A couple of years ago when things started to heat up in Tibet, western human rights groups and politicians were quick to condemn China.
People took to the streets in major western capitals to protest to the Chinese embassies.
I see this as nothing more than hypocrisy. Imagine if Chinese people took to the streets and protested in front of the British embassy for the abuses in Northern Ireland, the Spanish and French embassies for the abuses of the Basque people.
Even in the Muslim world there have been those who were eager to condemn China's treatment of the Uighurs, Russia's treatment of the Chechens, but take a one-eighty degree turn when it comes to their own country's treatment of religious and ethnic minorities or any other Muslim state's similar abusive practices.
Weather it is the mistreatment of Balochis in Iran and Pakistan or the treatment of Kurds in Turkey and Iraq or the genocide of sub Saharan Africans by the Sudanese Arabs.
It is not to say that people should condone human rights abuses by any country, certainly not. But each time you are ready to condemn another country's human rights records and denial to their separatist's demands, always ensure your country has a clean or better human rights record and does not face separatism.
If so, then be ready to condemn it first before setting out to point fingers at another country for doing the same.
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