British House of Commons has held a hearing on the so-called China's human rights issue and invited the Dalai Lama to speak at the hearing, at the time when the Chinese government and people of all ethnicities across China are plunging themselves into the earthquake relief work and making every possible effort to save lives. This move has not only hurt the feelings of the 1.3 billion people in the country but poses a bitter sarcasm about some Western forces on the so-called "human rights issue".
Since a devastating quake jolted Wenchuan county in southwestern Sichuan province on May 12, the Chinese government and people nationwide have moved or touched the entire world deeply with the great spirit of "taking the people first" they display during the quake rescue and relief. Most of the overseas quake-related media reportages and appraisals have something in common, and that is the confirmation of the loving care the Chinese government and people have demonstrated for lives.
Some people turn a blind eye to this reality and still do not forget slamming China under the signboard of "human rights". For a long period of time, they have confused the Tibet question and the so-called "human rights" issue, and they thought they could gesticulate profusely from the height of morality by doing so. In fact, such tricks have become "the Emperor's New Clothes" as described in a fairly tale by Danish poet and ace story teller Hans Christian Anderson about a cocky and self-conceited emperor.
What especially incredible is that they let the Dalai Lama come out to "testify" for human rights in Tibet. As is known to all, Tibetan serfs were subjected to the ruthless oppression and exploitation and could hardly assure their basis right of survival, and so they did not have any human rights to speak of in old Tibet under feudal serfdom with an integration of politics and religions imposed by the Dalai clique.
Many aliens, who have had chances to come to tour Tibet in recent years, however, witness tremendous changes that have taken place in the region. Many of them acclaim heartily that "the human rights situation has never been so good in Tibet as it is today." So, it is extremely sarcastic for British members of Parliament, who often pass themselves off as the "defenders of human rights", to ask the Dalai Lama to dwell on "China's human rights".
As a matter of fact, it is not so difficult for people to get to know the human rights situation in China. If opportunities are available for them, they can set out to look round what is happening at the quake relief frontlines and hear the genuine voice of ordinary Chinese who are exerting their utmost to the quake relief. Only those people are entitled to speak on China's human rights. In the last 20-plus nights and days following the Wenchuan quake on May 12, it is the governing concept of "making the people first" and the national will of "taking lives above anything else" that have turned a tragic quake causing mountains to collapse and earth to crack into a nationwide rescue of human lives, and only the concrete, trying quake relief deeds can be said as the true record of China's convincing human rights record.
What has happened or what is still happening in the quake-hit areas is, beyond any doubt, truly a test book about China's human rights. If some people persist in turning a blind eye to such heroic deeds and goes on ignoring such consensus reached worldwide, they can only betray their deep-rooted objective bias and alarming, tendentious loss of eyesight.
Both history and the current reality have time and again admonished people that any attempt to agitate or incite "Tibet independence" has never succeeded in the past century or so, no matter under whatever pretext it resorted to. Those people, turning no heed of history, disregarding the reality, and always remembering to assault China with the so-called "human rights" issue, will enable the world to see clearly their mentality, that is, to treat the vital human rights issue merely as a trifle matter.
By People's Daily Online and its author is senior desk editor He Zhenhua
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