-database, were prosecuted and received inhuman treatment.

   In the US, it is not unusual to see journalists being fired for their “politically unreasonable” remarks. Typically, Nasre, the senior editor in charge of the Middle East in CNN TV Broadcast Company got fired for his expression of sympathy in Tweeter to the demise of the Shia caliphate in Lebanon in July 2010. With such reality in the US, the international credit rating companies assessed the level of the freedom of speech in the US to the lowest in the world.

   The same is true of the Western countries. Turkey newspapers “Sabah” and “Turkey” under the headlines of “Europe ranks last in Freedom of Speech” and “the West’s Double Dealing” showed up the crackdown on and double standard applied to the media by the Western countries. For example, 180 journalists were taken into custody for the past 25 years in Germany and 6 journalists including the editor-in-chief of the “News of the World”, one of the biggest newspapers in the UK, were arrested in 2013. Victoria De Philipes, editor-in-chief of the “Liberation” newspaper was imprisoned in France.

   1-2-3 Leaks of Distorted Information

   To get access to safe and reliable news is one of the primary rights of the human beings. “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” provides in its article 19 that everyone shall have the right to freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers.

   These rights are grossly violated due to the spread of distorted information by the US and the Western countries.

   The US and Western mass media are weaving in distorted information as true, which was all fabricated to their flavor, and report them as if authentic by using ambiguous expressions such as “authentic newscast”, “anonymity-requiring Western diplomat”, “political pundits” and “the classified information”.

   A considerable number of the US and Western media are spreading across the world distorted accounts about the true picture of the DPRK human rights system and human rights situation enjoyed by the people. They have also committed to the crime, beyond the century, of manipulating and spreading the public opinion as if the DPRK is to blame for the tension and the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula which was actually caused by the US.

   Pointing out that the nuclear threat is coming from the US, an expert on international affairs in a certain country denounced both the US and the west by criticizing that “the Western mass media are stupid enough to dance to the tune of the most demeaning nuclear power that is making frantic efforts to ruin a nation, which is no threat at all to the international community.”

   Freedom House, the US international human rights institution, denounced in its “World Report on Freedom of Press 2012” that the freedom of media persons’ activities in the DPRK ranked low by the international standard. This “Report” made by Carin Karecari is the politicization of the press and the height of double standards, running through all sorts of distortions and fabrications.

   The US and the Western countries resort to the operations of buying off the press and open intimidation in order to manipulate the public opinion with false reports. The US had disguised the “Lincoln Group” staff on the payroll from the DOD as freelance journalists and made them feed the Iraq mass media with their reports so as to prevent the international criticism when the international condemnation is on the rise against it as the US human rights violations in Iraq were revealed in the mass media. Those newspapers that carry the articles received rewards ranging from 40US$ to 2,000US$ apiece according to their “value”.

   The US President threatened to blow up the Al Jazeera satellite TV broadcasting Center for the reason that they had reported the military achievements of the Iraqi resisting forces.

   In April 2012, the DPRK invited mass media from various countries to prove transparency of the launch of its scientific and technical satellite for peaceful purposes. At that time, the US pressured news reporters aboard the plane for Pyongyang to refrain from covering the satellite launch.

   In this regard, Talen Bias, a journalist of the US news website “Politico” disclosed that the White House warned the reporters to be careful so as not to be accomplices in the DPRK “propaganda campaign” as such coverage would be free propaganda of the DPRK.

   In 2014, a letter of blackmail and a pocket knife were delivered by post to the “Asahi Shimbun” head office in Tokyo, Japan, threatening to kill the journalist who had written an article on the truth about sexual slavery crimes committed by the Japanese army if he does not make an apology for the report. This incident is a manifestation of reckless insanity of the Japanese imperialists towards the “Asahi Shimbun”, which often carries true reports on the past human rights violations by Japan. Whenever distorted information is spread by the US and the west, the rights of the sovereign states were infringed upon, human rights of the people violated, antagonism and conflicts created and global peace and security abrogated. It is a well-known fact that the aggression against Iraq by the US and multinational forces was committed based on the fabricated information beforehand.

   The false information-based propaganda for aggression against sovereign states is also the crime that breaches the first paragraph of Article 20 of the “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”, which provides that “any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law”.

   In accordance with the “International Convention on the Right to Correction”, the US and Western countries must apologize and be held criminally responsible for the spread of distorted and fabricated information that hurts the dignity of a sovereign state and encroaches upon the rights of human beings to freedom of speech and press.

   1-3 Freedom of Assembly and Association

   1-3-1 Bloody Crackdown on Peaceful Demonstration

   The rights of human beings to peaceful demonstration stipulated in “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”(Article 20, Para. 1) and the “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”(Article 21) are severely violated in the US and the Western countries, where the police and army are mobilized to bloody crackdown, arrest and lock-up of demonstrators.

   By the end of the last century, the US, declaring to “use every available form of force”, clamped down ruthlessly the large-scale demonstration waged by the black against the policy of racism in Los Angeles with 4,000 National Security Forces, 5,000 army troops, let alone the police.

   During the widespread large-scale demonstration started in New York under the slogan of “Occupy Wall Street” in 2011, the US ruling forces used the police to impose a bloody crackdown on demonstrators.

   The world media made fun of the bleak landscape saying that it resembles genocide literally when the mounted policemen brutally cracked down on the demonstrators, swinging truncheons in the dreadful panic-stricken atmosphere with the choppers above the city. The media ridiculed the US by saing that the above reflects the true picture of the US which professes itself to represent “freedom” and “democracy”.

   In October 2011, the police beat 24-year-old S. Olsen in his head in Oakland, California, making him lose his ability to speak for a while. In November that year, the police in Seattle used tear gas to the demonstrators including the elderly and pregnant women and the police, standing guard over the California University, also fired tear gas into students holding a peaceful assembly.

   The police mobilized to the crackdown on the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstration even stormed the demonstrators’ camps and rounded up numerous people after blockading the area.

   In Chicago, the police dragged 175 demonstrators to the prison van like pieces of luggage, who were occupying a closed park. In New York, they imprisoned 70 sit-in strikers in park in a day alone for the reason of violating night-time curfew.

   In the US, from the beginning of the street protests under the slogan of “Occupy Wall Street” to the end of February 2012, about 6,000 demonstrators were arrested in 110 cities.

   “Washington Post” reported that about 13 million US$ were spent on the crackdown on demonstrators. In California, it was 2.4 million US$. People calling for their basic rights to survival are treated like convicts in the US. The US Senate passed a bill imposing sanctions on the government officials responsible for “human rights violation” of the anti-government demonstrators in Venezuela, and Obama signed it into law. The US is in no position to criticize other countries for not being democratic or not providing enough freedom and civil rights.

   The riot police in Athens, Greece used tear gas to break up the mass demonstration of the working people against the unfair austerity pursued by the authorities on November 17, 2014. On November 6, 2014, the working people went on a mass strike in Brussels, Belgium against the unfair economic policy of the authorities. The riot police committed the atrocity of firing tear gas and arresting 10 demonstrators.

   1-3-2 Suppression of Freedom of Association

   Since freedom of association is one of the principal rights of the human beings, it is an important yardstick of assessing the degree of democratization in a given society.

   All sorts of evil laws in the US are restraining and violating to a great extent the rights of human beings to freely join in political activities and to establish and join in an organization for the purpose of adding luster to their dignity and value.

   The US “Internal Security Act” and “Communist Movement Control Act”, which remain in effect to this day since respective adoption in September 1950 and August 1954, are the typical laws that were enacted for the purpose of curbing the organizing of progressive political and public institutions and their activities.

   “Internal Security Act” designated, in its paragraph 4 of article 3, “the communist institution” as “conspiratorial organization”. Through this, it provided a legal basis to launch a crack down on progressive political and public institutions.

   According to the “Internal Security Act”, communists and heads of progressive institutions are registered in the Department of Justice, being subjects of strict police surveillance all the time. They are also subject to detention by legal force whenever “the state emergency” like war is declared. In addition, they are not allowed to work for all the factories, enterprises and public institutions which are considered to “have some relations with the defensive industry” and are deprived of the rights to travel abroad.

   The “Communist Movement Control Act” enacted afterwards is more reactionary and has more anti-communist nature than the “Internal Security Act” as its article 3 provides that “the US Communist Party or its successor shall not enjoy the rights, privileges and immunities, which legitimate institutions organized in accordance with the US law can enjoy, regardless of their names”.

   This law restrains the US communist party from exercising the legitimate rights, which all US political organizations are entitled to enjoy according to the law. This is just like an open declaration of the disbandment of the Communist Party.

   This law is also designed to crack down on any political parties and institutions, which support socialism and struggle for democratization of society.

   Apart from this, the law provides that freedom of organizing a trade union and its activities can be acknowledged only when they cut off all relations with the socialist movement and political organizations that struggle for this.

   This law and “Taft-Hatley Act” (taking effect since June 1947) complement each other, as the later law regulates that the head of trade union must come to relevant authority and vow not to be a member of the communist party under any circumstances.

   These laws are still notorious as they provide the excuse and leeway to crack down on the demand of the trade union to increase the wages for workers when they are not in their interests.

   Such US laws are in breach of article 20 of “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” providing that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association and no one may be compelled to belong to an association and article 22 of “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” that everyone shall have the right to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and join trade unions for the protection of his interests and “Convention on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Unity”.

   1-3-3 Patronage and Financial Support to Anti-Government Organizations

   The US, in disregard of the requirements of the international human rights instruments to restrict freedom of assembly that challenges national security, social stability and order, healthy society and protection of morality and rights of individuals, never shrinks from the crime that harbors and instigates the anti-government organizations into the overthrow of the governments.

   During the past years, the US has organized and gave financial support to over 40 terrorist groups that specialize in sabotage and murder in order to suppress the Cuban Revolution.

   According to “Granma”, Cuban newspaper, the US financed Cuban counter-revolutionaries through anti-Cuba institutions in Miami, giving financial support and instigating their sinister moves. In 2012 alone, the US earmarked additional 20mUS$ for sabotage against Cuba. Some of the funds were spent for the so-called “Council for Cuban Democracy” in Miami and the anti-government strike organization of “∝66” headquartered in Florida and terrorism.

   According to the US “Washington Post”, State Department is giving a covert fund to an anti-government organization in a country in the Middle East, which amounts to 12mUS$.

   As the international community raises its voice of denunciation to the US that it is intentionally intensifying internal disputes in sovereign states, US Presidents unabashedly patronized their guilts, insisting that they gave assistance to democratization, yet not to anti-government moves.

   The US funded over 65mUS$ to a country in Eastern Europe through its NGOs, namely “America Democracy Institute” and “National Endowment for Democracy” established for the purpose of helping other countries in “building democracy”.

   The US Agency for International Development (USAID), an affiliated body of “US Cooperation Department for International Development”, has its branches in around 100 countries. It is the intelligence agency that hatch anti-government plots while financing anti-government institutions under the pretext of “development aid”, “development grant” and “investment guarantee”. The USAID gave 3.4mUS$ to a “human rights” institution in Cuba, instigating ant-government terrorism.

   In 2011, the USAID members were expelled from Bolivia for their attempted plot to overthros the government, while financing anti-government bodies. Prior to this, the US Agency for International Development in Ukraine hatched an anti-government plot, financing the Ukrainian Education Center, which is also an anti-government body.

   The President of Venezuela, in his TV speech of February 2014, said that 3 staff of the US Embassy in Venezuela were deported for their conceived plot to cause social unrest, in hands with the anti-government organization of the country.

   In the past, the US had opened in the US Embassy in Venezuela the so-called “Office for Transfer of Power”, whose job was to “help Venezuela promote democracy”, earmarking 2mUS$ for their work while forming anti-government organizations and giving them a huge financial support.

   The US ambassador in Ecuador attended the movement organized by the anti-government journalists’ organization in this country, making “an attempt to create instability”, and the US openly stood for the anti-government organizations in Venezuela when they claimed for the Presidential reelection.

   Not a few Western countries have also funded anti-government institutions in other countries, thereby causing instability in a given country and teaming up with them to overthrow the government.

   1-4 Right to Vote

   1-4-1 Restrictions and Reservations through the Unpopular Election

   The wanton violation of human rights by the US and Western countries against the rights of their nationls to vote and to be elected find their vivid expressions in the US election act, which provides for numerous margins of restriction and reservation.

   Historically, the first constitution enacted in the US after its formation was silent on the rights to vote and to be elected and the constitution amendment (article 15) revoked the restrictions of the rights to vote and to be elected by reason of ethnic, color and slavery and the restrictions of the rights to vote and to be elected were lifted several times and legal measures were taken to expand the scope of the rights to vote and to be elected.

   US election acts (Federal Election Act and State Election Acts), however, provide for dozens of all sorts of restrictions and discrimination and abuse the rights of American nationals to vote and to be elected in disregard of the general, equal and direct principle.

   The US is the one and only country that does not give the rights to vote and to be elected to any persons who had ever prison life in the world.

   According to the “Sentencing Project” organization, over 5.8m people with prison records are deprived of the rights to vote and to be elected in the US. In Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia alone, over 7% of adult residents do not have the rights to vote.

   American election act requires that voters must clarify both their identity and residence when they are registered, depriving numerous people of the rights to vote.

   As far as the requirements for election are concerned, a great number of the youth and hundreds of thousands of the poor without fixed residences are not eligible for parliamentary candidacy due to several restrictions.

   In the US, candidates for the Senate must be residents of the states to be elected, who are over 30 years of age with 9 yearlong state residence period and candidates for the House representatives must be residents of the states to be elected, who are over 27 years of age with 7 yearlong residence period.

   According to the election act, candidates can file their candidacies for election to parliament providing that they provide an enormous amount of election grants, which means the property less people, both poor and unemployed can never run for election to parliament.

   Most of the working people are excluded from voting due to several complicated voting procedures and methods provided by the US election act.

   The US holds its Congressional election in accordance with several steps and procedures including division of constituencies, voter registration, ballot casting and counting and the elected identification. Each of these election processes, steps and procedures are specifically tailored to elect candidates supported and aided by the dominant Parties (Democratic Party and Republican Party).

   “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” provides in its article 21, para 3 that the will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government: this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

   In the US, however, the election is not held directly by the electorate but indirectly by a handful of electoral colleges. Under this system, the voice of the majority of the working people is overtly ignored as had been revealed in the survey conducted by the Census Bureau. It said that 60m citizens cannot vote due to plenty of cumbersome registering procedures.

   From 2011 to 2012, several states including Texas, Alabama and Pennsylvania enacted their own new election laws. These were made and passed with the aim of restricting the rights of the American minorities and poor residents to vote, which is a clear attack on democracy.

   This finds its expression in imposing on voters to show state-issued photo-accompanied identification cards and in the decreased period of preliminary voting and in more restricted rights of ex-convicts to vote and stricter collective registration rules for voters.

   During 2012 Presidential election in the US, 25 % of voters were assisted by electronic direct record device at the time of voting, which is recognized to be easily manipulated by outsiders. Nearly 54.5 % of those who used electronic ballot were totally ignorant of how their ballots would be processed.

   Restriction on and deprivation of the right to the election of the working people by election law is, in fact, a violation of the obligation of each state to provide a legal guarantee to ensure that human being can participate in the election freely with no restriction and reservation and express his/her will freely. This shows that the US is not the “heaven of liberty and democracy” but the tundra of freedom.

   US and Western countries, to begin with, opposed strongly to include the right to election of the humankind in the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and the “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” while insisting that only the obligation to conduct “free election” should be stipulated in it.

   1-4-2 Election Campaign with Money

   In the US, the right to election of the working people has utterly been trampled down by the money pouring competition.

   The cost for the Presidential election in the US has systematically increased. 100,000US$ was spent by Lincoln alone for Presidential election in 1860, 11 million US$ for Presidential election in 1952 and 100 million US$ in 1972 Presidential election. The cost for Presidential election in 1996 reached 900 million US$, one billion US$ in 2000 and 1.7 billion US$ in 2004.

   According to the VOA report on 16 April 2012, it was confirmed that Obama raised 45 million US$ in February and 53 million US$ in March for the Presidential election to be held that year, while Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate having raised 75 million US$ by mid-April.

   The final report on the cost for election campaign which was submitted before the US Federal Election Committee stated that over two billion US$ had been spent by the end of October during the 2012 Presidential election between the Democratic candidate Obama seeking re-election and Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts State.

   The book “The President bought by Money 2004” describes that the Presidential election campaign is so costly that only billionaire or person who is able to get financial donations from large businesses or powerful organizations can run for candidacy.

   2,000~3,000 US$ is spent for 30-second broadcast of the US Presidential election campaign in ABC TV channel. For this 30-second broadcast to gain the support from the voters, it needs a repetitive broadcast to the tune of 1,200~1,300 times. The total cost for this goes to over 2.8 million US$.

   Likewise is for the election of US Congressmen and women. The “Washington Post” exposed that 3.98 billion US$ had been spent at the time of the mid-term election in November 2010, highest cost in the US history. The candidates for the seats at the US Senate and House broke a record of mid-term fund raising by having raked already 1.5 US$ in October before the beginning of the election.

   Fair election is no word in US under such election system, that is “Money wins the race”. Working people belonging to “We Are 99%” are only spectators in the stadium.

   The “New York Times” reported on October 22, 2010 that 8 out of 10 respondents in the poll had said that they would want to see the restriction of the election cost.

   The restriction on the campaign cost only can’t change the anti-popular and reactionary election competition and its system in the US and Western countries where the “value” based on the law of jungle is deeply embedded.

   The election campaign begins, is staged and ends with money in the US and Western countries. This, itself, is a violation of the human rights, which is incompatible with the international instruments on human rights.

   1-4-3 Meddling in and Criticism of other Countries in their Elections

   The US claims that the Presidential or parliamentary elections do not stand up to the international standard, are not fair and are fraudulent in some countries. On the contrary, the US turns away itself from and connives at the elections of some other countries despite the high-pitched call of the international society that those are unfair.

   The US logic is that everything is fair if it is in US interest, but not if it is out of. This is really a double standard.

   US high officials stepped in calling for a fair election and freedom of media at a time of election to choose a new President who would succeed President Chavez of Venezuela when he passed away in 2013. After the election was over, it found a vault in the election process.

   The US President, in his statement questioning the legitimacy of the result of the Presidential election in Venezuela, made such remarks of interference as saying that the election result should be reinvestigated and such process would be useful for political dialogue and help promote democracy in the country.

   When the President Lukashenko of Belarus took office in January 2011, the US and Western countries invoked sanctions against Belarus saying the election “was unfair and fraudulent”.

   Those sanctions include the travel ban on 158 government officials of Belarus to US and the Western countries.

   Officials of the US and the Western countries also criticized Central Election Committee of Russia over its internal procedure on registration of Presidential candidates.

   When some complex issues surfaced throughout the Duma election for the Russian Presidential election at the end of 2011, the US took that opportunity to question the “fair election” criticizing it as fraud and so on and forth. Furthermore, the US attempted to replicate such an occurrence as the “Orange revolution” of Ukraine which took place under the US sponsorship by providing financial support to anti-governmental organizations through the USAID Office in Russia.

   Following the US policy against Russia, the European Parliament appealed to declare the election result null and void in its resolution of December 14, 2011 on the election of Russian Duma.

   In his statement delivered at the UN General Assembly in 2013, President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe said that the US and Western countries denied the election result of Russia although the election in Russia was held in peace, freely and fairly.

   When Mahanda Rajapaksa was re-elected President in Sri Lanka on January 26, 2010, the US put pressure upon Sri Lanka over an excuse to investigate the doubt of the election calling it “fraudulent one”.

   The US and Western countries, while calling unfair the elections being held in the countries they don’t like, instigate the anti-government forces there. Its criminal purpose lies in the fact that they are trying to use the elections as a leverage to change the political systems and establish pro-US and pro-Western governments.

   The slander to and interference into “election issue” of other countries is a criminal act which flagrantly violates the principles of respect for sovereignty, non-interference in internal affairs and national self-determination. These principles were laid down in various documents of international law such as the “Declaration on the Principles of International Law between States based on the UN Charter”.

   The US and Western countries can never be free from the liability to piling up a crime whereby they violate the rights to election of their citizens in their countries while infringing upon the rights to election of other peoples.

   1-5 Right to Take Part in Government Administration

   1-5-1 Exclusion of the Working People from Composition in Government Structures

   The article 21, paragraph 2 of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and article 25 of the “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” stipulate that everyone has the right to equal access to politics and public service in his country.

   But, the rights of the human being to freely take part in state affair are not ensured properly in the state administration systems of the US and Western countries, which are all organized and in operation to the contrary of the interests of the majority of the people.

   The US and Western countries claim that they provide people with equal opportunities and conditions to take part in public affairs but all of their power and administrative bodies are filled in by those representing the interests of monopoly plutocracies while excluding those who represent the interests of the people.

   Some people of worker or peasant origin are allowed to take part in the public affairs but they are just no more than smoke-screens to cover up their unpopularity and reactionary nature.

   The US Congress is the anti-democracy and unpopular ruling body formed, in the name of people, by monopoly plutocracies who are disconnected with people.

   On its appearance, the US Congress is formed by election according to the principle of “People’s power”, but it is actually built on a closed basis that excludes the people.

   All steps and procedures of the Congressional election including the election qualification system are designed to exclude the people. This makes the US Congress to be composed only of monopoly plutocracies and their followers who take control of both the Democratic and Republic parties, not of those represented by people.

   A political scientist of the US wrote in his work that the US Congress is the most notorious body as it has not a representation system.

   A US organization disclosed the unpopularity and conservatism in the formation of the US Congress saying that the fixed number of senators is 100 and 40 among them are billionaires. In addition, over 98% of the sitting members of the House of Representatives have been re-elected for the past 3 terms, leaving no room for a new member.

   According to the survey result by the Centre for Responsible Politics, a US civil society organization, 268 Congressmen, half of the US Congressmen, were millionaires in 2012.

   This does not end in US Congress. All federal and state organs are becoming life-long serving and bureaucratic bodies completely cut off from the people.

   Only 23.3% of registered voters did vote at the time of electing the mayor of Los Angeles in May 2013. The mayor was elected with 222,300 votes which accounts for only 12.4% of total registered voters.

   This demonstrates that the majority of US citizens have turned their backs on the election and activities of state organs which are composed of only privileged circles.

   It remains as a dream for a representative of working class origin to become a President or Congressman in the US society which is anti-popular and anti-human rights.

   The same goes for other Western countries who pretend to be a society respecting women. In these countries, percentage of women’s participation in state affairs remains at a very low level.

   1-5-2 Protecting Interests of Elite Circles in State Governance

   Genuine politics and fair governance for the people are unimaginable in the US and other Western countries where law of the jungle prevails and money decides everything. The US Congress – in its composition and activities - is ruling machinery that only serves for the interests of giant monopolies while completely ignoring the interests of its people.

   One of the strongest powers exercised by the US Congress is the adoption, amendment and nullification of a law. However, the proponents of bills to the Congress are monopoly capitalists and not individual Congressman. It is needless to say that those bills proposed, reviewed and adopted by these elite circles contradict to the independent demand of the people.

   The US Congress passes only those bills that suit the interests and demand of the magnates while those contradicting them can never be adopted.

   The Congress held more than 100 debates regarding the draft bill on banning firearms from last century to this century, but failed to adopt it simply because it runs counter to the interests of monopolistic cartels which rely on profit from production and sale of firearms.

   According to an article by Francis Fukushima, a researcher at Centre for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law, Stanford University, US, contributed to “Washington Post” website on October 4, 2013, several political rings representing the views of a handful of individuals can block any actions of majority forces and even that of the government.

   At the end of 2012, the “Washington Post” released a data indicating more than 2.5 times increase in average income for the members of the House of Representatives from 1984 to 2009. The amount reached 35 times higher than that of ordinary US citizens in 2009.

   It is quite natural that such wealthy Congressmen care nothing about hard life of the working people that form the majority of US society.

   The administrative bodies under each state in the US embellish the system they have as “democratic” since it guarantees independence. But, that system exists only for the interests of the elite class. They indulge themselves in the “work” that has nothing to do with the “welfare of the people”.

   The laws and regulations of each state in the US are a collection of hundreds of abnormal and inhuman laws and regulations; these include prohibiting bath once a week; fine a person when he frowns at a dog; ban singing in swimming suit; ban licking a frog; no one is allowed to howl in public places; no couple whether or not they are married can sleep naked in a rented house; a tramp cannot beg for money unless he owns US$ 10 worth “certificate”.

   It is obvious that the legislative and administrative institutions of each state existing for adoption and implementation of such abnormal and inhuman laws and regulations do not stand for promotion of human rights of working people.

   The ignorance and negligence of the interests of people by the state organs in the US and other Western countries is a anti-human rights crime that does not comply with the obligations which they assume under the international human rights instruments that call for every state to be responsible for taking legal and other steps to guarantee economic and cultural life of its people.

   1-6 Right to Self-Determination

   1-6-1 Open Intervention in the Internal Affairs of Sovereign States

   Today, when the humankind is at height of civilization, the political sovereignty and right to self-determination of sovereign states are being violated due to the attempts by US and Western countries to interfere into the internal affairs of other countries.

   To rob, kill and trample upon; this is the “value” of the US and Western countries. This serves as strategy and overriding objective of the US and Western countries to dominate the world.

   The instruments on international law including the UN Charter (Article 2, Paragraph 7), stipulate that any state has the right to choose its own political, economic and social system freely without any intervention of the other countries.

   All states have no right to interfere directly or indirectly in the matters of the other countries under any pretext and they must ban all acts which object the political, economic and cultural elements of sovereign states and pursue violation of sovereignty.

   But, the US and Western countries take no account of the principles of non-interference in internal affairs and rights to national self-determination and the international law which oblige states not to violate and trample upon the national sovereignty and interest of other countries and nations and resolve all domestic issues independently according to their own judgment and decision.

   “Human Rights” and “Democracy” is the main slogan and stereotyped tool often used by the US in its attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.

   In 2007, US President George W. Bush claimed that it is the US goal to make Iraq democratized, governed by the rule of law, the Iraqis’ human rights respected and become an ally of anti-terror war. However, due to the US interference in the internal affairs and the military invasion by the multinational armed forces, Iraq turned into a theatre of rowdy human rights violations, not a “model of democratization”.

   It is just the independent countries against imperialism which become main targets for the attempts by the US and Western countries to interfere into the internal affairs of those countries, all of which are committed under the mask of “human rights” and “democracy”.

   The US, when it failed to overthrow Cuba by force, put up reactionaries as “human rights defenders” and dictated its will to provide “freedom” to their anti-government activities. When such scheme does not work any longer, the US has imposed severe blockade and sanctions against Cuba.

   The US ignored the legitimate demand of the Venezuelans when they had aspired after independence, socialism and peace. It is still going all its way to plunder the rich resources of Venezuela under the pretext of human rights.

   The US put up some EU member states, Japan and south Korea, which follow US hostile policy against DPRK, in its frame-up and distortion about the true picture of the human rights system and the enjoyment of it in DPRK. It is based on this distorted attempt that it is pointing at the human rights situation in DPRK and is hell-bent on its criminal act of interfering into its internal affairs and seeking a regime change in DPRK by bringing up the DPRK human rights issue at international fora. (See the report of the DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies which was circulated as an official document of the UNGA and UNSC.)

   The US says that no other country can match US in “making effort to defend human rights” and publishes its annual “human rights report” by State Department which is neither afforded nor recognized by anybody. The report is at random in its analysis and criticism about the human rights issues of many countries in the world.

   The US “Report on Human Rights” is not only a document of political provocation but also an instrument for invasion to trample upon the sovereignty of sovereign states and human rights of peoples over the “human rights issue”.

   What kind of human rights system to set up, what kind of human rights policy to adopt and how to change and develop the chosen human rights system and policy are internal affairs that belong to sovereignty of states and national right to self-determination. Nobody can poke his nose in this.

   Division and disorder were created not only in political circle but also in society as a whole by the pro-American and Western organizations and bodies without exception in those countries which accepted “multi-party system” and “political pluralism” forced upon them by the US and the West under the signboard of “democracy”.

   Some countries belatedly came to be reasoned with their mistakes and try to save a difficult situation, but the US and Western countries are seizing upon this as an excuse of interference into the internal affairs of those countries while taking an issue with “human rights violation”, “obliteration of freedom” and “absence of democracy” in those countries.

   Any attempt by the US and Western countries to put as a model of their “democracy” and force it upon other countries on an unconditional basis is an act of insult and scoff to people in those countries. It is also a grave crime of infringing upon the sovereignty of sovereign states.

   The criminal act of the US and Western countries to use the “human rights” and “democracy” as the means of interference into the internal affairs of other countries as well as a political pressure and an excuse of sanction and blockade can never be tolerated, and it deserves due legal punishment.

   1-6-2 Overthrow of Government

   “The United States did not promote democracy, but it got rid of the views, parties and people unfavorable to it. This is how it saw to it that those who are obedient to US came to power. Any government which tried to conduct a progressive reform could not have avoided the intervention by the US.”

   “Since the end of the World War II, the US administration overthrew more than 50 legally elected governments worldwide, killed over 50 political leaders and tried to suppress national independence movements on over 30 occasions”.

   The above quotation was made at a ceremony held in Moscow, Russia in 2013 to introduce the book “Strangulation of Democracy: Intervention of the CIA and the Pentagon during the Cold War”, which was written by the American journalist William Bloom.

   According to the book “Overthrow: from Hawaii to Iraq”, written by Kings, a journalist of US newspaper “New York Times”, US made plots to overthrow the governments of many countries such as Nicaragua, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Guatemala, Chile, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq and so on, during the last 100 years in order to realize its ambition for domination.

   According to data, the US conducted over 900 assassination and terror operations against the prominent politicians and high government officials of several countries worldwide in the period from 1961 to 1976.

   The US attempts to overthrow government took place in Latin America on a much more serious basis. For instance, after World War II, a Latin American country experienced 4 times of coup d’état in 3 years which also led to assassination of its President while the country experiencing 8 times of coup d’état within 5 years, all of which were conducted by the preconceived plots of the US.

   On 19 August 2013, the US magazine “Foreign Policy” made public a document which recognized the fact that the CIA backstage manipulated the military coup d’état in Iran in 1953.

   According to it, the military coup d’état which overthrew Mosadic, the then prime minister took place by the order of CIA as part of the US foreign policy.

   The US attempts to overthrow the governments of sovereign states did not only take place in the past, but it continues even today.

   According to the Cuban newspaper “Granma” published in May 2013, the US has not ceased, even for a moment, its plotted attempt to overthrow the government of Bolivia since President Evo Morales was elected as President.

   The US sent the spies under the guise of diplomat to this country to foster the sabotage activities and it is putting pressure on that country when the government took steps to expel them.

   Recently, the US is becoming all the more outspoken in its attempt to overthrow the legitimate government of Venezuela.

   The US is fanning up the coup d’état even by mobilizing the mass media. According to data, CNN is broadcasting through a Spanish channel against Venezuela for 24 hours a day.

   The broadcasts run through an attempt to cause instability and appeal for open coup d’état in this country.

   On May 5, 2013, the Venezuelan government newspaper “Coreo del Orinoco” exposed the US maneuvers of intervention into its internal affairs and branded the US administration as an expert to invade other countries under the pretext of “freedom”.

   The US Ambassador to Ecuador made a plot to create a social unrest and overthrow the government while being involved in the anti-government political activities over the “human rights issue” in that country.

   According to CIA’s material on October 28, 2011, the US squandered 54.6 billion US$ that year for destruction and overthrow of the governments in other countries as well as for the intelligence and espionage activities against them.

   The US continued attempt to overthrow other governments is an extreme act of violating the state sovereignty and human rights of a sovereign state.

   1-6-3 Infringement upon Sovereignty by Force

   To trample upon and obliterate the sovereignty of other countries by force is an act of aggression, and it is all too dangerous criminal act of disrupting the sound and normal relations between states.

   Therefore, the “UN Charter” stipulates in paragraph 4 of Article 2 that all Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the UN.

   This was also confirmed by other instruments on international law including the “Declaration on the Principle of International Law between States based on the Charter of the UN” and the “Treaty on Peaceful Solution of International Dispute.”

   But, the US and Western countries adhered to the policy of power and constantly conducted brigandish armed invasion and aggression against sovereign states.

   Its typical example is armed invasion against Grenade and Panama in 1980s and indiscriminate bombing on Yugoslavia in 1990s and armed invasion against Afghanistan and Iraq in the new century.

   Owing to the military intervention and armed invasion by the US and Western countries, state sovereignties were severely violated and people were reduced to a miserable lot where their basic rights to existence are not ensured and violated (This will be mentioned more in detail in 2-1, 5-5) and global peace and security are in a great threat.

   At the end of 2013, a US survey institution for public opinions posed a question “Which country is the biggest threat to the world peace?” with a target to 68,000 people in 68 different countries. Many respondents pointed out the US as the biggest threat to the world peace.

   This is the voice of anger by the humankind against the US, a cancerous existence to world peace and security and the worst human rights violator. It is also a redicule to the US that shows off as “world policeman”.

   Mark Twain, famous American writer and journalist of late 19th century said that it was good to have discovered America but it would have been better if it were not discovered at all.

   What he said is considered even today as an expression of anger and resentment against the US, a ringleader of invasion, war and plunder, a root cause of all misfortunes and sufferings and a destabilizer of peace and stability of the world. This is also an expression indicating that the US is is driven into the corner where it can’t co-exist on this planet and is fated to be in a dumping ground of the times and history.

   All countries aspiring for independence, peace and stability should sharpen their vigilance against the recent US attempt to slander and interfere into the intenral affairs of soverieng states, which are all committed under the guise of “protection of human rights”.

   It is none other than the US that has its driving goal of militerary interevention ino the soverien states under the pretext of “protection of human rights”. For this, it would neccesiate the creation of social chaos and disorder by egging the anti-government forces of ech country and put a pressure against any attempt against them under the excuse of “suppression of human rights”.

   The US can never escape from its crime of violating in cold blood the sovereign rights and the rights to self-determination, no matter what kind of “ground or reason” they may come up with.

   2 Grave Violation of Civil Rights

   The US and Western countries seriously violate the civil rights of the people, which are all provided under the international human rights laws and regulations.

   Violation of and infringement upon civil rights finds its severe expression in the fields of right to life, right not to be tortured, right not to be enslaved, right to physical freedom and safety, right to freedom of private life and correspondence and right to fair trial.

   2-1 Right to Life

   2-1-1 Threat to Personal Safety by Crimes with Firearms

   Right to life is a right proper to human beings. To ensure it is one of of primary issues in ensuring human rights.

   “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” stipulate that all people have primary rights to life and no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his or her life.

   In the US and Western countries, especially in the US, rights to life of people are ruthlessly trampled upon owing to the deluge of firearms-related crimes, making people live in anxiety and terror from constant threat to personal safety.

   According to the US magazine “Foreign Policy” and its newspaper “New York Times”, 30,000 people lose their lives and 200,000 people are injured every year, all because of firearms and firearms-related murder cases that reach up to 12,000 a year.

   FBI report said in 2013 that firearms were used in 69.3% of the murders and in 41% of robberies throughout the country. Mayor of New York City said that 1,093 firearms-related criminal cases were committed in the city in 2013.

   Danger of firearms-related crimes in the US is that even those who have nothing to do with the criminals often die undeserved death and such crimes may take place at all times regardless of the time or a place.

   On January 4, 2014, in Houston City, Texsas State, US, an unidentified criminal broke into a house and went rampage on a shooting, killing one person and injuring 2 people.

   Firearms-related crimes in the US started from the very beginning of the New Year of 2014 and went on almost every day and everywhere since January 13, 2014.

   Back-to-back accident of causing a life loss happens, when a firefarm is placed into the hand of just a child.

   In April, 2014, a two-year old boy shot his eleven-year old sister to death in Philadelphia, and a boy shot his ten-year-old elder sister to death in Savannah, Georgia state, US.

   According to the Reuter News Agency on November 10, 2010, the US comes top in the world in terms of the number of weapons under individual possession. In 2010, around 90,000,000 people possessed 200,000,000 various kinds of weapons. In 2014, the number of weapons under individual possession increased up to approximately 300,000,000.

   The US is the world’s biggest store for weapons by individuals, the biggest civil weapon import market, weaponry power testing ground, weaponry black market, munitions factory and the biggest weaponry market.

   The US is the one and only ignorant and uncouth country in the world where it is deemed as a kind of fashion and everyday occurrence for a civilian with arms to kill people at random out of his own emotion and impulse.

   Firearms-related crimes in the US are attributable to the American soil that “nurtures” the culture of firearms, which includes anti-popular US Constitution, reactionary culture of violence and pursuit of the profit of the big business.

   Possession of weapons by individuals is all allowed by the US Constitution and “the right to protect oneself with a gun” is a symbol of the American spirit that permeates with an extreme man-hate idea that you should survive at the cost of sacrificing others.

   Article 2 of the amendment to the Constitution adopted in 1791 stipulated as follows: “in order to esure safety in the free state, well-managed militia is needed. Therefore, the right to carry firearms of the citizens cannot be violated”.

   One US politician mentioned that the children of the US, by the time they graduate from junior middle school, would have seen 8,000 murder scenes and 100,000 violence scenes through the media and, by the time they graduate senior middle school, they would have seen violence scenes twice as much.

   Violence with firearms is in fashion in the American culture and the mentality reflecting such a fashion is being embodied in US politics and diplomacy. It is the US that does not hesitate to use military forces when diplomacy fails to get what they want.

   Citizens demand much more to restrict the use of firearms among the increased crimes by firearms in the US. Despite this, this demad has not been met. The reason for this is also related with the influences of the firearms manufacturers and sales businesses.

   They even control Presidential elections as they please, by relying on the huge amount of money they get through firearms. They even do not allow the Congress to adopt the laws on firearms restriction if any bid by the Congress does come in conflict with their interests.

   Many big and small pro-firearms bodies exist in the US like the National Rifle Association, all of which are hell-bent on curbing rifle control.

   This is a US reality where the failure of the US administration to take any step to stop firearms-related crime is fanning the citizens to buy firearms on a large scale, giving firearm producers and sales businesses a boom while claiming the lives of many people instead.

   The US is a living hell where not a single day passes by without gunshot and it is a “paradise” for criminals.

   A Peruvian body, exposing crimes with firearms in the US, warned that “It is none other than the US who is the chief criminal who should sit as defendant in the dock of international court of human rights in 21 century. The US should stop posing as ‘the world judge of human rights’ at once and should solve its own human rights problems before criticizing “human rights status of other countries”.

   2-1-2 Murder owing to All Kinds of Crimes

   In the US and Western countries, right to life of people is mercilessly trampled upon not only because of firearms-related crimes but also all kinds of violent crimes.

   No country on the earth is pervaded with all kinds of crimes as in US, which makes the right to life of the human be exposed to constant threat.

   According to the 2008 report on crimes released by the US Justice Department, there were 4,900,000 cases of violence, 16,300,000 cases of property violence and 137,000 cases of theft in one year.

   According to the report released by FBI, there were more than 1,000,000 cases of violence in 2010 and there were 1,214,464 cases of violence nationwide in 2012.

   Information Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China released a report in 2013 on the “2012 human rights record of the US”. According to it, there were 1,203,564 cases of violence in the US in 2011, which means 386.3 cases per 100,000 people.

   Violence that people of over 12-year old suffer every year amounts up to 5,200,000 cases in the US.

   There is a sudden rise in the crime rate in the US. Among them, in St. Louise, Missouri, rate of victims of violence reaches up to 2,070 persons per 100,000.

   According to statistics, in New York City, there were approximately 750 criminal cases in 2011 and 366 criminal cases in 2012, which shows the occurrence of more than one criminal case every day.

   Some years ago, when New York City was free from a crime for the first time, the mass media hit the headlines on it. This shows how rampant the crime is in the US.

   Once a criminal, always a criminal, as saying goes; members of the US Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan committed a crime of gang-raping a woman in her twenties.

   Various violent crimes which involve firearms-related crimes in the US rooted deep down in the soil of US society as a malignant tumor that cannot be cured. Ideological basis that prevails over the US society is individualism based on the idea of “money talks” and therefore confrontation and contradiction between individuals, races and political forces reach extremes to exert direct and negative influence to the overall society. It is a commonplace occurrence in the US society that does not mind murder and violence for the sake of one’s interest.

   It is no more than a daydream to “protect human rights” under such corrupt and decayed social system of the US that is not even capable of protecting lives of its own citizens from various crimes.

   The Western countries also have criminal records of violence that is no less than the US. On January 28, 2015, one Mafia organization that used to live on various crimes was detected and exposed in northern Italy and 160 criminals were arrested.

   In Western countries, many kinds of violence and terrorist organizations such as Mafia are active and people live in constant threats to life and anxiety.

   On January 7, 2015, there was a violence case in the home office of the daily newspaper "Charlie Hebdau". Around 11:30, armed gunmen with black masks burst into the office and went through shooting rampage, killing 10 people.

   In Japan boasting of "material prosperity", one girl struck an old man in his seventies with an axe to mercilessly kill him in Nagoya on January 26, 2015, throwing the public into consternation.

   Western countries and Japan should solve first their own crime issues that prevail over their own societies before taking an issue with the “human rights issues” of somebody following in the footsteps of the US.

   2-1-3 Violence against the Life by Police Officers

   Police has a duty to keep social order and protect the rights of citizens from crimes and violation of laws in any country.

   But, the police of US and Western countries are ill-reputed as tyrannical police, torturing police, homicidal police and scandalous police and even as cannibal police.

   According to the data from Amnesty International, a non-governmental organization, at least 500 people died in the US from 2001 till February 2012 because of electric shock weapon by the police. According to the report from this organization, 90% of the victims were unarmed and bare-handed.

   In New Orleans, US, several policemen in active service committed the crime of shooting several passers-by at a bridge without reason to have killed several of them and injuring many of them under the pretext of keeping public security when hurricane Katrina was sweeping through several regions of the US in August, 2005.

   These murderers appeared in court in handcuffs in 2010.

   At first, in conspiracy with the investigators in charge, they cooked up as if the victims were armed criminals and with the help of false witness, they misled the truth and were acquitted. However, owing to the protest from the bereaved families and social pressure to solve this case and punish the real murderers, the case was re-examined to reveal clear evidences. As a result, the murderers were prosecuted.

   In July 2010, there was a case that a policeman fired at an innocent person and killed him at the railway station of Oakland, California, US.

   According to official data, the number of innocent people, who died by the police gunfire from 2001 to October 2009, covers hundreds.

   In the US, video record was broadcast, showing a policeman bursting into a hospital and swinging his police club at a patient who was groaning with pain in broad daylight, which evoked much public criticism.

   In 2012, a 28-year old policeman in New York City attempted murder of 100 women and he even put their names, addresses, pictures as well as their physical characteristics in his computer to this end. And, during a wedding ceremony, the bridegroom died a tragic death by rain of bullets by three policemen.

   In November 2014, a boy in his teens was shot to death by two bullets from the police in the children’s park in Cleveland, Ohio simply because he didn’t obey police orders to put his hands up. The policemen who committed murder justified it as “execution of his official duties”.

   It is none other than the US society where a policeman who is supposed to prevent crime commits a crime himself and justifies it to go unpunished.

   According to the TASS of Russia, almost 400 innocent people die in the US every year owing to the tyranny of policemen and, among them, only a few are prosecuted for murder and very few are declared guilty.

   For the past 15 years, there was only one policeman in 2005 who was convicted guilty after he was prosecuted. However, the court decision to the murderer was that he should do “something useful” within 500 hours.

   In Western countries as well, criminal acts of the policemen that violate the lives of people are openly committed not only when they suppress various demonstrations and gatherings but also in every day life.

   Who would protect rights of their citizens in the US and Western countries where the police commit crimes in the open air under the patronage of the authorities and how could the rights to existence stipulated by the international human rights laws be protected by law.

   2-1-4 Terrorism under the Pretext of “Counter-Terrorism”

   “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” adopted on December 9, 1948 stipulates the massacre of the group of people committed with the purpose of annihilating a nation, tribe, human race or religious group as a crime to be strictly punished.

   Today, the US and Western countries are violating without shame such legal provisions that were adopted in order to prevent and punish holocaust that was committed by fascist Germany and Japan in World War II.

   The US “War on Terror” that is expanded into Pakistan after Afghanistan and Iraq for the past 10 years is the unheard-of terrorist crime against the countries and the crime of holocaust.

   According to data, every year from 2001 to 2011, approximately 14,000 up to 110,000 innocent people died owing to the US-led “anti-terrorist war”.

   5 years after the US invasion against Iraq in March 2003 under the pretext of “the elimination of the weapons of mass destruction”, “provision of democracy” and “protection of human rights”, 1,205,000 Iraqis were dead and 1,000,000 are missing, half of whom are children.

   According to UN report on February 4, 2012, civilian casualties during the “War on Terrorism” by the US amount up to 3,021 in 2011 alone. This figure shows 8% increase compared to the previous year.

   UN Aid mission in Afghanistan estimated that at least 10,000 Afghan people were killed from 2007 to July 2011.

   According to an article in the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, approximately 14,400 to 17,200 peaceful citizens (37,200 citizens when indirect deaths are taken into account) were killed in Afghanistan since the beginning of the Operation Enduring Freedom.

   In February, 2011, 65 civilians including 22 women and 30 children were killed by the US army in Kumar Province, Afghanistan.

   In March this year, Afghan minors from 7 to 15 years died because of the helicopter strike from NATO. By the NATO air raid, 7 adults and 1 child were dead in Ziaba village of the Kapisa Province on February 8, 2012 and, on May 27, 6 children and one woman lost their lives.

   In Afghanistan, the US army cut off fingers from the dead as war trophies and committed barbarities such as taking a picture grasping the hair of the civilian corpse.

   The US used weapons of mass destruction at random that were banned by the international conventions such as “BLU-82” fuel gasification bombs and cluster bombs in Afghanistan.

   From 2004 to June 2012, 484 civilians including 168 children were killed by the attack of the US army.

   Many civilians are being killed by the US army in Yemen and Somalia as well. While leading the “War on Terror”, the US not only cruelly massacred the members of different nations to give them serious physical and mental damage but also intentionally imposed such living conditions that can bring about physical annihilation of the nations either entirely or partly by recklessly destroying and looting everything.

   This shows that the US has committed all kinds of crimes that belong to the holocaust in the “War on Terror”.

   Several years have passed since the US declared the end of war in Iraq. But, conflicts between ethnical groups and religious groups go on in Iraq, seriously hampering the smooth development of the society amidst the vicious cycle of terror and retaliation.

   UN reported that there were 7,818 casualties in Iraq in 2013 due to the various kinds of violence and commented that the current situation of Iraq can be compared to a living hell.

   The US depitcs as if the crime of mass killing was committed by the individual soldiers. But, that is an organized killing operation conducted systematically by the government issuance from the beginning to the end.

   The US and the UK had showed off in the past as judges in the court to punish war criminals from the World War II under the veil of “the apostle of peace”. But the tide turns today. The US and the countries that committed mass killing following the US should sit as defendants in the international criminal court that punishes war crimes.

   2-1-5 Killing of Civilians by Drone Strike

   Acts of violation by the US and Western countries against other countries and nations in their rights to life find the expression in killing the civilians by drone strike.

   The US newspaper New York Times exposed in its articles on May 29 and May 31, 2012 that the authorities have consented drone strike on Yemen, Somalia and especially on Pakistan every single time and the drones attacked without even identifying real terrorists, only to kill innocent and peaceful civilians.

   According to the UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur, by the drone strike that started from June 17, 2004, 2,200 people were killed and 600 people were injured in Pakistan.

   According to the data from “the Bureau of Investigation Journalists” of the U.K., 385 US drone strikes killed 2,300~3,700 innocent people and, as long as the drone strikes continue, the number of casualties will continue to increase.

   In 2010 alone, the US committed 110 drone strikes in North Waziristan and its surrounding areas, having killed 2,100 innocent Pakistanis.

   On October 6, 2014 in North Waziristan area, 8 innocent people were killed and 6 were injured from the drone-guided missile attack on a single day.

   According to the data from Russian Foreign Ministry website, 40 civilians were killed in Data Kell village in Pakistan from the US drone strike in March 2011.

   US drone strike killed 58~149 people (with 24~31 children among them) in Yemen in 2011 and 13 peaceful civilians with 3 women among them in 2012. In Somalia, 11~57 civilians (with 1~3 children among them) were killed.

   The US administration, advancing a shameless sophistry that the civilian casualty from drone strike is “secondary loss” that can be fully tolerated, is now further expanding drone strike to other countries.

   The US is now in a craze for developing and producing ultra-supersonic drones with a larger sphere of activity that can take off and land in any place.

   The US drone strike commited under the pretext of “annihilating terrorists and terrorist base” is a crime of anti-human rights and anti-ethics that violates the main principles of international human rights laws and international humanitarian laws that stipulate not to interfere into the sovereign right of a state and territorial integrity.

   Human Rights Watch, a US non-governmental organization, stated in its report that the US drone strikes caused civilian casualties, which is the violation of the international humanitarian law.

   The US former President Carter said in New York Times that the US does not have a right to pose as the “world judge of human rights” and exposed that the civilian killing by US drone strike in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen is a clear violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

   The US drone strike is a crime, no different from the extrajudicial executions that are prohibited by the international law. In May, 2010, Elston, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions stated in his report that the US drone programs do not accord with the international humanitarian laws and standards in the field of human rights protection.

   2-1-6 Crimes that Foster Atrocious Massacre

   Historically, the US and Western countries have constantly committed the atrocities of fostering and instigating human massacre by financing and arming the reactionary governments or anti-government forces in other countries.

   In recent years, the US has been driving the Palestinians to the quagmire of death by fully supporting Israel, a country that fancies slaughter and destruction in the Gaza Strip.

   The Swiss newspaper “Tribune de Genève” revealed that the US had provided Israel with grenades and mortar shells for them to continue their military attacks in the Gaza Strip.

   The US Defense Department has authorized Israel to have unlimited access to the contingency weapons and ammunitions possessed by US forces stationed in Israel. The US House had planned to finance Israel with another millions of dollars in 2014 under the cloak of establishing the missile defense system.

   According to the Malaysian newspaper “Utusan Malaysia”, the US had promised to give military aid worth of 3 billion US dollars to Israel every year starting from 2003. Since 1948, the total US contribution to Israel amounts to 210 billion US dollars.

   With such US “aid” to Israel the Middle East and the Gaza Strip, in particular, has turned an abattoir for the innocent Palestinians.

   In July to August 2014 alone, more than 1,900 Palestinians were killed and more than ten thousand were injured in the Gaza Strip due to the indiscriminate aerial attacks and gunshots of Israel.

   The US acts that foster and instigate the illegal and immoral killings by Israel are extremely serious crimes, violating the “UN Charter” and other international protocols that prohibit threats by force or use of force against other countries’territorial integrity and political independence in whatever means that are incompatible with the objective of the United Nations.

   The US is the root cause of destruction of peace in the Middle East and is the champion of human massacre.

   2-2 Freedom from Torture or Inhumane and Disgraceful Treatment

   2-2-1 Appalling Torture

   Torture is used to force people to make confessions or statements by giving them both physical and mental pain, and therefore, is the most barbarous violation of the moral rights of a person.

   Several international human rights protocols including the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (Article 5), “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” (Article 7) and “Convention on Prohibiting Torture, Other Cruel and Inhumane Treatment and Executions” stipulate that tortures that inflict severe pain to a person, let it be physical or mental, should be strictly prohibited.

   But tortures are considered common practices in the US and Western countries, blatantly violating the human rights of the numerous people.

   The US is the country of torture that practices all sorts of interrogation techniques using both medieval and current science and technological methods.

   According to the US newspaper Chicago Tribune dated July 18, 2010, 20 former prisoners in Chicago had jointly complained to the court that they had suffered mental and physical pain as they had been driven to work, always shackled when they were jailed.

   In Houston, US, there was an incident that 8 policemen in group assaulted an innocent boy.

   The US newspaper New York Times of June 10, 2013 disclosed the situation of mistreatment of detainees as follows; “There seems to be no stop in acts of violence such as rape, insult and assault in the east Mississippi prison. It has become normal for prisoner to attempt suicide or become a mentally deranged person.”

   More than 80,000 prisoners are kept in solitary confinement for a long time in the US. Amnesty International reports that in Arizona only, 2,900 prisoners, i.e., 1 out of 20 including juveniles is locked up in a completely solitary confinement.

   According to the Website of the Information Office of the State Council of China, 12,000 prisoners are held in solitary confinement in California only. In the California’s Pelican Bay prison, more than 400 prisoners are kept in solitary cells for 10 years and in the prison of New York State, 3,800 prisoners are held in solitary confinement every day.

   Such rampant barbarous tortures and punishments are openly carried out with the government’s connivance and encouragement. This is causing miserable deaths of numerous people, not to mention physical and mental sufferings of the prisoners in the US that comprise 25% of the world’s total inmate population.

   Despite this hopeless situation, the White House spokesman said “Tortures are despicable acts. We do not torture. We would not tolerate acts of torture” in the statement issued on the occasion of the Day of the International Support to the Victims of Torture.

   This is none other than a trick to hide the truth about the poor situation in the US where severe tortures and punishments on prisoners are prevalent.

   2-2-2 Sexual Abuses on Prisoners

   It is an important right of women to be respected as a human being who enjoys equal rights with men. They also have the right to be granted proper treatment and condition that fit the physical characteristics of a woman.

   This is written in many international human rights documents and is guaranteed in most countries of the world according to their internal laws and other measures.

   But, right under the Statue of Liberty that poses itself as the symbol of the US, numerous women suffer from violence and rape. (This is detailed in Article 5-2). Women become victims of sexual assaults in detention centers, too.

   According to the data from the Legal Bureau of Statistics under the Justice Department, around 216,000 prisoners in prions and juvenile detention centers suffered from sexual assaults in 2011.

   The total number of victims who have suffered sexual abuses in the detention facilities amounts to around 1.9 million since September 2003.

   In a Texas State prison, a prison officer, pretending to be a doctor, sexually assaulted 5 women in a dispensary.

   The South Carolina Branch Office of the “US National Freedom Union” released a report on regular assaults and other acts of violence to prisoners by police in Los Angeles in September 2011.

   It is reported that prisoners suffer from frequent physical and sexual abuses by the inmates in the same cell that take place with the connivance of the chief warder.

   In view of the sexual abuses to prisoners by prison authorities, “US National Freedom Union”, the non-governmental organization filed a suit to the federal court against L. Bark, the chief warder, on behalf of former and current prisoners who have suffered assaults in the prison.

   Such reality in the US clearly proves the hypocrisy of the US high-level official who dared to say the US rejects torture as it goes against their value and contradictory to the human rights and freedom. He went further to say that we should make efforts to hand over to the future generations a world, free from all acts of torture.

   It is not the “sense of values” of some policemen or chief warders that is causing sexual abuses. It is totally and inevitably caused by the US authorities and the corrupt judicial system that connives and even encourages such abuses.

   Sexual abuses to people who had been imprisoned or detained are criminal acts that severely infringe upon the judicial rights of those people while humiliating and disregarding their personality.

   2-2-3 Poor Conditions of the Prisons

   The US and Western acts of violating the rights of the human being who is entitled to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman and disreputed treatment and punishment is also found in the provision of poor prison facilities for the prisoners.

   According to the “Global Post”, the US Internet News, the total number of prisoners in the US is 25% among the world’s total inmate population, though the US population is only 5% of the world’s population.

   The detention rate of the US is the highest in the world; 743 out of every 100,000 people in Oklahoma, 740 in Delaware, 780 in Louisiana. These figures are incomparable with any other country in the world.

   The “Economist” reported that, among the US adults, 1 out of every 100 is imprisoned.

   Many problems arise from the poor conditions of the facilities that confine such huge number of prisoners.

   In California alone, 141,000 prisoners are imprisoned as of February 2012. This is far exceeding the capacity of 80,000, resulting in prisoners forced to live in a tiny space shared with dozens of others in uncivilized and unhygienic conditions.

   The solitary confinements in the US prisons are cramped cells with no ventilation and natural lights. The cells measure 3.5 by 2.5 meters and many of them are even smaller. In this confinement, the inmates are isolated for up to a whole day or 10 years, even over 40 years.

   This situation in solitary confinement takes a toll on inmates’ physical and mental health.

   In California state prisons, inmates began another hunger strike in July 2011 in protest agsint inhumane living conditions in solitary confinements. According to the data by the center for protection of human rights and constitutional rights, 11,000 prisoners are in solitary confinement in California. Among those, 400 prisoners have reported their living conditions to the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and also to the UN technical group on brutal prison conditions in March 2012.

   Recently, the US is taking so-called measures to stop the criticism of the society and the protests of the prisoners. This is giving rise to other serious acts of violation on human rights, far from improving the prison facilities.

   The US is building prisons on an extensive scale by reducing the expenditure on education. In 2013, one of the city authorities published the plan to close 54 schools under the pretext of reducing budget deficit and building prisons.

   Consequently, the already-expensive school and university expenses in the US have risen yet ridiculously higher, making the students to be in deep debt and pushing them to commit crimes.

   Another challenge in improving the prison facilities in the US is the thriving of the “business” that exploits the labor of the prisoners.

   1 out of every 10 US prisoners are held in profit-making prisons and, in 2010, 2 private prison companies earned around 3 billion US dollars.

   According to the information from the human rights protection activists and those who have served terms in the US prisons, most of the private reform institutions do not provide even the minimum conditions in prisons.

   2-2-4 Establishment of Overseas Secret Detention Centers and Mistreatment of Detainees

   The brutal torture of the US and Western countries that seriously violate the international law is more prevalent in overseas secret detention centers.

   According to the US newspaper “Washington Post”, the US administration had authorized the CIA to operate a secret detention program which involved the establishment of clandestine detention facilities known as “dark sites” in many parts of the world such as Poland, Afghanistan, Iraq and Thailand 6 days after the September 11. This has been kept utterly secret.

   On December 11, 2014, the south Korean “KBS” reported that the CIA has established and been operating secret detention camps in 9 countries including Afghanistan and Iraq. It also informed that the CIA has established 47 facilities worldwide furnished with torture tools. Among them, 21 are in Europe, 12 in Africa, 13 in Asia and 1 in Canada.

   In 2008, one CIA official acknowledged that the US had operated a secret detention camp called as “dark zone” nearby Warsaw, Poland from 2002 to 2005.

   According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the application of torture practices including “waterboarding” in the secret detention

   camps during the period of May – July 2005 were approved by Vice-President Cheney, National Security Adviser Rice, Attorney General Ashcroft, Bellinger, Legal Adviser to the State Security Council, Gonzales, Whitehouse Legal Adviser and Tennete, Director of CIA.

   Upon the authorization of the US President, various brutal and inhumane torture methods including waterboarding are introduced professionally and systematically in the overseas secret detention camps. These methods were then sent to the US Defence Department and CIA for reference.

   The US “New Yorker Magazine” revealed that tortures on detainees were carried out systematically at the instigation of the US military and intelligence agency. The US newspaper “New York Times” also revealed that a US soldier, who had been involved in atrocious mistreatment to the Iraqi prisoners, admitted to have received the order to interrogate the captives only after the tortures.

   The CIA has squandered no less than 81 million US dollars in developing brutal torture techniques.

   The tortures practiced in overseas secret detention camps, that are established under the authorization and approval of the US authorities, were clearly severe barbarous ones that were strictly prohibited by the international conventions including the “Convention on Prohibiting Torture” and the “Geneva Convention”.

   On December 9, 2014, the report of the US Congress made public the CIA’s extremely brutal tortures to hundreds of detainees for several years. The torture program included waterboarding, not letting the detainees sleep for 180 hours in an uncomfortable posture of hands tied above the head, rectal rehydration, locking up in a coffin-like box for 200 hours, hitting the heads against the walls, hanging upside down in diapers and sexual abuses.

   One of a detainee was nearly drowned by waterboarding on 183 occasions and some even died from low body temperature, still shackled.

   The torture program revealed in the US Congress report is just one tip of the iceberg.

   In the Abu Ghraib prison, the US army made the naked detainees crawl on all fours and rode on them as on donkey. They also did electrode shock to genitals and deliberately gave them pain by “stitching the wounds” after stabbing all over the body. The US women soldiers stripped the male detainees and sexually abused them.

   The Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp is a medieval torture chamber that seriously violates human rights. It is also a torture exhibition place and a concentration camp that fully shows the US crimes of torture.

   Hundreds of “terrorist” suspects detained in the Guantanamo prison have become subjects of living-body tests. The US does not hesitate to carry out forced feedings to inmates who were chained to chairs by armed US soldiers and tubes were inserted through the noses of the detainees, just because they have joined the hunger strike to protest against torture.

   Though the US President promised to close down Guantanamo prison, it is nothing but a trick to evade his responsibility for tortures. The US should acknowledge their own crimes of having committed brutal tortures. The US should be brought to due trial by the international community.

   On December 10, 2014, the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism called for the prosecution of the high-level officials of the US government who have approved and enforced torture in compliance with the so-called state security policy.

   According to the information, 21 Western countries including UK had actively cooperated with the US torture crimes by providing secret detention camps and interrogation centers to CIA and granting move and stay of the detainees across and inside their territories.

   After these facts were disclosed to public, the Western countries are struggling to deny their crimes of having cooperated with US in the torture program by arguing that only the operation of CIA secret detention camps were allowed without any authority to torture.

   The Western countries who have been involved in the US torture program in collaboration with the US can never escape from the responsibility of having committed crimes. They should also be duly punished as violators of human rights.

   2-3 Freedom from Slavery

   2-3-1 Slave Trade, Prostitution and Human Traffic

   Maintaining slavery system and slave trade is a barbarous human rights violation that totally ignores the dignity and position of a human being by trading them like animals or products.

   Every human being has a right to be free from slavery, a sacred personal right that should be ensured at all circumstances.

   Slave trade is prohibited without exception in the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”, “Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery” and in other international human rights protocols that ban all other sorts of discrimination.

   It was in 1983 that the abolishment of slavery was officially declared.

   However, the slave trade and prostitution, human trafficking for the purpose of prostitution is predominant on a global scale. It is none other than the US and Western countries who should be held responsible for this.

   The number of victims of human trafficking and people in the state of slavery in the US is far exceeding the number of people who died from murder in one year.

   While carrying an article about the US Kennedy Human Rights Center awarding the prize of honor to a female lawyer who scored achievements in the fight against human trafficking in New York in 2012, the Polish newspaper reported that this fact alone is a typical example that shows the seriousness of human trafficking issue in the US.

   The newspaper said the US that publishes annual report on global human trafficking is itself a country with serious issue of human trafficking. The newspaper said the problem lies in the US authorities who refuse to officially recognize the existence of the issue in its country.

   According to the statistics of the United Nations Bureau of Drugs and Crimes, the money involved in the global slave trade market amounts to 30-40 billion US dollars with around 2.5 million victims of which 1.2 million are children.

   The US and Western countries control the most part of the human trafficking market for prostitution and slavery, making tremendous money out of the slave trade groups.

   These countries talk a lot about so-called “cooperation” and “collaboration” in the judicial sector to put an end to the slave trade. However, such collaboration is aimed at hiding their crimes and trading even more “slaves”.

   The new generation of US slave traders - the descendents of the American cannibals who fancied selling the skin of American Indians’ head - should be given a stern trial. Also, the authorities of the US and Western countries who are encouraging such slave trade in order to make huge profit should be brought to justice by the international court.

   2-3-2 Forced Labor

   When talking about slave, people often think of those black people with feet in shackle and backs chapped from whipping, who often appear in the old tales.

   But, even today in a civilized world, numerous people are forced slave work in same conditions in the US and Western countries.

   On January 29, 2014, the British Daily Mail’s web page published New York photographer Scott Houston’s photos featuring working and living conditions of the inmates in Arizona State prisons.

   The images show inmates shacked together while working and eating, five on one chain with just nine inches between them.

   Houston said he was left with the impression that the chained inmates working together in a line were similar to the days of slavery of 200 years before.

   So many people from all over the world including Central and South America are suffering forced labor in the farms and factories of the US.

   In US farms, many people are exploited by the employer and suffer forced labor. Such forced labor continues until the debt has been paid.

   In June 2012, it was found that the US “Walmart” has been forcing 8 Mexican laborers to work 16 to 24 hours a day by using violence, after having locked them up like animals in the Louisiana Seafood Processing Factory.

   The US Department of Labor investigated on the incident and issued a total of 622 warnings on violations of labor law to 12 out of 18 supply companies of the “Walmart” network.

   Currently, in the US and Western countries, the requirement for forced labor is increasing and its scope is growing in the industrial sites.

   The International Labor Organization estimates that around 12.3 million people worldwide have fell into victims of slavery in many countries including the US and Western countries. Some experts argue that the number is 27 million.

   Forced labor is an extremely serious crime that completely infringes upon the personality and dignity of a human being. It also damages the physical body and its growth.

   According to the Treaty on Forced Labor in 1930 and the Treaty on Abolishing Forced Labor in 1959, forced labor means all sorts of labor and services that are forced on a person against the will with the threats of certain punishment.

   The forced labor in the US and Western countries has no relevance whatsoever to the exceptional forced labor stipulated in the Treaty on Forced Labor. This clearly proves that these countries are not the “human rights defenders” and rather “slave-owners” of today.

   2-4 Rights to Physical Freedom and Security

   2-4-1 Illegal Arrest and Detention

   Rights to physical freedom and security, one of the important rights of a human being are violated in the US and Western countries, the so-called “states of rule of law”, by illegal arrests and detention.

   According to many international rules, regulations and protocols of human rights including the “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”, no one should be deprived of freedom unless it is based on conditions and procedures of the law. Each and every state should make sure that all people are informed immediately upon arrest, the reason for arrest or suspected charges.

   But the US is indulging in unreasonable arrests of people not only in the US but also in other countries.

   According to the report of the US non-governmental organization, the US has arrested numerous people as “terrorist suspects” and detained them without any trial in many parts of the world. The US has put pressure on other countries to allow passage and landing of the CIA aircrafts that carry such suspects.

   People who are suspected as Al-Qaeda and Taliban are detained without any legal procedures and severely interrogated in the secret detention center of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. In this regard, the Afghan President said the atrocities of US violate not only the country’s constitution but also other international human rights protocols. He further requested the US to hand over to his government the secret prisons and the detainees held in the US air base.

   So many detainees in the US-run prison in Guantanamo Bay are subjected to almost an indefinite incarceration without going through any legal proceedings or trials.

   In its report, the US civil organization “Special Team for the Treatment of Prisoners” insisted that such indefinite incarceration of “terror suspects” could not be tolerated, and it urged the US to close down the prison at the Guantanamo Bay.

   Nowhere in the world could be found such arbitrariness of the US and Western countries that work in conspiracy to openly commit crimes of incarcerating numerous people for years or even for more than 10 years, based on an abstract reason that they are “suspected to be involved in terrorism”.

   2-4-2 Abduction by Means of Force

   Criminal acts of the US and Western countries that infringe upon human rights to freedom and personal security also find their expression in illegal abductions by means of force.

   For the past 20 years, many people have been abducted by the US and Western countries, imprisoned and lost contact with the outside world to "disappear” in the long run.

   Illegal abduction by means of force is criminal act that violates “Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance” adopted on December 18, 1992 and other different norms of international law on human rights.

   The US and other Western countries systematically commit abduction under the patronage of the government and in conspiracy with one another.

   It is an open secret that the US abducted many “terrorist suspects” from all over the world using all possible means including airplanes and warships to drag them to secret prisons.

   In 2011, Masri, a Lebanese German claimed for compensation as he was abducted by CIA when he was staying in capital city of Macedonia in 2003 and was taken to a secret prison in Afghanistan to be tortured and abused.

   In December 2003, he was abducted by CIA agents in a small hotel in capital city of Macedonia, gagged and all bound up, simply because he happened to have the same name as a “terrorist suspect". He had to go through inhumane interrogation and severe torture for five months and at last, was acquitted of the “charges” that he didn't deserve. However, when he returned home, he was greeted by the empty house. When he was lost, his family scattered far and wide to seek ways to make living.

   The US does not hesitate to arrest innocent people even in foreign lands without any scientific proof nor slightest consideration of international laws if they have the same names or similar facial features with a “terrorist”, and even disrupt the life of a happy family. The US is, indeed, master of abduction and ringleader of human rights violation.

   Tens of thousands of names are put on the list of so called “terrorists” cooked up by the US and no one knows how many more innocent people will become victims of abduction in the future.

   It is due right for the victim to claim for compensation of damages from forced abduction, illegal arresting and imprisonment.

   The US and other Western countries that partnered with the US should fully compensate to the victims and their families for the illegal, forced abduction, arrest and imprisonment, apologize to the international community and should appear at the court of justice that will try their atrocity.

   2-5 Right to Private Life and Freedom of Correspondence

   2-5-1 Illegal Collection and Use of Private, Confidential Information

   Article 12 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted at 3rd General Assembly of the United Nations clearly stipulates as follows;

   No one shall be subjected to arbitrary and unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence or infringement of his honor or personality. Everyone has a right to legal protection from such interference or infringement.

   Such rights are also clearly stipulated in Article 17 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

   However, right to individual privacy and freedom of correspondence that cannot be freely encroached by anyone is ruthlessly infringed upon in US and other Western countries that love to chant "freedom of individuals" and "freedom of personality".

   For the past 2 or 3 years, 50 judicial police organs including FBI have monitored everything down to small details within the households of the US citizens using radar equipment.

   According to documents of the US Court on August 21, 2013, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has illegally monitored and snatched the total of 56,000 e-mails and internet communication information for 4 years up to 2011.

   In mid-August, 2012, US daily, Washington Post reported that violation of human rights by US NSA got yet more unscrupulous than ever, since they are entitled with legal rights to expand their monitoring activities by the Congress in 2008.

   According to the AP news of the United States on November 16, 2010, whole-body inspection fluoroscope machines are introduced to airports in the States for inspection of travelers under the pretext of security. In 2012, at the airport of Portland, Oregon, an American named Brenan appeared naked for inspection before take-off in protest against humiliating whole-body fluoroscope inspection of the government that encroaches upon the right to personality.

   In United States, according to the amendment to the Act on Support of Communication Companies to Legal Bodies, e-mails of individuals are systematically monitored. From 2004 to 2007, the number of e-mails that the US intelligent agencies have monitored according to this act was increased by 3000%.

   The act “On Exchange of Information on Cyber Threat and its Protection” now under review by the US Congress is the act aiming at expanding monitoring capacity of US government for homepages of individuals.

   The US FBI is further expanding DNA database for individuals. Up to April 2009, the database only contained genetic code of people who were found guilty at federal court. However, it now contains genetic code of all arrested people as well as immigrants in detention.

   With this, non-governmental human rights organizations criticize that the US is now turned into to a police state that gathers data for “potential criminals.”

   Interference and infringement of privacy and correspondence of individuals by the authority are contrary to laws of the US Constitution that stipulates at least in name that it protects privacy and property rights of individuals, which aroUSes protest and denunciation home and abroad.

   2-5-2 Violation of Human Rights through Wiretapping

   In the US and Western countries that boast of ensuring “Human Rights” at “highest level”, wiretapping of in-country telephone calls as well as heads of government of other countries, an act of human rights violation is conducted shamelessly from a long time ago.

   A country is supposed to ensure privacy for communication and correspondence. But, some countries conduct a systematic wiretap on calls of their own civilians. The US is typical in this.

   The US NSA has long wiretapped phone calls even on personal family matters by “strict and systematic” means. It snatches and stores 1.7 billions of e-mails, phone calls and other information on a daily basis.

   Operation “PRISM” of the US NSA collects massive private information of the individuals based on software that secretly monitors and taps internet and telephones.

   Former CIA agent Snowden disclosed the fact that the US is conducting unlawful, illegal acts of espionage through 80 wiretapping facilities all over the world.

   In October 2013, UK daily “Guardian” reported that the US NSA bugged phone calls on 35 heads of states of different countries in conspiracy with the While House, State Department and Defence Department. On December 5, 2013, the US newspaper “Washington Post” exposed that the US wiretapped 5 billion phone calls to collect information of ordinary citizens all over the world based on mobile phone positioning system.

   US Intelligent agencies monitor voices, photographs and e-mails of foreigners using monitoring software code of PRISM that can identify connection record with internet globally. They even installed special antennas at the roofs of the US embassies and consular missions resident in various countries to stealthily collect important information of the resident countries related to their politics, diplomacy and the economy.

   The US NSA employs more than 200,000 secret agents. Based on their secret agents as well as numerous spy satellites and enormous database, they tap more than 95% of global communication and take a satellite imagery of almost all objects on the planet.

   In mid-2012, the US hacked 50,000 computer networks all over the world to have siphoned off information. Just for 1 month alone from mid-December of that year, it had wiretapped 124.8 billion phone calls globally.

   Western countries were not ruled out. According to data, Germany was robbed of 360 million telephone records, 70 million in France and 46 million in Italy by the US wiretapping.

   US intensified wiretapping against other countries after World War II with its much more sophisticated cyber espionage using internet from 1998.

   Such a high pitched tapping by the US against the world goes on century after century. It is a crime against human rights that cannot be tolerated as it not only infringes upon human rights of its own citizens but also human rights of other peoples.

   A person in the Association of Citizen Freedom, a US human rights advocacy group expressed his concern with the indiscriminate wiretapping of the US. He deplored that the current situation “shows that we have no other choice but to live in a cave being incommunicado.”

   Then who is to be fated to live in a cave? It is none other than the US, a despicable and cruel human rights violator as it can’t co-exist with the humankind in the human world in dignity for its all committed human rights violation.

   At 24th Session of UN Human Rights Council, many countries including Iran, Cuba and Belarus denounced crimes of active monitoring and wiretapping of the US at home and abroad and put a strong demand on the US to stop immediately all kinds of human rights violation.

   2-6 Right to Fair Trial

   2-6-1 Illegal Verdict and Execution

   Everyone is equal before the law and everyone is entitled to equal legal protection without discrimination of any kind.

   Fairness in trial plays an important role to ensure such rights.

   Several international laws on human rights including Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights stipulate that everybody has equal right to fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal when he is announced of the findings on his rights, obligations and his penal responsibilities. All countries have obligation to ensure such human rights with domestic laws in accordance with the requirements of international human rights law.

   However, the US and Western countries deny human rights to fair trial and violate it.

   It is common that judicial organs of the US and Western countries are composed of those who speak for the interests of the privileged class.

   Judge of the US Supreme Court is designated by US President and appointed upon the agreement of US Senate on the conditions that he or she should belong to the same political party of the President, he or she should first consult with the Senators to get their strong support, etc. In many states of the US, judge for the state court is not elected but appointed by the state governor.

   This shows that the US judicial bodies are non-democratic organs that are comprised of people “loyal” in justifying reactionary policies of the US government and interests of the privileged.

   The US Constitution allows, at least in name, the right to appeal to all parties related to a law suit. But, most laws and regulations for trial have restrictive clauses such as; the appeals should be “constitutional” and should accord with laws and practices. Using such restrictive clauses, they dismiss appeals from working people. And the cost of a lawsuit is so high that common people cannot afford it.

   Under such judicial system of the US, there cannot be legal proceedings for fair trial, which gives rise to series of unlawful decisions and executions.

   Wrong Penalty Center organized in 1998 proved innocent of 36 people convicted in Illinois and one of them was River who was released from prison in January 2012. He testified that he was in prison for 20 years for charge of rape and murder he didn’t commit.

   Wrong Penalty Center reported together with the Law School of Michigan University that since 1989, 940 cases in total were withdrawn for wrong penalty.

   According to data from Death Penalty Information Center, 140 innocent people were sentenced to death and lost their lives since 1973.

   In some states of the United States, judges sentence life imprisonment without considering commutation when the minorities commit a crime.

   In the US, about 7,000 minorities were sentenced to life imprisonment and 2,500 of them were not granted the right to pardon.

   In May 2010, the US Supreme Court decided that it is unconstitutional to give penalty of life imprisonment without any right to pardon for crimes that are not related to murder. However, this decision is applied only to 6 % of minorities.

   In 2012, the US newspaper Washington Post revealed the fact that the present ruller is given the power to freely give orders to shoot his own fellow countrymen to death and to imprison anyone for indefinite period of time without fundamental legal procedures and condemned that it is the United States where citizens were not even given freedom of legal lawsuit.

   2-6-2 Lack of Independence in Justice Organs

   Article 14.1 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights stipulates that everybody has a right to fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal.

   Owing to the lack of independence in justice organs of the US and Western countries, human rights to fair trial that each country is obliged to guarantee as stipulated by international human rights law are violated and infringed upon.

   US justice network seems to be independent in judicial activities free from interference and control from any other organs just relying on the principle of judicial independence, but, in reality, they work according to strict control and manipulation of the government.

   It is a judicial administrative office and prosecution body of the US administration that take into a shape the governmental control and wirepulling over the court authorities in the US.

   The US put the prosecution under the direct command of the judicial administration department. It authorized the judicial department to organize and control activities of the judicial organs.

   The US administration has let, on a periodical basis, the court-house suspend law-suit trial by victims of torture as they have done in the past, claiming that they have a privilege to keep sensitive information confidential for national security.

   Its typical example is barring the trial by American Citizen Freedom Association that sued Jefferson Data Plan Company, sister company of Boeing, which carried on board 5 prisoners under the names of ex-CIA prisoners to secret prisons.

   This is so-called “independence” and acts of human rights violation of judicial organs of the US boasting of Checks and Balances, covered by the veil of “democracy”.

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