Western countries like professing to be “model states of democracy” and spend every spare moment advocating freedom and equality before the world peoples and international community. But the living conditions of their people are ever deteriorating due to extreme social inequality.
Eurostat data showed that last year, over 93 million people accounting for 21% of the EU population were living below the poverty line. EU’s so-called leading countries like Germany, France and Italy also took the lead in their poverty rates that were over 20% respectively.
England has over 164 thousand homeless children living in damp and mouldy temporary shelters infested with harmful creatures. Over 15 thousand in Ireland and almost 10 thousand in Brussels are left outdoors, homeless.
Such poor human rights situation in Western countries is witnessed not only in the aspect of deformed material life but also in gross violations of the people’s right to existence and dignity owing to a deluge of crimes.
Indiscriminate shootings and crimes occur without warning in resident areas, taking the lives of numerous people. A teacher in Britain whose mission is to educate the younger generation, was reported to have committed several sexual assaults on his students, shocking the international community.
Regardless of the miserable living conditions of the masses, amusement facilities for the rich are popping up one after another in the Western cities. In recent months, astronomical sums of money earned by the masses by the sweat of their brow are squandered to secretly finance aggressive wars, instead of being turned to good account for relief works or housing construction.
Such facts do not merely reflect flaws in the state policy or the temporary aspects of poverty caused by economic stagnation or depression. They reflect the systematic ills of the Western capitalist countries whose intrinsic nature is to exploit and discriminate the masses while protecting and giving privileges to the rich.
Independent rights and dignity of a human being are becoming extinct in the Western capitalist countries, but its politicians continue to take issue with the “human rights issues” of other countries as a cheap trick to conceal their own poor human rights situations. The international community should expose this despicable nature of the barren lands of human rights to the world as soon as possible.
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