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Visit by UN Human Rights Observers to Communist China Likely to be Whitewash

BEIJING, August 30, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Louise Arbour, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and one of Canada’s most notorious pro-abortion judicial activists and a woman whose career was marked by a determination to deny the right to life of thousands of unborn Canadian children, is in Beijing today for talks with government officials. China has agreed to allow Manfred Nowak, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and an expert in torture allegations to visit next month. Nowak will, says the UN, have the mandate to make unannounced visits and un-monitored conversations with political prisoners.

A spokesman for Arbour’s office said talks will focus on reforming China’s legal system with a view to having the country ratify the UN’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Previous UN trips China, however, have been revealed to be little more than carefully choreographed public relations frauds with communist officials guiding polite UN observers through pre-arranged meetings.

There is little surprise among some observers that the Chinese government has suddenly become willing to co-operate with the UN. With the European Union threatening to hold up arms sales to the communist country on the grounds of credible human rights abuses and a possible conflict looming with Taiwan, the Chinese are motivated. Moreover, past experience has proved that the Chinese have little to fear from the United Nations on the issue of its human rights record.

It is difficult to say how much longer the communist’s brutal One Child policy can continue however, when groups that are generally supportive or neutral on abortion are beginning to take notice. Even during the Clinton administration in 1999, when the US was reinstating funding to the United Nations population control efforts overseas, there was unanimous support in the US senate for a condemnation over Chinese human rights abuses.

The World Health Organization, a UN-based organization that is in full support of abortion and sterilization, reported in 1997, that China is heading for a demographic nightmare with over 50 million girls “missing” from its population.

This year, in its annual report on Human Rights around the world, Amnesty International which highlighted the abuses against women who violated the One Child policy. Such reports, however, have not deterred the United Nations, (supported by Canada) from giving its full support to the policy.

Louise Arbour and the so-called UN human rights watchdogs are unlikely to seriously address the forced abortion issue. The Chinese policy is largely in line – though with slightly less sqeamishness about its direct application – with the eugenic and population policies at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The UNFPA has been proven to be complicit in the Chinese policy’s violent implementation.

As LifeSiteNews.com reported last week, Stephen Mosher has been labeled an “international spy” by the Chinese government for his exposure of the horrific crimes against humanity that are part of daily life in China. Until he went to China in 1979, Mosher said, he was pro-abortion. It was seeing the brutal reality of abortion and ruthless population control methods of the Chinese communists that opened his eyes. As soon as his support faded, so did the willingness of the Chinese authorities to open the country’s doors to him and other investigators. The fact that China is allowing the UN inspectors to visit is a clear indication that they have little real fear of censure.

China, says Mosher, is dedicated to the policy and has plans to continue until it has reduced its current population by one half by 2050. That means “eliminating” either directly through abortion or indirectly through sterilization and contraception, 600 million people.

In addition, the communists continue to arrest Catholic priests and other Christian ministers and laypeople and to bulldoze churches, a fact that is often ignored by most mainstream media. According to official figure, there are at least 26,000 prisoners in forced labour camps. China’s 670 prisons hold some 1.5 million prisoners and the judicial system, including the death penalty is used, say some groups, as a tool by the ruling Party for terrorizing citizens.

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