Sir, - I refer to the Channel Four programme broadcast on January 9th, which was deeply disturbing. Full marks to Channel Four for proceeding with its screening, despite persistent efforts by the Chinese Government to stop it.
I telephoned the Chinese Embassy to register my abhorrence of the programme's disclosure of the most fundamental disregard and degradation of human rights allegedly carried out on Chinese orphans in state run and controlled orphanages. The embassy official played down the findings of the programme and was at pains to point out that it was incorrect to place any blame on the. Chinese Government.
It developed into a heated exchange in which she stated what I believe to be an amazing, if not, inaccurate statement: that the viewpoint I was expressing was a minority viewpoint of the Irish people! Was I? - Yours, etc.,
Trees Road, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin.