Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of the Coalition--which represents an alliance of 25 local human rights organizations--seeks to address a spectrum of issues such as the Chinese occupation of Tibet, relations between mainland China and Taiwan and current human rights issues in China...
...here's the surprise: It wasn't just small talk. T words such as Tibet, Taiwan and even Tiananmen ? previously considered anathema to such a meeting ? were openly discussed. Now that's progress the protesters in nearby Lafayette park knew nothing of. Jiang, it is becoming clear, is a different kind of dictator ? and with a "hot line" set to be installed between Beijing and Washington, he and Clinton can philosophize to their hearts' content...
...facts about China's Communist regime are not to be denied. Torture and forced confessions have been documented. Independence has been denied for Tibet since its annexation in 1951. Taiwan, peaceful and democratic, has been threatened. Nuclear weapons have been provided to Iran and Pakistan. The 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown killed hundreds engaged in political protest. Opposing the government is, itself, illegal...
China is a regime which only a few years ago suppressed a peaceful protest with tanks and machine guns, then denied (and to this day still denies) that anything ever happened. It is engaging in a calculated program to destroy the culture of Tibet as part of its own imperialistic drives--and doing so with a ruthlessness never approached by the British in their Opium Wars. It systematically persecutes the members of a minority religion and defends itself as the victim of an international conspiracy. Does this sound familiar to anyone? If China--a nation with the world's most...
...specifically as a gesture. We have made it clear that we respect human rights. I studied world history and your War of Independence. I read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address about your Civil War. It was the sacred mission of the U.S. to liberate slaves in your country. In Tibet, after the Dalai Lama left the country [in 1950], we have fundamentally resolved the problem of slavery there. I believe the American people should be happy to see that...