A Letter to the German Foreign Minister Calling for an End to the Persecution of Falun Gong

Prior to the German Foreign Ministers’ visit to Asia, a Chinese practitioner wrote to urge the Minister to help put an end to the persecution against Falun Gong and improve China’s human right situation. The following is the text:

His Excellency Minister Steinmaier:

Prior to your visit to China, I take the liberty of writing to call for your kind help in improving China’s human rights situation.

I immigrated to Germany due to marriage about three years ago. Shortly afterwards, I learned the facts about the persecution against Falun Gong, the June-4th Tiananmen Square massacre, the corruption and human right abuse behind China’ economic development, suppression of press freedom and various atrocities the Chinese people have suffered under the Chinese Communist regime’s autocratic rule. At that time, I felt very distressed. As I will gain my citizenship of Germany soon, I think I am very lucky to live in a free country with basic human rights such as freedom of belief and freedom of speech, etc.; however as I am to become a German citizen soon I still feel very sad. In China, hundreds of millions of innocent people are poisoned by lies fabricated by the state-controlled media and brainwashed by a deceptive educational system. Since their thoughts are strictly controlled by the Chinese Communist regime and do not have access to the truth, many people are unable to distinguish the kind from the wicked and the good from bad. They even know nothing about basic human rights and true freedom. Unfortunately, when they come to know what they are supposed to have and demand normal people’s basic rights, they are faced with the most despicable persecution and cruel torture. With the six-year old persecution against Falun Gong, some 3,000 innocent practitioners have been persecuted to death, and the actual figure is much higher than that. One of my friends from Shanghai, who was also one of my classmates studying German language at Shanghai Tongji University was illegally sent to a forced labour camp simply because he practised Falun Gong and believed in “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.” In the forced labour camp, he was tortured so badly that the tendons of his legs were broken; he thus cannot walk since then. Though he has fled to Germany, the fallout of the cruel torture has made him suffer from insomnia from time to time. He suffered a great deal mentally and physically, but he is still steadfast in the beliefs of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.” Given that, he published some articles on Clearwisdom,net to expose the brutal persecution he and his fellow practitioners suffered in forced labour camps in Shanghai and the atrocities perpetrated by the 610-Office see:

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/12/1/115582.html (in Chinese) http://de.clearharmony.net/articles/200511/27510.html (in German).

In retrospect, my twenty five years of life in Shanghai seemed to be a nightmare. On the surface, the Shanghai metropolitan area seems to be prosperous with hopes; however, on the campus where I gained knowledge and I regarded it as a relatively unsophisticated and pure environment, the school authorities have secretly undertaken the evil persecution against the faculties and students who are practising Falun Gong, according to the Chinese Communist regime’s instruction. Your Excellency, please visit Falun Gong websites to gain more insight into the facts about the inhuman persecution against Falun Gong practitioners inside and outside the Tongji University and other universities in China.

Probably you know that “Germany Centre” is situated on the campus of the Tongji University. As it is the hub for Sino-German economic and cultural exchange, do you think human rights should be one of the subjects for Sino-German economic and cultural exchange? Personally speaking, I think the human right status should be an essential criterion for assessing the long-term stability of a country as well as its investment environment. It is also one of factors that cannot be ignored in terms of Sino-German economic and cultural exchange.

To date, there have been some eight million people, mostly Chinese people in China, declaring their withdrawal from the CCP on an overseas Chinese website since the publication of the “Nine Commentaries on the CCP.” The power of justice inside and outside China has converged quickly, and the call for defending rights has been raised one after another. Renowned Chinese attorney Gao Zhisheng sent three open letters to Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, urging them to put an end to the persecution against those who believe in freedom and improve the relations between the Chinese people and the Communist regime, as well as upholding justice for Falun Gong. After his open letters were posted on the Epoch Times’ websites, he has been followed by the Chinese Communist regime’s agents and under around-the-clock surveillances. Over the past one hundred days or so, these agents have attempted to assassinate attorney Kao by means of falsified car accidents a couple of times, but to no avail. Currently, a peaceful relay hunger strike has been launched around the globe to call for human rights and justice for the people under the Chinese Communist regime’s totalitarian rule. I am one of those participating in the relay hunger strike. As to the relevant information, please visit the following websites: www.dajiyuan.com / (in Chinese) and www.DieNeueEpoche.de (in German).

With the unprecedented wave of people withdrawing from the CCP and the right-defending campaigns, I firmly believe that a new China without the CCP will come soon. That being the case, it would be a turning point in history. When visiting China in the capacity of Germany’s Foreign Minister, what kind of foreign policy would you like to take? Faced with the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of human rights, in particular the persecution against Falun Gong, would you just keep quiet as former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder did, or bravely tell the Chinese Communist regime: “Stop persecuting Falun Gong, and stop persecuting innocent people?” Your voice will be highly appreciated by hundreds of millions of the Chinese people and even the people around the world. When people recollect all of these incidents after the CCP collapses, they will examine what each and every one, especially those high-ranking political figures, had done or said during this period of time. All of my friends and I sincerely hope that you are able to take pride to say you did help the Chinese people in due course.

I whole-heartedly hope that you can create a new era for the Sino-German relations.

Respectively yours,

Tiang Ming

A Chinese national in Germany