Anian nations find human rights hypocracy in prison abuse scandal

[mom cat]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8705633.htm
For the past 10 days, China's state-controlled news media have given extensive play to photographs of military abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. Commentary intensified this week after the State Department ended an awkward 12-day delay and released a report on U.S. efforts to promote human rights, which criticized 101 nations.


Once again this year, the U.S. human rights report faulted China for its poor record and said Beijing routinely oppresses health activists, labor protesters, defense lawyers, journalists and religious figures.


China's government-run news agency, Xinhua, declared that the "torture-gate" scandal has "severely undermined the image of the United States" and exposed its "double standard" in dealing with democracy and human rights.


In its main story Wednesday, the news agency cited a Chinese official human-rights spokesman, Lin Bocheng, as declaring, "The United States has made itself a scoundrel as its forces ruthlessly ravaged prisoners' dignity and trampled their basic human rights in Iraq."

[NNN0LHI]

1. Anian? n/t

[bemildred]

2. Asian maybe. nt

[mom cat]

4. Yes : Asian

My dyslexia is kicking in! time to go to bed. Hold down the fort.

[markses]

3. "Hypocracy"?!?

It's hard when there are so many errors that you can barely understand the headline! ;-)

[Mace]

5. hey now..

I misspell that word almost daily. I don't know why, but I just do. Maybe it's not a natural word or something.

Good thing there is a spell checker on this site.

[markses]

11. Oh, I was jes kiddin'

The first poster pointed out "Anian" but not "hypocracy," so I was jes messin' around. :-)

Hypocrisy comes from the Greek hypocrisis, meaning to play a part, act, or - alternately - deliver a speech. I think most of us get it wrong because the few other Greek transformations we have with similar endings are all "-cracy"s (democracy, for instance, or the bizarre "meritocracy," etc.).

[mom cat]

6. dyslexia

[Spazito]

7. For the header, I highlight the headline on the article

right click to copy it and then right click to paste it into the post, it makes it much easier than trying to re-type it. I know when I try to type it I, too, make spelling mistakes, I am sure alot of us do.

[mom cat]

8. Thanks. I'll try that. I'm still new to computers. But read the article.

[bemildred]

9. Everybody screws up hippocrisy. nt

[bemildred]

10. Ok, I read it.

I suspect you are mostly preaching to the choir here.
It is interesting that the PRC is exploiting it, but not
surprising, it fills a real need for them.