While no country could claim to have a perfect human-rights record, cases in which Governments had condoned and often been the instrument of human-rights violations particularly merited attention.
尽管没有哪个国家可以宣称其人权纪录洁白无瑕，但特别应注意政府宽恕侵犯人权行为并常常充当侵犯人权工具的情况。