When human rights become a lever of political pressure against others, the media empire of the hegemonic regime seeks to present those accused of systematic human rights violations as claimants of human rights.
Faraan: Nasser Kanani, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic, made these statements in response to the double standard of Western countries, America and Canada who claim to defend human rights. Kanani recounted the sad stories of the forced separation of more than 150,000 native Canadian children from their families and the discovery of mass graves containing the bodies of hundreds of children from boarding schools about a year ago, noting that human rights in Canada embody the killing of children and is indifferent to humanity.
The children’s cemetery is a model of “cultural genocide” in Canada; A story that dates back to the 1820s when the Canadian government tried to remove all semblance of indigenous cultures, replacing them with what white Europeans brought to Canada. 600 native tribes lived in Canada before the arrival of European immigrants, so the newcomers wanted demographic and cultural transformation.
From the 1820s until the closing of all 139 Indian boarding schools, about 150,000 native children were forcibly separated from their parents and subjected to mental and physical abuse in the schools. For example, these students who died due to disease and malnutrition were buried in unmarked graves. It is estimated that 4,000 children died in those schools and the survivors are still suffering from the damage done in these schools.
While US President Joe Biden claims to defend human rights, he ignores the historical accusations against his country of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. The US Congress previously emphasized in a report that the number of American victims worldwide during its occupation of countries was less than 2.5 million civilian deaths, and also that before the founding of the United States, American Indians were also subjected to massacres.
Although there are no accurate statistics of the number of natives living in North America at the time of the arrival of the Europeans, some studies show that the number of the native population of the American continent was around 10 million to 100 million people in 1500 AD. Many experts believe that there were about 50 million, of which about 15 million people are North American Indian tribes.
The American Indian population began to decline at an incredible rate due to war, massacres, famine, and epidemics, until it reached less than 238,000 only by the end of the American-Indian War in the 19th century. This means that more than 95% of the native population was killed, although some experts believe that the actual death toll in the Americas may be as high as 300 million people, while the US does not commemorate them.
We take a quick look at the cases of American crimes in the world:
In the Philippines, 1.5 million civilians were killed during the American-Philippine War between 1899 and 1902.
In World War II, about 2.5 million civilians were killed by American and British fighters during the attack on the Allied forces.
In Japan, the US dropped two nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the US bombs killed up to 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki.
In the Korean War in July 1950, an American military aircraft and ground unit killed about 300 to 400 civilians.
During the Vietnam War on March 16, 1968, the number of war crimes recorded by the Pentagon was 360. Not including the My Lai massacre, in which 347 to 504 civilians were killed in South Vietnam, mostly women and children. Vietnam claimed in 1995 that the war killed 5 million people, 4 million of whom were unarmed civilians.
If this is not hypocrisy, then what can we call the biggest assailants of genocide in the world who sarcastically claim to be fighting for the human rights around the world?!
