Imtiaz Sooliman – on the return of South Africans held in China

A very good morning to you, doctor. Have all of the tourists

return back home morning to we're not very sure yet, because being

the weekend of Eid, there's been no contact with family members.

The Chinese media said, you know that on they left on Saturday, but

some people said we they expected either yesterday, last night or

this morning. Since there's been no communication of the family, it

will be very hard to say, but most guarantees they should be backed

by today, because the deal brokered by international

relations and the Deputy President on Friday was within 72 hours,

which falls today.

The trip consisted of people from a variety of different religions,

Christian, Hindu and Muslim. Do you think they were targeted?

Maybe on the basis of religion? It's very hard to say, No, we

don't have the truth. The only truth we can have is when we speak

to the family members directly, because there's two conflicting

statements the family members from the UK sent out to release to say

that this was one big misunderstanding, and they thank

the Chinese government, the South African government, the deputy

president, and whole lot of other people, and the families and

consulates at the British government, they came to say that

they are grouped that travel China, like they've traveled USA

and Israel, and it was just a Genghis Khan documentary, but

yesterday, or Saturday, the Chinese press agency released

something very Different, to say they were watching a documentary

and thereafter watching terrorist related videos, and also they were

involved in groups, arranging, organizing terrorism, and that the

nine repented for their bad actions and left so, which is

very, very conflicting, it means that the nine people now have the

label of terrorism over the head, which I don't think is correct,

and the only way we will know is if the group members come out

publicly and speak about

it. Okay, so there's still certainly some mystery shrouding

this entire incident. Do you think, however, that embassies

perhaps need to learn a little bit more about China and be more

sensitive to their culture and about their restrictions there? I

think it works both ways you know any, not only China, I think any

government in the world should be circumspect and not arrest

everybody they think you know, suspect people of terrorism or are

interfering with the internal policies of a country. People are

very innocent. Sometimes they don't know the rules. They do

things which may not be harmful to anyone, but people must perceive

that as such. So it's important that government take notice,

especially if people come with good intentions to tour the

countries, to learn about culture, building goodwill. So we have to

be more careful, both from the tourist point of view about what's

allowed and what's not allowed, and from a government point of

view, they just don't label everyone. And there's to be

sensitivities on both sides. And if the world bodies can look at

that more carefully, I'm sure tourism will be more enjoyable for

people from all across the world, alright? Thank you very much for

your time this morning. Doctor MTS Suman from gift of the givers Time

now for your.