Global Protest Against China’s Brutality Toward N. Korean Refugees — Nov. 30 – Dec. 1

The list of locations scheduled to hold demonstrations is impressive; organizers will target Chinese embassies and consulates in Washington, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Brussels, Toronto, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Oslo, London, Amsterdam, Seoul, and Madrid. That represents significant growth since past demonstrations, something that’s very welcome at a discouraging moment when the Bush Administration has pretty much sold out the entire cause.

If you don’t know what we’re upset about, here’s a good introduction to the issue. If you think you might be able to attend at one of those locations, you can get more information at the first link above, or contact sueyoonlogan@gmail.com.

For the red-staters and those otherwise unable to attend, here’s a sample letter, courtesy of Life Funds for North Korean Refugees, and I’ve posted a long, cut-paste list of Chinese embassy and consulate e-mail addresses below the “click for more” link below.
Do the Chinese care about activities like these? I’d say so, given their efforts to combat a wave of bad pre-Olympic publicity about supporting the world’s worst regimes — Sudan and Burma to name two others. China’s brutality toward North Korea refugees should be another grievance the world hears. Add that to complaints about China’s rumored totalitarian approach to foreign tourists and journalists alike, and this has real potential to add, though incrementally, to many good reasons to boycott the Beijing Olympics next year. (I should note that China denies those last two reports.)
The North Korean Freedom Coalition (disclosure: I’m a member of this group) even claims that Chinese agents are posing as refugees as bait to arrest humanitarian workers and other refugees, although it describes the claim as a “rumor.”

China is spending billions to make a show of these games. The government can fill the stands with Chinese, but without drawing international tourists, the games will be a very costly economic and political flop.

E-mail addresses for Chinese embassies and Consulates

chinaembassy_us@fmprc.gov.cn
amb_chine@yahoo.com.cn
embofchina@yahoo.com
chinesecomoffice@tdd.lt
info@chinaembassy.org.nz
chinaembassy_ru@fmprc.gov.cn
mission.china@ties.itu.int
chinamission_un@fmprc.gov.cn
webmaster@setc.gov.cn
pubaff.beijing@dfat.gov.au
mailbox@azerbembassy.org.cn
informacion1@embchina.minrex.gov.cu
bjsamb@um.dk
english_mail@xinhuanet.com
chinaemb@soficom.com.eg
press@china-embassy.org.uk
adoffice@buildlink.com
webmaster@FMPRC.gov.cn
ceco@mx.cei.gov.cn
qglt@peopledaily.com.cn
ambpech@ambpech.org.cn
consolare@ambpech.org.cn
visa@ambpech.org.cn
pakrep@public.bta.net.cn
lpekin@public.bta.net.cn
adm@chinaembassy.nl,
administration@chinaembassy.se,
amb_chine@yahoo.com.cn,
ambpech@ambpech.org.cn,
bjsamb@um.dk,
chancelaria@embaixadachina.pt,
china@opendf.com.br,
chinacom@islandia.is,
chinaeco@paradise.net.nz,
chinaemb@012.net.il,
chinaemb@simnet.is,
chinaemb@soficom.com.eg,
chinaemb_in@mfa.gov.cn,
chinaemb_sa@mfa.gov.cn,
CHINA-EMBASSY@BLUEWIN.CH,
chinaembassy_ru@fmprc.gov.cn,
chinaembassy_us@fmprc.gov.cn,
chinamission_un@fmprc.gov.cn,
chnempng@daltron.com.pg,
chnvisa@bellatlantic.net,
commerce@chinaconsulatela.org,
commercial@chinaembassy.nl,
commerciale@ambpech.org.cn,
conselheiro@embaixadachina.pt,
consolare@ambpech.org.cn,
consul@chinaembassy.org.nz,
consular@chinaembassy.org.np,
consular@chinaembassy.se,
consular@embaixadachina.pt,
consulate@chinemb.fi,
cultura@embaixadachina.pt,
culture@chinaembassy.nl,
culture@chinaembassy.org.np,
culture@chinaembassy.org.nz,
culture@chinaembassy.se,
culture@chinemb.fi,
culture@chinese-embassy.no,
defence@chinaembassy.org.nz,
dministration@chinaembassy.org.nz,
edse@chinemb.fi,
education@chinaembassy.org.nz,
embaixador@embaixadachina.pt,
embchina@adetel.net.mx,
embofchina@yahoo.com,
english_mail@xinhuanet.com,
fgjc@stats.gov.cn,
fin.shangwu@kolumbus.fi,
finemb@public3.bta.net.cn,
fmco_mo@mfa.gov.cn,
gd_gov@gd.gov.cn,
gov@gxi.gov.cn,
hush@mail.most.gov.cn,
inf2@fmprc.gov.cn,
info@china-embassy.or.jp,
info@chinaembassy.org.nz,
info@cnedu.nu,
infonavi@mx.cei.gov.cn,
informacion1@embchina.minrex.gov.cu,
jiaoyu@xs4all.nl,
lpekin@public.bta.net.cn,
mailbox@azerbembassy.org.cn,
militar@embaixadachina.pt,
military@chinaembassy.nl,
military@chinaembassy.se,
minister@legalinfo.gov.cn,
mission.china@ties.itu.int,
mofcom@mofcom.gov.cn,
office@chinemb.fi,
pakrep@public.bta.net.cn,
politica@embaixadachina.pt,
political@chinaembassy.nl,
political@chinaembassy.se,
press@china-embassy.org.uk,
protocol@chinaembassy.se,
pubaff.beijing@dfat.gov.au,
qglt@peopledaily.com.cn,
richardlin@superprism.net,
secretary@chinaembassy.nl,
sichuan@sc.gov.cn,
sinoem@zol.co.zw,
stdb@istic.ac.cn,
visa@ambpech.org.cn,
webmaster@chinaconsulate.org.nz,
webmaster@chinaembassy.bg,
webmaster@chinaembassy.nl,
webmaster@chinaembassy.se,
webmaster@FMPRC.gov.cn