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Aristotle · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1388 Location: Taiwan

Taiwanese Lawmaker Convicted of Raping Non Chinese
The vice presidential canidate was found guilty by the Taiwan supreme court of raping a non Chinese employee while in office.
Taiwan has been the bastion of government sponsored racism and persecution of non Chinese on Taiwan since the Chinese occupational government took possession of Taiwan shortly after World War Two.
This incident is not just a result of Taiwan's ongoing campaign to subjugate and persecute non Chinese on Taiwan. It is also clear evidence of the blatant and continuing abuse of non Chinese people's human rights on Taiwan.

Taylor · Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 384 Location: Texas/Taiwan

Aristotle,

The man was convicted. That is the point of the story, right?

Why do you dwell on "racism and persecution of non-Chinese" ???

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Taylor
Kaohsiung

junkmail · Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 377

Rape is a horrific, violent crime but not isolated to Taiwan. I don't see how this is 'evidence' of racism. The guy was found guilty, so surely this is evidence that the victim was treated with the same dignity under the law as a Chinese should expect.

Aristotle · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1388 Location: Taiwan

How would you explain the fact that the victim in this case was deported after filing a complaint about the sexual assault to the police.

junkmail · Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 377

It doesn't say she was deported in the article you linked to. Her job finished (obviously) as she was the perpertrator's maid and she returned to the Philippines; according to the article.
It does imply she was sort of bought off. I doubt she could have afforded to stay anyway. My point is that it would have been easy to brush this under the carpet but the Taiwanese legal system persued the case despite the poor circumstances of the victim.

Aristotle · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1388 Location: Taiwan

So you believe that this woman continued to finish out her contract living and working in the same residence with the person who had just raped her?
She was fired an deported as is standard procedure with all non Chinese workers on Taiwan when they file a complaint of any kind.
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clark.w.griswald · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2056

I agree with junkmail. The article doesn't state, nor does it suggest, that the woman was deported. As usual Aristotle you are trying to make more out of this than it is.