Monday, January 30, 2006

chinese human rights (sic)

jan 30th

appropriate on gandhi's birthday. even though he was not exactly god (as indian textbooks claim), he was a marketing genius and did highlight the plight of the poor.

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Chinese lawyer hits out at regime
 
 
Defiant human rights activist Gao Zhisheng tells Jonathan Watts in Beijing that Europe must not 'honeymoon' with a state that murders millions

Sunday January 29, 2006
The Observer


 
France, Germany and other states that have coddled up to the Communist dictatorship in Beijing will one day have to answer to the Chinese people, one of the country's leading civil rights activist has told The Observer.

Gao Zhisheng, a firebrand lawyer who has defended hundreds of victims of torture and persecution, said the Communist party was responsible for more deaths than the Nazis, but Western governments turned a blind eye because they were desperate to trade with the world's fastest growing economy.

'When the Nazis slaughtered Jews, the outside world condemned them,' he said. 'But the Communist party has taken the lives of 80 million people, 13 times more than the death toll among the Jews, yet the world says nothing.'

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