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Culture & Politics » soc.culture.china » China: A Regime that Persecutes the Blind/By Jin Zhong
| China: A Regime that Persecutes the Blind/By Jin Zhong [message #225247] |
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China: A Regime that Persecutes the Blind
By Jin Zhong
On June 11, Chen Guangcheng, the blind guardian of legal rights from
Shandong Province whom Time Magazine earlier this year named one of ※100
People Who Shape the World,§ was placed under criminal detention by the
Communist regime for ※damaging public property and disrupting traffic.§
Before this, he had already undergone half a year of house arrest and
another 3 months in detention.
Mr. Chen enjoyed little good fortune in his upbringing. When he was only
one year old, a disease cost him his eyesight in both eyes, and for more
than 30 years he has lived in a boundless expanse of darkness. But he
has refused to bow to fate. He enrolled in a primary school for the
blind at the age of 18, then went on to a middle school for the blind,
finally graduating from the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese
Medicine. After teaching himself law and learning English and the use of
the computer, he began offering legal advice to the disabled and farmers
in his home province. In 2003, he visited the United States for a month
as the guest of the U.S. State Department.
In 2005, while investigating illegal family planning practices in Linyi
City , Shandong Province and petitioning the central government in
Beijing about the situation, he was kidnapped and beaten by local
officials and deprived of his freedom. He is now considered a beacon of
courage in China 's civil rights movement. The indomitable pursuit of a
better life by this disabled man has won high praise from the
international community, while at the same time exposing China 's savage
and blood-soaked family planning practices to the world.
This issue's special report examines a new trend that has emerged in
China 's democratic movement, progressing from an occasional pursuit to
a continuous quest. By seeking to safeguard citizens' legal rights
through more rational, constitution-based methods instead of through
organized street protests, the participants in this movement are dealing
a blow to the totalitarian system and advancing people's consciousness
of freedom and democracy. Dissidents, rights advocates and journalists
form three of the most active groups in this movement.
But the emergence of rights-advocates in the legal community in
particular is unprecedented in more than half a century of Communist
rule, even though it was an inevitable development under the Communist
regime's promise of ※rule by law.§ In Mao's days, lawyers simply did not
exist in China ; now China has 130,000 practicing lawyers and more than
10,000 law firms, a significant step indeed. But measured by the
requirements of a country truly ruled by law and striving to come in
line with the rest of the world under globalization, the problems that
remain are abundant and grave. The fate of Chen Guangcheng is just one
example, and his exposure of the violent nature of Linyi's family
planning is only one case in point. Nobody knows how many similar cases
there are in China . Not only are there are forced abortions and
sterilizations, heavy fines and arbitrary detentions, but also
punishments such as tearing down and burning houses, all in the name of
the national one-child policy. In fact, much of the blame for China 's
present population problem must be laid at the feet of Mao Zedong, and
making millions of innocent people pay without settling accounts with
the real culprit is simply unfair.
In this issue, we publish a speech given by veteran lawyer Zhang Sizhi
at a recent legal conference in Beijing , in which he talks about the
various difficulties of legal practice in China today. He mentions that
at one point the president of All-China Lawyers Association proclaimed
Mao a ※genius in governance.§ Zhang yelled, ※My God! Millions of people
were governed to death, and you called that genius!§ To allow such a
president to head the legal profession is simply horrendous, he
observes. This is the status quo of China . On the one hand it is
shaking off the bondage of Mao's dogma, but on the other hand it is
※governing§ in accordance with Mao's poisonous legacy. That is the only
way to explain why a regime armed to the teeth should be afraid that a
blind person would incite ※revolt.§ It is really amazing that someone
with the status of the president of a national lawyer's association
could be such an idiot in his understanding of history.
This naturally reminds us of the so-called ※standing together through
thick and thin§ phenomenon on the other side of the Taiwan Straits in
recent years. Their procrastination inside those fancy buildings and
infatuation with transient temptations are not without reason. But as a
Chinese writer in Australia said, ※You people in Taiwan fight each other
to the death merely to determine who will be elected to office and who
will lose. But if you want to understand the mainland, just try the same
thing there. You will soon find out that the issue is who will become
the master and who the slave.§
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