The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been emboldened by the world’s lack of serious response to their crimes against humanity.
Let’s face it: The CCP has been guilty of crimes against humanity virtually since its inception—especially since assuming control of China at the point of a gun in 1949. Estimates vary, but as many as 80 million people have been tortured and killed by the CCP since the Party was founded in 1921. Minority and religious groups in China have borne the brunt of the CCP’s fury—with Tibetans, Uyghurs, Christians, Muslims, and Falun Gong adherents having suffered relentless persecution over the years.
Background
July 20 marks the 23rd anniversary of the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP.Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice whose adherents are peaceful and nonviolent by definition and practice.
The three Falun Gong tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance are anathema to the CCP, which prizes deceit, lies, intolerance, and violence against dissenters. These characteristics are most sought by Chinese communists in maintaining their brutal control over the Chinese citizenry, especially those from “disfavored minorities.”
Organ Harvesting
The selling of human organs has become a significant money maker for the communists.- “Thousands of innocent people have been killed to order having their bodies ... cut open while still alive for their kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs, cornea and skin to be removed and turned into commodities for sale.”
- “Those innocents were killed by doctors simply because they believed, for example, in truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance and lived lives of healthy exercise and meditation and because the way they lived was seen as dangerous to the interests and objectives of the totalitarian state of the People’s Republic of China.”
- “Every witness who appeared before the Tribunal and who identified as a Falun Gong practitioner while in the PRC, and who had been either detained and/or arrested by law enforcement authorities in the PRC, and/or sentenced by a court in the PRC, for being a Falun Gong practitioner, stated that they had been tortured while incarcerated.”
- “The Tribunal is also satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that one or more of the following acts have been committed on Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs in the PRC: murder; extermination; imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; torture; rape or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; persecution on racial, national, ethnic, cultural or religious grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law; and enforced disappearance.”
International Response
The international response to the persecution—and genocide, by most definitions—of Falun Gong has been muted but has grown in recent years. International organizations have condemned the acts, and even some governments have weighed in with an outflow of proclamations, determinations, and “strong words.”Concluding Thoughts
Justice delayed is justice denied. The souls of the Chinese dead cry out for a strong international response to the ongoing persecution and genocide of minority and religious groups such as Falun Gong.How many souls might have been saved had there been a strong response from the beginning to the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong? And how many Chinese in other minority groups such as the Tibetans and Uyghurs might have been saved by forceful and coordinated international actions?
There seems to be no end in sight, because multinational corporations and others are too busy making money in communist China to pay attention to the CCP’s continuing atrocities. For shame.