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Poland: Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai Sued in Warsaw for Persecuting Falun Gong
(Clearwisdom.net) On June 8, 2004, Chinese Minister of Commerce, Bo Xilai,
was sued in Warsaw for enthusiastically following former Chinese leader Jiang
Zemin to persecute Falun Gong. Bo was accompanying Chinese President Hu Jintao
to visit 4 nations of Europe and Asia, and Poland was their first stop. Bo Xilai Charged with Crimes against Humanity and Torture According a Falun Gong practitioner in Poland who is also an English teacher,
he and several other Falun Gong practitioners submitted a lawsuit to the Polish
Procuratorate on the morning of Hu's delegation's arrival. The lawsuit charges
Bo with crimes against humanity and torture. The lawsuit alleges that Bo enthusiastically persecuted Falun Gong when he
was Mayor of Dalian City and Governor of Liaoning Province. He also spent huge
amount of taxpayers' money to build new prisons in which to detain and persecute
Falun Gong practitioners. According to an investigative report from the World Organization to
Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), during his term as Dalian
City Mayor, General Secretary of City Party Committee and Governor of Liaoning
Province, Bo Xilai summarized and arranged numerous meetings and reports on the
persecution of Falun Gong. In the process of persecuting Falun Gong, Jiang's
group implemented the "leadership responsibility system" and the
"single-veto system," ordering that heads of the Party and
administrations at different levels should be fully responsible to the
higher-level authorities. In order to get promoted, Bo Xilai transferred
responsibilities to lower government departments, encouraging grassroots
authorities to brutally torture Falun Gong practitioners, which caused the sharp
increase in death cases. During his term as Governor, Liaoning Province became
one of the provinces that persecuted Falun Gong the most severely One Polish Falun Gong practitioner who participated in the lawsuit against Bo
went to China to peacefully appeal for Falun Gong in 2002. He was arrested by
police at Tiananmen Square, beaten, cursed and then deported. He said that the
lawsuit against Bo Xilai was not just a symbolic move. He said: "We are
serious--our goal is to bring him to justice." According to reports from Clearwisdom.net, Bo has also been sued by Falun
Gong practitioners in the U.K. and U.S. for genocide, crimes against humanity
and torture.
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