State Dept Rights Report blames Iraqis

The State Department, in its yearly survey of Human Rights practices of every country except the United States, has singled out the Iraqi police forces as the most heinous abusers of human rights in Iraq.

The New York Times and others report that the State Department admits that the Iraqi police forces (trained and armed by the US) are widely infiltrated by sectarian militias, and responsible for uncounted extra-judicial kidnappings, torture and killings. The US' treatment of its own prisoners in Iraq, numbering as high as 14,000, is not addressed in the report.

The report also describes the human rights violations in various countries to which the CIA has "rendered" prisoners, including Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Romania, a country which is suspected to have held CIA prisoners in the recent past, is also recognized as having abused prisoners rights.

China released its response to the State Department report, a full documentation of alleged US human rights violations, with an emphasis on the violation of the right to life, and social and economic rights. The Chinese dedicate a special section to violations committed outside of the US.