Human Rights Watch criticized for being uncritical of United States government

This video from the USA is called War on democracy – Media as a weapon in Venezuela coup attempt.

By Joe Emersberger in Australia:

The failure of Human Rights Watch in Venezuela and Haiti

7 March 2008

The way US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Haiti and Venezuela in its 2008 World Report reveals an underlying assumption that the US and its allies have the right to overthrow democratic governments.

The Venezuela section of the report said nothing about ongoing attempts by the US to overthrow the government of President Hugo Chavez. It is a matter of public record that the US-funded groups who were involved in the military coup of 2002 that briefly overthrew Chavez, and continued to do so after the coup took place. US-Venezuelan lawyer Eva Golinger revealed the extent of this funding in great detail in The Chavez Code. …

HRW also used the 2008 World Report to criticise, yet again, a judicial reform law that was passed by the Chavez administration in 2004.

In contrast, HRW’s summary about Haiti said nothing about the coup that ousted Jean Bertrand Aristide’s democratically-elected government in 2004; nothing about the subsequent murder of thousands of people who supported Aristide’s Lavalas movement (the word “Lavalas” does not even appear in the summary); nothing about the fact that Haiti’s police and judiciary remain stacked with appointees from the dictatorship of 2004-2006; nothing about Father Gerard Jean Juste, the most prominent political prisoner of that period, who continues to be hounded by Haiti’s legal system.