This is part of what came across my desk in March and which was ignored due to whatever it was I was working on at the time. So...evil triumphs...because we do nothing.
"On March 20, 2007, in a more extensive report Nowak confirmed allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, stating "Organ harvesting has been inflicted on a large number of unwilling Falun Gong practitioners at a wide variety of locations for the purpose of making available organs for transplant operations."
"According to Amnesty International, China continually holds thousands of political prisoners without charge or trial and is responsible for over 80 percent of all executions documented in the world.
"All of these reports culminated, on August 3, 2007, in Congressman Rohrabacher introducing House Resolution 610 [3], aptly named because the "610 Office" in China is an extra-constitutional agency established by the former leader Jiang Zemin. It was specifically created to persecute Falun Gong and has absolute power over every level of the Communist Party and all political and judiciary systems."
Rohrabacher's H.Res. 610 states "the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Government should take immediate steps to boycott the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing in August 2008 unless the Government of the People's Republic of China stops engaging in serious human rights abuses against its citizens and stops supporting serious human rights abuses by the Governments of Sudan, Burma, and North Korea against their citizens."
More crimes against humanity, more loss of hope, and one more writer who feels she just got slapped across the face as a wake-up call to pay attention.
Eli Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, 1986 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1985 winner of the Congressional Gold Medal, and author of over 40 books is quoted at the bottom of the Falun Gong Human Right's Group press release. The same quote is featured on my own webpage:
"TAKE SIDES. Silence helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
"Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe."
Perhaps the universe does care. When we step back from our own complicated, painful lives and take a deep breath, we realize it can indeed be worse for others.
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