The following are speeches made by democracy activists Yuan Tiemin and Pan Qing at a Sydney rally on July 19, 2009 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
Yuan Tieming
Over the past ten years the Communist Party has used its entire state machinery with the intention of eliminating China’s Falun Gong practitioners, people who follow the three principles of "truthfulness, compassion and forbearance".
This attempted elimination is not only in the physical form but in the spiritual. There is no record to equal the persecution’s cruelty or the massive scale of the atrocities. Such cruelty and atrocities can not be tolerated by modern human civilization.
This atrocity carried out by the Chinese Communist Party is a form of state terrorism where the state machinery has been used to create an atmosphere of terror in Chinese society to achieve its particular purpose. Since the Communist Party stole power in China in 1949, it has continued to steal property, brain-wash and murder Chinese people to maintain its illegal rule of the country.
Since July 1999, the Communist Party comprehensively and publicly launched a genocide against Falun Gong. To fund this violence, the Chinese Communist Party has spent billions of dollars and the state organizations, factories, schools, hospitals and other institutions became cogs in the terrorist machine to suppress Falun Gong.
Falun Gong practitioners have lost their civil rights as described in the so-called "constitution". Falun Gong practitioners and their families have suffered constant surveillance, arrest, interrogation, torture and even organ harvesting. This cruel depravation of a righteous faith has turned China into one huge concentration camp.
Acts against humanity within society are the most serious types of crimes. Because the victims of this type crime are often a group of people maintained by culture and spirit, these crimes endanger existence of human morality. Human nature lies in the spirit. Human society is maintained through the existence of morality. The atrocities of the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong destroys the essence of international laws on human rights such as the "Charter of the United Nations", the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights," "Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Convention," "against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or shame degrading treatment or Punishment "and" Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant, " and so on.
Acts of state terrorism implemented by the Chinese communist regime have been spread to democratic countries. In Australia local Falun Gong practitioners have been harassed by the Chinese Embassy or Consulates and by their agents. The Communist Party has spread hate propaganda against Falun Gong and through various means they have also pressured or threatened Australian officials and leaders.
Thankfully during these past ten years we have seen many instances were people of democratic nations have exposed this form of imported state terrorism, however, Australia’s people and the international community as a whole have to remain vigilant.
In modern history we have seen international justice enacted upon high ranking Nazi leaders and more recently leaders of the Khmer Rouge. It can and must also put the Chinese Communist Party on trial for crimes of violence and terrorism against humanity. Bringing the Chinese Communist Party’s state terrorism and crimes against humanity to trial is a battle between good and evil and is a victory of civilization over barbarism. Despite a harsh and unjust persecution, Falun Gong have shown their high moral courage and will win the respect of the world’s people.
Pan Qing
When many of the crimes of this persecution came to light – the free world was shocked. With the evidence of these heinous crimes being evident - it has been questioned - does the concept of basic human rights exist in modern China?
The brutality of these crimes against peaceful people has gone beyond anyone's darkest imagination. This is China's great shame and it is an insult to humanity!
Defending human rights is indispensable and an important cornerstone of civilization. As a result, a twenty-first century non-violent protest movement is creating a magnificent landscape in the history of mankind.
The Chinese Communist Party is not only the culprit for persecution against Falun Gong but it is also the root causes of disasters in China.
In today's China, the Communist Party suppresses its people to maintain a false sense of a "harmonious" society – it is a society living under fear, it is a society based on extreme materialism which has abused the moral fabric of society and has destroyed China’s natural resources and environment. With of mass protests occurring in Hanyuan, Bobai, Weng'an, it is becoming evident that social unrest is increasing.
In China, the officials indulge themselves in corruption – a corruption built on the poverty and suffering of the majority of the Chinese people. At the same time, the brutality of the Chinese Communist Party has completely destroyed the nation's traditions, twisted people’s morality and conscience.
Modern China is in crisis. How much more corruption can the Chinese people take? We can not cease asking the question: what kind of landscape and society will eventually be left to the Chinese people?
I believe the answer to this question is - only in a few decades. The land that our ancestors left to us has been looted, the water has become poisonous, the air has become hazardous and the wild wind carries sand that blots out the sun. The natural environment has been trampled; mountains and rivers have been devastated! How will over one billion Chinese people live on this land?
There can be no compromise between justice and evil. There is no brotherhood between freedom and slavery - the disintegration of the Chinese Communist Party is the only way to win the freedom.
As time moves forward, the dissolution of the Chinese Communist Party will continue and the battlefields of this war are not to be fought in a physical landscape but are to be found in our hearts. If we do not yearn for freedom in our hearts and uphold justice, there can be no victory in this battle! Therefore, we must ask ourselves:
Do we really love freedom?
Are we really courageous to face the evil?
Are we really brave enough to uphold justice?
Are we really willing to help our fellow man?
Are we really willing to stand up for our beliefs, as well as the freedom and dignity?
The Communist regime ruling China has brought all kinds of calamity to the country and anyone with conscience can no longer be apathetic. Any kind of good wish to this regime only leads to greater oppression and abuse. Numerous times have shown that to beg and to have hope in the Chinese Communist Party can only deepen the suffering of the Chinese people. Merciless reality also tells us that only the dissolution of the Chinese Communist Party is when the Chinese people have ushered in a free day!
The history of mankind is a history of yearning for freedom. The Russian thinker Solzhenitsyn once said: "people under a totalitarian regime live like fish. Fish have never opposed and collectively struggled against fishing industry, all they wanted was how to flee away from mesh."
Yes! This was how the helpless people have survived over the past half-century in China. But in recent years, people around the nation have been standing up for their human rights.
There is a beam of light that is shining through the dark iron curtain of modern China. No matter how weak that beam sometimes may be - it is the final destination on our path to freedom. The disintegration of the Communist Party in China is the light of hope. When you, when I, when more and more hands are willing to hold a torch, every dark corner will be lit up in the end!
The dissolution of the Communist Party is the choice of the Chinese people. We firmly believe that the final victory will belong to all people who do not want to be treated as slaves. Final victory will belong to Chinese people who will eventually obtain freedom through the resistance of oppression.
