As is too often the way, tyrants and dictatorships have no shortage of bootlicking apologists and toadies. The Chinese communist regime is no different.
In the 60s and 70s, even as the Cultural Revolution raged, the leftists from Francois Mitterand to Gough Whitlam were singing the praises of Mao’s regime. Today, under Mini-Mao, Xi Xinping, we have the likes of Paul Keating and Twiggy Forrest barracking for the communist regime. Despite her witterings about human rights, NZ PM Jacinda Ardern likewise bends over backwards to appease the communists.
But, as ex-Deputy PM John Anderson chides, we should never lose sight of the fact that a communist will do as a communist does.
Especially persecuting and murdering religious groups.
In the past 10 months, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has persecuted to death 101 Falun Gong practitioners, according to Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that documents the nationwide campaign.
The death cases involved 54 cities in 24 provinces. The majority of cases were concentrated in northeastern China’s Liaoning, Heilongjiang, and Jilin provinces. Some of the reported deaths occurred in police stations, detention centers, and prisons, according to Minghui.
Additionally, at least 75 of the total had experienced torture, forced labor, and unidentified drug injection prior to their demise.
To most of us, Falun Gong seems a rather odd target for persecution. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, preaches a fairly typical Eastern recipe of meditation, emphasising its central tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, as well as the sort of slow-moving, ritualistic exercises we might associate with Tai Chi.
But, with between 70 and 100 million followers in China alone, its popularity is an intolerable threat to the absolute control communism demands. For decades, the Chinese regime has ruthlessly persecuted the group, with everything from “re-education camps” to forced organ harvesting.
On Dec. 22, 2020, police officers from northwestern Lanzhou city, Gansu Province, sawed down the front door of a Falun Gong practitioner’s apartment. Police confiscated property from Ren Canru, an elderly, paralyzed woman, including her computer and printer. They also arrested the nurse taking care of Ren.
Both Ren’s mental and physical health began rapidly deteriorating after the raid, according to Minghui.
The elderly woman went into a coma after taking a fall on July 27, 2021. One week later, she died at age 85 in the ICU of Lanzhou General Hospital […]
Another practitioner passed away after being held in a women’s prison for less than two months. Fu Guihua, 55, died on July 25.
Fu’s family were not allowed to see her body until they agreed not to take any photos.
Sun Pijin died the day after being arrested on his farm in Dongrulai village of Shandong Province on 18 June. Officials told his family that he had “leapt from a roof to his death”.
However, the family was not initially permitted to see Sun’s body.
When they finally saw him, he looked disfigured. One of his eyes was missing, and both his chest and half of his skull were caved in.
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The family were subsequently pressured into cremating the body and closing the case.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg of persecution. Chinese police have arrested or harassed nearly 2000 Falun Gong in the past two months alone, according to Minghui.
Among the 1,963 individuals, 764 were arrested, and 1,199 were harassed. Some of them suffered house raids, brainwashing, financial extortion, and forced blood tests.
Many of the arrested and detained people are elderly. In one indoctrination centre, there were 196 elderly adherents, aged 65 and older.
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The regime doesn’t confine its campaign of persecution to within its own borders.
Two men harassed a Falun Gong practitioner and attacked his car while he was driving his family in downtown Paris toward an event on Nov. 6. Local police are investigating the case.
Jason Wang was driving to a weekly Falun Gong meeting in Paris, with his mother and two young children, when he noticed a Chinese man photographing him from a parked car “while making rude gestures toward the family”. Later, the same man cut off Wang’s car and took a photo of his licence plate. Then the car stopped ahead of them again, and two men got out, one carrying a metal baton, which he used to damage Wang’s car.
Then, the attackers returned to their car and began to chase Wang.
They pulled alongside them, rolled down their window, and threatened Wang’s life.
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As even Australians, like swimmer Mack Horton and student Drew Pavlou, have found, the Chinese Communist Party has a long reach when it comes to punishing those who criticise the regime. Even in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, academic Clive Hamilton was shocked to see obvious CCP goons attacking Australian pro-Tibet protesters with impunity, during the Olympic torch relay.
History will surely damn the apologists for the Chinese regime just as it does the appeasers of the 1930s.
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