Tell China NO!

China has violently dispersed all manifestations against the government of the People's Republic in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. They are in no uncertain terms threatening further murder than the 10 admitted so far to be victims of the security forces during the demonstrations and ensuing riots of the past several days.

This is an absolute disgrace for China. To have a Tibetan emergency situation on the heels of the Summer Olympics must be incredibly embarrassing, and yet has not tempered their response in any meaningful way (unless the government was planning an even more brutal crackdown). China is meant to be developing a pluralist society (though admittedly not a democratic one), with numerous pressure groups, citizen's courts, and dissident organisations being allowed to exist freely within the framework of government control.

The sort of repression in response to demonstrations that admittedly got out of hand, demonstrates that the PRC has not changed enough, that law and order are given supremacy over human rights, that there will peace at any price. That is not how a society should operate: no form of dissent should be judged reason to kill, no casualty at the State's hands is acceptable. Please tell the Government of China, and their mission to the United Nations, that the world is watching and cannot continue.

Libellés : Droits

par Abdul-Rahim à 09:15

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