(Clearwisdom.net) According to an Epoch Times report on December 10th, 2007, on the eve of the 59th anniversary of International Human Rights Day, various Asian ethnic organizations in Paris rallied at Human Rights Square. They were there to condemn the disasters that communist autocracies and military dictatorships have imposed on the people of Asia. They called on the French government and international society to help the Asian countries under autocratic rule so that they will be able to enjoy a democratic system with freedom and peace.
Asian organizations in Paris rally at Human Rights Square
The report noted the presence of Asian groups including Myanmar organizations, Cambodian organizations, the French branch of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG), Laotian organizations, the French branch of Tibetan organizations and Vietnamese organizations. Among the groups participating in the rally was the Committee for the Boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games, which is mainly composed of French scholars and French people supporting human rights. This was the first rally jointly held by Asian groups in France to expose the atrocities of the Communist Party.
Jean-Marie Brohm, member of the Committee for the Boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games and a professor of sociology at the University of Montpellier, came all the way from Montpellier to attend the rally. Mr. Brohm said, "Most of the participants of this rally are associated with Asian ethnic organizations. While Asia is the area where human rights are trampled on most seriously, in particular China, on the other hand, human rights are universal values. Given that, as a French citizen, I think I am part of it too."
As to the persecution of Falun Gong, Mr. Jean-Marie Brohm said, "I am well aware of this matter, and we have published a periodical to report about Falun Gong, especially the Chinese Communist regime's atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, the persecution and killing of Falun Gong practitioners. These are serious human right abuses. I think China's current situation (referring to the Beijing Olympic Games to be held next year) is similar to the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games hosted by Nazi Germany, the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games hosted by the former Soviet Union which was an autocratic country. I think these autocratic countries are unqualified for hosting the Olympic Games."
Regarding Western countries' attitude towards the human rights situation in China, Mr. Brohm said, "In this regard, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's attitude is more right than that of the Russian President. In fact, her criticism of the Chinese regime's human rights abuses didn't affect Germany's business interests in China."
At the rally, Mr. Zhang Jianping, a representative from the French branch of the CIPFG, exposed the Chinese regime's cruel atrocities. He said that a large number of Falun Gong practitioners, who believe in the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance," were subjected to illegal "re-education" in forced labor camps and illegal sentencing. They underwent cruel torture, and their organs were even harvested when they were still alive. He thus called on French society to pay more attention to the Chinese regime's atrocities of trampling human rights, and he asked them to support the persecuted Falun Gong practitioners, so as to put an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.
