British writer criticizes West for double standards on human rights

MOSCOW - While the West blasts China for what it allegedly does in Xinjiang, it remains "conspicuously quiet" as more unmarked graves have been found at indigenous schools in Canada, British writer Tom Fowdy has said in a recent article run by RT.

"The hypocrisy (of the West) is breathtaking and blatant," Fowdy said in the op-ed titled "The silence on Canada's indigenous deaths shame shows there are double standards on global human rights."

The irony is that if these graves had been found in China, with such explicit evidence, it would have been universally decried by all the usual countries as a "crime against humanity" or even "genocide," the article said.

Fowdy, who is a political and international relations analyst with a primary focus on East Asia, said the dominance of the Anglosphere is a reminder that international justice is not uniform, and exists in two tiers.

"The largest and most notorious offenders of human rights historically are given a waiver for their sins, but nonetheless use human rights as an argument to advance their own ambitions towards other countries, often disingenuously or via a means of projection," he wrote.