France: Asian Ethnic Groups Rally to Condemn the Chinese Communist Regime’s Atrocities

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 organisations in Paris rallied at the Human Right Square. They were there to condemn the disasters that the communist autocracy and military dictatorship have imposed on the people of Asia. They also called on the French government and international society to help the Asian countries under autocratic rule so that they are able to enjoy a democratic system with freedom and peace.

Asian organisations in Paris rally in Human Rights Square

The report noted the presence of Asian ethnic groups including Myanmar organisations, Cambodian organisations, the French Branch of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG), Laos organisations, the French Branch of the Tibetan organisations and Vietnamese organisations. Among the groups participating in the rally was the Committee for the boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games, which is mainly composed of French intellectuals and French people supporting human rights. That was the first rally jointly held by the Asian ethnic groups in France to expose the atrocities of the autocratic system.
Jean-Marie BROHM, member of the Committee on the boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games and a professor of sociology at the University of Montpellier, who came all the way from Montpellier to attend the rally in Human Rights Square Paris, said, “This rally is mainly participated in by Asian ethnic organisations. On one hand, Asia is the area that human rights are trampled on most seriously, in particular China; on the other hand, human rights are universal values. Given that, being a French citizen, I think I am part of it.”
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 crackdown 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 right situation in China, he said, “In this regard, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s attitude is more righteous than that of the Russian President. In fact, her criticism of the Chinese regime’s human right 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 believing in the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance” were subjected to illegal re-education in forced labour camps and illegal sentencing. They underwent cruel torture, and their organs were even harvested when they were still alive. He thus called on the French society to pay more attention to the Chinese regime’s atrocities of trampling on human rights and support the persecuted Falun Gong practitioners, so as to put an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.