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Headlines : Civil LibertiesChinese students disrupt human rights forum at Columbia
International human rights lawyer David Matas recently co-authored a high-profile report with respected Canadian parliamentarian and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, David Kilgour , into allegations of organ harvesting from unacknowledged Falun Gong prisoners in China. The report concluded that such allegations were almost certainly true, and that obtaining absolute physical proof of such crimes may border on impossible.
As explained in the article, Matas was informed ahead of time of the expected disruption and hostile audience. Accordingly, he deviated from his prepared notes and even read from the email which drew the Chinese protestors. He told them “the signs you have holding with you would be enough to constitute a hate crime in Canada,” and took issue with the email’s claim that his and Kilgour’s report was “full of holes.”
An honest evaluation of Matas’ and Kilgour’s report should convince all but a loyal Chinese nationalist that the report is not full of holes, and is, in fact, based on a thoughtful and sound alalysis. Mainstream media have been reserved for the most part in drawing attention to the report, although most reports seem to find it convincing enough.
[Posted By Beagle17]Republished from Epoch Times
The forum on Friday afternoon at Columbia University would have been an ordinary panel discussion on human rights—except that the graduate Chinese students’ club threatened to use force to disrupt it.
The CUCSSA (Columbia University Chinese Students and Scholars Association) apparently has close ties with the Chinese Consulate of New York, and ultimately the Chinese Communist regime that has ruled China for over 50 years. The club’s advisory committee is solely comprised of two high-ranking officials from the consulate.
An e-mail sent to close to 2,000 members of the CUCSSA at 9 p.m. on Thursday night, the night before the forum, incited Chinese students to disrupt the forum, even if doing so would entail “inevitable body contact….
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