February 15th 2006
State Department.
Secretary of State Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Werderscher Markt 1
11013 Berlin
RE: Your state visit to China - Support for the family of Jiang Renzheng and an end to Chinese Communist Party violence
Dear Dr Steinmeier,
We, German Falun Gong practitioners, have been advised about your forthcoming official visit to China. We are approaching you in the hope that you will address the emigration of Mr. Jiang Renzheng and his family from China and an end to the persecution of innocent people while in China.
Regrettably, Mr. Jiang and his family were deported from Germany to China nearly a year ago. He was arrested and detained in a slave labour camp on his return to China, only because of his steadfast belief in Falun Gong and its principles "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance."
We welcome that the Würzburg Administrative Court has approved retroactively the asylum request and that the Foreign Affairs Bureau is actively pursuing his release. If truth were told, Mr. Jiang is still under house arrest. We can no longer allow that his human rights and human dignity to continue to be trampled on.
Mr. Jiang's fate is only the tip of the iceberg among the hundreds of thousands of persecuted Falun Gong practitioners in China. We were shocked to read the open letter to the Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao from the renowned Chinese Civil Rights Attorney, Gao Zhisheng. He recounts in the said letter his personal investigation into the worst persecution and torture of innocent Falun Gong practitioners in his homeland and his call on the Communist leadership for an immediate end of the human rights violations against its citizens. His brave commitment for justice in China resulted in the closing of his office and the cancellation of his license, 24 hour surveillance and an attempt on his life.
Starting on February the 4th 2006, Mr. Gao went on a hunger strike with the call for "Protection of Human Rights, and Support against the Gangsters of China's Communist Party." The said action found immediate support within China and around the world. Also in Germany, more and more people are taking part in the staggered hunger strike rally.
Since the release of the "Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party" in the largest Chinese language overseas newspaper The Epoch Times, in November of 2004, more than eight million people have resigned from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its related entities. In the movement towards the downfall of the CCP, the tide is irreversible; yet every unthinkable vicious method is employed by the CCP. We only need to remember the attack on Mr. Li Yuan, technical chief of The Epoch Times, who resides in the US, and the severe injuries he sustained at the hands of the agents of the CCP.
There are more than a billion people in China who have not been granted the most fundamental human rights. Since the CCP's founding, about fifty seven years ago, it is responsible for the death of more than 80 million people. The bloody suppression of the June 4th 1989 student movement, as well as the six-year-old unabated persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has shocked the citizens of the world deeply.
Because of economic interests, Western countries can influence China. They should take advantage of the opportunity and condemn the human rights violations. Remaining silent or discussing the human rights violations behind closed doors because of self interest keeps the violent CCP system alive and will sooner or later have an effect on the Western world.
Dear Secretary of State Steinmeier, please address compliance with human rights in China during your meetings.
We also politely request that you address in the course of your China visit the release of Mr. Jiang and an immediate end of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
Sincerely,
German Falun Gong practitioners
Originally published in German at: http://www.clearharmony.de/articles/200602/29609.html
Source http://clearharmony.net/articles/200602/31639.html
Category: Opinion & Perspective
