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This year's report:
Mary Anne — (archived)

Read.

Of particular interest to you:

Cuba

North Korea

Iran

There are many others. And these are just the summaries. It's a very long report. No one can truthfully accuse Amnesty International of ignoring human rights violations anywhere they come to light, however dim the light may be.

Your outrage that the secretary general should dare to criticize American behavior is not surprising. Your objection that there isn't enough suffering to justify the word "gulag" doesn't surprise me either, even though a case can be made for agreement with meanings 2 and 3 in the linked dictionary definition. What you don't seem to get is that the reason the United States is vulnerable to such criticism is because our behavior is not in line with our self-expressed image as the defender of human rights. When man bites dog, it's news.

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