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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 13, No. 17. August 3, 1950

Human Rights

Human Rights

Sir. Colonial Governments should extend human rights to their territories and leave Koreans to settle their own dispute.

The Crown Colonist May 1949 said ". . . . an important amendment in the Cyprus Criminal code was gazetted this week. This amendment provides for five years prison sentence for persons publishing words on documents or making visible representations with seditious intent."

In Mauritius the situation is similar. "A Bill has been published to provide that, when a person baa been convicted of sedition in any newspaper, publication of the paper may be prohibited for a period of up to three years. The proprietor, printer or publisher may be prohibited from editing, writing for, or taking part in the production of any newspaper for three years; and the printing press may be seized."

Dr. Thompson speaking at Melbourne April 3 1950, said about the aborigines: "I saw natives chained by the necks and led away under armed guard without even the formality of a trial, to which every man is entitled. I also saw their wives, mothers and children run after them, crying because they knew their men would never return from exile on Palm Island, known as the Island of Death."

The conservative Pacific Islands Monthly said, early 1949 ". . . nine head chiefs of Malaita appeared before the British District Commissioner and demanded 16 dollars a week for all natives working on the coconut plantations. This impudence was dealt with by jailing 19 of the leaders for periods up to six years hard labour." W.M.