US secretary of state Marco Rubio took a dig at UN experts over their criticism of the police response to CJP protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in Delhi, calling “UN experts” an “oxymoron”, while declining to comment on the demonstrations, calling them India’s domestic political matter.
The UN experts are the oxymoron. “It is a domestic political matter. I am not going to comment on it. This is a democracy, they have elections here. I am not going to opine on their domestic, political matters.
Reacting to criticism by UN experts of the police response to the demonstrations, Rubio said, “Oh, UN experts, my favourite. We have protests every day in US,” said Rubio while talking to reporters. UN experts had criticised the Indian police’s “heavy-handed” response to youth-led demonstrations in Delhi.
They urged the authorities to protect peaceful protests and ensure justice for alleged human rights violations during these and earlier demonstrations.
