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Tibetan Human Rights watch group expresses deep alarm at Chinese military crackdown on monastery

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A severely burned Phuntsok

New Delhi, 29 April 2011: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is deeply concerned at the massive security crackdown in Ngaba County, Sichuan, and other Tibetan areas in present day China. The crackdown has been severe in the past 43 days in Ngaba County and Kirti Monastery has been targetted particularly.

Since the self-immolation of 20-year-old monk Phuntsok on 16 March 2011 in protest against Chinese rule in Tibet, scores of Tibetans have protested at the inhumane treatment given to him by the police while extinguishing flame. The extreme response by the Chinese security forces has led to around 37 detentions as well as four deaths (self-immolation by Phuntsok and three beaten to death) in the security crackdown.

Wake up and defend our freedom

Liberty Times Editorial

Speaking at a committee meeting in the legislature on April 18, Vice Minister of National Defense Lin Yu-pao (林於豹) said that the criminal act committed by Justin Lin (林毅夫) when he defected to China in 1979 continues to this day, so there can be no question of a time limit for prosecution having passed.

Lin Yu-pao said that defection has to do with the core ideology of military personnel, is not permissible and may be punishable by death, according to the law. He said that although relations across the Taiwan Strait have relaxed, China is still a big threat, and the core ideology of the nation’s military has not changed.

Ma’s overkill response akin to CCP

Jerome Keating

On April 11 an open letter by 34 academics and writers was sent to President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九). It was not the first by this group of experts on Taiwan. The letter questioned the timing and validity of the Presidential Office’s announcement — three years after the fact — that about 36,000 files went missing after the transfer of power from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration in 2008.

The Presidential Office had turned the matter over to the Control Yuan to launch a full investigation into former top officials of the DPP government. Barely was the letter published, when minions of the Ma government responded in exactly the same way that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) responds when any of its abuses of human rights and the right of law are questioned.

Is the Ma Government Blowing Smoke to Cover its Tracks? Part III

Jerome F. Keating Ph.D.

As was mentioned in the previous post, the TECO offices around the world were directed to contact signers of the Open Letter to Ma and both ask them if they really did sign it and that their name was not a forgery; further they were directed to invite them to come in and discuss why they felt that way about the Ma administration. One of the signers, Dr. Richard Kagan was asked if he would come to the Chicago office from his home in Dent, Minnesota; he declined but sent the following letter which encapsulates much of the thinking of the group that sent the letter. They are not questioning that Taiwan has laws, but that those laws are being applied selectively and with a double standard. Somehow, the Ma government just doesn't get it.

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