Is China using the Olympics as an excuse to crackdown on Falun Gong and other dissidents...
Crackdown on Falun Gong and other dissidents...
With the Beijing Olympics less than one month away, Chinese authorities have reportedly escalated their campaign against adherents of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline, conducting door-to-door arrests and imprisoning thousands in reeducation-through-labor camps and detention centers.
The Falun Dafa Information Center reported Monday that more than 200 Falun Gong adherents have been arrested in Beijing alone in the last seven months.
They say most of these Falun Gong practitioners are now being held in detention centers, while 30 have already been sentenced without trial to reeducation-through-labor camps for up to 2.5 years.
"The fact that these people are being sentenced to such long terms shows that these arrests are not about ensuring a 'harmonious Olympics' as Party officials may try to claim," says FDIC executive director Erping Zhang.
"Although Falun Gong adherents pose no threat whatsoever to the games, the Olympics are being taken as an excuse to put them behind bars for years."
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This comes as no surprise Hutts!
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What is surprising is that the Chinese Government is even bothering to come up with an excuse. We don't want to mess with them though, there are billions:D As John Stewart said "We should let them win all the gold" LOL.
Yes, but let a Kiwi...
beat them; we already have an FTA with them, the US doesn't. LOL
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Hahahaha Hutt!
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Ok how about the Kiwis beat them, then WE beat the Kiwis? Hmmmm?
Yes, the Chinese economy may
operate along Capitalist lines these days; in many other respects it's still very much a communist dictatorship. Give it time and we'll all have to learn Mandarin and get our wages in Yuan.
And take little buckets to...
put our rice in?
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But in the meantime...
NZ will win a little bucketful of medals, which should be two to three gold at least.Say a gold for every million - the US will need to get 350 gold medals to be competitive on a pro rata basis with NZ. LOL
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And we would, Hutts,...
if there were enough events for us to compete in. lol
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