Recently European Comr. for Agriculture, Dacion Ciolos, has said, "any business that relies upon subsidies (grants, tax breaks) is NOT A REAL BUSINESS." (Oh dear, that's practically every Third Sector set up!)
Friday, March 26, 2010
Tibetans Continue to be Ignored by UK in return for Cheap Chinese Tatt Trade
The shocking price of free expression in Tibet today
Left to right: Wangdu, Paljor & Dhondup (top),
Norzin, Tashi & Jamyang (bottom)
These actions put them in jail:
*Sending email to the outside world Led to life imprisonment for Wangdu *Printing leaflets and flags Led to 7 years in prison for 81-year-old Paljor Norbu *Interviewing Tibetans for a documentary Led to 6 years in prison for Dhondup Wangchen *Speaking to friends about Tibet on the telephone Led to 5 years in prison for Norzin Wangmo *Recording a song about freedom in Tibet Led to almost 2 years in prison for Tashi Dhondup *Keeping people updated about Tibet through texts Led to prison, torture and house arrest for Jamyang Kyi
17/03/10
Foreign Secretary ably demonstrates the ‘fur coat and no knickers’ nature of the UK’s approach to human rights in China and Tibet
Herr Miliscum and Chairman Tosspotnoodle.
Following a lightening visit to China during which he failed to deliver an unequivocal public statement on human rights and never publicly mentioned Tibet, the Foreign Secretary David Miliband today launches the UK’s Annual Report on Human Rights. (more whitewash!)
This juxtaposition of events serves to highlight the stark gap between UK government rhetoric and practice. When in China the Foreign Secretary should have taken the opportunity to make a strong and unequivocal public statement on the British government’s concern about human rights violations in Tibet to a Chinese audience - the Chinese administration and the Chinese people.
And tomorrow the umpteenth UK China Human Rights Dialogue resumes, having been cancelled by China in January as a slap on the wrist for the British government’s criticism of China over the execution of Briton Akmal Shaikh. The timing of the resumption of the dialogue is not coincidental: it has allowed the Foreign Secretary to travel to China with an apparently clean bill of human rights health.
Free Tibet Director Stephanie Brigden commented:
“The British government’s approach to addressing human rights violations in Tibet and China is clearly a case of ‘fur coat and no knickers’: rich talk about human rights conceals a poor reality: there are no human rights improvements in Tibet as a result of years of so-called ‘constructive engagement’. ”
UK government holds up dialogue in itself and meetings between British Ministers and their counterparts as concrete results, despite the fact that the human rights situation for Tibetans in Tibet has actually seriously deteriorated. As the Foreign Secretary landed in China the Chinese administration in Lhasa were cracking down on ordinary people in a ‘strike hard’ campaign aimed at intimidating dissenting Tibetan voices.
Recognising the ineffectiveness of current UK policy, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee in its most recent Annual Human Rights Review stated: "There remains little evidence that the British Government’s policy of constructive dialogue with China has led to any significant improvements."
For further information:
Matt Whitticase, External Communications
t +44 (0)20 7324 4605 / +44 (0)7515 788456 and email: matt@freetibet.org Stephanie Brigden, Director, Free Tibet t +44 (0)20 7324 4605 / +44 (0)7530 528264 and email: stephanie@freetibet.org
WE are allowing, facilitating, the Tibetan genocide -
by doing business with morally empty, spiritually dead, Chinese cannibal scum. They sell us all the cheap, poisonous, unsafe garbage that now fills our shops, (and has put our people out of work) and then enjoy spending their ill-earned cash on this kind of thing:
Chinese Communitarianism (that's anything labelled "community") being installed in YOUR UK NEIGHBOURHOOD RIGHT NOW, DIMWIT, by Common Purpose - type, tax-free "charities."Enjoy!
