UN Human Rights Council Ignores China-Tibet Dissention
The useless United Nations and one of it’s premier departments, the UN Human Rights Council, has turned a blind eye and kept silent on offering any statement regarding the Chinese crackdown in Tibet:
(CNSNews.com) - China’s crackdown on dissent in Tibet has made headlines around the world and sparked calls in some quarters for a full or partial boycott of the Beijing Olympics, but the U.N.’s top human rights body remains silent on the issue.
The Human Rights Council has been in session in Geneva since March 3, but it has issued no formal statement on Tibet, despite calls by dozens of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for it to take up the issue in a special session. The 47-member HRC’s four-week meeting ends on Friday.
Protests in the Himalayan region marking the anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against communist rule began on March 10, reportedly turned violent in places, and spread to Tibetan communities in three neighboring Chinese provinces. Foreign journalists have been banned from Tibet, but the Tibetan government-in-exile says about 140 people have been killed in clashes. Chinese officials have put the figure at around 20.
The Council, which has been chaired during its rotation schedule, by Countries that still practice major human rights violations, is not so quiet when it comes to the US or Israel:
The HRC was established in 2006 to replace the 60-year-old U.N. Commission for Human Rights, a body widely seen as ineffectual and constrained by the presence of countries considered to be among the worst human rights abusers.
In the less than two years since, the council has held seven regular sessions, during which it has condemned Israel more than a dozen times, most recently in the early days of the current session.
This current makeup of the Council and it’s predecessor serves only to defame and attack Israel and the United States.
– ‘The Commish’ A.J. Sparxx