The U.N. General Assembly elected a host of regimes with records of human rights abuses to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) — including the genocidal state of China — on Wednesday, the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
China won a seat on ECOSOC alongside Russia, which has ravaged neighboring Ukraine with a full-scale invasion for three years; the authoritarian Islamist government of Turkey; and the African authoritarian regimes of Burundi and Chad, according to the monitor group U.N. Watch.
“Russia won 115 votes, or 61% of those voting in the UN General Assembly ballot yesterday,” U.N. Watch documented . “Turkey won 174 votes (92%); China won 180 votes (95%); Chad won 183 votes (96%); Burundi won 184 votes (97%). Another 13 countries were also elected, includi