Human Rights Activist's Full
Report
Looking from the
perspective of a Human Rights Activist, the most important thing is to ensure
that people are treated with fairness. To achieve this, I submit what I believe
is the most effective plan:
I believe to prevent and stop human rights
violations in China we need to get a more caring government. The communist
government in China does not care if there are thousands of girls starving and
dying in orphanages, they don't care about people’s life as much as the rest of
the world does. I think that the Chinese government is more interested in power
and money, than the people of their country. If they had a democracy, I believe
they would treat the people of China better and more equally. The communist
government seems to be in a state of denial, denial of anything else but the
communist party. They do not care about individuals like Americans do. It seems
like a huge and broad solution, but there are almost no alternatives. People
who have tried to bring attention to human rights issues have lost their jobs
and been put in jail. People who express their opinions in China that oppose
the communist party or disagree with something are put in jail also. It will
take a lot of work and an extremely long time, but a new government would do to
help human rights.
Support for this
plan is convincingly shown through the following points:
Human rights,
what every human is entitled to, are being violated all over China. The government covers up and denies these
violations to make China look good and to not draw attention.
Evidence
that supports this truth:
·
Human
rights are the equal treatment of the entire human family. All people are
entitled to equal treatment from everyone. This also states that no one will be
held in slavery in any way and no one will be subject to cruel or inhumane
punishment or treatment.
http://www.hrw.org/universal.html
·
The
death penalty is still commonly used in China today. On September 27, 2000,the
Guangdong Supreme People's Court decided they would hold 57 public rallies were
held to announce 818 death sentences. Free assembly is also very restricted in
China due to the fact that many people gathered in one area makes the
communists nervous that a revolt might happen.
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/research/china.html
·
The
leader of the China Society for the Study of Human Rights denies the report
created by the Human Rights Watch in an interview with Xinhua on January 17,
1997. The report created by the Human Rights Watch made "groundless"
accusations against the Chinese government about specific people. According to
the Human Rights people, as long as China remains a socialist country, it is a
human rights violating country.
http://www.china-embassy.org/Cgi-Bin/Press.pl?227
People can learn from the mass violence in China that the Communist
government is not afraid to do what it wants to do. They try to get people to
avoid congregating in masses, but if they do not succeed then they get nervous,
and that can lead to violence.
Evidence
that supports this truth:
·
In
1928 the Chinese government moved the capitol of China from Beijing to Nanking.
On October 11, 1937, the Japanese armies advanced in the direction of Nanking.
They launched a massive attack on December 9th, and beginning on the 13th
through the next six weeks, the Japanese army was thought to have killed
300,000 people and raped 20,000 women. Some estimates are even higher, but the
Japanese government continues to say that these numbers are exaggerated.
http://www.princeton.edu/~nanking/html/history_of_the_nanking_massacre.html
·
The
Cultural Revolution in China began in 1949 started with Chairman Mao taking
over. He brought communism to China, and to do this effectively he thought it
was necessary to kill and punish anyone who did not think or act like he wanted
them to. If you did not agree with his policies and still thought that the old
ideas and ways were better, you and your family would be beaten, fined or
killed. No children went to school for four years during this. Thousands of
Chinese were killed and it should never have happened.
http://www.culturalbridge.com/cnadd.htm
·
In
Tiananman Square in 1989, a student protest was being held. Students from all
over China were in Beijing to protest Communism and to stand up for Democracy.
The Communists did not like this. They told the protesters to leave, but the
protesters did not. The Chinese military was brought in, with tanks, and fired
on the protesters. They killed thousands, wounded thousands, and made China
look very bad. They would not let anyone into China for two weeks after
that. The government’s response was
extremely uncalled for. Their reaction to the protest was too violent.
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/tiananmen.html
The seriousness of the human rights violations in China today is extremely
serious. The Chinese government does what it wants to do, even if that involves
lying or killing. The Chinese government tends to cover up all the bad things
in China to make them look good, when really things are beginning to leak out
and make them look bad. When the Chinese government learns about a human rights
violation within their country, they tend to ignore it and deny it as if it is
not there. With the seriousness of some of the situations in China the
government needs to pay a little more attention.
Evidence
that supports this truth:
·
Dan
Wang was put on trial on October 30, 1996 in China for writing articles
expressing his views and having contacts in China with dissidents. It was clear
that the trial had already been decided before it even happened. It lasted four
hours and Dan Wang was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He had previously been
in prison for being involved in the student protests in 1989. Detailed
newspaper articles and interviews made it obvious that they had been prepared
before the trial. Dan Wang's trial was unfair and unjust. The public was not
allowed to go to the trial.
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/press/china_oct31.html
·
The
communist government in China is getting nervous due to young people making
attempts at forming a democratic governmental party called the China Democracy
Party. All attempts at registering it so far have been unsuccessful, but people
think that one may emerge soon. The communists do not like the idea at all;
they feel threatened by the presence of another registered political party.
http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/oct98/07_42_003.html
·
Chinese
orphanages have serious problems. Since the one child per family law was put
into place, many baby Chinese girls have been abandoned because people think
that having a boy is better. If the abandoned girl is found, she is put into an
orphanage, usually with inadequate facilities and employees. Sometimes there
are forty or more children with only two caregivers. Because of this starvation
and disease is present. There have been reports of intended starvation and
other abuse involving torture and hitting. Sometimes the girls are
"picked" to be "exterminated" by how they look or act. This
usually is done through starvation, and to keep the starving children from
screaming and crying they give them sedatives and painkillers. The baby orphans
are strapped in a high chair looking thing, they can't move their arms or legs,
and there is a bucket under them to catch their waste. Many reports have been
submitted to the Chinese government to try to change these conditions, but the
Chinese government denies all charges against them. Population annalists are
expecting there to be an extreme shortage in Chinese women in the next 20 years
because of how many are being abandoned and killed. These are serious human
rights violations and something needs to be done.
http://www.oneworld.org/tvandradio/dyingrooms.html
Respectfully submitted by
Elizabeth Koenig
Human Rights Activist