Today it is my turn in the fifth round of the relay huger strike. Five hundred fifty-four of my compatriots throughout 29 provinces will join me for a twenty-four hour fast. The majority of them are the 427 unemployed workers in Shuozhou, Shandong Province led by Cui Qianjin. Today also marks the 32nd day since Ouyang Xiaorong, a human rights activist, was kidnapped.
Today is the 118th day since the Chinese Communist regime seized my residence through their mafia-like methods.
Recently Shenyang City's Suchiatun has become quite famous. Suchiatun has become synonymous with "concentration camp" because of the concentration camp recently discovered there [ed. note: also spelled as Sujiatun]. News of the Suchiatun Concentration Camp (the Concentration Camp) has traveled to every part of the globe where humans can be found. It has hurt the hearts of a tremendous number of benevolent people, including the Chinese people. I was sitting in a sofa on my balcony when I learned about this extremely appalling news. I could not help but burst into tears. Despite this extremely horrendous news, I peacefully listened to my friend's account of it over the telephone. In China today, it is hard to find a Chinese person who will still be shocked by the atrocities the Chinese Communist regime commits against its people. Based on what I have witnessed and experienced in recent years, this phrase comes to mind: "There may be some evil that the Chinese Communist regime has yet to think of, but there is no evil that they would not dare to do." Eyewitnesses to the Concentration Camp have revealed its bloody and inhuman atrocities to the outside world. Though their words are simple, contained in them are the sufferings, sorrows and miseries of the 21st century. Those who have seen the tragedy openly talked about it, but the Chinese Communist regime, a government that owns the most powerful mass media in the world, has been surprisingly quiet. It is reasonable to believe that the Chinese Communist regime simply cannot justify the Concentration Camp. The concentration camp can be likened to the bloody history of Fascism, which remains a painful memory for human beings. When I told a friend who works as a foreign government official about the tragedy in the Concentration Camp, tears were streaming down his face within a minute. The Concentration Camp will now go down in history. It has destroyed the moral foundation of human civilization, so it stands to reason that civilized human beings have a moral obligation to keep constant vigilance over it. Today I want my huger strike to be in protest of the Chinese Communist regime's silence on this extremely horrendous incident! I call on the international community to launch an investigation into this atrocity immediately.
On March 13, 6 p.m., the police of Wen County in Henan Province violently attacked a family church. A number of Christians were beaten. Among them, Li Gongshe's ribs were broken, and all of the Christians there were illegally arrested. Today, twenty-four of them are still illegally incarcerated. Most of their homes have been ransacked, and the amount of money that has been stolen from them is hard to estimate. We protest the atrocious actions of the police in Henan Province that trample the constitutional rights of religious believers. We express our most determined support for Li Gongshe and other Christians who are still being illegally detained.
Even people who never leave their homes, because they are in constant vigil and hunger strike to oppose police violence and suppression, are being singled out for persecution. Qi Zhiyong has been missing for thirty-two days and it's been thirty-one days since the disappearance of Hu Jia and Ouyang Xiaorong. The list of names of those gone missing is quite long: Jiang Meili, Ni Yulan, Li Guifeng, Zhang Shufeng—just to name a few; Wen Haibo, Ma Wendu and others are under illegal house arrest. The Shanghai Municipal People's Government even sent four people, including Liu Xinjuan who participated in the hunger strike relay, to the mental hospital where they are sure to suffer inhumane persecution.
Today we hunger strike for 24 hours across 29 provinces to express our support for our fellows who are suffering.
Recently some critics and so-called moralists have criticized these brave souls who participate in the hunger strike, saying that they have sacrificed themselves for my cause—as though they were doing my bidding. Some have even dared to suggest that the hunger strike participants don't really have other people's best interests at heart.
To tell a story, one blind man from Shandong Province, by the name of Chen Guangcheng, was put into isolation by Shandong police in retaliation for speaking out in support of those being persecuted by the Shandong Linzi Birth Control staff. On the orders of the Shandong Province Chinese Communist Party Committee (the Committee), the police besieged Chen's family, twenty four hours a day, for over a year. Chen's family was constantly harassed and Chen was unable to leave the house. During that year, in order to satisfy the corrupt yearnings of the Committee, the police carried out a campaign of terror and suppression against Chen's fellow villagers. Anyone thought to sympathize with Chen were harassed, beaten, and arrested. Anyone who tried to help Chen risked police violence and reprisal. Eventually, the police broke into Chen's house and arrested him.
Today we express respect and support for the brave and righteous citizen Chen Guangcheng. At the same time, we express our strongest protest against the Shandong police and officials for so terribly violating the human rights of Chen and others
On March 6, a sixty plus year-old appellant named Fang Lin was beaten to death at the Beijing office for Henan Provincial affairs. Local police used illegal means to keep Fang's relatives from appealing his horrific mistreatment and murder. Today, we people who are no strangers to human rights abuses express our support to Fang Lin's family and our strongest protest against the police who continue persecute them, even after Fang's death.
I haven't left my house for three days. In that time I've been unable to go to my office. Still, the ever present hoards of secret police treat me as their formidable adversary. They keep my office under tight surveillance, keeping it under virtual lockdown to prevent me from going there. According to people who work in the office who managed to get free, it looks as if the thugs are digging in for a long occupation of my work place. They've even installed another sentry at the north door of the building. Dozens of gangsters are camped out at my office.
This was written on March 18th, while sitting in my home, surrounded on all sides by thugs and gangsters.
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