Tibetans Greet Hu
Chinese students met Communist Red Chinese President Hu.Hundreds of Tibetans and human rights activists staged a "die-in" outside Buckingham Palace as Chinese president Hu Jintao arrived for a State Banquet.In London the English government and royal family honored the murdering despot, while the survivors issued complaints.
The group said that following the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950, President Hu was responsible for the brutal imposition of martial law in 1989. SFTUK's national co-ordinator Alice Speller said: "One in six Tibetans are dead due to the Chinese occupation, and yet the international community is silent in the face of such blatant state terror.They loudly proclaim this same right to ocupy and govern Taiwan. The Tibetans ask that Tony Blair speak out.
SFTUK's national co-ordinator Alice Speller said: "One in six Tibetans are dead due to the Chinese occupation, and yet the international community is silent in the face of such blatant state terror.
"Tony Blair must speak out about President Hu's actions in Tibet and China's ongoing occupation of that country, or he risks becoming complicit in the atrocities committed there."
Dalha Tsering of the Tibetan community in Britain and co-organiser of the event said: "As Hu Jintao receives the highest state honour in this country, we are staging this street theatre to remind him, and the world, of the death that he authored in my homeland, Tibet.
"Many Tibetans here will never meet family members because he took their lives, and created such fear that many have left for a life in exile.
"Hu still has the blood of my Tibetan countrymen on his hands, and yet world politicians are unwilling to seek justice on our behalf."
Tibetan activist Karma Chura-Tsang said: "As we protest near the monument to the Unknown Soldier, the Tibetan people remain unknown victims of 50 years of Chinese dictatorship.
"This is our symbolic tribute to the all those Tibetans who have died fighting for their freedom."
In the meantime as if to prove they will cower to western ideas of basic human rights the Communist government has cracked down on folks publishing dangerous matereals. Yeah, the Bible. Yet Tony Blair, President Bush, nor any of the world leaders dare speak out against the biggest enemy of human rights. China justmight be The Ghetto of Human Rights.
posted by Liberty @ 6:00 AM
3 Comments:
They are too busy making money to care about human rights.
But China is also going capitalist.
Do you think, as many people do, that the freeing up of the economy and the creation of an educated middle class as well as a wealthy and powerful capitalist class will lead to greater and demands for freedom in China, that will in turn eventually lead to a transition to democracy and freedom?
Now, I am not taking sides on that issue, I am just asking what you think. I know a lot of people who believe it, and a lot who don't because they believe China is naturally despotic, as an inherited feature of its culture.
As China ramps up its manufacturing and technology industrys, they are educating more people and exposing more people to Western Ideas. China needs the educated, and they are not able to select from the small politically connected class any more.
I believe that freedom ecourages a wealthy economy. A wealthy economy does not allow for a free society. Saudi Arabia is an example. There is true wealth there, but there isn't much acedamia there. An educated people will insist on freedoms. China knows that she needs to educate her people to grow an economy based on trade and manufacturing. Right now its not the wealthy or middle class that are trying to speak out, but mostly educators and students, (who are dependant or a growing middle class.) The problem is that college students are centrally located and they are easy for the goverment types to keep their eye on. Which is why the goverment has so easily cracked down on the dissidents since Tianaman square. Even though the middle class has grown since then, there are less freedoms and any freedom movements have moved deper underground. While the Chinese keep their people in check by tightly cesoring everything.
Hu did a good job in steering China into a more civil and rich country
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