WARSAW—Many of them, like Oles Shevchenko, former leader of the Ukrainian Republican Party and signatory of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, did hard time in Soviet-era gulags for daring to speak up for human rights at a time when trampling them was policy for communist hardliners at the seat of power. Some, like David Kilgour, former Secretary of State of Canada and keen China watcher, traveled half way across the world to give voice to those silenced by state tyranny in China, like Tibetans, Uyghurs, Christians or the Falun Gong, whose organs are forcibly wrested from their bodies for …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
