The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday said it holds Beijing responsible for the disappearance of a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) sympathizer in China and called on the KMT and the international community to condemn Chinese oppression.
Sun Buer (
The alliance, a registered political organization founded in 2004 in China, "opposes the Communist system, recognizes the Three Principles of the People" and would "work with the Chinese Nationalist Party [KMT] toward the nation's unification," the alliance's Web site said.
The DPP urged the KMT to voice its concern and to do something for its sympathizers in China who the DPP said are "obviously enduring merciless oppression" by Chinese authorities.
Sun was to meet with Ni Jiangfeng (
"All Wuhan members [of the alliance] ... were warned not to leak the news that Sun is missing to the foreign media," Zhang Zilin (張子霖), also an alliance member, was quoted by the Epoch Times as saying.
Lai I-chung (
Lai said that when former KMT chairman Lien Chan (
At one point, Lai said, Chinese security officers even forcefully prevented members of the alliance from getting close to the KMT delegation led by Lien.
In the wake of the KMT-CCP forum, Lai quoted media reports as saying that Beijing has continued to crack down on pro-KMT groups in Henan, Jilin, Hunan, Sichuan and other provinces.
Regrettably, Lai said, the KMT leadership had said nothing about these developments.
"Much to my surprise and disappointment, senior KMT officials have denied any links to Chinese KMT supporters and have consistently kept mum when China's Taiwan Affairs Office noted on numerous occasions that `pan-blue alliance' support groups in China are illegal and outlawed," Lai said.
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