Extracts. "Keep Away From Falun Gong," Says Practitioner Believing in Li Hongzhi's Falun Gong will result in self-extermination and people should keep away from it, said Shao Jun, a former Falun Gong practitioner. "My experience taught me that Falun Gong will lead a person nowhere but self-destruction, and it will destroy anything human including jobs and families," said Shao, 55, who was unguardedly trapped by the Falun Gong cult and began practicing it about three years ago. Shao, a staff member at a local hospital in Cangxi county in southwest China's Sichuan province, abandoned the evil cult and decisively quit practicing the Falun Gong cult last February. "I would like to thank my family, friends and colleagues, who patiently helped me out of my obsession and encouraged me to fight against the evil thoughts of Falun Gong," she said. Recalling the past experience with Falun Gong, Shao said she was simply living in a nightmare and now she is awake. "It is really absurd to be pious about such a malefic cult," she stated. She further calls on all people to see through the tricks of Falun Gong and firmly keep away from it. The Chinese government has made great efforts to ban the Falun Gong cult. So far, many Falun Gong followers in China have realized the cult's nature and Li Hongzhi's tricks. Thanks to the government's help, many innocent people, especially women, children and the elderly, have been saved and have returned to their normal lives. **** Deputy chief of KMT to visit mainland next week Taiwan's deputy chief of the Kuomintang, Vincent Siew, said Saturday he would visit mainland next week to promote economic integration between the two sides of the Strait. Siew, who is former ``premier' of Taiwan and chairman of the Cross Strait Common Market Foundation, said he would depart for mainland on Tuesday. He will be accompanied by about 15 heavyweight businessmen, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing chairman Morris Chang, China Development Industrial Bank president Benny Hu, Yulon Motor vice chairman Kenneth Yen, and Cathay Life Insurance chairman Tsai Hung-tu. The delegation is expected to meet high-ranking officials including Vice Premier Qian Qichen in Beijing and the chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, Wang Daohan, in Shanghai, along with others in Shenzhen. Siew said the trip was aimed at exchanging ideas with mainland officials about his proposal to establish a common market between Taiwan and the mainland. The market could "create a win-win situation for both sides and it's important for Taiwan's development," he told reporters this week. **** Iranian Newspapers Hail U.S. Ouster from U.N. Human Rights Body Iran's English newspapers on Sunday described the United States' ouster from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) as humiliating defeat of its "usual arrogant way." Iran News said in its editorial that Washington has, on many occasions, used the commission to ostracize countries that did not toe with the U.S. line. The fact that many international organizations consider the United States as a country with a very poor human rights record may have contributed to its unseating in the U.N. commission, the editorial noted. The U.S. has offended the rest of the world by accusing, without even producing any evidence, a large number of countries of abusing the rights of their nationals while its own citizens of African and Mexican descent have been fighting unsuccessfully for decades to achieve equality, it added. On Thursday, the United States was voted off the UNCHR for the first time since its founding in 1947. The U.S. came in fourth after France, Austria and Sweden with 29 votes in ballot for three seats allocated to Western nations that were up for reelection. The newspaper said that the belligerent policies pursued by President George W. Bush and his administration have definitely something to do with Washington's ouster. "Examples of these policies are the recent spy plane incident which caused a war of words between Beijing and Washington and the decision to sell sophisticated weapons and military equipment to Taiwan," it said. "Washington must rehabilitate itself before it is allowed again to become an active member of the United Nations," the editorial stressed. In a signed article entitled "humiliated," the Iran Daily commented on Washington's lose of its seat in the UNCHR, saying that the international community on Thursday gave such a "hard slap" to the United States' arrogance. "The unprecedented move reflects international indignation over U.S. double standard, which is the root cause of suffering, instability, human rights violations and conflicts around the globe," the article said. It added that the U.S. has appointed itself as the "gendarme of the new world order," issuing irresponsible reports on alleged human rights abuses and charges of terrorism against other nations, while overlooking its own dismal record of human rights abuse at home and abroad. "Let us hope America will learn from its debacle and mend its ways in the interest of genuine human rights, the article concluded. **** U.S. Policy on Human Right Condemned in Bangladesh Human rights organizations and intellectuals in the country Sunday blamed the United States for it's "wrong policy on human rights towards global community." Talking to Xinhua Sunday, Justice KM Sobhan, a human rights activist who heads the Bangladesh Human Rights Commission, said that "I congratulate the countries, especially the European countries who did not vote the United States to be a member of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC)." Sobhan said that "the United States, who used to do bossing over the global community on the human rights, proved wrong." Prof. Muniruzzaman Mia, former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University said Sunday he felt that "some moves the new U.S. administration has taken or going to take have influenced in its failure in becoming the member of UNHRC." These moves include sale of arms to Taiwan, proposed nuclear defense Shield and the flying of spy plane over Chinese territory, he said. Prof. Miah, also a former Bangladesh diplomat, said what surprises him most is whether the United States could not have sensed this earlier. "Anyway if the United States wants to remain as a leader of the world Community, they have to rethink some of their policies." _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
