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Sunday, March 04, 2001

China says US is a major root cause of sabotaging world peace and stability

"The US judicial system is extremely unfair. Thirty eight of the 50 US states carry out the death penalty. By 1 July 2000, there were 3,682 people on death row in the nation, more than 90 percent of whom had been victims of sexual abuse and assault. Most of them were poor, attained low educational levels, were not covered by Medicare services, and had to rely on officially appointed lawyers as they were too poor to pay for their own attorneys. The probability that the death sentences were erroneously meted out was very high."

Federation of American Scientists. China, sick of American complaints about human rights violations in that country, releases its own "US Human Rights Record in 2000" report. It is a fascinating read, an outsider's view that suggests American hypocrisy, though it's doubtful whether the contuining sale of Adolph Hitler's "Mein Kampf" proves anything.'

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