【大澳门威尼斯人赌场官网9月26日讯】欧洲议会副主席麦志德（又译爱德华‧麦克米兰-斯考特）先生认为，中共高压政权时日不多了。
在亚洲有五天行程的麦志德先生，在台北举行的西藏人权国际会议发表演讲时，认为“中共的倒塌”与共产东欧的崩溃不乏相似之处。身为欧洲议会副主席、人权与外交事务委员会成员，麦志德先生表示，“冷战曾将半个欧洲大陆陷入共产制度的痛苦之中，涉及了政治、经济以及社会各个层面。这个制度一度由前苏联独裁者轮班掌握，然而它在1989年11月份，没有经过流血冲突，而且几乎是一夜之间崩溃的。将它推倒的是遍及波兰的天主教徒以及中欧与东欧的基督教徒”。
麦志德先生指控中共当局迫害宗教信仰，他说：“信仰是扼杀不了的。如果你要尝试，历史已经告诉我们，你只会自取灭亡。”
他称北京当局是“历史上杀人最多的政权”，它对7千万中国人的死亡负有责任。他还指出，中共有300个秘密拘留营，关押着70万人。麦志德先生还指控，中共当局折磨与谋杀了3千位法轮功学员。中共数年前取缔了法轮功。这位欧洲议会议员表示：“只有这些被囚禁的[法轮功学员] 被要求做血液检查及血压测量，因为他们身体上的器官，是解放军急速发展的器官移植业务的来源之一。”联合国反酷刑特使曼佛瑞德‧诺瓦克先生曾经说过，在中国三分之二遭受酷刑的人是这个佛家团体的追随者。”
在悉尼，法轮功修炼者及其支持者每天都在世界领袖汇集的亚太峰会期间举行请愿与集会，申诉他们遭受的迫害。
麦志德先生说，在数次访问中国及其邻近国家后，不管是在香港，还是在西藏，或是台湾，他相信，中国共产党的末日已经来临。尽管遭到镇压，反对中共政权的力量声势浩大。
他在香港──举行马术比赛的地点──发表演讲，他再次呼吁全欧洲抵制明年的北京奥运。他说：“中共不尊重人权，在公民权利与政治权利方面，没有达到可以接受的国际标准。言论自由、结社自由、宗教自由、互联网使用以及新闻自由遭严厉限制。关于意识形态的讨论亦遭到当局的严格限制。我认为，欧盟应该开始讨论抵制2008年的奥运，除非在圣诞之前，[中国人权]发生了显着与深刻的变化。”
麦志德先生指出，中国自己的宪法规定，“任何国家机关、任何社会团体和个人不得强制公民信仰宗教和不信仰宗教，不得歧视宗教信仰的公民和不信仰宗教的公民”。
他最后在曼谷的一个演讲中说：“中国及其邻国可以享受类似5亿欧洲人民正在享受的自由、和平与安全。模式已经有了，同样警告与教训也有了。”
麦志德先生说，他此行是受曹东先生的激励。曹东是他去年5月在中国做调查时，采访过的一个良心犯。曹东后来因此被捕并惨遭折磨。
以下是英文原文：
MEP says days of Chinese regime are numbered
6 September 2007
MEP Edward McMillan-Scott believes that the days of the “repressive” Chinese regime are numbered.
Speaking in Taipei, during a 5 day swing through Asia at an international conference on human rights in Tibet, he drew parallels with the collapse of the Communist Eastern Bloc in Europe. Mr. McMillan-Scott, a Vice-President of the European Parliament and a member of its Human Rights and Foreign Affairs Committees, said: “The Cold War left half of the continent in misery – political, economic and social – under the communist system, presided over by successive Soviet despots. This system came to an end without bloodshed and almost overnight in November 1989. It was brought down by Catholics in Poland and Protestants across Central and Eastern Europe.”
Accusing the Chinese authorities of religious persecution, he added: “You cannot kill religious faith and if you try, history tells us so recently, it will kill you.”
Mr. McMillan-Scott described the Beijing regime as the “most murderous in world history”. He said it was responsible for the death of 70 million of its own people. He also claimed China operated 300 secret detention camps containing over 700,000 prisoners. Mr. McMillan-Scott accused the Chinese authorities of torturing and killing 3,000 practitioners of Falun Gong spiritual movement, which is banned in China. The MEP said: “They are the only prisoners to be given a blood and blood pressure test, because they are a source of body parts for the People’s Liberation Army’s booming organ transplant industry.” The UN Rapporteur on torture Mr. Manfred Nowak has said that two thirds of those on “torture row” in China are adherents of the Buddhist group.
Falun Gong practitioners and supporters have also been highlighting their persecution by holding rallies in Sydney on each day of the APEC meeting of world leaders.
Mr. McMillan-Scott said he is convinced, after numerous visits to China and its neighbouring countries, whether Hong Kong, Tibet or Taiwan, that the “endgame” for the Chinese Communist Party is now underway. Despite oppression, the opposition to the regime is large and vocal.
In a speech in Hong Kong – host to the Equestrian Sports Sunday F he also repeated his call for a Europe-wide debate on a boycott of next year’s Beijing Olympics. He said: “Respect for human rights in China falls short of accepted international standards in the areas of both civil and political rights. Freedom of expression, association, religion, internet use, and the press are heavily restricted; ideological debate is strictly limited by the state. In my view, the EU should now begin a debate about a boycott of the 2008 Olympics, unless by Christmas there is significant and profound change.”
Mr. McMillan-Scott said China’s own constitution states: “No state organ, public organisation or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not to believe in, any religion, nor may they discriminate against citizens who believe in, or do not believe in, any religion.”
He concluded with a speech in Bangkok saying “China and its neighbours could enjoy the freedom, peace and security now being enjoyed by some 500 million Europeans: the model is there, as well as the warnings.”
McMillan-Scott said that his trip was motivated by the arrest and continued torture of Mr. Cao Dong, who he interviewed as a former prisoner of conscience in Beijing last May.
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