The U.N. s Apologist for Dictators – WSJ

Axios reported that human-rights lawyer and Yale law fellow Rayhan Asat, whose brother is detained, called the high commissioner s trip the ultimate betrayal. Advocacy groups denounced her willingness to allow China to dictate where she went and what she saw and are calling for her resignation.

It wouldn t be the first time Ms. Bachelet sided with totalitarians. The Chilean socialist, who chose to live in East Germany from 1975-79 and has described it as a beautiful experience, is a devoted disciple of the late Fidel Castro. In 2009 she made a pilgrimage to Cuba to sit at the feet of the aging tyrant. In 2016 when he died, she tweeted that he had been a leader for dignity and social justice in Cuba and Latin America.

In nearly four years in the top job for human rights at the U.N., her rare protests against the Cuban regime have been halfhearted at best. Take her statement issued after the July 11-12, 2021, uprising against the police state. The internet was full of cellphone videos of unarmed civilians being beaten and fired on in cities and towns across the island by state security and paramilitaries. Yet Ms. Bachelet called the dictatorship s actions an alleged use of excessive force. Thousands were carted off to jail while friends and family searched frantically for them. Ms. Bachelet said some detainees were allegedly held incommunicado. She suggested dialogue between the dictatorship and the powerless population.

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