'Taiwan Spy' Executed by Beijing
Photo of the executed Wo Weihan courtesy of the BBC
Barbarism seems to know no bounds! Unfortunately, it seems to be increasing not by the month, not even by the week, but by the day! How sad it is to be alive in this age – an age which is so clearly growing darker so rapidly. - ©Mark

BBC: China has executed a scientist accused of spying for Taiwan.

Wo Weihan's family had appealed for clemency, saying that the scientist was tortured into admitting that he was a spy. He was sentenced last year.

The 59-year-old man, who ran his own medical research company in Beijing, was arrested in early 2005.

Among other things, he was convicted of passing Chinese military secrets to Taiwan, which China considers a renegade province.

Court documents said he spied for an organisation called The Grand Alliance for the Reunification of China under the Three Principles of the People between 1989 and 2003.

This group is under the auspices of Taiwan's new ruling party, the Kuomintang, according to China.

His daughter, Ran Chen, who holds an Austrian passport, said her father's death had been confirmed by the Austrian embassy in Beijing.

Mr Wo's family alleged that he had been denied access to a lawyer for a year.

A spokeswoman for the United States' embassy in Beijing condemned the execution. >>> | November 28, 2008

DIE PRESSE: Hinrichtung eines „Austro-Chinesen“

Wo Weihan lebte sieben Jahre in Innsbruck. Seine Töchter sind Österreicherinnen. Jetzt wurde er in Peking exekutiert, weil er für Taiwan spioniert haben soll.

WIEN. Die chinesische Justiz kannte keine Gnade. Sie ließ sich von niemandem erweichen. Es half nichts, dass die österreichische und die amerikanische Regierung intervenierten. Und auch die emotionalen Appelle der beiden Töchter des Todeskandidaten verhallten ungehört: Am Freitagmorgen wurde der 59-jährige Biomediziner Wo Weihan in einem Gefängnis in Peking durch Erschießen hingerichtet.

Seit 2005 saß der Biomediziner, der von 1988 bis 1997 in München und Innsbruck tätig war, hinter Gittern. Mehr als ein Jahr verbrachte er in der Todeszelle. Die chinesischen Behörden warfen ihm vor, für Taiwan spioniert und geheime Informationen über den Gesundheitszustand von hochrangigen Politikern weitergegeben zu haben. Jahrelang kämpften Ran Chen und Di Chen, die Töchter des Angeklagten, um das Leben ihres Vaters. Anfang der Woche erst erhielten sie überraschend eine Besuchserlaubnis, um die sie sich so lange vergeblich bemüht hatten. „Ihr könnt euren Vater ein letztes Mal sehen“, sagte man ihnen in Peking. Da vermuteten sie schon Schlimmstes. Der Vater wusste noch nichts von der bevorstehenden Hinrichtung. „Deshalb hinterließ er nicht einmal letzte Worte für seine Familie“, meinte Ran Chen am Freitag bei einer Pressekonferenz in Peking. >>> Irene Zöch | 28. November 2008

DIE PRESSE: Hinrichtung von Wo Weihan: Diplomatische Krise Wien-Peking

Der chinesische Geschäftsträger wurde ins Außenministerium zitiert. Staatssekretär Winkler spricht von "schwerem Vertrauensbruch" der chinesischen Justiz. Das Ansehen Chinas sei "schwer beschädigt".

Die Hinrichtung des chinesischen Geschäftsmannes Wo Weihan ungeachtet zahlreicher Gnadenappelle aus Österreich und der Europäischen Union hat eine schwere diplomatische Krise im Verhältnis zwischen Wien und Peking verursacht. Im Auftrag von Außenministerin Ursula Plassnik ist der Geschäftsträger der chinesischen Botschaft, Wang Shunqing, in das Außenministerium zitiert worden. Staatssekretär Hans Winkler bezeichnete dabei die Vorgangsweise der chinesischen Justiz als "schweren Vertrauensbruch, der durch nichts zu rechtfertigen ist", und nannte das Verhalten der Behörden gegenüber der Familie des Hingerichteten "unmenschlich". Der 60-jährige Wo Weihan, dem von der chinesischen Justiz angelastet wurde, dem taiwanesischen Geheimdienst "Staatsgeheimnisse" verkauft zu haben, hatte mehrere Jahre in Österreich gelebt, seine Töchter sind Österreicherinnen. >>> | 30. November 2008

LE FIGARO: L'UE indignée par l'exécution d'un «espion» chinois

Après l'annulation du sommet UE-Chine, les diplomates occidentaux sont consternés par ce nouveau signal négatif envoyé par Pékin.

Les diplomates européens n'en reviennent pas. Après l'étonnant report du sommet Europe-Chine, qui devait s'ouvrir ce matin à Lyon, voilà que Pékin leur envoie un nouveau signal qui confine à la provocation. À l'heure où s'ouvrait la 26e session du dialogue euro-chinois sur les droits de l'homme, vendredi, les autorités chinoises fusillaient un «espion» pour lequel l'UE et Washington appelaient depuis des mois à la clémence. Alors que l'homme était condamné à mort depuis longtemps, la concomitance des deux événements ne peut tout devoir au hasard. La ministre autrichienne des Affaires étrangères, Ursula Plassnik, a ainsi dénoncé un «affront prémédité» de Pékin envers l'Union européenne.

L'UE a condamné «avec la plus grande fermeté» l'exécution de Wo Weihan, 59 ans, qui avait vécu à Vienne et avait deux filles de nationalité autrichienne. Un communiqué «marque son indignation devant cette exécution», le jour même du dialogue UE-Chine. Vienne a fustigé la «conduite inhumaine de la Chine». Et l'Europe n'est pas isolée sur le dossier puisque les États-Unis se sont dits «consternés» par l'application de la sentence. Washington considère que l'arrestation et le procès de M. Wo n'ont pas répondu aux normes internationales. >>> Arnaud de La Grange | 1.12.2008

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Muslims Don’t Want to Integrate with Us. But Who Would Want to Integrate with Them?
It has been reported that the most senior judge in the ‘holy land’ of Saudi Arabia has called for the killing of owners of satellite TV channels which broadcast immoral programmes. This is savagery at its most brutal. It is merciless. It is without any semblance of compassion.

Our political leaders, especially the hapless George W Bush, have for years, since the heinous crime of 9/11, called Islam a ‘religion of peace’. It is to be hoped that you, dear reader, have already come to the opposite conclusion! Namely, that Islam is anything but a ‘religion of peace’,

Let’s make no mistake about this. The man who has said it is perfectly okay to kill these ownners of satellite TV is the most senior judge in Saudi Arabia. The most senior judge, no less!

Why are we in the West putting up with this nonsense?

Where are our highly-paid politicians that are there to protect us all from the menace of barbarism? For this is what this is: Barbarism, savagery, uncivilized behaviour.

We have allowed Muslims to immigrate into our once civilized countries en masse. We, the people, have not given you, the politicians, the right to allow this. After all, we haven’t been asked for our opinion. You feckless people have just taken it upon yourselves to allow this to happen. In so doing, you have ignored the first law of democracy: To consult the people!

Now we are confronted with the mass immigration of a people who are unwilling to integrate with us, and a people with whom most civilized people would not want to integrate with anyway! So where do you think this is all going to lead? I can see but one outcome: Civil war.

Islam is a pernicious ideology. It is not a religion as we in the West would normally categorize a religion. Islam recognizes no separation of religion and politics. It is one integrated whole. We, by contrast, have a democratic system which not only recognizes a separation of religion and politics, but that separation is the sine qua non of its existence.

Muslims of all hues, fundamentalist or so-called moderate (whatever that incarnation is), recognize no such separation. Our leaders have repeatedly refused to recognize this FACT, So what are we, the people, left with? A situation which is totally and utterly untenable! We are left with a people which does not wish to integrate with us and whose values we will not accept, whose values we consider backward, uncivilized, merciless, uncompassionate. What a dilemma!

This is all leading to no good place. On the contrary, it is leading to hell on earth!

Our politicians have been seen to be weak and ineffectual, lacking in courage for many a year; indeed, since 9/11. If the people continue to perceive this lack of courage, I predict that one of these fine days, they will take matters into their own hands. Civil war will ensue.

We the people do not want all these alien people here in our countries. Allowing people of different creeds, of differnet skin colours, of different culture into our countires is one thing; but allowing Muslims in with their inability to integrate and their unwillingness to do so, and their wanton desire to destroy our way of life, destroy our freedom of speech, destroy our freedom of thought, destroy our freedom of religion is something quite different. They are uncilivilized!

It is time that the people of the West stood up to resist this dilution of their culture; for surely, one day they will wake up and find that their culture and values will be no more, especially if things continue as they have been allowed to continue so long. Big business has needs, that is for sure. It needs cheap labour; but the people have needs to, and their grandchildren more especially; they need a future. They need a future that is free. They will not wish to be shackled by the strictures of Islam, a seventh century set of values, shackled to the thinking of a people wedded to the dark ages.

Gordon Brown is corpulent of physique and flabby of thought. George W Bush, who will soon no longer be president of the United States of America, is lightwieght of both physique and thought. Obama is also lightweight. As is David Cameron. Sarah Palin, Sarah Barracuda, or the ‘pitbull with lipstick’, is an unknown (though she shows some promise). There are few politicians in whom we can trust. What we need is courageous, strong, and determined politicians. Determined to ensure that our freedoms will not only be respected, but also be enshrined in our constitutions, before Islam takes them all away.

Let’s make no mistake about this: Islam is a force for evil, it is a force for no good. It respects no personal liberty; it respects no choice. It is the antithesis of everything we Westerners stand for. One thing is for sure: It doesn’t belong here in the West.

Muslims do not wish to integrate with us. It was clearly stated by Prophet Muhammad that they should not do so. But ask yourself this question: If the top judge of Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam, says it is okay to kill the owners of satellite TV stations who broadcast 'immoral programmes’, do we really want to integrate with them, do we really want to integrate with such barbarians?

©Mark Alexander

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