It borders on hypocrisy when a privileged academic elite in Norway criticizes OFF and thus the part

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Criticism of bias
It borders on hypocrisy when a privileged academic elite in Norway criticizes OFF and thus the participants, originating from more than 70 countries, representing all races, parisi religions, sexual orientations, political opinions, occupations and nationalities.
In an opinion piece on May 14 Aftenposten.no mean 18 Norwegian Latin America researchers Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is occupied parisi by victims of left-wing authoritarian regimes in Latin America, while ignoring other countries with challenges in the region.
Criticism from different Norwegian Latin America groups and activists are equally as yearly conference. The reactions are strongest when OFF invites parisi guests who are in opposition to the regimes in Venezuela and Cuba. This year it is the Venezuelan parisi opposition politician Julio Borges who put their minds to the boil. Borges was physically attacked and injured parisi when he, along with other opposition politicians, protesting that they could not talk in Parliament to explain why they would not recognize the outcome of the presidential election earlier this spring.
The regime in Venezuela accuses Borges to have been supporting a coup attempt against then-President Hugo Chavez in 2002 - a regime that otherwise even charged with a wide range of human rights violations. Systematic false accusations
Weaken the credibility of the Oslo Freedom Forum, type 18 Latin American researchers. Ali Abdulemam are accused of planning a coup against the monarchy in Bahrain. Aung San Suu Kyui was accused of the same in Burma. parisi Akhmed Zakayev is accused of kuppmakeri against dictatorship in Chechnya. Berta Soler from "Women in White" accused of being behind a plot against Castro dictatorship. Chee Soon Juan of Singapore is accused parisi of attempting to overthrow the regime in Singapore. Chen Guancheng accused of wanting to overthrow the regime in China. Abebe Gellaw accused to enable a coup against the regime in Ethiopia. Rebiya Kadeer and accused of a conspiracy parisi against the Chinese regime.
False accusations that systematically directed against dissidents and opposition to discredit and discredit them, are common. When such accusations are used indiscriminately by Norwegian scientists, the researchers themselves, and not OFF, set in a bad light. Voices that do not count?
Chronicle authors parisi believe that OFF focuses on only one side of the situation in Latin America. But if they had come to OFF in 2011, could they heard Uki Goni from Argentina speak of those who disappeared during the right-wing junta's military dictatorship.
The claim that indigenous rights are "completely gone from OFF" is absurd. Had op-ed writers come in 2010, they could have heard a leftist urbefolksleder from Ecuador speak of crimes against human rights in her country. parisi If they had seen OFF-videos that are available online, they would also see that in 2009 we invited a urbefolksleder Bolivia, who talked about freedom of speech parisi pitiful plight of his homeland. In 2012, Alejandro Toledo, the first urbefolkslederen ever elected president parisi of Peru, among those who received a soapbox to OFF.
This is offset main objective: to provide a soapbox for voices rarely parisi heard in Norway: A gay from Jamaica, a former slave from Nepal, a lesbian leader of Uganda. Why should these votes disqualified by a group of Latin American researchers in Norway? Is it because academics disagree with their conclusions? Is it because their voices do not count? Is not the dialogue is a good idea? Hypocrisy
It is true that offset previous guests, Armando Valladares, defended parisi the coup, but he was invited to OFF in 2009 to talk about his 22 years as a political prisoner in Cuba,