Oslo Freedom Forum 2010: Thich Quang Do, Rebiya Kadeer, Anwar Ibrahim, and Kasha Jacqueline
The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, head of The Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, on being imprisoned, exiled, and under house arrest in Vietnam since 1978.
Rebiya Kadeer on what it’s like to lead the Uyghur people as they face brutal repression from the Chinese regime.
Kasha Jacqueline on Nuremberg-style laws in Uganda that threaten sexual minorities.
Forbidden Faith in Vietnam - The Oslo Freedom Forum interviews Vietnamese Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do on location at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Ho Chi Mihn City where he is being held under house arrest. In this video, The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do speaks about his peaceful fight for freedom and democracy under the repressive communist government of Vietnam.
In the keynote address for the Oslo Freedom Forum 2010, Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer reveals the plight of her people under the repressive Chinese government. Like the Tibetans, the Uyghurs are living in an open prison, forced to abandon their culture, subjected to torture, imprisonment, and execution for speaking out. According to Ms. Kadeer, indifference is not an option. At great personal expense, she fights on behalf of mothers whose children are being tortured, wives who are afraid to ask where their husbands are, and a youth that is not allowed to speak its own language.
Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim discusses the new generation of human rights violators: governments that hide behind the façade of democracy and commit crimes in its name. Facing trial, but still striving to break more than fifty years of single-party rule in Malaysia, he remains steadfast in his optimism and trust in true democracy and the wisdom of the masses. Fighting not only for freedom of speech, but also freedom after speech, he implores citizens to scrutinize the validity of vote-winning slogans such as freedom, democracy, and human rights, which are all too often empty or skewed.
LGBTI activist Kasha Jacqueline talks about her experience as a lesbian in Uganda. Founder of Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG), an organization that offers refuge to the persecuted LGBTI community, Kasha describes the horrifying witch hunt presently occurring in her country - a movement that threatens anyone labeled as a homosexual with imprisonment, exile, or death.
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