WASHINGTON, D.C.—A rally to celebrate 50 million Chinese people who have renounced their memberships in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or its affiliated organizations, the Communist Youth League, and Young Pioneers, took place on Sunday in front of the Capitol Reflecting Pool. The fast-growing number of withdrawals heralds the disintegration of the CCP, which rules China with an iron hand, and the beginning of a new era in China, rally sponsors say.
In addition to speeches denouncing communism, Washington rally included Tang drum players–who punctuated remarks made by the speakers–colorful banners, and guitar singer Courtney Dove, renowned for the song she composed and sings, Tuidang (“Withdrawal” in Mandarin).
These events, marking the passing of a major milestone, are occurring in other cities in the U.S. and the world as well. The Washington metropolitan area is home to many Falun Gong practitioners, Vietnamese, Burmese, Tibetans, Taiwanese, and Laotians, who have directly suffered at the hands of the CCP, or know people like a family member, who were killed or forced into spending years in a “re-education” concentration camp. This rally represented these groups, with its 19 co-sponsors in addition to the two rally organizers—the Global Service Center for Quitting CCP and The Epoch Times.
Why are so many millions calling the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP? The main instigating factor is undoubtedly the publication of the “Nine Commentaries of the Communist Party,” in Nov. 2004 by The Epoch Times. It is said to lay bare and transparent the brutal nature of the CCP and its methods of deceit. Callers to the Center would tell Lisa Tao, director of the Center, how they could recognize the criminal nature of the Party by reading the Nine Commentaries.
“The CCP is against Heaven, the Earth and the Human Being,” said one caller. That is part of the ideology of the CCP. Ms. Tao said to him, “If the Communists oppose Heaven, they will be destroyed.” The caller agreed and then quit the CCP.
One should not doubt the power of the “Nine Commentaries,” according to Dr. Tianliang Zhang, commentator of NTDTV and columnist of The Epoch Times. Dr. Zhang referred to a 2005 Harvard Law School survey on information filtering by the Chinese communist regime.
“If the website has anti-Communist political view, the probability that it is blocked is 60 percent. If the website has content of Tiananmen massacre in 1989, the blocking probability is 48 percent, but for the website that carries ‘Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,’ the blocking probability is 90 percent.”
Another notion dispelled at the rally that even many Chinese outside of China believe is that “the [China regime] is now treating Falun Gong practitioners nicely,” said Jeff Chen, who spoke on behalf of the “Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners.” Even some Western government officials told asylum applicants: “You can safely return to China and you won’t be persecuted,” he said
Mr. Chen wanted to put these sentiments to rest. “This persecution of Falun Gong has never stopped for a single day since it started in 1999,” he said.
“Just as the people around the world enjoyed the so-called the ‘best opening ceremony in the Olympics’ history,’ Falun Gong practitioners paid a huge cost. In just last year alone, over 8,000 practitioners were arrested and put into prisons and labor camps and 104 of them died of mistreatment--in many cases within weeks, days, or even hours of being taken into custody,” said Mr. Chen.
Mr. Chen concluded with a true story that is representative of the communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong.
“A village woman told her mother, ‘Mom, I’ll go to Beijing to appeal to the Central Government and will be back in just a week.’ But after waiting for 5 years without
hearing a single word from the daughter, the elderly mother, one day, received the visit by a government official, telling her, “Here, this is your daughter’s ash.”
One group of the early speakers at the rally were Burmese monks, some of whom wore their saffron robes. Their presentation ended with a chant of a Buddhist prayer.
“One hundred million people have been killed by communism” [in China and southeast Asian countries: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea], said Giao Nguyen, from the Vietnamese-American Community in DC, MD, and VA. In Vietnam alone, 5 million died from 1954 to 1975, she said. While Ms. Nguyen was too young to be a victim at that time, her parents and relatives were sent to so-called “re-education” camps, and although they were told it would be only for a short time, it lasted for years.
Taiwan, or the Republic of China (ROC), was represented at the rally by Dr. Ho-I Wu, First General Chairman of Global Alliance for Democracy and Peace, related a humorous story from when he was guest on a talk-show in Taiwan. The Communist’s People’s Republic of China (PRC) had sent a gift to Taiwan of two pandas. The viewers of the show voted on how Taiwan should reciprocate. The “gifts” getting the most votes to be sent to the totalitarian regime: “democracy” and human rights”!
A very creative young new immigrant from Communist China mainland, who represented, at the rally, the democratic movement of the younger generation from the PRC, was Jianyue Su, founder of the Five Color Movement. The latter wants to end the tyranny of Chinese communism and replace the red flag with the first flag of the new republic of China in 1911, when it had 5 colors, representing the five main ethnic groups in China. At the rally he explained that the five colors, Red, Yellow, Blue, White, and Black stand for Democracy, Human Rights, Freedom, Union, and Justice, respectively.
“The Chinese Communist Party has overthrown the legal government for sixty years and forged an ugly bloody five star flag. Those communist rogues have ruined morality, eliminated civilization, sold land to a foreign country, destroyed the environment, deprived human rights…,” says Mr. Su on his website.
In addition to speeches denouncing communism, Washington rally included Tang drum players–who punctuated remarks made by the speakers–colorful banners, and guitar singer Courtney Dove, renowned for the song she composed and sings, Tuidang (“Withdrawal” in Mandarin).
These events, marking the passing of a major milestone, are occurring in other cities in the U.S. and the world as well. The Washington metropolitan area is home to many Falun Gong practitioners, Vietnamese, Burmese, Tibetans, Taiwanese, and Laotians, who have directly suffered at the hands of the CCP, or know people like a family member, who were killed or forced into spending years in a “re-education” concentration camp. This rally represented these groups, with its 19 co-sponsors in addition to the two rally organizers—the Global Service Center for Quitting CCP and The Epoch Times.
Why are so many millions calling the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP? The main instigating factor is undoubtedly the publication of the “Nine Commentaries of the Communist Party,” in Nov. 2004 by The Epoch Times. It is said to lay bare and transparent the brutal nature of the CCP and its methods of deceit. Callers to the Center would tell Lisa Tao, director of the Center, how they could recognize the criminal nature of the Party by reading the Nine Commentaries.
“The CCP is against Heaven, the Earth and the Human Being,” said one caller. That is part of the ideology of the CCP. Ms. Tao said to him, “If the Communists oppose Heaven, they will be destroyed.” The caller agreed and then quit the CCP.
One should not doubt the power of the “Nine Commentaries,” according to Dr. Tianliang Zhang, commentator of NTDTV and columnist of The Epoch Times. Dr. Zhang referred to a 2005 Harvard Law School survey on information filtering by the Chinese communist regime.
“If the website has anti-Communist political view, the probability that it is blocked is 60 percent. If the website has content of Tiananmen massacre in 1989, the blocking probability is 48 percent, but for the website that carries ‘Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,’ the blocking probability is 90 percent.”
Another notion dispelled at the rally that even many Chinese outside of China believe is that “the [China regime] is now treating Falun Gong practitioners nicely,” said Jeff Chen, who spoke on behalf of the “Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners.” Even some Western government officials told asylum applicants: “You can safely return to China and you won’t be persecuted,” he said
Mr. Chen wanted to put these sentiments to rest. “This persecution of Falun Gong has never stopped for a single day since it started in 1999,” he said.
“Just as the people around the world enjoyed the so-called the ‘best opening ceremony in the Olympics’ history,’ Falun Gong practitioners paid a huge cost. In just last year alone, over 8,000 practitioners were arrested and put into prisons and labor camps and 104 of them died of mistreatment--in many cases within weeks, days, or even hours of being taken into custody,” said Mr. Chen.
Mr. Chen concluded with a true story that is representative of the communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong.
“A village woman told her mother, ‘Mom, I’ll go to Beijing to appeal to the Central Government and will be back in just a week.’ But after waiting for 5 years without
hearing a single word from the daughter, the elderly mother, one day, received the visit by a government official, telling her, “Here, this is your daughter’s ash.”
One group of the early speakers at the rally were Burmese monks, some of whom wore their saffron robes. Their presentation ended with a chant of a Buddhist prayer.
“One hundred million people have been killed by communism” [in China and southeast Asian countries: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea], said Giao Nguyen, from the Vietnamese-American Community in DC, MD, and VA. In Vietnam alone, 5 million died from 1954 to 1975, she said. While Ms. Nguyen was too young to be a victim at that time, her parents and relatives were sent to so-called “re-education” camps, and although they were told it would be only for a short time, it lasted for years.
Taiwan, or the Republic of China (ROC), was represented at the rally by Dr. Ho-I Wu, First General Chairman of Global Alliance for Democracy and Peace, related a humorous story from when he was guest on a talk-show in Taiwan. The Communist’s People’s Republic of China (PRC) had sent a gift to Taiwan of two pandas. The viewers of the show voted on how Taiwan should reciprocate. The “gifts” getting the most votes to be sent to the totalitarian regime: “democracy” and human rights”!
A very creative young new immigrant from Communist China mainland, who represented, at the rally, the democratic movement of the younger generation from the PRC, was Jianyue Su, founder of the Five Color Movement. The latter wants to end the tyranny of Chinese communism and replace the red flag with the first flag of the new republic of China in 1911, when it had 5 colors, representing the five main ethnic groups in China. At the rally he explained that the five colors, Red, Yellow, Blue, White, and Black stand for Democracy, Human Rights, Freedom, Union, and Justice, respectively.
“The Chinese Communist Party has overthrown the legal government for sixty years and forged an ugly bloody five star flag. Those communist rogues have ruined morality, eliminated civilization, sold land to a foreign country, destroyed the environment, deprived human rights…,” says Mr. Su on his website.
