China issues report on US' democracy
(2)?The US imposition of its brand of democracy causes humanitarian tragedies
The US export of its brand of democracy by force has?led to humanitarian disasters in many?countries. The?20-year?US war in Afghanistan?has?left the country devastated and impoverished. A?total of 47,245 Afghan civilians and?66,000 to 69,000 Afghan soldiers and police who had nothing to do with 9/11 attacks were killed in US military operations, and more than 10 million people were displaced. The war destroyed?the foundation for Afghanistan's economic development and reduced?Afghans?to?destitution.
In 2003, the US?launched military strikes against Iraq for its alleged possession of?weapons of mass destruction. The civilian death toll of the?Iraq war?is between?200,000 and?250,000, including over 16,000 directly killed by the US military. More than a?million people lost their homes.?Moreover,?the US troops?seriously violated international humanitarian principles, as evidenced by the frequent incidence of prisoner abuse. Until now the?US has not been able to produce any credible proof of Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction.
According to?records?available, 33,584 civilians were killed?in war and conflict in Syria between?2016 and?2019. Among the victims, 3,833 were directly killed in?bombings by?the US-led coalition and half of them were women and children. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) reported on 9 November 2018 that the?"most accurate air strike in history" launched by US forces on Raqqa alone killed 1,600 Syrian civilians.
In 2018, the US?launched?airstrikes on Syria again for the purpose of, what they called,?preventing the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government. But?the "evidence"?of the alleged use of chemical weapons?by the Syrian government?turned out to be a fake video?footage directed and produced?by the White Helmets, an organization funded by intelligence agencies of the US and other countries.
