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mercoledì, novembre 23, 2005
Non vedo, non sento, non parlo. E loro muoiono. Perché i governanti sudcoreani stanno tradendo la loro stessa storia. Lo spiega benissimo Kim Dae-joong:
The core of the Roh Moo-hyun administration consists of people who protested loudly at human rights abuses in the decades when South Korea was a desert in that regard. Many young men and women in those days were beaten during demonstrations, arrested while escaping, some tortured, and a few of them died. For some reason, however, the government stoops to ignoring the human rights situation in the North and reading the faces of Kim Jong-il and his henchmen instead. Last week, it miserably abstained from voting on a UN resolution calling for an inquiry into human rights abuses in the North. Thus the victims of human rights abuses here have turned into accomplices of rights abuses in the North. Leggete con attenzione: The ruling party also says it prefers “gradual improvement" to applying pressure right away. They should know from their own experience that gradual improvement in human rights is impossible. There is not a single example in the world where a dictatorship has gradually improved its human rights record and survived. Dictatorships are well aware that once they improve human rights, their powers will be gone. Doesn't the emergence of the Roh administration itself testify to that? The logic is based on a fiction. The greatest moral crime of the abstention is that it crushes any nascent resistance forces in the North. The desperate efforts of the North Koreans to recover the minimum rights to subsistence and living free from the threat of incarceration in concentration camps and public execution have been dealt a terrible blow by Seoul’s abstention. It calls the very legitimacy of the Roh government into question. La Corea del Sud non è poi così lontana, non trovate? |
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