SYDNEY—Chinese people in the millions are standing up to say ‘No’ to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The Quit the CCP movement enables Chinese people to dissociate from the CCP and its activities by registering their resignation in person or online. The movement reached one hundred million resignations this month.
In a rally held in Sydney’s Belmore Park on Sunday, Aug. 6, speakers from the Chinese, Tibetan and Vietnamese communities spoke in support of the peaceful movement, saying it is time for CCP tyranny to end and for Chinese people to decide their own future.
President of the Sydney Quit the CCP Centre, Ma Hen Jun, opened the rally by outlining the crimes the CCP has committed against the Chinese people, saying it was not only responsible for systematically killing 80 million people in China, but had imposed a “degenerate culture that reveres the bad and persecutes the good”.
“All it has is violence and lies, no moral foundation,” Mr Ma told the crowd, through a translator.
Nine Commentaries
Former Chinese diplomat, Chen Yonglin, congratulated the Quit the CCP movement and Chinese people for taking a stand in resigning.
“Our compatriots in China—that is a great move. One hundred million is a milestone for Chinese people on our road to democracy and freedom,” Mr Chen said.
Mr Chen described China today as a cage in the way that the communist regime brainwashes and controls people from an early age.
“When we were still in childhood, they put [people] into the Young Pioneer group, then the Youth League and then the Communist Party so that they can discipline [people] at anytime. So the majority of the Chinese people have been in the organisation of the CCP,” he told people attending the rally.
When Mr Chen walked out of the Chinese consulate in Sydney to defect to Australia in 2005, the Quit the CCP movement was just beginning and already making an impact.
“The Chinese Communist Party was very scared,” he said. “They banned people from withdrawing their membership. They persecuted all these people who dared to quit the CCP. But now they can only choose some to persecute.”
He said withdrawals from CCP had started as early as 1989, at the time of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, but said: “It was not until 2004, when The Epoch Times published The Nine Commentaries, that more and more Chinese people [began] awakening and [now] they know the truth.”
The Nine Commentaries is a Chinese editorial piece outlining the history of the Chinese Communist regime and the horrors it has perpetrated against its own people.
Betrayal
Author and dissident Mr Yuan Hongbing said the CCP had colonised China, and in doing so was destroying China’s “precious five thousand year culture.”
A former head of Beijing University’s Law School, Mr Yuan defected to Australia in 2004 after speaking publicly about the need for reforms in China. Speaking through a translator Mr Yuan said the CCP has betrayed the Chinese people and “it must not go on any longer.”
“The birth of a free China is inevitable. Let us all do our best and strive for a brighter future for China,” Mr Yuan said.
“During the last sixty years, the Communist Party has almost destroyed China’s rich cultural heritage, and also destroyed the very existence of East Turkestans, Tibetans and inner Mongolians,” Dondhup said.
He congratulated those who had already quit and urged Chinese people and other ethnic communities within China to “Quit the CCP now.”
“The CCP is no good for you,” he said. “The CCP has no moral respect in the international community so don’t join. Quit the CCP and become a good human being.”
Additional speakers at the rally included dissidents Pei Hong Zhao from the Chinese Federal Revolutionary Party and Fang Yuan, Chairman of the Chinese Labour Party. Bao Khanh and Joachim from the Vietnamese Community, Bob Vinnicombe from Free China and radio announcer Stephen Sim also spoke. All congratulated the movement on its success and urged more people to quit, saying that the CCP’s time is up.
