(Clearwisdom.net) On the 20th of August, Falun Gong practitioners and the
well-known human rights attorney Georges-Henri Beauthier went to the Justice
Hall in Brussels and officially filed a lawsuit against Jiang Zemin. AFP
reported that in a 30-page statement of charges, Jiang Zemin, currently China's
Military Commission Chairman is accused of committing crimes of torture, crimes
against humanity, and genocide.
The AFP report quoted
Beautier as saying the terror of genocide committed by Jiang lies in the fact
that not only have practitioners been killed, but beliefs also have been
destroyed. Such acts of terror should not exist in modern society. Such acts
must be punished according to law.
The lawsuit also makes a charge on Luo Gan, secretary of the
Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of the Communist Party of China
(CPC) Central Committee, and Li Lanqing, the director of the 610
Office, a Gestapo-type organization that has engaged in persecuting Falun
Gong practitioners.
Beauthier said that he was confident this case filed in
Belgium would at least be accepted by the district attorney as a valid case.
When asked whether Jiang will one day face the fate of being arrested, he cited
the case of former Chilean dictator, August Pinochet and said that he was
detained in Britain in 1998.
Beauthier said, "Belgium is a democratic country that
protects and respects human rights. We call on the Belgian people and government
to join us to ensure that justice will be upheld."
The Belgian Falun Dafa Association made a statement on 13th
of August this year, saying that Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted
for four years. In China, hundreds of people have been murdered; thousands of
people have been detained in labor camps and mental institutions; hundreds of
thousands of people have been arrested and tortured. Citizens of Belgium and
other European countries have been harassed by the Chinese government, as have
people in the United States, Canada and Australia. They were put on a blacklist.
The Chinese government even attempted to restrain these people's freedom of
expression and assembly. The defamation and slander aimed at blackening Falun
Gong practitioners' names have never ceased to exist. Former CPC leader Jiang
should be held responsible for this persecution. A worldwide movement has begun
to put Jiang on trial so as to let people around the world understand the truth,
save more lives and end this persecution.
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200308/14714.html
Posting date: 8/30/2003
Original article date: 8/29/2003
Category: Worldwide Support