I CANNOT believe that Ms L. Osborne (Sunday Morning Post, July 2) is serious about advocating a 'softly, softly' attitude towards China's 'dying room' policy for female children. The ongoing genocide (for years) of these millions of innocents, has been likened to the 20th century's hidden holocaust, similar, in fact, to the Nazi 'culture' in the Germany of the '30s, involving the extermination of the Jews whilst the rest of the world turned a blind eye.
Are we to understand that something that has gone on in China for centuries, in the name of 'tradition', should not be challenged in this day and age? Infanticide on a mass scale cannot be condoned by any civilised society in history, let alone by those 'working quietly inside China' today, when very clearly such an approach has provided a less than satisfactory solution.
The international community should be grateful to all investigative reporters who, at great personal risk, have informed the world at large of the realistic, painful and disturbing facts pertaining to this issue.
E. HOGAN Causeway Bay
