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To: long-gone who wrote (49678)	2/26/2000 9:55:00 PM
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Saturday February 26, 5:48 am Eastern Time FOCUS-China reacts angrily to US rights report By Matt Pottinger BEIJING, Feb 26 (Reuters) - China reacted angrily on Saturday to a U.S. report that alleges deteriorating human rights in the country, and accused Washington of distorting facts and ignoring its own rights violations. ``China is strongly displeased with and firmly opposed to the United States' action of distorting other countries' human rights situation,' state media quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao as saying. In its annual world human rights report, issued on Friday, the U.S. State Department said China's human rights record ``deteriorated markedly' in 1999. It cited suppression of religion, jailings of dissidents and political purges in Tibet. ``The government's poor human rights record deteriorated markedly throughout the year, as the government intensified efforts to suppress dissent,' the U.S. report said. Zhu defended China's rights record and said the United States should pay attention to violations in its own backyard. ``The human rights and basic freedom enjoyed by the Chinese people have been upgraded to an unprecedented historical level,' Xinhua news agency quoted him as saying. ``The U.S. government pays no heed to its own human rights violations, but always meddles with other countries' internal affairs by issuing the so-called human rights reports,' the news agency quoted him as saying. The U.S. report said several thousand ... biz.yahoo.com