By Long Zhijie

(Clearwisdom.net)

In recent history, as early as the 17^th century, a nation's leader was held legally responsible for any brutality committed by officials or soldiers to the people. The king of England, Charles I, was the first leader of a nation who was tried, sentenced, and executed because of brutality to his people and the crime of perpetrating a war. The primary prosecutor cited a famous saying of John Locke: "The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves."

In the 20^th century, it was internationally recognized that when a national leader's action to his people was considered brutal, other nations might intervene according to basic principles of humanity. Although lawyers at that time were unable to fully address "intervention rights"--which was morally strong yet judicially weak, leaders felt the necessity to intervene on the grounds of morality and human rights. This led to the agreement that, when actions targeting citizens were considered crimes against humanity, other nations were granted the privilege to intervene.

During World War II, the Nazi's brutal massacre of the Jews was shocking and painful. Society has learned from history. Numerous rules and guidelines have been established to both prevent and stop genocide, brutal torture, and other crimes against humanity. International human rights law and humanitarian law punish such severe crimes in order to create a peaceful, happy, compatible, and prosperous environment. This is based on the requirements of humanity and morality. As a result, preventing and ending severe crimes has become an important responsibility shared by all countries.

Right now in the 21^st century, we have witnessed many Chinese stepping forward courageously--even risking their lives--to condemn the large scale and brutal genocide that began in China as early as 2001. Under the supervision of CCP, specialized medical staff in Sujiatun area, Liaoning Province began removing the organs of imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners while they were still alive, and cremated the remains to remove evidence of the crime. The killing has been so widespread and cruel that it has affected medical staff and their family members, some of whom could no longer suffer the mental pain but chose to expose it to the world. They called on the international community to take immediate action to end this brutality. They have provided solid evidence of widespread live organ harvesting, murder, and selling the organs for profit.

The international community cannot allow the crimes of Auschwitz to be repeated in any corner of the earth. The CCP's genocide against Falun Gong has spread all over China, systematically and comprehensively in the past 7 years. The killing is not just limited to Sujiatun. The international community is waiting for the truth, and must investigate this.

We hope President Bush, other leaders in western society, the UN Human Rights Commission, the UN Committee against Torture, as well as other human rights organizations go to China to investigate the torture, mistreatment and killing that Falun Gong practitioners suffer. We also invite legal experts, medical professionals, individuals and interested organizations throughout the world to conduct an investigation along with CIPFG (the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China). By collecting all relevant evidence on "Who, what, when, where, and how," this way, we will be responsible to the victims, and meet the expectations of their families.

All those who gave orders or knowingly participated in the killing and live organ harvesting should be brought to justice once solid evidence is available. They need to be held responsible for their brutal deeds historically, morally, and judicially. This will also act as a warning for future generations.

April 15, 2006

Posting date: 5/10/2006
Original article date: 5/10/2006
Category: Open Forum
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/4/16/125343.html

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