Part II of a Series of Reports on the International Conference for “Genocide in the New Era” in Stockholm

On January 27th 2004, the international conference on “Genocide in the New Era” proceeded into the second day. This day of the conference focused on five issues: “Perspectives of Genocide”, “Legal Mechanisms on Genocide”, “The Roles of Diplomacy, Governments and Non-governmental Organizations”, “Corporate Responsibility”, and “New Threats: Media and the Internet”.

Thirteen human rights lawyers, law scholars and experts in diplomacy and media from Europe, Asia and North America delivered speeches. In her presentation entitled “Justice against the Crime of Genocide”, Taiwanese lawyer Theresa Chu called on the international community to pay attention to Jiang’s campaign of Genocide against Falun Gong, to help remove this twenty-first century human rights tragedy from Chinese society, and to bring Jiang to justice. Mr. Morton Sklar, a prominent American lawyer and judge, gave a speech entitled “Strengthening the Tools to Prevent and Punish Genocide”. The speech of the renowned human rights lawyer Ning Ye was entitled “The PRC’s Massive Persecution Against Falun Gong is a Crime of Genocide”.

In the discussion about the mechanism of law focusing on the Crime of Genocide, the well-known Belgian lawyer Mr. Georges-Henri Beauthier talked about the defect of Belgium’s New Law, under which a lawsuit had been filed against Jiang and Luo for the persecution of Falun Gong. Spanish human rights lawyer Carlos Iglesias discussed a problem concerning heads of state in “Immunity and Genocide”. Terri Marsh, a US human rights lawyer, elaborated on the serious outcome of the persecution and the lawsuits against chief persecutors Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan in many countries. Finally, American lawyer Joshua Sondheimer gave a presentation entitled “Civil Liability -- Opportunities and Obstacles”.

In the afternoon, German lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck used his lawsuits against the Argentinean tyrant and the former Chinese leader to share experiences of working together with lawyers in other countries to find justice for victims. Then a former veteran British diplomat, the representative of the International Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, and representatives of the media gave their own statements.

The topics of the discussion were of academic importance and highly praised by the delegates.