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Keynote speeches from David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, and Australian senator Andrew Bartlett marked the commencement of the "International Forum: Human Rights in China and 2008 Olympics" at Taipei's Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 21. Over 100 political figures and human rights activists from 12 countries gathered to deliberate on how to motivate global powers to boycott the Beijing Olympics.
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Mr. McMillan-Scott's recorded speech stressed that the Chinese communist regime is the most infamous human rights violator in the world today, and the Olympics should not become a propaganda tool to cover up its wrongdoings. McMillan-Scott added that people should not sit by while this regime continues its severe behavior, especially its continued persecution against Falun Gong.
McMillan-Scott likened the Beijing Olympics to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He pointed out that the Beijing regime attempted to gloss over their crimes using the Olympics just like Hitler to disguise the Nazi's massacre of the Jews. He emphasized that people should no longer remain indifferent and allow the recurrence of the history, or tolerate Beijing's manipulation upon the public opinion of the world.
David Kilgour talked about the Chinese communist regime's anti-humanity crime of organ harvesting from thousands of live Falun Gong practitioners. Kilgour also touched upon the regime's support in the slaughter of 400,000 of Sudanese in Darfur. He said Beijing's persecution against Falun Gong and other religious groups goes against the Olympic Charter just as the Nazi regime had. "We must bring the Chinese communist regime to obey the Olympic Charter," he remarked.
Australian Senator Andrew Bartlett said the world should not evade China's human rights infringement due to the country's economic strength. He urged that, as world citizens, people need to speak out for the victims of human rights violation before the arrival of the Beijing Olympics.
It's sad that, even for the supposedly-against-the-almighty-buck-Left, money is more important than human rights. It's sad also that Leftists prefer comforting lies and omissions to the truth. I guess the Left, while paying lip service thereto, doesn't care as much about human rights in general, so it prefers to simply nurse its two current areas of focus: the promotion of homosexuality and Islam, while people are being slaughtered all over the world, including in China, for simply being different and inconvenient.
Not only does the Left have a problem with ignoring human rights abuses worldwide, so does the entire Free World. Not to mention the Islamic World and the Communist World.
Why is the world leaving the Chinese Communsits, as well as other evildoers, alone, while they commit atrocity upon atrocity every day against different, inconvenient people?
Is the relentless, zealous promotion of homosexuality and Islam really more important than protecting people from being tormented and murdered for no reason other than being different, dissident, inconvenient?
