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GIs' Maltreatment of Iraqi POWs Denounced

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- The United States should fundamentally settle its issue of human right abuses before behaving as if it were a "world judge of human rights" recognized by none. A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry said this in an answer given to a question put by KCNA on Saturday as regards the U.S. maltreatment of Iraqi POWs, a serious human rights issue now under fire worldwide. Referring to the fact that the U.S. revealed its true colours as a ferocious aggressor, an illegal and brutal tyrant and gangster in Iraq, he continued:
    The crimes committed by GIs prove that the U.S. is the world's worst human rights violator and a graveyard of human rights as they are a wanton violation of international law and the universally accepted ethics and morality and a total negation of the Islamic ethics and culture.
    What matters is that the recent U.S. human rights abuses in Iraq were not crimes perpetrated by individual GIs in violation of military discipline but deliberate and organized ones committed by the top authorities of the U.S.
    This case once again makes it clear that the U.S. has no moral qualification to talk about the issue of human rights in other countries.
    What happened in Iraq teaches a serious lesson that one should defend its national sovereignty to protect the human rights and for this it is necessary to build a strong military deterrent to repel any aggression.
    All the countries that respect human rights should foil the U.S. shameless human rights racket with their just human rights offensive.