Originally Posted by Katczinsky

When the government of Myanmar violently suppresses protests lead by Buddhist monks in an effort toward political democracy, the west is quick to take sides even as far as to pass official resolutions in the UN against the government.

When the Chinese government, however, guilty of a lot more human rights violations than that of Myanmar, decides to violently put down anti-Imperialist protests in Tibet, the United States and the European Union feel that the Chinese government is right in their actions, only they should 'exercise some constraint". Further evidence that the west doesn't give a shit about human rights or democracy at all, but is only interested in their economic self-interests.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/15/wo...html?ref=world