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the past? that's what some fair in the philippines as fed men marco's junior, to begin his presidency. he's, he's trying to sanitize the legacy of his dictator father ah. by british manager, welcome to d w. news asia. glad you could join us. you are on human rights chief michelle busha lays in china natoya that can see her visit detention camps for wiggers in northwest and shin junk province. a rabbit. it's unclear how unrestricted a bachelor's access to these camps will be the u. s. forest concerned that she had failed to secure guarantees on what she would be allowed to see. the u. s. is among governments that have condemned as a genocide, china imprisonment of up to a 1000000 must thing wiggers in what it called vocational training centers.

bachelor's visit is important also for the place she won't be visiting hong kong rights groups have condemned wages assault on human rights in the city through a draconian measures such as the national security law. the and you, hong kong democracy council saves in a new report. the result of aging crackdown is visible in the number of political prisoners in the city. 1014. this includes prominent activists such as joshua wong and media magnet jimmy lie. the n g o c is political, the rest of it increased in just a 3 years and convictions stand at 67 percent. and joining enough more is kelly hall from the hong kong a free press, johnny kelly. there's more than a 1000 political detainees in hong kong right now. i mean with statistics like that, what is the message of aging is sending one of the most high profile cases right

now in full 47. pretty well known, pretty political figures. it is so $747.00 democrats, subversion case where the group, which includes a former law professor benny ty, after this, joshua wong from the law makers. i'm former district counselors. they been accused of taking part in a conspiracy to commit some version and or by being detained for over a year. they still haven't had a trial date yet, but they are appear in court next week. so hopefully we'll see some updates. and i think going back to your question, this a rest figures and the statistics related to people now in incarceration. sh. it goes back to how the government repeatedly held the national security law ass, restoring stability in order in the city and looking at the law enforcement action over the past 2 years in the law took effect on june 30th,

2020. it shows that the local authorities and aging, they are really keeping what's on stabilizing hong kong with security for. and i mean human rights chief fair michelle partially in china today. and she'd be visiting a, we're just in detention camps and changing. was there an expectation in hong kong that she might be or should be visiting hong kong as well? well, many activists would like to see a un inspection, but the more important issues it has to be noted that the chinese government would be the one responsible for handling all the diplomatic matters. an arrangement so such as it by organizations like you and it was 3 to plea or into this particular situation. and the international community have 4 concerns over the fact that i the un right cheese to china. and

there have been rumors of speculation saying that the chinese authorities may not front are full and transparent access to their native activities. and so i think it is too early for us to, for anyone to read the comments from pollution on whether the trip would be in china would be for the full or effective. and the effectiveness of this is like, it's whether it be to sion, john, or to hong kong. it should be, it has to be looked at with the perspective that it would be on let me close asian with china. it has to remain to be seen or discussed by the international community and the public or the 5th. it would be a factor. we'll leave it there for that. i mean, thank you so much for joining us. kelly home in the hong kong, free pressed gentle the

philippines elected a new president, nearly 2 weeks back. ferdinand, macos junior or bon bung, as he is commonly known, is the son of former dictator, ferdinand macos. now, his rules saw disappearances and torture. i mean to crack down on human rights in the country under martial law, which is why his son's election is president shocked. money. now these very people are determined to insure the philippines. democracy isn't crushed, as it was once before. oh, a warning to burden morris. do you not to follow in his father's footsteps? but while protests like this persist, his election suggest history has already been written in the minds of many filipinos. never again, never forget block mark loss and then there are those who have been warning for years against forgetting artist theory. delana has made

a name depicting protests photos from the dictatorship rural. i'm with the slogans removed as though they had never existed in 3 sure. but at the same time, i was sorry, the anxious about the eraser of history to the marcus as were already inching their way back to power. when it finally have been the full restoration of the marcus as to the highest position in the land. it was, it was heartbreaking to say the least. the words of past resistance collected in small books, but such remembrance can come at a price. the last day saw the country's intelligence chief accused vs at children's publisher of selling books to radicalized filipino children against the government. books about the dictatorship,

a claim observer say could set a dangerous precedent. i suspect that that is exactly how it's going to pan out in the years to come. they're going to be using the institutions of the state to deliberately target civil society sociologist jail. cornelia says, holding bon bung, marcus to work account over the next 6 years. you really put o require a collective effort. i mean, look at, founded in real is entropy and fortitude. what's happening, and what would a me, bo, this new regime, even more, is if civil society besides to give up. this is where the institutions do play a and a crucial role. can the religious sector be that bridge? can the universities be that space? democracy is not an angle, but it's a project. hos were fought against another marcus presidency are determined to continue that project even without the leader. many of them wanted because

we won't be shake him just because lenny roberto marshall 1st of fright, continues. what we have here is birth fighting for the you at the time, i guess all ads the death against heartless. now they are doing the same. they're saying that they want the good governors, allen, good light. they want honesty and that is fantasy. it might make a generation or even through generation, but god will not allow this country to go through and many here say, nor should the people just after the election, main opposition candidate. lenny were bred o told their supporters to channel what had been their campaign further into volunteerism, reminding them the past may have been re written, but the present and future still have to be made. for more this next doctor journalist anna santos, anna, we spoke about her 2 weeks back and you explained how the macos campaign had your

social media to whitewash his father's dictatorship. is that a trend we are going to see moving forward with this government barrage? i don't think we can call it a trend. i think it's going to be a government policy under this new administration. we've already seen that one of the 1st things that phone bo marcus did. presumptive president was to say that is breasted in florida. there it would take on the ministry of education and she had said that her 1st order of the day was to re write the history books. so we see that this is already on the agenda, the writing history, and the what the market was called had already started with the white washing of the martian year. they're going to continue this within this current administration . we've also seen the red tagging or the identifying an enemy of the state of a children's publisher. children's book publisher, which we saw in our report, where you can see how the government is reaching so far to use the laws that he had

passed to crack down on descent and its various forms so that they can continue to carry out. this historical revisionism, is that going to be any opposition to this? definitely brush. i see that the vanguard of the true, the vanguard of back. these people is going to be spread out now, not only to journalists or academicians, but you will see more and more that vanguard of truth. and history would be our historians would be our ne, brian, who are safe guarding our archive. these are the documents that have been, you know, that are testament to history and, and outline the facts of what happened during martial law. that we see more and more are going to be endangered and may be targeted administration. and this is definitely where opposition going to come from. i think, you know, what we saw in the last month was we talked about how there was

a movement that was a weekend. you know, i think a lot of filipinos are going to see now what life before them is a possibility of history being erase and re written as something that is not true. let us look at what does lie before filipinos, because their bunk long, a junior macos junior, had more than doubled the votes of his notice, challenger, linear debreto, who was the outgoing vice president. what does that say about what filipinos want from the future? i think more than what so let me know if you want to leverage. i think it tells us also what you know, the state of democracy and freedom is like it's so per careless. right. and it's being rewritten as we speak. so i think that the, the movement that was awakened and what the pianos are not saying is that freedom and democracy, they're not destined. they're not something that you, when over once we've read this time and time again, freedom and democracy is

a project. it's a process, but i'd also like to say, gosh, it's like love. you have to fight for it every single day. many things that stake when fighting for love and enters all is a pleasure talking to you. thank you so much for joining us today. thank you and that's it for today of his course more from the region on our website, david dot com, forward slash asia, and as ever you can follow us on facebook and twitter. we'll see you back here tomorrow for bye. hold. he's a master of the art of confrontation. this is wrong, a veteran of verbal combat. i mean, you're gonna really, i try the undisputed champion of tough political talk. we try to frighten people,

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