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China calls for thorough probe into Iraqi prisoner abuse
Beijing, May 11: China today condemned as `shocking` the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US and British troops and stressed that the incident showed that no country could claim that its human rights policies were `perfect.`
He also said that the US and Britain should adhere to the Geneva conventions and other international conventions, and protect the basic human rights of Iraqi prisoners. The spokesman also stressed that the abuse of prisoners in Iraq fully brings out the fact that there may be human rights issues in any country and regions.
"No country can be boasting of having the perfect
human rights situation. So we think that dialogue should be
the way to eliminate differences between different countries,"
he said when asked whether Washington has lost the moral high
ground in preaching human rights to Beijing.
China and the US are always at odds over Beijing's
human rights policies. The two confronted each other last
month at the UN Human Rights Commission annual meeting in
Geneva where Washington attempted to censure the communist
nation.
China, enraged by the US move, suspended all bilateral
dialogues on human rights and also defeated the draft motion
at the Geneva meet.
Bureau Report