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KENNETH ROTH - HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: How We Can Stop China From Abusing Human Freedom | TRAILER

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🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Kenneth Roth is the American attorney, former federal prosecutor, and executive director of Human Rights Watch. With over 450 people in 100 countries, he investigates and reports on rights abuses happening in all corners of the world.

In 1997, Kenneth was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping introduce the Mine Ban Treaty, which saved countless lives. Roth has documented war crimes in Bosnia, Iraq and Sierra Leone, and he has also done extensive work to end the use of child soldiers.

Over the past 4 decades the American has expanded the Human Rights Watch reach, growing the organization eight-fold.

KENNETH ROTH:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KenRoth

Human Rights Watch Website: https://www.hrw.org/

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0:00.0

This Chinese model of governance, which is supposed to be so wonderful, is actually very self-serving.

0:06.0

And when push comes to shove, power preservation is much more important than public protection.

0:11.0

U.S. lawmakers blast China for human rights abuses.

0:14.3

Everybody is reluctant to criticize China.

0:19.3

The government has now detained roughly a million of them probably more for forced re-education,

0:26.4

which in essence means, you know, until you abandon Islam, until you abandon your culture,

0:31.5

until you speak Mandarin, until you worship Shishin Ping and the Chinese Communist Party.

0:37.0

Death toll from the outbreak continues to climb in China.

0:40.0

New cases surged by double digit percentages in 11 days.

0:43.2

It is still a regime that focuses foremost on itself.

0:47.4

And that has come through with this coronavirus outbreak.

0:51.4

And so you see these horrible scenes coming out of a handful of hospitals in

0:54.8

Mujawatt and they're utterly overwhelmed. People are begging. They're sitting in lines, you know,

0:59.6

waiting, waiting and waiting, hoping you be treated, probably infecting each other in the process.

1:03.4

Which is just a further push on human rights in your mind.

1:07.0

Oh, it's a humanized disaster.

1:09.2

And I think that we have a duty to engage in a battle.

1:13.3

A hundred years from now, Kenneth,

1:14.6

do you think that we will be living in a place

1:17.8

where human rights are generally respected?

1:19.9

Or do you think this will always be a battle?

1:21.7

You're always going to need a human rights movement to fight back. But I keep

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