German Media Reports on a Chinese Lady from Cham Calling for Support for Human Rights

Two German newspapers, Chamer News and Chamland Aktuell reported about the call for support by a Chinese lady from Cham. Before the Secretary of State’s official visit to China, Mrs. Teng-Schwägerl sent him a letter, requesting that he bring up the issue of human rights whilst there. At the same time, she told him about the Chinese hunger strike movement in support of human rights and in protest against the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong.

Chamland Aktuell published an excerpt from Mrs. Teng-Schwägerl’s letter:

Dear Secretary of State Dr. Steinmaier:

I’m respectfully requesting with this correspondence that you especially address human rights during your visit to China.

More than three years ago I came to Germany to join my husband. This was the first time I heard about the 1989 Chinese student movement, about the persecution of Falun Gong, about the suppression of a free press and many more human rights violations that are perpetrated in China. I also learned about the lie of China’s so-called economic growth. All disasters happening in China are created by the Chinese Communist regime. I took a long time to calm my heart and write my thoughts down.

Soon, I will be granted German citizenship and will have the fortune to live in a free country, granted freedom of belief, freedom of thoughts and all the fundamental rights of a free citizen. Alas, as a Chinese, my heart is still heavy. In Mainland China there are millions of my compatriots whose minds have been poisoned by the CCP’s deceitful propaganda, and brainwashing tactics. Their thoughts are controlled by the CCP and they are not allowed to listen to objective basic information. Therefore, they are unable to differentiate between compassion and wickedness, and between good and evil. Additionally, most Chinese have never heard of fundamental human rights and they do not know what real freedom entails.

They are confronted with the most roguish and base persecution by the CCP and even have to suffer torture, as soon as they espouse fundamental human rights. During the six-year persecution, close to 3,000 Falun Gong practitioners are known to have died from torture. The actual number is much higher.

Remembering my twenty five years in Shanghai I am deeply shocked. At that time I felt that metropolitan Shanghai was quite chaotic, but for me it was a growing town that held out a lot of hope. Especially at the University where I was a student I found it at the time rather quiet, and yet the cruel persecution, perpetrated by the CCP, was happening there.

I could read on the Falun Gong Web sites about the widespread inhuman crimes perpetrated by the persecutors of Falun Gong practitioners at Tongji University, at other Chinese Universities and places beyond the Universities.
You must know that the “German Centre” is at the Tongji University. That place is the centre where cultural and economic communication between China and Germany occur. Let me ask you, ‘”Shouldn’t respect for human rights be an important discussion point between the Chinese and the Germans?”

Personally, I believe that respect for human rights, that is, violations of human rights should be a benchmark for evaluating the long-term stability of a country and if such a country would be considered a good investments opportunity. Such factors should under no circumstances be left out during economic associations.

Please, do not remain silent like the former Federal Chancellor Schröeder concerning human rights violations in China, especially when it comes to the persecution of Falun Gong. If you do so, you will encourage the CCP to continue unabated their activities.

Stop the persecution of Falun Gong! Stop the persecution of innocent people!

Your voice will be heard by millions of Chinese, as well by others all around the world.

A photo of Mrs. Teng-Schwägerl in front of the Biertor, a symbolic building where the newspaper is published, was included in the article