PARLIAMENT HILL, Ottawa—Wujun Sun has been coming to Parliament Hill every day for weeks, rain, shine, or snow, to stand beside banners or sometimes a television set powered by car batteries, protesting the loss of his family home near Shanghai on the other side of the world.
“This June, my parent’s home, my uncle’s home, and my home was forcefully demolished by the Chinese local government in Zhejiang Province, Ningbo City,” he said.
The family home, Sun explained, was renovated over the generations to accommodate the growing family.
“Because a developer wanted this land, wanted us to sell the building to the rich people, they offered us a very low price for compensation. My parents and my uncle did not agree, so this June they sent 100 people to destroy our house.”
He said this kind of forced demolition happens in China in “every city, every day.”
Many Chinese are upset about the situation and there is no place to appeal the abuse because it is condoned by the Chinese regime, said Sun.
He comes to Parliament Hill hoping someone will take up his case though one member of Parliament has told him that because he is not yet a citizen of Canada, he could not be helped.
“I just want many people to know this,” he said of the abuses.
“They don’t allow the people to petition in Beijing,” he said. “Here I am lucky, I can express my anger.”
In China today, Sun said there are “black jails” where people are illegally detained and that because criticism of the government is not allowed, tensions are building.
“People want freedom and some democracy,” he said.
