BBC's Quentin Sommerville Peddled Chinese Lie
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Once more the British Brodcasting Corporation has excelled itself in misleading its audience concerning the more odious aspects of communist China, in this particular case relating to the subject of its coercive birth-control policy which has brutalized countless women in China, and occupied territories such as Tibet and East Turkestan.
Its latest distortions were authored by its Beijing correspondent Quentin Sommerville, who during a radio program called ‘Up All Night’ (broadcast Tuesday January 12 at 3.50 am) happily affirmed the official Chinese lie that so-called ethnic minorities are exempt from population control.
“If you are an ethnic minority you are allowed to have as many children as you want” (Quentin Sommerville BBC Beijing Correspondent on Up All Night Show, BBC Radio Five Tuesday January 12 2010)
Such propaganda is of course factless and a cynical fabrication, as revealed by a wealth of documentation and testimony, including this chilling account:
“I was forcibly taken away against my will. I was feeling sick and giddy and couldn’t look up. Apparently they cut the fallopian tubes and stitched them up. It was agonisingly painful. They didn’t use anaesthetic. They just smeared something on my stomach and carried out the sterilisation. Apart from aspirin for the pain, there were no other drugs. I was so frightened, I can’t even remember how I felt” (Extract of an Interview with a Tibetan women as featured in the UK Channel Four Television Documentary, ‘Undercover in Tibet‘. Broadcast 30th March 2008)
Such harrowing cases, and the fact that China’s population practices rely upon a range of coercive measures, including forced sterilizations, do not seem to trouble the BBC and its China correspondents, who appear content to serve as willing conduits for Communist Chinese disinformation. A role which requires concealing the horrific reality of the Chinese population program, and its impacts in terms of human rights, contributing to the increasing gender imbalance, and female trafficking. All of which were callously omitted in Somerville’s report.
Quentin Sommerville (left foreground) Disseminated Chinese Propaganda
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The BBC’s consistently obsequious misreresentations on such issues, and its coverage on China, appears less concerned with applying a detched journalistic scrutiny, and more about appeasing Chinese sensitivities, a position which has previously generated controversy: see http://tibettruth.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/bbc-peddled-chinese-propaganda/
This latest episode of promoting communist Chinese propaganda is a further disgraceful indication that this broadcaster seems to be politically influenced by the UK Foreign Office, whose over-arching role is to maintain positive relations with Beijing, even at the cost of factual, balanced and impartial journalism.
Tibettruth has issued a formal complaint to the BBC and circulated a communication to its senior management. Please consider adding your concern by contacting them here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/
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