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Cambodia says US Human Rights Report on Human Rights exposed a double standard

23.03.2023

This aerial photo taken on March 19, 2022 shows the Cambodia-China Friendship Medical Building in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The US Department of State's Human Rights Report on Cambodia, PHOTO XINHUA PHNOM PENH Cambodia said on Thursday that Cambodia's 2022 human rights report was unfounded, biased, and prejudicial as to its political nature.

The Cambodian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson said in a press statement that the US Department of State's Annual Human Rights Reports on other countries expose a double standard in its practice, particularly in the absence of its own country report.

The United States with more than two hundred years of its own version of democracy still encounters systematic human rights abuses including racism, hate crimes, mass shootings and police brutalities, prison abuses, millions of pandemic-related deaths, death penalties, and lack of right to abortion, to name just a few of the major ones, the spokesperson said.

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The double standard is evident in the case when the US authorities pursue legal actions against more than 1,000 people allegedly involved in the Capitol Hill insurrection, according to the spokesperson.

The report highlighted them as a mass trial to silence the dissenting views, in a similar situation in Cambodia.

The government's commitment to promoting and protecting human rights remains strong as ever, according to the spokesperson.