Falun Gong Visits Microsoft
This afternoon, Falun Gong protestors silently held banners at the corner of 40th and 156th, the entrance to Microsoft. The protests were aimed at the alleged harvesting of organs from live inmates at Chinese concentration camps. The ladies holding the signs handed out pamphlets depicting a Chinese labor camp inmate named Zhang Xiaohong, and describing the rates for organ transplants at a Chinese hospital with alleged connections to a concentration camp.
Tomorrow, Chinese President Hu Jintao will visit the Redmond campus. Todd Bishop of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer covers some of the business implications of the Chinese President’s visit.
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on April 20, 2006 at 8:28 am Tom wrote:
In related news (?), the Dalai Lama was in Waukegan this week (here in the Chicago area). These guys ought to carpool or something - it seems like whenever one comes to the U.S., the other is here, too.
Zhang Xiaohong’s story is sobering - you’ve got to figure that for every one we hear about, there is an outrageous number about which we don’t. I won’t get into similarities between this and Guantanamo - I know they’re very different situations (for example, I do believe we draw the line somewhere before live organ harvesting) but I can’t help but notice that there ARE some circumstances common to both. The greatest of which is that both situations stink and are too undocumented for my comfort.