China and the Olympics

Why does man only believe what he knows? He turns his back to what he has recognized, not because it doesn’t exist, but because the majority thinks it is impossible. I’m speaking about the international community, concerning Chinas escalating offenses that violate existing human right agreements. What are the human rights?

Well, in a nutshell: The right of unharmed life, the right of freedom and justice. When I direct my attention on China I see, at first, a country with an enormous economic growth. On the one side of the coin, you even speak about an “economic wonder”. But considering it’s conscience for human rights it seems to be limping behind the rest of the world’s great forces.

Only a few people don’t know about the thousands of years old culture that China respectively possesses; its martial arts and the traditional Chinese medicine. Who does not know its tradition to seek for truth imbedded in the Daoism or the Buddhists forbearance towards all beings. Most of us in the present have heard about China, lately, through the media and the soon to be hosted Olympic games in Beijing.

But unfortunately the current circumstances in China, look different than proposed by censored medias. What is happening behind the curtains only few know, those affected by it or the “others” who profit from it. One of the shadow sides of China’s coin are it’s more or less alternating conflict with Tibet, that have aroused the attention of almost the whole world.

But what the international community is unaware of are China´s cruel human right violation towards Falun Gong`s practitioners. They have been continuously prevailing since 1999 up until present. How many people have lost their freedom or even live, because they filed on behalf of the human rights; or even traditional Chinese values like Forbearance and Compassion.

These values, as the persecutions show, clearly aren’t values that apply to the communist party’s ideology. These beliefs are considered as superstition by the Chinese State. Since July 20.1999 the leader of the Chinese communist party, Jiang Zemin, banned Falun Gong. What is Falun Gong? Falun Gong is one of the Buddhist system’s cultivation schools. It teaches the traditional Chinese practice of healing and self-improvement.

Its teachings are based on the principles of Truthfulness, Forbearance and Compassion. The practitioners integrate these values in their daily lives seeking to become good persons. All books and materials can be downloaded for free from the internet. The Falun Gong practitioners voluntarily teach the free exercises to those ho are interested.

The truth at present in China is: “70 to 100 million Falun Gong practitioners are labeled as criminals over night, because of their spiritual believe. Since September 2006 there were reports of 2 930 practitioners are confirmed dead, the actual death toll is estimated to be 1 000 or more. 100 000 to 500 000 have been sent to labor camps, prisons and mental hospitals.

Collusion between the Chinese judiciary police and hospitals, overseen by the CCP military, sustains a network that harvests Falun Gong practitioners’ organs, while they are still alive, for transplant operations. The huge profits fuel China’s “organ tourism”. The CCP blacklists and harasses practitioners world wide.” International appeals exist already, concerning a research on behalf of the accusations, that China is tensely violating the international human right treaty.

Edward Mc Milan-Scott, a European Parliament Vice- President, held a secret meeting with two Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing, who provided first-hand evidence of the persecution . Attorney Terri Marsh filed a criminal complaint at federal court, charging two visiting Chinese doctors to have overseen forced organ removals from living Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Even the medical Ethicists speak out. Stephen Wigmore, chairman of the British Transplantation Society Ethics Committee, has condemned China’s organ harvesting practices as “unethical” and “distasteful” and believes they should be universally condemned by the international medical establishment.

I appeal to the reason of the international community, to recognize the crime against human values that are taking place in China. Also, to not longer ignore them. The Chinese “gold coin” that is being passed around in the media has its shadow side which stays unrevealed, as long as all involved parties only consider their advantages.