WASHINGTON—While dignitaries arrived April 11 in Washington, D.C., to attend a nuclear weapons summit, a peaceful crowd promoted a different kind of security three blocks from the White House on Freedom Plaza.
They were celebrating the 71 million Chinese who have renounced their memberships in the Communist Party or its affiliated organizations, the Communist Youth League, and Young Pioneers.
Organized by Washington, D.C.’s Global Center for Quitting the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] and The Epoch Times, the speakers agreed that a nuclear-free world would be a positive step toward peace.
However, “War is not the only way that can destroy the world,” said professor Yanjun Sun, formerly of Capital Normal University, Beijing, who publicly denounced communism in Hawaii in early 2009.
“The increasingly decayed human morals and the continuing polluted souls will create unlimited ways to destroy the human society,” said Dr. Sun. He said the leading cause for the corrupted morals and polluted minds of mankind is the Communist Party.
“Today, the traditional Chinese moral system has been fully destroyed by the regime’s violence and lies.”
The rally’s master of ceremonies, Dr. Tsuwei Hwang, held up a copy of the “Nine Commentaries of the Communist Party,” and said that its publication in November 2004 ignited tens of thousands of Chinese every day to disavow their association with the Community Party.
Renunciation statements published on the Quit CCP Web site show that many people choose to quit after reading the Nine Commentaries, which the group says exposes the crimes of the Communist Party since its beginnings in the 19th century.
Courtney Dowe, a singer/songwriter from Baltimore, put the phenomenon to music. In a rich, soulful alto, she sang her composition “Tuidang,” which is the Chinese word for quitting the CCP.
The alleged crimes of the CCP should be exposed and punished, according to the speakers. Since the CCP came to power in 1949, 80 million Chinese people have died from unnatural causes. Members of one group in particular, Falun Gong, have been singled out by the regime and have a “particularly high risk of torture and other ill treatment,” according to Amnesty International.
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) was founded in January 2003 to track down, investigate, and punish those who did these crimes. Co-founder and chief investigator Dr. Zhiyuan Wang was heartened by both the 71 million Chinese renouncing their communist memberships and by the large number of mainland Chinese lawyers who are defending persecuted Falun Gong practitioners.
“The five ringleaders of persecution toward Falun Gong, namely Jiang [Zemin], Luo [Gan], Bo [Xilai], Jia [Qinglin], and Wu [Guanzhong], have already been prosecuted by the Supreme Court of Spain and condemned to be arrested by the Argentina [courts]. Around the globe, the calling for tracking them down and investigating their crimes is gaining momentum,” Dr. Wang said.
Sun said, “Countless Falun Gong practitioners are suffering the most cruel-violent persecution and most rabid killing that have never happened before in human being’s history only because of refusing to give up their belief.”
A theme at the rally was that the current China regime could not be trusted.
“This kind of regime does not have any qualifications to talk about nuclear security or anything about human beings,” said Dr. Dayong Li, co-founder and executive director, Global Service Center for Quitting CCP. Dr. Li described the story of lawyer Gao Zhisheng who was the first high profile lawyer to publicly speak out against the persecution of Falun Gong, as an example of the regime’s cruelty.
“[Gao] has been tortured a long time,” and this “shows the world that whoever inside China supports Falun Gong, you will be tortured like Gao.” Most people do not understand how evil the regime is, said Li.
Jin Pang, 26, described the prison torture of her Falun Gong practitioner mother and aunt, who are serving 10 and 9 years prison sentences, respectively, in Shandong Province, after being jailed for 15 months:
“To intensify the persecution, the prison established a so-called ‘Intensive Training Unit’ in February 2004. In the training unit, the guards yell at, beat, and insult practitioners at will. They often tell criminal inmates to monitor and beat practitioners. Whoever does as told receives a term reduction. Some criminal inmates participate in the persecution with misguided enthusiasm.”
Dr. Li and other speakers were gratified that the House of Representative on March 16 passed Resolution 605 by an almost unanimous vote. The 605 resolution calls upon the regime to end “its campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners,” and to “immediately release Falun Gong practitioners, detained solely for their beliefs, from prisons and re-education through labor (RTL) camps.”
The resolution called upon the president and members of Congress to meet with Falun Gong practitioners “whenever and wherever possible.”
House Members often meet Falun Gong practitioners but no president has done so. House Res. 605 officially asked President Obama to do that.
Other participants at the rally were: Kaichen Zhang, former Minister of Propaganda, Shenyang Province, who publicly denounced the CCP, Jan. 2010; Tsering Dorjee and Karma Namgyal, Dhokham Chushigangdruk, representing a Tibetan group; Mr. Thongchanh Boulom, Mr. Bounthanh Rathigna, general secretary and president, respectively, of the United League for Democracy in Laos; Dr. Quan Nguyen and Ginie Nguyen, representing two Vietnamese organizations; and Jeffrey Imm, founder of Responsible for Equality and Liberty, an NGO founded last year.
They were celebrating the 71 million Chinese who have renounced their memberships in the Communist Party or its affiliated organizations, the Communist Youth League, and Young Pioneers.
Organized by Washington, D.C.’s Global Center for Quitting the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] and The Epoch Times, the speakers agreed that a nuclear-free world would be a positive step toward peace.
However, “War is not the only way that can destroy the world,” said professor Yanjun Sun, formerly of Capital Normal University, Beijing, who publicly denounced communism in Hawaii in early 2009.
“The increasingly decayed human morals and the continuing polluted souls will create unlimited ways to destroy the human society,” said Dr. Sun. He said the leading cause for the corrupted morals and polluted minds of mankind is the Communist Party.
“Today, the traditional Chinese moral system has been fully destroyed by the regime’s violence and lies.”
The rally’s master of ceremonies, Dr. Tsuwei Hwang, held up a copy of the “Nine Commentaries of the Communist Party,” and said that its publication in November 2004 ignited tens of thousands of Chinese every day to disavow their association with the Community Party.
Renunciation statements published on the Quit CCP Web site show that many people choose to quit after reading the Nine Commentaries, which the group says exposes the crimes of the Communist Party since its beginnings in the 19th century.
Courtney Dowe, a singer/songwriter from Baltimore, put the phenomenon to music. In a rich, soulful alto, she sang her composition “Tuidang,” which is the Chinese word for quitting the CCP.
The alleged crimes of the CCP should be exposed and punished, according to the speakers. Since the CCP came to power in 1949, 80 million Chinese people have died from unnatural causes. Members of one group in particular, Falun Gong, have been singled out by the regime and have a “particularly high risk of torture and other ill treatment,” according to Amnesty International.
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) was founded in January 2003 to track down, investigate, and punish those who did these crimes. Co-founder and chief investigator Dr. Zhiyuan Wang was heartened by both the 71 million Chinese renouncing their communist memberships and by the large number of mainland Chinese lawyers who are defending persecuted Falun Gong practitioners.
“The five ringleaders of persecution toward Falun Gong, namely Jiang [Zemin], Luo [Gan], Bo [Xilai], Jia [Qinglin], and Wu [Guanzhong], have already been prosecuted by the Supreme Court of Spain and condemned to be arrested by the Argentina [courts]. Around the globe, the calling for tracking them down and investigating their crimes is gaining momentum,” Dr. Wang said.
Sun said, “Countless Falun Gong practitioners are suffering the most cruel-violent persecution and most rabid killing that have never happened before in human being’s history only because of refusing to give up their belief.”
Obama Should Meet With Falun Gong Practitioners
A theme at the rally was that the current China regime could not be trusted.
“This kind of regime does not have any qualifications to talk about nuclear security or anything about human beings,” said Dr. Dayong Li, co-founder and executive director, Global Service Center for Quitting CCP. Dr. Li described the story of lawyer Gao Zhisheng who was the first high profile lawyer to publicly speak out against the persecution of Falun Gong, as an example of the regime’s cruelty.
“[Gao] has been tortured a long time,” and this “shows the world that whoever inside China supports Falun Gong, you will be tortured like Gao.” Most people do not understand how evil the regime is, said Li.
Jin Pang, 26, described the prison torture of her Falun Gong practitioner mother and aunt, who are serving 10 and 9 years prison sentences, respectively, in Shandong Province, after being jailed for 15 months:
“To intensify the persecution, the prison established a so-called ‘Intensive Training Unit’ in February 2004. In the training unit, the guards yell at, beat, and insult practitioners at will. They often tell criminal inmates to monitor and beat practitioners. Whoever does as told receives a term reduction. Some criminal inmates participate in the persecution with misguided enthusiasm.”
Dr. Li and other speakers were gratified that the House of Representative on March 16 passed Resolution 605 by an almost unanimous vote. The 605 resolution calls upon the regime to end “its campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners,” and to “immediately release Falun Gong practitioners, detained solely for their beliefs, from prisons and re-education through labor (RTL) camps.”
The resolution called upon the president and members of Congress to meet with Falun Gong practitioners “whenever and wherever possible.”
House Members often meet Falun Gong practitioners but no president has done so. House Res. 605 officially asked President Obama to do that.
Other participants at the rally were: Kaichen Zhang, former Minister of Propaganda, Shenyang Province, who publicly denounced the CCP, Jan. 2010; Tsering Dorjee and Karma Namgyal, Dhokham Chushigangdruk, representing a Tibetan group; Mr. Thongchanh Boulom, Mr. Bounthanh Rathigna, general secretary and president, respectively, of the United League for Democracy in Laos; Dr. Quan Nguyen and Ginie Nguyen, representing two Vietnamese organizations; and Jeffrey Imm, founder of Responsible for Equality and Liberty, an NGO founded last year.
