Asia Cast

Asia Cast for Tuesday 2nd June

Shrine to former South Korean president Roh Moo-Hyun. (By gay-feisty/Flickr)

In this Bulletin…

- Mother and baby persecuted by police;
- Roh mourned in South Korea; and
- Amnesty slams Chinese Communist Regime.

But first, here’s our SOH focus on China
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The mother and her two month old daughter that have been made homeless because their husband was arrested for practicing Falun Gong, a Buddha school meditation practice, have come under attack from local police because she is appealing for the fathers release while begging for food on the streets.

Shi Renxue’s husband has been in jail since January 11th. Mrs Shi told SOH reporters that now deputy chief Zhao Jiaqi from the Fangzheng police station is threatening to take away her daughter if she does not stop her efforts to expose her husband’s unfair detention.

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The new best selling book titled “The Course of Reform” based on Zhao Ziyang’s secret audio recordings has stirred the world. Not to mention the effect it has had in China and Hong Kong.

The publisher of this eye opening account of a former Chinese Communist Regime leader, has come forth to give accounts of the journey of years of hardship in the process of having the book finally on the shelves.

Publisher Bao Pu, in an interview with The Epoch Times tells of the Communist Regime surveillance and hacking attempts on his computers. Zhao Ziyang was viciously forced out of the Regime because he refused to take part in the Tiananmen Square massacre and was not against the student’s protests.

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And now for the rest of today’s Asia Cast
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The death of former South Korean president Roh Moo-Hyun, has led to wide spread mourning in the nation. The former president was recently announced dead due to suicide, but the society of South Korea is not convinced that these reports are true.

The massive public procession at Roh’s public funeral was a strong showing of his place in the hearts of the Korean people.

The graft scandal in which he was implicated to be involved seemed to be the reason for his suicide. In his suicide letter he expressed that alive, he would only be a burden to the people of Korea.

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Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Irene Khan, has slammed China’s 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing as a human rights disaster in their latest report.

The report, “State of the World’s Human Rights”, shows the crippling state of human rights in our world today and Irene Khan stated in a press release that “World leaders must invest in human rights as purposefully as they are investing in the economy.”

China has become a major focus for Amnesty for they are becoming acutely aware that what the Chinese Communist Regime has been saying about the upgrades in human rights in China is certainly not true. Such cases as the horrific genocide of Falun Gong practitioners and the tragedy of the 2008 Olympics are more than enough to see the true picture of cruelty and corruption within the country.

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Rescue teams have failed to save some 55 whales beached near Cape Town in South Africa, a sea rescue institute said on Sunday. Scientists shot 42 of the false killer whales on Saturday and 13 others perished, possibly from internal injuries, at Kommetjie Beach, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said.

Marine scientists and volunteers worked all day to try to get the whales back into the water, but many were pushed back ashore by waves. Rescuers had battled to keep the beached adults and calves wet and used earth-moving equipment to try to save them.

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