US Human Rights Report Doesn't Mention Drones
US reports on world’s human rights but doesn’t include its own. - The US’s Department of State has released its annual report on the state of human rights around the world. A weighty document, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011 covers in detail 199 countries, though not the US. Called an ‘invaluable reference point’ by human rights activists, the report painstakingly breaks down each country’s human rights record for that year. The report is not brazen propaganda for America’s allies. [...] In Pakistan up to 659 people died in US done strikes in 2011 according to Bureau research. However in the 2011 report, the US Department of State identifies among the most serious human rights problems in the country were ‘extrajudicial killings’ committed by the government or its agents.