Military-run Myanmar on Saturday said the United States "has lost its credibility" over what it called an inaccurate, unbalanced and politically motivated condemnation of the junta's human rights record.
"The State Department's report on Myanmar is poorly-researched, riddled with errors, and ignores the many positive developments that have taken place in the past year," the junta said in a statement.
"Regrettably, the United States has lost its credibility on human rights issues," it added. In its annual report on world-wide rights abuses, the United States said Myanmar's ruling generals, who currently have opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, had trashed the once-prosperous nation.
"Four decades of military rule, economic mismanagement, and endemic corruption have resulted in widespread poverty, poor health care, declining education levels, poor infrastructure and continuously deteriorating economic conditions," it said. In one of the most critical report cards handed out this year, Washington focused on the junta's bloody May 30 strike against Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters which left an unknown number of people dead.