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Taiwan: Central Radio Broadcasting Station Reports that Mainland China Should Allow Investigation of All Places Being Used for Imprisonment of Falun Gong Practitioners (Clearwisdom.net) Central Radio Broadcasting Station reported on December
28, 2006 that the Asia Delegation of the Coalition to Investigate the
Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) was established on December 10, International
Human Rights Day. The delegation held press conferences in Taiwan, Japan, Korea,
Malaysia, Hong Kong and Macao, respectively, on the morning of December 19. They
declared their request to the international community and wrote letters to
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Secretary Luo Gan of the Political and
Judicial Committee. They requested fair and unrestricted entry and investigation
of all labor camps, prisons, detention centers and all locations being used to
imprison Falun Gong practitioners. They called for an end to the Chinese
Communist Party's (CCP) atrocities of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong
practitioners and other forms of persecution. The delegation is composed of 116 people, including figures from the areas of
politics, medicine, law, and non-governmental organizations. The CCP's
persecution is so severe that other Asian countries are paying attention to the
issue and strongly request China to allow investigation and to stop such
atrocities. The CCP's persecution of Falun Gong has continued for more than seven years,
almost becoming a new "Cultural Revolution". The persecution is
ongoing. If not stopped, it may become the worst international human rights
violation incident. The ruthlessness of the persecution is approaching the scale
of human rights violations in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Republic of Sierra
Leone and the Sudan. So far, however, the majority of requests and calls for
action have come from Falun Gong practitioners, though the problem is gaining
recognition and support from international human rights organizations. It is
regrettable that international organizations have not given high priority to the
persecution of Falun Gong, at least not so much as the situations in those
countries mentioned above. It may become a deep regret. Thus, an international
care network needs to be formed and increase coverage to form common
international recognition, which may be possible to stop the atrocities. The establishment of the Asia Delegation of CIPFG starts such an
international network. It needs to be expanded in the future until there is
enough international recognition to exert pressure on the CCP. Requesting the CCP to stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is not
action against China. Rather, it is insisting on human rights, because the CCP's
means of persecution severely violate the international covenant on human
rights. Falun Gong is actually a cultivation practice group and does not promote
any politics. It is not a religion, but the CCP frames and persecutes it. The
persecution exposes the CCP's nature of interfering with people's freedom of
religion, speech and assembly. The CCP's persecution deeply violates human rights, and includes arrests,
imprisonment in labor camps, and forced labor without trial or legal procedure.
The CCP's organ harvesting from living practitioners is an even worse violation.
This statement is not against China. It is the CCP that violates the
international covenant on human rights. Posting date: 1/3/2007 |