Miserable Human Rights Situation in U.S. and Western Countries Disclosed (3)

Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies in an indictment on Feb. 23 disclosed that the U.S. and the western countries are wantonly violating the rights of refugees after causing the worst refugee crisis. The number of refugees went beyond 60 million in the world according to the recent data available from the UN, the indictment said, adding: This refugee crisis is the inevitable product of the U.S. and the West's policy of interference for domination and hegemony. It is the trite method of the U.S. and western countries to interfere in the social and political issues of the developing countries to aggravate antagonism and contradiction among nations and tribes and get craftily involved in disputes and escalate them. U.S. tentacles were stretched to such countries as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen, destroying everything and reducing many war-torn countries to the states flooded with refugees. The refugee issue spawned by the U.S. and western countries is the human rights abuse and, therefore, it is their responsibility and duty under international law to settle the issue of refugees and guarantee their rights. However, the U.S. and the West are evading their responsibility and wantonly violating the rights of refugees. The U.S., chief architect of the crisis, remains a passive onlooker to it, claiming that the world should share the responsibility for it though Europe was embroiled in it for having toed the U.S. policy. Even the European countries which had created good impression by receiving refugees in the early period of the crisis are taking such measures one after another as preventing refugees from entering their countries and maltreating and expelling those already entered under the pretexts of social unrest and factor of terrorism. Now human rights abuses in the U.S. and other western countries are being committed institutionally due to policies of their governments and this matter can be settled only when a genuine human rights mechanism is built in those countries. The U.S. and other western countries should no longer find fault with others' human rights performance, describing themselves as "icons of defending human rights", but focus on minding their own business. -0-