Tell the truth the sweet truth
The history of the Chinese people bears out the fact that right from the reign of the first emperor to the present day, a challange to the central authority is just not tolerated. The might of the central power must go unchallanged.
AMERICANS HAD invited the Chinese President with a clear understanding that both the Presidents would address a joint press conference and answer the questions. As a matter of fact, an open press conference televised live is the best way to let the world know what was negotiated behind the bamboo curtain. The truth is told by both the parties and is relayed for the entire world to see. Chinese tend to hide
During the hey days of the communist regime in the Soviet Union, the phrase Iron Curtain had become a household word. Whatever was unpleasant to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was swept under the carpet and the whole room was put away from view behind the Iron Curtain. The truth was always beyond the reach of the prying eyes of the free world. Not so now at that scale. Nevertheless, an endeavour is always made by the erstwhile Communist leadership to push the unpleasant stories behind the bamboo curtain in Beijing.
Tian-a-men to Nobel prize
The history of the Chinese people bears out the fact that right from the reign of the first emperor to the present day, a challange to the central authority is just not tolerated. The might of the central power must go unchallanged. Emperor Chíng Shih Huang Di had all the books burnt and people's weapon thrown into the sea so that there was no organised opposition to the emperor. And yet the people rose in revolt like a one man army and threw out the first emperor's dynasty.
In the 20th century, the students organised a demonstration to ask for democratic rights for all citizens and curb the despotic power of the Communist Party rule. However, the communist regime chose to crush the student uprising, notwithstanding heavy casualties. The history had repeated itself in the big square of the Gate of Heavenly Peace. The peace was non-existant. But no citizen had the freedom to call a spade a spade. The right of expression was non-existent.
Many young lives were lost but there was no remorse among the shooters. The state had penalised the seekers of truth and tellers of truth. The high values of life by which the Chinese people had stood, were thrown to winds.
When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo had awarded the Nobel Peace prize to the Chinese dissident who had stood by the truth, the state of China imprisoned him again and the right of free movement was denied to him. His chair was left vacant and spoke of denial of human rights to the Chinese citizens by the government of China. Naturally, the dissident recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize made no speech because he was prevented from making an entry by his own government. The silence from that chair was deafening indeed. The whole world came to know that the central government of China crushes its own citizens, denies them human rights and confines them to the four walls of the jail.
Free world must support human rights
President Hu Jintao is in America. He and his entourage are being wined and dined by President Obama, isn't it the right time to press for human rights of the Chinese citizens? Of course, it is so.
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