Korea: Bo Xilai Charged With Genocide

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting/forum (APEC) was held from November 12th to November 19th, 2005 in Busan, Korea. Bo Xilai, China's Minister of Commerce, entered Korea via Kimhae on November 15th to attend the forum. Falun Gong practitioners in Korea filed a lawsuit against him with the local prosecutor's office in Seoul, charging him with genocide, engaging in illegal arrests, unjustifiable imprisonment, torture and other charges.

Zhang Shu, one of the plaintiffs said that the lawsuit against Bo Xilai is a warning to all perpetrators responsible for persecuting Falun Gong, and to let them know "goodness is rewarded and evildoing will reap its own peril." At the same time, the plaintiffs also want to inform the Korean government, the Korean people and other people in the world the importance of ending the persecution of Falun Gong.

Between 1999 and 2003, Bo Xilai acted as mayor of Dalian City, deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee of Liaoning Province and governor of Liaoning Province. According to available estimates, as of November 2005, at least 333 Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death in Liaoning Province, including Ms. Gao Rongrong whose facial disfigurement and brutal murder shocked the international community. Bo Xilai also built large-scale prison facilities, one of which is the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, known for its atrocities. Liaoning Province is one of the regions in China where the most severe persecution is carried out.

Falun Gong practitioners pointed out that Bo Xilai aided Jiang Zemin and the evil CCP in persecuting Falun Gong. He was quickly promoted as Minister of Commerce for his role in fanatically persecuting and killing innocent Falun Gong practitioners. His evil reputation as a persecutor of Falun Gong is also widely known around the world.

According to reports on Dafa websites, Bo Xilai was served with a lawsuit in Washington, DC in 2004. The lawsuit charges him with genocide, torture and crimes against humanity. Falun Gong practitioners in the United Kingdom, Poland and Russia also filed lawsuit against him. Recently, Falun Gong practitioners in the UK applied for an arrest warrant against Bo Xilai with a court in London during his visit to Europe. Soon after that visit he was served with a lawsuit in Spain.