"Zomi" <zomi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Zomi says:
>
> Birds of the same feather flock together. Burma and Communist China are
> birds of the same feather and so flock together. Both of them are
despots
> and both of them kill their own people.
Not quite so, friend. The Burmese officials put on sarongs and long sleeve
****rts, wear ties and Japanese slipper and carry paper unmbrellas when
attending functions. Whereas Chinese officials had converted to wearing
western attire from their former Maoist uniform.
>
> Back in 1988-1989, The SLORC and the SPDC accused Aung San Suu Kyi and
the
> NLD of receiving instructions from the Communist Party of China via the
> Communist Party of Burma.
>
> Which is the real organization that has been receiving instructions from
> Communist China -- the NLD or the SPDC?
>
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>
> China rights lawyer disappears and feared detained
>
> Fri Mar 7, 2008 8:43am EST
>
> By Chris Buckley
>
>
> BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese human rights lawyer who has defended
> dissidents and urged stronger citizens' rights ahead of the 2008
Olympics
> is missing, family and colleagues said on Friday, fearful he may have
been
> secretly detained by police.
>
> The lawyer, Teng Biao, has belonged to a lively network of young Chinese
> activists who have used test cases, online petitions and media publicity
> to campaign for stronger rights under the ruling Communist Party.
>
> Beijing has faced a surge of calls to improve human rights from
> international groups and activists ahead of the Games, a period when
many
> local dissidents expect to be closely watched, isolated or detained.
>
> A teacher at a Beijing law school, Teng, 34, recently urged authorities
to
> free Hu Jia, an outspoken Beijing dissident who faces subversion charges
> after spending much of last year under house arrest.
>
> He also warned last month that Beijing's Olympic Games, which open on
> August 8, had led to some retreat in China's human rights.
>
> But now Teng's wife and friends fear he may have been subjected to one
of
> the secretive state security detentions he has often decried.
>
> Teng phoned his wife, Wang Ling, on Thursday night to say he was heading
> home, but never arrived at the door of their sixth-floor apartment in
the
> capital's north, Wang said.
>
> "About 20 minutes after he called, I heard someone yell out downstairs,"
> she said by telephone.
>
> "I went downstairs and our car was there but he wasn't. Two women said
> they'd seen a man taken from the car and pushed into a black car without
> license plates. That was the last he was seen."
>
> RE****TED MISSING
>
> Wang said she re****ted her husband's disappearance to police but had
heard
> nothing of his whereabouts.
>
> "He's never done anything that would attract personal vendettas, but he
> writes essays and defends rights. So it may be related to the
government,
> but I can't be sure," she said.
>
> Officers at the district Public Security Bureau near Teng's home
responded
> to questions about him by hanging up or passing the query on to other
> officers who also deflected questions.
>
> Teng's mobile appeared to be switched off when Reuters made repeated
> attempts to call him.
>
> "To judge from what's happened in recent years, the Olympic Games have
not
> brought China the free, open space that people expected," Teng said in
an
> interview last month that appeared on the overseas Chinese Web site
Boxun
> (http://www.peacehall.com).
>
> "There has been no obvious improvement in the human rights situation,
and
> in some areas the situation has deteriorated."
>
> A rights activist who spoke to Teng recently said he appeared "deeply
> downcast and under pressure", partly because state security officers had
> confiscated his pass****t and a deadline loomed for deciding whether to
> challenge their act in court.
>
> "He said they'd also warned him not to speak out about Hu Jia and to
stop
> taking interviews and publi****ng essays," said the source, who requested
> anonymity.
>
> "He told us, 'There's no guarantee that any of this is going to get
easier
> after the Olympics'."
>
> Another Beijing-based rights advocate, Xu Zhiyong, backed Wang's account
> of Teng's disappearance and said he was puzzled why Teng would be
> detained.
>
> "He's not at all an extremist," said Xu, a law professor. "It may be
> because of Hu Jia but we're all just guessing and waiting for more
> information."
>
> (Re****ting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Nick Macfie and Alex Richardson)
>
>
>
> http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSPEK20369520080307
>
> =====
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