Day: October 6, 2009

Communist China: UN Development Programme (UNDP) Lists Communist China as “Improved” Place to Live

— AFP: “China moved up seven places on the list to rank as the 92nd most developed country due to improvements in education as well as income levels and life expectancy”
— human rights not taken into consideration in UN study

— BBC: “China has become one of the most improved because of rising income levels and life expectancy rates”

— UNDP Human Development Reports

— Press Release

US Epoch Times Reports: ‘Gao Zhisheng, My Husband — Where Are You?’

US Epoch Times Reports: ‘Gao Zhisheng, My Husband — Where Are You?’
— Epoch Times: “Geng He wrote an open letter to her husband on the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival”
— “Gao is known for representing a range of groups being persecuted by the Chinese regime, particularly Falun Gong. Arrested in February, Gao’s current whereabouts are unknown. Geng He and their two children escaped to the U.S. earlier this year.”

Pakistan: Extremists Justify Bombing U.N. World Food Program

Media reports on extremists’ rationalization of bombing of U.N. World Food Program in Pakistan as being “in the interests of Muslims”

— AKI: “Taliban claim responsibility for deadly UN blast”
— AKI reports Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq quoted as stating: “We proudly claim responsibility for the suicide attack at the U.N. office in Islamabad. We will send more bombers for such attacks,” he told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location. “The U.N. and other foreign (aid groups) are not working in the interest of Muslims. We are watching their activities. They are infidels.”

— AP reports: “Taliban militants claimed responsibility Tuesday for the deadly suicide bombing at the U.N. food agency’s heavily fortified compound in Islamabad, saying international relief work in Pakistan was not in ‘the interest of Muslims'” — “Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq confirmed his group was behind the bombing and lashed out at foreign aid workers.”

Guinea: “In a Guinea Seized by Violence, Women Are Prey”

— In a Guinea Seized by Violence, Women Are Prey
— NYT reports: “Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium here last week, with victims and witnesses describing rapes, beatings and acts of intentional humiliation”
— “The exact number of women who were abused is not known. Because of the shame associated with sexual violence in this West African country, victims are reluctant to speak, and local doctors refuse to do so. Victims who told of the attacks would not provide their names because they were afraid of retribution.”
— NYT describes Guinea as a “Muslim” country

— IslamOnline reports story as “Horrific Mass Rapes in Muslim Guinea”