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Elizabeth Krantz - 6 November 2003
On October 24 more than 2,000 noisy demonstrators,
angrily protesting at George W. Bush's Australian visit,
clashed with police while shouting anti-American slogans.
The unruly mob was outraged that the world's largest
democracy had dared to free 22 million Iraqis from a brutal
dictatorship. They were incensed that the democratically
elected head of the world's leading democracy was to address
the Australian parliament.
The next day the unelected leader of the world's largest
totalitarian regime, a regime that has presided over the
genocide of Tibet, a regime that, according to Amnesty
International, executes 2,000 of its citizens annually, a
regime that threatens to invade the democratic sovereign
state of Taiwan, addressed the Australian parliament.
The previous day's protestors were nowhere to be seen.
Curious.
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| State-sanctioned
public executions. A condemned man is paraded
before thousands who turn up to watch as he and a
dozen others are executed with a bullet to the head. |
According to Amnesty International, China executes more
of its citizens than the rest of the world combined. From
1990 to 1999, Amnesty recorded 27,599 death sentences and
18,194 executions in China. Other human rights monitors
believe the number of executions is as high as 15,000 a
year.
Torture, murder and genocide in
Tibet
President Hu Jintao was communist party secretary in
Tibet when martial law was imposed there in 1989. From the
time its troops swarmed into Tibet on October 7, 1950 the
Chinese government began the systematic genocide of the
Tibetan people. Chinese terror in Tibet reached its peak
during the cultural revolution when all religious
institutions were banned, temples demolished and monks and
nuns murdered.
China threatens war with Taiwan
China is readying itself for a surprise attack against
Taiwan that would aim to be so short and sharp the US would
not even have a chance to intervene, warns the US Department
of Defence in its annual review of China's military
capacity, released in August 2003. China has claimed Taiwan
as its territory and threatens to take it by force if Taipei
declares independence. This is an amazing propaganda spin by
the Chinese. Taiwan is an independent sovereign state with a
democratically elected government while China is a one-party
totalitarian regime.
What is the protestors' real
agenda?
James Vassilopoulos, spokesman for the ACT Network
opposing war, which helped organise the anti-Bush protests
said his group had decided the US President "was a far
greater threat to world peace" than the Chinese
President.
The shadowy socialist youth organisation Resistance was
to the fore as usual in organising the anti-Bush rally. When
asked why Resistance did not protest at the Chinese
president's visit, spokesman Stuart Muncton said the presence of Australian
troops in Iraq were more of concern than Chinese troops in
Tibet.
You have to wonder what these people are really up to
when they will scream abuse at the leader of the free world
but melt away when the leader of a brutal genocidal regime
appears.
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