Friday I mentioned that there was a DC Rally to protest the repatriation of North Koreans. So far today all I can find on this story is what Agape Press reported in a blurb. I find it interesting the press has not covered this story.
...A coalition of human rights groups gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC, over the weekend to protest the communist nation's forcible repatriation of North Korean refugees back to North Korea. Suzanne Scholte of the North Korean Freedom Coalition says the North Koreans face imprisonment, torture and execution when they return. For that reason, she explains, the Coalition is doing more than protesting. "We're continuing to put pressure on them this way," she says, "but we're also calling for the Olympic Committee to change the venue of the Beijing Olympics, because we realize that China doesn't respond to moral pressure -- it only responds to economic pressure. There's also talk about having tariffs enacted against China's products." Also, last weekend the group held a prayer vigil for North Korean freedom at a Korean church outside Washington. Scholte believes the protests, and particularly the calls for changing the Olympics venue, are beginning to have an impact on the Chinese. "We feel like they are reacting to the economic consideration and the prestige they have [at stake], because they've got so much wrapped up in these Olympics coming up," she says. [Chad Groening]
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