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The Opium Wars... The War, although entitled "The Opium War" was in fact not about opium at all. As President John Quincy Adams said, "The seizure of a few thousand chests of opium smuggled into China by the Chinese government was no more the cause of the Opium War than the throwing overboard of the tea in the Boston harbour was the cause of North American Revolution." http://historyliterature.homestead.com/files/extended.html The above is a long and detailed page. For a shorter account, see these: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/heroin/opiwar1.htm http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wod/hongkong.html For a chronology, see the following: http://mojo.calyx.net/~schaffer/heroin/opichin1.html For the Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria (from Lin Tse-Hsü, prior to the start of the Opium Wars), where is mentioned the sinister grip of this drug on the Chinese people and where Lin appeals to the conscience of the Queen: http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/com-lin.html You will notice that the Western practice of supplying others what is forbidden in their country (drugs, chemicals, etc.) traces back this far in history if not further.A copy of the above letter is kept here, because it is too important to lose if that site were to go down for whatever reason. Nanking http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Fortress/1955/nanking.htm http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nanking.html http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/ The Other Holocaust: Nanjing http://www.skycitygallery.com/japan/japan.html The Rape of Nanking http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.12.96/cover/china1-9650.html Korean Opium for Japan's Wars; Japan's Opium Policy in Taiwan http://www.kimsoft.com/korea-jp.htm Eyewitness: A North Korean Remembers http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit.htm Outline of Japan's colonial history until its annexation of Korea: http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit01.htm List
of main questionable passages and their revised versions of the draft of the
textbook edited by the “Society” http://www.korea-np.co.jp/pk/158th_issue/2001032811.htm Korea Fighting for Independence since 1910 (kinda weird in my opinion): http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55a/100.html Twentieth century timeline of Manchuria:
http://timelines.ws/countries/MANCHURIA.HTML Japan in Asia http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/japaninasia.htm Tibet: Genocide and Ecocide by Dave Kopel http://www.davekopel.org/env/entibet.htm Tibet's Cultural and Religious genocide http://www.fatherryan.org/holocaust/Tibet/ Self-confident Chinese perspective on Tibet - sense another streak of defiance of accusations of some sort?"Tibetan Chinese are not American Indians - History According to Hollywood" by Bevin Chu(...) I have seen Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" once in the theater and several times on cable, and I never cease to be deeply moved by what screenwriting teachers term "a good story, well told." The same holds true of Neil Jordan's political biography "Michael Collins," about the famous, or infamous Irish revolutionary of the same name. I do not however assume merely because I have enjoyed a well scripted and well produced two hours of entertainment that I have necessarily learned anything substantive about English, Scottish or Irish history. I retain enough presence of mind to recall Hollywood's record of playing fast and loose with historical facts, motivated by either commercial considerations or the filmmakers' political biases. I certainly do not leave the theater convinced of either the rightness or wrongness of Scottish secession. Instead I remain scrupulously neutral. The issue of Scottish secession is one for the English and the Scots to settle between themselves. Why should I, who am neither an Englishman nor a Scots, behave like a damned busybody and stick my nose into something which is none of my business? (...) http://www.antiwar.com/chu/c120399.html I wonder if our dear author takes the liberty to be deeply moved by a movie on the Tibetans. I mean, even I have been emotionally touched when watching Lawrence of Arabia. So what is his point? DO read the whole. Highly suggested that you do so. Here's more on why: Now that communism is dead, sympathizers of the Dalai Lama, many of whom were sympathizers of Mao Zedong, seem to have forgotten what communism was all about. Communism was a political ideology obsessed with economic equality. Communism adjudged who was good and who was bad on the basis of its fatally flawed economic theory. To communist true believers the relevant question was to which economic class do you belong. Are you a capitalist victimizer or a proletarian victim? Ethnicity to communism was always irrelevant. Notice something peculiar in this paragraph? The Chinese Communist Party IS NOT dead. It is alive and kicking arse (my opinion on Chinese leaders' wisdom despite their equally horrendous outlook on things). The principles of communism may have been abandonned, BUT Lenin's lamentations - that he was not able to form "a government of the people but [rather] one over the people" - hold true elsewhere. The Chinese government is one of oppression and repression whether for the better or for the worse in anyone's opinion - make no mistake about it!
http://www.tibettruth.com/greensilence.html Read about the consequences of Chinese nuclear tests on the health of the Uighur/Uygur population in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang/Xinjiang - "East Turkestan": http://www.taklamakan.org/uighur-l/et_faq_p1.html#d1 More: http://www.caccp.org/et/cnt.html China’s Genocide in Tibet: No Fun and Games http://www.tibet.org/sft/fungames.htm Chinese official perspective on Tibet (note the reference to previously mentioned article above - "Tibetan Chinese are not American Indians - History According to Hollywood" by Bevin Chu): http://www.index-china.com/index-english/Tibet-s.html TIBET: GIVE US LIBERTY AND PEACEBy Consul B. John Zavrel http://www.meaus.com/Tibet_-_Give_Us_Liberty.html World Tibet Network News Cultural genocide
Women Face Cultural Genocide on the Roof of the World(...) Since then Tibetan women have been prime targets of human rights abuse. As
documented by Asia Watch and Amnesty International, political prisoners suffer
systematic torture and sexual violations. Detailed reports of forcible
extraction of blood from female prisoners continue to emerge. Due to the courage
and sacrifice of the Chinese human rights activist Dr Harry Wu, the West now
knows about China's system of forced labour camps. Some of the most notorious of
these are in Eastern Tibet and house countless numbers of women, who are
exploited as slave labour. For women not involved in political activity, daily
life offers little better. Unless they are able to speak the language of the
occupying regime, the chance of finding even the most menial employment is
almost impossible. In order to receive grain, women must carry a ration card
bearing their name, date of birth and 'class'. The amount awarded is determined
by a system of 'work points'. it is not therefore uncommon for women to be seen
working in the fields from 6 a.m. to 8 pm. Half of their yield is often demanded
by China through various taxes such as the 'Love of the Nation Tax' or the
'Surplus Grain Tax'. Tibetan women struggle against China's male-dominated state, characterized by deeply held racist convictions that operate a system of apartheid, reducing them to second-class citizenship in their own land. A commonly used Chinese term describing occupied people is shung-nu - 'barbarian slave'. (...) Tashi Dolma was a former health worker from Amdo in Eastern Tibet. In 1988 she became pregnant for the second time. Resisting initial pressures from family planning officials to have an abortion, she was fined 1500 Yuan (an enormous amount of money for most Tibetans). on hearing of her pregnancy, a Chinese doctor at the hospital in which she worked, pressurized her by saying: 'If you insist on having the child, the financial punishment is a small matter compared with the political crime you are committing. From now on, you will only get 30 per cent of your salary. Your salary will never increase. Your child will not have the right to claim his ration card, and will not be admitted to school.' Some four months into the pregnancy, Tashi collapsed under incessant pressure and submitted to 'menstrual termination of pregnancy (MTP)'. Tashi Dolma says about her operation: 'The complications and pain I suffered in the course of this operation were so terrible that I can't talk about it. However, it was nothing compared to what women suffer when they are operated on during their sixth and seventh months of pregnancy, which happens quite often at this hospital. (...) For Tibetans these population policies not only violate human rights principles, but form a dangerous and potentially disastrous assault upon an already severely diminished Tibetan population. Chinese population control abuses are now widely recognized, yet some demographers, presumably keen to maintain career links and/or research opportunities with China, choose to ignore the evidence of such violations. In Tibet and China, however, this is exactly what is happening, as the United Nations, governments, Britain's Department for International Development and multilateral population agencies ignore the wealth of evidence of these abuses, muttering absurd arguments about China having a potential for change. This reasoning could equally have been applied to Nazi SS units which forcibly sterilized countless numbers of 'racially inferior' women across Europe. (...) (...) The resulting birth control programme has had a devastating impact on the Tibetan population, which, it is widely agreed, was around six million before China's invasion in 1950. Since then, some 1.2 million Tibetans are thought to have perished through famine, disease, and in the 'Twenty Year War' of resistance (1954-74). A serious population low must thus have occurred in the 1960s, which meant that China forced its population programme upon an already dangerously reduced population level. (...) http://www.ctcvan.ca/docs/FreedomCultural2.html The Many Faces of Genocide in China http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6807/genocide.html http://www.mongoliatoday.com/issue/6/culture.html Japanese apologists trying to discredit Iris Chang's Rape of Nanking - note how they sound like Turkish apologists for the Armenian Genocide. International relations somehow gain top priority at instances like these when highly-publicized books and movies are discussed. They will inevitably ALWAYS make a mistake - to discuss and try to discredit the content by exhibiting their political and personal historical biases in the course of their nitpicking and/or they will add to the publicity of the works - both of which are counterproductive for them. Nanking (Pinyin Nanjing) is only one of many places undeserving of and afflicted by Japanese wrath until Japanese defeat at the end of World War II.
CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S ABUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN EAST TURKISTAN - a summary http://www.ccs.uky.edu/~rakhim/doc_files/abuse.html Abuses of Religious Freedoms In East Turkistan - Uygur American Association http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ET/religion/religion.html East Türkestan ( Uyghuristan ) National Congress Chinese cultural Genocide in East Turkistan (1949-2001) Professor Timur Kocaoglu http://www.eastturkistan.com/brussels/ Taklamakan.org Green-Silence Over the Poisoning of East Turkestan http://www.tibettruth.com/greensilence.html Read about the consequences of Chinese nuclear tests on the health of the Uighur population: http://www.taklamakan.org/uighur-l/et_faq_p1.html#d1 More: http://www.caccp.org/et/cnt.html "Xinjiang” = “new land” (Ch.) is “ancient
Chinese land”... EAST TIMOR: Indonesia's actions 'genocide' says expert http://abc.net.au/ra/asiapac/programs/s354635.htm East Timor: Genocide in Paradise I was in high school when the war started. I had no political ties, didn't
belong to any party. My friends and I were forced to join the Indonesian army.
None of us wanted to, but if we didn't, we would have been killed. http://www.officeoftheamericas.org/books/genocide_in_paradise/genocide_contents.htm http://www.angelfire.com/pe/Timor/ http://www.motherjones.com/east_timor/ The Campaign to End Genocide - Indonesia Indonesia and East Timor Who: Civilians and PKI supports; East Timorese http://www.endgenocide.org/genocide/indonesia.html
Bishop Belo accuses Indonesia of genocide in E.Timor http://www.etan.org/et99b/september/5-11/10bishop.htm
Centre for the Prevention of Genocide according to hotspots: Aceh: http://www.genocideprevention.org/aceh.htm Sulawesi: http://www.genocideprevention.org/sulawesi.htm Nepal: http://www.genocideprevention.org/Nepal.htm Timor: http://www.genocideprevention.org/timor.htm Borneo: http://www.genocideprevention.org/borneo.htm Papua New Guinea: http://www.genocideprevention.org/papua.htm Moluccas: http://www.genocideprevention.org/moluccas.htm
By R.J. Rummel http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP3.HTM The American experience in Vietname - My Lai Massacre http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/mylai.html TIME, December 5, 1969: Only a shadow of a doubt now remains that the massacre at My Lai was an atrocity, barbaric in execution. Yet almost as chilling to the American mind is the character of the alleged perpetrators. The deed was not performed by patently demented men. Instead, according to the ample testimony of their friends and relatives, the men of C Company who swept through My Lai were for the most part almost depressingly normal. They were Everymen, decent in their daily lives, who at home in Ohio or Vermont would regard it as unthinkable to maliciously strike a child, much less kill one. Yet men in American uniforms slaughtered the civilians of My Lai, and in so doing humiliated the U.S. and called in question the U.S. mission in Vietnam in a way that all the antiwar protesters could never have done. http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/mylai2.html COLD
WAR Chat: Hugh Thompson http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/guides/debate/chats/thompson/ The forgotten hero of My Lai - Hugh Thompson: http://www.acadianhouse.com/hughthompson/story.htm Calley - the Butcher of My Lai: http://www.dade.k12.fl.us/edison/calley.htm Notice the many tiny variations... http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/mylai.htm The My Lai Cases: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/mylai.htm
Timeline of Indochina: http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/indochin.html A little history of the end of French colonialism in Vietnam: http://home.att.net/~r.hodgeman/history1.html http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215466/french_indochina.htm History of Japan in the first half of the 20th century - in the words of a Japanese source: http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2129.html
Cambodia: Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University http://www.yale.edu/cgp/ http://www.fatherryan.org/holocaust/cambodia/JOE/INDEX.htm http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/khmeryears/fall.html http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/hafa3/cambodia.htm
Bangladesh http://www.gendercide.org/case_bangladesh.html Hindu genocide in East Pakistan http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/hindu_bangla.html Hindu Kush means Hindu Slaughter By Shrinandan Vyas http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/hindu_kush.html Notice it mentions the no longer existing statues in Bamyan. Torture and Genocide of the Sikhs http://www.khalistan.net/genocide.htm
http://www.fletcherledger.com/archive/2001-03-28/032601C-TalebanBuddhas.htm "The thought was going through my mind and my crew's mind, how these people got in that ditch and after coming up with about three scenarios, one of them being an artillery hit them, you wipe that out of your mind 'cause every house in Vietnam, I think, has a bunker underneath it. If artillery was coming there, they would go to the bunker, they wouldn't go outside in the open area. Then I said, well, when artillery was coming, they were going to leave and a round caught them in the ditch while they were going for cover. I threw that one out of my mind. Then something just sunk into me that these people were marched into that ditch and murdered. That was the only explanation that I could come up with." -Hugh Thompson -- helicopter pilot who tried to stop the massacre |
Last revised: Mon., Feb. 24, 2003