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    Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

    Heritage Foundation Retweeted The Daily Signal

    “The African states calling for the extraordinary measure should have first reflected on how poorly African governments can treat Africans. Hereditary slavery still exists in Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. People smugglers in Libya auction off black Africans...”https://twitter.com/DailySignal/status/1274354848327221248 …

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    George Floyd’s killing was vile—and African countries are justified to criticize it—but the selective outrage of singling out the U.S. for special scrutiny demonstrates either a moral blind spot or extreme cynicism. https://dailysign.al/3djWUkf 
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      2. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        Fourteen of the 18 countries the Global Slavery Index ranks as worst in the world at fighting slavery are African Child marriage—which the International Labor Organization considers a form of slavery when forced, as it frequently is—is “entrenched” in parts of sub-Saharan Africa

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      3. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        Minorities often fare very poorly in Africa. People from pygmy tribes are frequently treated as sub-human, and many have been driven from their ancestral lands.

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      4. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        Southern Africa’s “first people,” the Khoisan, were initially displaced by Bantu speaking groups and still struggle for recognition in Southern Africa.

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      5. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        The Somali Bantu, a tribe of dark-skinned people racially distinct from the majority of Somalis, are common prey for the large Somali clans who often still refer to them as “slaves,” invoking Somali Bantus’ traditional role in Somali society.

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      6. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        Many of the African countries have notoriously brutal law enforcement. Security services in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa have so far killed at least 15, 18, and 12 people, respectively, while enforcing COVID-19-related lockdowns.

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      7. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        South Africa’s president ascribed the killings of his people to police “let[ting] their enthusiasm get the better of them.” CONTEXT: That means security forces of each of those countries killed more people in weeks than U.S. police killed unarmed African Americans in all of 2019

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      8. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        The African Union, for its part, often fails to vigorously denounce member countries that unleash mass murder against their own people.

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      9. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        The African Union also, along with many African leaders, whitewashes some of the world’s worst abusers 17 African countries signed an open letter defending China’s internment of between 1-2 million ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang—and none have condemned the practice

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      10. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        Last year, some African leaders, including Faki, celebrated Zimbabwean despot Robert Mugabe after his death.

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      11. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        Another senior African Union official, also outspoken about George Floyd’s killing, recently hailed deceased Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza—who directed campaigns of murder and torture against political opponents—as a “great son” of Africa.

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      12. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        Focusing on the practices of countries like the U.S. at the behest of states with far worse records is par for the course in the Human Rights Council. Since its founding in 2006, the council has been a profoundly political body.

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      13. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        It exhibits extraordinary bias against Israel—with nearly half of the condemnatory resolutions passed by the council focused on that country.

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      14. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        It has never passed a condemnatory resolution on China, Cuba, Russia, or Saudi Arabia, despite their terrible records on religious persecution, punishment of political dissent, hostility to freedom of the press, and unequal rights for women, respectively.

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      15. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        Currently, 11 of 47 members of the council (including Afghanistan, Eritrea, Qatar, Libya, and Venezuela) are ranked “not free” by Freedom House. China isn’t currently on the Human Rights Council—but only because of term limits. It almost certainly will win reelection next year.

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      16. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        A credible council must be able and willing to examine the human rights practices of each nation. But the council routinely fails to hold the world’s worst human rights abusers to account.

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      17. Heritage Foundation‏Verified account @Heritage 20 Jun 2020

        African nations are complicit in this selective approach to human rights. The outcome of the urgent debate is tainted by the failure of African governments to hold themselves and each other to the standard that they seemingly expect of the U.S.

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