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<\/div>\nGeorge Karimi(an) is a child of the nation that had the misfortune of being an inconvenient obstacle in historical Anatolian Armenia (in today\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0084\u00a7s Turkey) to the imperialist plans of the German Kaiser who plagued the globe with the First World War, and the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians, with the help of the Ottoman Young Turks.
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\nGeorge (pictured)\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0 went to Beijing in 2003 with rosy-pink glasses on, excited by the Chinese Communist Party’s noble plans to improve the life of the ordinary Chinese citizens, following the great leader Deng Xiaoping’s dictum that ‘Wealth creation is good’.\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0George believed in decent capitalism, the type the Chinese Government is pursuing today.\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Little could George guess that he was to become the victim of the totally corrupted faction of the government which the Chinese Communist Party itself is trying to eliminate.
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\nGeorge K was suddenly and inexplicably arrested, precisely as\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Mr. K\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0was in Kafka’s novel The Trial; but in George’s case,\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0on trumped-up charges\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0of financial mismanagement, by now a stereotype used by corrupt factions in the Chinese government to cover up the bigger rotten capitalist fish and sharks of the Communist Party.
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\nGeorge was put on a\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0show\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0trial with\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0his accuser, an Indian friend called Milap, already safely packaged out of the country back to India, from where he later\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0withdrew\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0his charges completely, confirming that he had\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0incriminated himself and George under torture.\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Incredibly, George K was still\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0rubber-stamped automatically\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0as “Guilty” and condemned to life imprisonment.
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\nThe father of ancient Armenian history, Movsess Khorenatsi (5th\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0century AD) wrote of a Chinese nobleman who escaped the horrendous civil wars in China to find safe haven in ancient Armenia and became the progenitor of the Mamikonian aristocratic family dedicated to the military protection of the Armenian Kingdom.\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Fifteen centuries later, George went to\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0China\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0in the 21st\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0century, to find imprisonment.
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\nAs a Swedish citizen, George sought the protection of his own civil state, which, because of its long socialist tradition of defending human rights, stepped in and negotiated a secret settlement with the Chinese Government to transfer George into the more humane conditions of a jail in\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Sweden,\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0to complete his unjust and unfair trumped-up sentence.
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\nUnfortunately recent Swedish governments seem keen on pleasing official America by denying the country’s best humanist socialist traditions,\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0 the envy of the whole world. Now trying to modernize and globalize within the US free market paradigm, and in terror of the future power of Chinese capitalism, Sweden is victimizing its own citizen George Karimi merely to indulge the corrupt faction of the Chinese Government.
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\nThe Swedish Government must not betray the humanitarian tradition of its good men, like\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Edvard Vilhelm Si\u0569\u0085\u0549\u0080\u0098blom, a Swedish missionary who was brave enough to lead an international protest movement in 1897 against one of the most powerful and murderous monarchs of Europe, King Leopold II of Belgium,\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0who had killed over 10 million\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0(some put the figure at 30 million) Africans.
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\nThe Swedish Government, instead of shaming itself by\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0keeping a political prisoner, could encourage the good among the factions of the Chinese government by reminding them that their great modernizer and wealth-creator,\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0Deng Xiaoping, was himself purged twice during the Cultural Revolution, and\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0his totally innocent son Deng Pufang\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0was\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0tortured\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0by the mad Red Guards and\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0forced out of a window in a 4-storey building, escaping miraculously from certain death, though\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0a paraplegic today.The good Communists of China must refrain from such murderous acts.\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0
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\nThe Swedish Government\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0must immediately free George, innocent like Deng Pufang, as George’s health is neglected and deteriorating.He simply cannot survive another five years of unfair, unjust and inhuman\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0incarceration.\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0<\/p>\n
Faithful to its own humanitarian socialist principles, the Swedish Government must encourage the good Communists of the Chinese Government to see justice done and not side with rampantly evil market forces destroying human decencies.<\/p>\n
Hovhanness Pilikian <\/em>20 September 2011<\/p>\n A longer version of this article can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n open.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Armenian scholar Professor Hovhanness Pilikian on how the Chinese Government’s treatment of one innocent Armenian reveals much about their poor record on human rights. George Karimi(an) is a child of the nation that had […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7841,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions\/7841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}