So it was not surprising yesterday when the group's attempt to commemorate the anniversary was quashed. All of this violates the commitments China undertook in signing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1998. And China is no more respectful of international law with regard to non-Chinese. Thousands of people from famine-stricken North Korea have made their way to northeast China, where they live at the margins of society, fearing arrest and repatriation, but where they can at least find something to eat. This week, about 100 North Koreans at a Chinese detention camp rioted to resist being returned, according to a Japan-based group that assists North Korean refugees.
Execution is likely.
China's alleged actions would violate the 1951 international convention on refugees, of which the People's Republic is a signatory. But this is a regime that plays by its own rules.