She urged Ma to call on the CCP to stop oppressing Tibetans, respect their rights, including the right to self-determination, and reveal the truth about the crackdown on protests in Tibet last year.
Ma should also urge China to release Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (劉曉波), she said.
Liu was detained by police on Dec. 8 ahead of the publication of Charter 08, a document he co-authored calling for stronger civil rights and an end to the CPP’s political dominance.
Taiwan Friends of Tibet (TFOT) chairwoman Chow Mei-li (周美里) told the forum Ma had visited a Liberty Square protest last March against China’s oppression of Tibet, but had been silent on the issue since taking office.
Fort Liao (廖福特), an Academia Sinica research fellow, said Ma was friendly with the CCP and praised Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and his son Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), but both the CCP and the Chiangs are symbols of human rights violations.
It was therefore not surprising that Ma was pushing measures that jeopardized Taiwan’s human rights and democracy, Liao said.
Chen Chun-kai (陳君愷), a history professor at Fu Jen Catholic University, said both the CCP and the KMT stressed nationalism and regimes that promote nationalism tend to violate the principles of democracy and human rights.
Meanwhile, legislators passed an amendment to the Referendum Act (公投法) that cancels a requirement that the number of seats each party holds on the Executive Yuan’s Referendum Review Committee be proportional to the party’s legislative seats.
The Council of Grand Justices last year said the committee’s makeup was unconstitutional.
The amendment now empowers the president to appoint candidates recommended by the Cabinet.
A single political party must not control half or more than half of the seats, the amendment states.
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