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U.S. Infringement upon Iraqi Prisoners' Rights Blasted

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- GIs' violation of Iraqi prisoners' rights deserves a stern punishment, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary. The world public charges that these human rights abuses were not crimes perpetrated by individuals but organized monstrous crimes, the commentary notes, and goes on:
    The U.S. troops in Iraq are treating Iraqi POWs like animals. This once again clearly shows to the world that the United States is the world's worst violator of human rights as it has wantonly violated international laws such as "Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilians in Wartime" and "Geneva Convention on the Treatment of POWs" and perpetrated acts diametrically contrary to the universally accepted ethics and common sense related to civilization.
    Such human rights abuses by GIs in Iraq teach a serious lesson to the world community.
    Some countries are pulling up such anti-U.S. independent countries as the DPRK over "the issue of human rights," shutting their eyes to the U.S. hideous human rights abuses, and fawning up the U.S., toeing its line. This is nothing but a criminal act of deliberately encouraging the infringement upon human rights as it is prompted by a sinister political intention.
    But for the U.S. invasion of Iraq, such worst violation of human rights as ill-treatment of POWs would not have occurred. Had the Iraqi people defended their country through a life-and-death struggle, they would not have suffered such shame and tragedy as today.
    The Iraqi situation teaches a lesson that for the protection of human rights it is necessary to defend the national sovereignty. It hardens the determination of the army and people of the DPRK to increase its deterrent force strong enough to beat back aggression.
    Those countries and forces that respect human rights should join efforts and counter with just human rights offensive the hypocritical "human rights campaign" of the United States and the West.