China Takes Tit-For-Tat Swipe at U.S. on Rights

The State Department accused China in its annual human rights report on Monday of using the global war against terrorism to crack down on peaceful opponents of its rule in Muslim Xinjiang and of committing persistent rights abuses in 2004.
China's State Council, or cabinet, issued its own report for the sixth year in a row, citing atrocities by U.S. troops against Iraqi prisoners of war which "exposed the dark side" of the human rights record of the United States.
"The scandal shocked ... humanity and was condemned by the international community," said the report, carried by the official Xinhua news agency.
Ironically, the United States posed as the "world human rights police" while keeping silent on its own misdeeds, it said. Iraqi prisoners of war at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were kept naked, stacked on top of each other, forced to engage in sex acts, struck by American jailers and photographed.
The report made no mention of President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld condemning the abuses and then Secretary of State Colin Powell apologising to the victims.