China mourned South African
anti-apartheid hero Nelson
Mandela on Friday, but took to
the
Internet to ask awkward
questions about their own
human rights leaders, many of
whom are in jail or endure
frequent harassment by the
government.
Chinese President Xi Jinping
praised Mandela for "leading
the South African people
through arduous struggles to
the anti-apartheid victory," in a
condolence message to South
African President Jacob Zuma.
"The Chinese people will
always remember Mr
Mandela's extraordinary
contributions to the
development of China-South
Africa ties and the cause of
human progress," Xi said, in
comments carried by Xinhua,
the official news agency.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera's Rob
McBride, reporting from
Beijing, reported that some of
the tributes from ordinary
Chinese citizens turned into
veiled criticism against the
Chinese leadership.
McBride said that online
posters made indirect
reference to Chinese Nobel
Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo,
who has been jailed by the
Chinese government.
"We are remembering a
person who respected and
struggled for human rights,
freedom and equality, but
China's Mandela, who has
done exactly the same kind of
things, has been jailed," wrote
one user in a widely shared
post, making an apparent
reference to Liu, whose name
is blocked on Weibo, the
country's equivalent of
Twitter.
"It's totally ironic."
Another wrote, "If Mandela
had been Chinese, he'd have
been beaten to death."
source http://live.aljazeera.com/Event/Nelson_Mandela_7/98906057

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