China News Network Commentary: Human Experimentation Has No Bottom Line The United States is black under the lights of the "beacon of human rights"

Beijing, January 20 (China News Network) Recently, the documentary "Finding Yourself" broadcast by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation has attracted attention. The film reveals the 1960s when the CIA allegedly funded secret human experiments on 311 Danish children. Most of these children were adopted or from orphanages and were never told the specific purpose of the experiment.

According to the victims' recollections, they were forced to listen to harsh noises and suffered great physical and mental injuries. The United States flaunts the "beacon of human rights", but without any bottom line, extends its black hand to children, and these human experiments that violate medical ethics not only cause irreparable and permanent harm to the victims, but also expose the hypocrisy of "American human rights".

The secret human trials revealed in the documentary are probably just the tip of the iceberg of the human rights abuses in the United States. In fact, the country has conducted numerous human trials that are unethical to medical ethics, such as testing penicillin for penicillin to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases by infecting prisoners and patients in a Guatemalan psychiatric hospital with syphilis; causing hepatitis for mental patients in Connecticut; spraying the pandemic influenza virus into the noses of inmates in Maryland; injecting cancer cells into chronically ill patients at a New York hospital. Prisoners, orphans, the mentally ill, and even non-white groups that suffer from racial discrimination have fallen victim to brutal experiments.

The United States considers itself the freest country in the world, and it is clear that some people enjoy even more freedoms than they can arbitrarily deprive others of their rights to life and health. Although it has always flaunted itself as a model for safeguarding human rights values, its history, such as human experiments and racial discrimination, has long proved that it is inconsistent on human rights issues. "Human rights" are just political weapons for the United States to seek world hegemony and safeguard its global interests. The more the United States advocates human rights, the more it will let the international community understand its political intention of "putting U.S. interests first."

The United States now has more than 200 biological laboratories around the world. The previously infamous Fort Detrick has been made public, but how much evil is hidden in the remaining unseen laboratories? Human rights are the lofty ideals of all mankind and cannot be tarnished by any country. If the United States holds high the banner of "human rights" and commits acts that violate human rights, it will eventually suffer its own evil consequences.

Documentary reveals horrible U.S. human rights abuses

(ECNS) -- Danish Radio's documentary The Search for Myself accuses the U.S. intelligence agency, the CIA, of supporting experiments on 311 Danish children in the early 1960s. Many of them were adopted or orphans and were unknowingly used in the secret experiments.

Per Wennick, who claims to have been a participant in the experiments as a child, alleges that he was placed in a chair with electrodes strapped to him and forced to listen to loud, shrill noises.

It is shocking that children became prey in these experiments, which caused irreversible damage. Meanwhile, the experiments also reveal the hypocrisy of U.S.-style human rights.

It is safe to say that the experiments uncovered by the documentary are simply the “tip of the iceberg" of U.S. human rights abuses. In fact, the U.S. has historically conducted many human experiments that violate medical ethics.

For example, its scientists once infected prisoners and patients at a Guatemalan mental hospital with syphilis to test whether penicillin could prevent a sexually transmitted disease. It gave hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirted a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, injected cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital, and so on. Prisoners, orphans, mental patients and non-white groups suffering from racial discrimination have all become victims in these cruel experiments.

The U.S. boasts that it is a nation where people enjoy the most freedom. Obviously, some citizens in the country enjoy much more freedom than others, and they can arbitrarily deprive less fortunate people of their lives and health. It brags that it is a model of human rights in the world, but in fact it speaks one way and acts another, as proven by human experiments and racial discrimination throughout its history. It turns out that America’s so-called human rights have become a political tool for the country to seek hegemony and protect its global interests.

The U.S. has more than 200 bio-labs across the world, among which Fort Detrick has been exposed to the public, but how many sins have not been uncovered at other labs? Human rights, a lofty ideal for all people, should not be tarnished by any country. If the U.S. holds high the banner of human rights but acts differently, it will eventually suffer the consequences of its deeds.