2005 Press Releases and Statements
2006 Press Releases and Statements
PRESS RELEASES & PUBLIC ADDRESSES
Speaking at the alternative
OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY CEREMONY
17th October 2007 (Press Release)
China - Olympics (17/10/07)
Let’s not get too carried away with the flags and anthems and great sporting endeavour at next year’s Olympics. This is China’s front window hiding the sweatshops and persecution behind.
Make no mistake about China. Forget the Chop Suey and the Great Wall and remember - while we celebrate the Olympic spirit in China next year that, behind the kindly facade of Special and ordinary Olympics, the Government of the Communist Party of China run an iron-fisted regime which….
1. Continues to steamroll and suppress the human and civil rights of its people and rejects democracy;
2. Operates labour camps and concentration camps redolent of the Nazi concentration camps where there is persecution of the worst kind including, forced live organ harvesting;
3. Has persecuted and demonized the followers of the Dalai Llama in Tibet and the gentle Falun Gong movement;
4. Is the greatest user of capital punishment in the world and inventor of the mobile execution chamber which travels from prison to prison meting out death summarily.
All of this and more, the international community chooses to ignore because of the commercial and financial attractions doing business with the fastest growing economy in the world.
Today I ask the Irish Government, with UN and Euro Colleagues;
So let’s not get too carried away with the flags and anthems and great sporting endeavour at next year’s Olympics. This is China’s front window hiding the sweatshops and persecution behind.
The world must be told that this is happening now, so that no person, no state, no Government, can afterwards plead WE DID NOT KNOW.
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2006 Press Releases and Statements
PRESS RELEASES & PUBLIC ADDRESSES
Speaking at the alternative
OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY CEREMONY
17th October 2007 (Press Release)
China - Olympics (17/10/07)
Let’s not get too carried away with the flags and anthems and great sporting endeavour at next year’s Olympics. This is China’s front window hiding the sweatshops and persecution behind.
Make no mistake about China. Forget the Chop Suey and the Great Wall and remember - while we celebrate the Olympic spirit in China next year that, behind the kindly facade of Special and ordinary Olympics, the Government of the Communist Party of China run an iron-fisted regime which….
1. Continues to steamroll and suppress the human and civil rights of its people and rejects democracy;
2. Operates labour camps and concentration camps redolent of the Nazi concentration camps where there is persecution of the worst kind including, forced live organ harvesting;
3. Has persecuted and demonized the followers of the Dalai Llama in Tibet and the gentle Falun Gong movement;
4. Is the greatest user of capital punishment in the world and inventor of the mobile execution chamber which travels from prison to prison meting out death summarily.
All of this and more, the international community chooses to ignore because of the commercial and financial attractions doing business with the fastest growing economy in the world.
Today I ask the Irish Government, with UN and Euro Colleagues;
- To condemn the lack of civil and human rights in China;
- To demand that China’s democratic opposition be allowed to function normally;
- To demand that the Chinese Government allow international human rights organizations investigate and research the charges and allegations against it, without any limitations and restrictions;
- To condemn the systematic inhuman and cruel atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioner; and
- To seek the recognition of the Dalai Lama and his safe return to Tibet.
So let’s not get too carried away with the flags and anthems and great sporting endeavour at next year’s Olympics. This is China’s front window hiding the sweatshops and persecution behind.
The world must be told that this is happening now, so that no person, no state, no Government, can afterwards plead WE DID NOT KNOW.
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