The Communist Party dictatorship of China has consistently denied the rights of the Chinese (and Tibetan) people to practise their religion and follow their consciences freely. This is most evident in the case of Tibetan Buddhism, whose most important leaders have had to seek asylum in India, and most recently, the cruel and completely unnecessary suppression of the Buddhist/Taoist group Fa-lun Kung. The suppression of the China Democratic Party is another case in point.

The same authorities are responsible for the attempted genocide of the Tibetan people, conquered by Communist force of arms, and since mostly deprived of their indigenous leaders and religious freedom, while their numbers are kept down and massive quantities of Han Chinese lured by government incentives to settle in Tibetan lands.
 

The Flag of the 1895 Republic of Taiwan

At the same time the dictators menace Taiwan, an island that was never part of the Communist territories. In 1895 the Chinese Emperor gave Taiwan its independence from China forever, and it was the first republican government in East Asian history. Since then it has only shared any government with mainland China (not the present regime) between October 1945 and 1949. The obvious desire of the Communist regime is to silence the voice of a genuine democracy successfully run by ethnic Chinese. Taiwanese public opinion is becoming ever more unwilling for Taiwan be treated as a second-class country due to Chinese pressure and intimidation.

The following links provide the means to act for Chinese democracy, and for Taiwanese and Tibetan independence.
 

	Taiwan Links	New Taiwan World Union for Formosan Independence
	Tibet Links	Tibetan Independence The Tibetan Government in Exile

 
 

Democracy and Human Rights in China Human Rights in China Amnesty International on China