Commentary
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is “celebrating” its 100th anniversary with fireworks and parades on July 1. Those who won’t be celebrating are the executed, the war dead, and the would-be grandchildren of the millions who died childless, or who were never born, because of tens of millions who starved to death during the 1950s famine, and hundreds of millions more families who suffered through the country’s one-child policy. Not celebrating are the tens of millions who died during the Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976, or the thousands who died at Tiananmen Square in 1989, mown over by machine guns, or run over by tanks. Not celebrating are the millions today languishing in prison and detention camps because of their human rights activism, or their practice of banned religions, including house Christians, Uyghur Muslims, and those who operate this paper. Not celebrating will be anyone who really cares about all these voiceless Chinese people, some of whom are part of the voiceless 1.4 billion Chinese people who are now suffering under the CCP yoke.
