Sunday, April 17, 2022

"US monitoring rise in human rights abuses in India: Blinken"

One more example.

From Al Jazeera, April 12:

In a rare direct rebuke, the US secretary of state says his country is ‘monitoring some recent concerning developments in India’.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States is monitoring what he describes as a rise in human rights abuses in India by some officials, in a rare direct rebuke by Washington of the South Asian nation’s rights record.

“We regularly engage with our Indian partners on these shared values (of human rights) and, to that end, we are monitoring some recent concerning developments in India including a rise in human rights abuses by some government, police and prison officials,” Blinken said on Monday in a joint press briefing with US defence secretary Lloyd Austin, Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh....

....MUCH MORE

I'm not sure what the administration is up to but it seems odd.
Earlier:
The U.S. Appears To Be Deliberately Trying To Alienate India