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Declare Victory Over the Unrestricted Warfare Waged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – Appendices

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Appendix I – World-renowned VIPs from around the globe support the Tuidang movement

  • On May 9, 2018, the theme seminar focusing on the “Three Quits” of 300 million Chinese was held in the US Congress. Politicians and experts on China from different countries said that the large-scale spiritual awakening of the people brought bright hopes to China’s future and also inspired the international community. Senior Rep. Steve King issued a letter of commendation praising the importance of the quitting communist party movement to China. Mr. King has formally submitted this letter to the House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, and this letter will be included in the Congressional record. Mr. Chris Smith, Co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), sent a letter to support the quit movement. He said in the letter: “The tide of quitting the communist party has changed the minds of the Chinese people and saved many people from the CCP’s instilled education and corruptions.
  • Richard Swett, a former US ambassador to Denmark and a member of the House of Representatives said at the scene that the Tuidang movement brought light to the dark China. He said that whether or not to dare to protect freedom of belief is the most difficult moral challenge in many people’s lives. Swett encouraged the Chinese people to uphold justice. Former Swedish congressman, former deputy speaker of the European Council Göran Lindblad said through a video call: “It is very important to reveal the purpose of communism. If you know something about Marx and Lenin, you will understand that under such an extreme regime, there won’t be any good results.”
  • On the afternoon of December 20, 2017, at a seminar hosted by the US Congress, US Congressmen, New Zealand politicians, human rights lawyers, and political commentators condemned the CCP’s persecution and the atrocities, supporting the movement that 300 million Chinese people has withdrawn from the CCP.
  • Dana Rohrabacher, a senior member of the US House of Representatives, said: “I believe that the Tuidang movement is very important. It gives people within the communist evil system the opportunity to withdraw, so that they no longer participate in the suppression of their compatriots, and stop standing together with the CCP be a threat to the world.” http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/17/12/21/n9980237.htm
  • New Zealand writer, filmmaker and former New Zealand Action Party deputy, Mr. Trevor Loudon, said that the book “Nine Commentaries” accurately analyzed the nature of the Communist Party and the problems of the CCP. He believes that it is wise to encourage people to withdraw from the CCP. “The reason why the Communist Party can exist is that it makes people to provide energy, time, commitment and intelligence, so as to attract more people to support this evil system. If people choose to quit, the Communist Party will basically collapse and eventually wither away.” http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/16/7/14/ n8100672.htm
  • At noon on July 14, 2016, thousands of Falun Gong practitioners and supporters from the eastern United States gathered in Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, demanding the disintegration of the CCP, ending the persecution and bringing Jiang Zemin to justice. A number of US congressmen and representatives of non-profit organizations attended the rally to support Falun Gong practitioners. Faith McDonnell, director of the Religious Freedom Program at the American Institute of Religion and Democracy, also expressed support. She said in her speech: “A lot of success has been achieved along the way. A lot of brave people have brought changes, hundreds of millions of Chinese have been encouraged to withdraw from the CCP.” http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/15/12/12/n4593980.htm
  • On December 10, 2015, which was International Human Rights Day. On the same day, the US Congress held a large-scale seminar on the theme of “Great Change in China and Persecution of Falun Gong.” Several members of Congress and representatives came to the scene to support. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher said: “So many people choose to leave the Communist Party and support Falun Gong. This is a perfect way to disintegrate the CCP. The former Soviet Union was disintegrated. The CCP should also be disintegrated.”
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  • On November 28, 2015, a large-scale seminar was held in Washington, DC, to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the publication of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Dave Wallace, president of the Restore America Mission and the US Congressional candidate in 2014, said that CCP autocracy and communism will go extinct. He said: “We all hope that communism will perish. Today we can see what has been achieved, and there is no doubt that this is a moment worth celebrating.” https://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/ 2015/7/17/312579.html At noon on July 16, 2015, some Falun Gong practitioners and supporters from all over the United States gathered in the lawn of the US Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, calling on the international community to stop the CCP’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong for 16 years. Four members of the US Congress and more than a dozen representatives of NGOs came to the rally, and more than a dozen members of the House of Representatives sent letters of support to the Falun Gong anti-persecution rally. A number of NGO representatives said that in the past 16 years, Falun Gong practitioners have persistently spread the truth, and the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong has completely failed. Members of Congress said that the persecution culprit Jiang Zemin should be tried for the crimes committed against Falun Gong. Faith McDonnell, director of the Religious Freedom Program at the Institute of Religion and Democracy, expressed her appreciation to Falun Gong practitioners and their families who participated in the Suing Jiang Zemin Movement. She also expressed appreciation for the more than 200 million Chinese people who had withdrawn from the CCP.
  • On December 3, 2014, the US Capitol held a seminar on the 10th Anniversary of the publication of the Nine Commentary and the 10th Anniversary of the “Tuidang Movement”. Senior Congressman Smith stated, “I want to publicly praise the Tuidang movement and the courage of the Chinese people to move forward to bring freedom to China with such actions. 57 In an interview at the scene, Congressman Steve Stockman suggested that leaders of all countries should read the Nine Commentaries. Former US Ambassador to East Timor and former State Assistant of Secretary of State Joseph Rees said: “I am very happy that the event was organized by my favorite Epoch Times newspaper and my favorite center, the Global Quit Party Service Center. More than 180 million Chinese had quit the CCP. “This number is shocking. We must thank the authors of the Nine Commentaries for revealing the terrible truth of the Communist Party and telling the Chinese why they should have a better life,” said Richard Fisher, a senior researcher at the Washington think tank -the Center for International Assessment sent and Strategy. “Only when the Chinese understand this, will we open a new era and time.”
  • At noon on July 17, 2014, thousands of Falun Gong practitioners and supporters from parts of North America held a rally in the lawn of the US Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, calling on the international community to stop the CCP’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong for fifteen years. US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has been speaking for Falun Gong practitioners for many years. He said: “The only thing the Communist Party has done over the years is to persecute the people. People should realize that it is time to abandon communism. Communism is a nightmare.” Senator Robert Menendez said: “I initiated a resolution in the last session of the National Assembly to make people realize that the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is still going on and the rise of the ‘quit the party’ movement. The CCP is required to immediately stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. “Dan Fefferman, president of the American Religious Freedom League, said at the rally: “The persecution of Falun Gong is the most serious violation of human rights in the world today. Among them, live organ harvesting is the biggest crime. “I want to say, let Falun Gong be free! Let the CCP disintegrate!”
  • Faith McDonnell, director of the Religious Freedom Program at the Institute of Religion and Democracy, delivered a speech at the rally. She said: “The Chinese who believe in the truth have been pursuing the truth. There are more and more such people.” “I also read the “Nine Commentaries” myself. I thought at the time, it was great, and the Chinese should work hard towards the goal stated in the book. The 170 million Chinese have now withdrawn from the CCP. It is amazing! I send congratulations to them.”
  • New York State Senator Tony Avella sent a letter of commendation to the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP. Writing: “When the Chinese announced their withdrawal from the CCP’s party, regiment, and team organization, their hearts and minds were freed from this… As the largest grassroots movement in the history of the people, the Tuidang movement brought a new dimension to the international community, a new blueprint for the Chinese society without communism; as a member of our society, the quit party movement and the participants have brought more resources to the State of New York, which deserves to be respected by all New Yorkers.”
  • On July 18, 2013, more than a thousand Falun Gong practitioners from North America held large-scale gatherings and demonstrations in Washington DC, the capital of the United States. 58 Some US congressmen have come to the scene or sent letters expressing their solidarity. Federal Representative Thomas E. Petri wrote: “The purpose of this letter is to support this gathering and to condemn the CCP’s suppression of the Falun Gong peace movement over the past 14 years. I hope this gathering will draw attention of the public to the CCP’s persecution of human rights while encouraging people to continue to fight for peace.” On July 12, 2012, five members of the US Congress and more than 10 representatives of nongovernmental organizations visited Falun Gong in a large gathering in front of the Capitol Hill in the United States, Washington DC. More than 20 US Senators and Representatives sent letters or sent representatives to the scene. They jointly condemned the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong for 13 years, especially the atrocities of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, and called for the immediate stop of persecution of Falun Gong. Senior Congressman Dana Rohrabacher said at the rally: “Thank you for your courage.” “So we stand firmly with you.” “I remember President Reagan once said to Gorbachev, ‘Tear down this wall.’ We did not use one soldier, did not fight against the Soviet Union, but those who like Reagan, like Falun Gong practitioners who bravely expressed their ethics and pursuit of freedom, changed the world and disintegrated communism in a non-violent way.” Let us tear down this wall that separates the good people and righteous forces in the universe; let us tear down this wall that represents tyranny and evil. I am with you, the United States is with you.” Texas Congressman Ted Poe said: “The CCP’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has led to a large-scale movement to quit the Party and disintegrate the CCP. In the near future, the CCP’s regime will certainly be brought to justice. The CCP will certainly be punished for its crimes.”
  • Ryan Sellinger is the Legislative Correspondent for Foreign Affairs, Trade, Defense, and Budget. Sellinger reads a letter on behalf of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.): “In July 13, I sponsored Senator Bill 232, in which I raised concern about decades of continuous persecution on Falun Gong by the CCP. I supported the Tuidang Movement, hoped that the Chinese people can quit the CCP” “By exposing these human-right crimes and by focusing on these key human-right incidents, it is the only way to end those barbarian crimes”
  • Suzanne Scholte, president of Defense Forum Foundation, praised Falun Gong practitioners’ efforts in helping the Chinese people free themselves from communism. “Because the Chinese people know that China will never be a great and peaceful nation if the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) remains in power. This is what… millions declared as part of ‘Tuidang’ in 2004. Now over 100 million has joined that movement as a result of the courage of Falun Gong”
  • Faith McDonnell, the Director of Religious Liberty Programs and of the Church Alliance for a New Sudan, commented that the Tuidang movement will soon help unwind communist control of China. 59 “Hallelujah! The movement is sweeping China. How did they learn that? They learned the truth form the book ‘the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,’” McDonnell said. “Thank you for speaking the truth. May you contribute to grow and be blessed in your knowledge of the truth.”
  • “Nowadays in the world, more and more countries and people there, even here at U.S., are bewitched by Communism ,Socialism, and its other forms. Someone gave up their own freedom, turn their own lives to the government. But you (Falun Gong) are the shining light of the world, because you understand the truth, lies, tyranny and terror of communism.” “I hope that you can tell the truth to those who have not experienced such persecution, including your neighbors, colleagues and friends, and remind them how grateful they can live in a free country.”
  • Before the rally, Vice President of the European Parliament Edward McMillan-Scott, Lithuanian Member of the European Parliament Laima Liucija Andrikiene, and Estonian Member of the European Parliament Tunne-Valdo Kelam issued a joint proclamation in support of the Global Service Center and the Tuidang movement in general. https://www.theepochtimes.com/dc-crowd-witnesses-19-chinese-renounce-communistparty_1483486.html
  • On June 13, 2009, Tuidang Service Center held a Rally to support 55 million Chinese people’s renouncement of CCP at the Elizabeth Square in Auckland. Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, commissioned his personal secretary Emma Holmes to send a congratulatory message to convey his best wishes to the organizers and all participants of the event.
  • On April 2, 2009, the European Parliament voted and passed at the plenary session to adopt a resolution on “European conscience and totalitarianism”, condemning totalitarianism and communist autocracy, and proposing August 23 as European anniversary of the victims of all totalitarianism and authoritarian regimes. One of the founders of the resolution, the European Parliament member Tokes, said that the Chinese people still suffer from brutal totalitarian rule and hope that the Chinese people can be strong and fight against the system.
  • On March 18, 2009, the European Parliament held a hearing on communism totalitarian crimes in the Brussels headquarters building. Matt, who has twice served as Prime Minister of Estonia. Mr. Mart Laar said at the hearing that we should unite, not just Europe, because communism has committed the same crimes everywhere in the world, where they tortured, murdered, and sent people in prison. He knew the tide of renouncing from the CCP in China. He pointed out that renouncing from the Chinese Communist Party is a very correct action. The more people left such a brutal communist system, the more they can serve the country. “The sooner you renouncing from the CCP, the better it will be for China. The longer you drag, the more problems there are.”
  • On March 2009, former Communist National Security officer Li Fengzhi renounced from CCP publicly at Capital Hill Washington DC. Senator Dana Rohrabacher shown in the Rally conference to support.
  • On the afternoon of July 19, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners from all over the world gathered at the Capitol Hill in the United States, calling for the disintegration of the CCP and ending the persecution to Falun Gong. A number of US congressmen, NGO officials, human rights lawyers and victims spoke at the rally, demanding that the CCP immediately end the 8-year persecution of Falun Gong. Florida State House Congressman Irina. Ross-Leitingen believes that quitting the party is a very meaningful movement. She said: “People leave the CCP, as a kind of protest, they have long felt the possession, threats, intimidation, oppression and persecution. I hope the CCP has received the people’s Message.”
  • Edward McMillan-Scott, vice-president of the European Parliament, said in a letter to support the Tuidang Movement: “the crimes committed by the CCP are horrendous, heinous, which makes the CCP destined to perish. Western countries should support the Chinese people in defending human rights and freedoms. They should also abandon the economic falsehood advocated by the CCP.” “Western society welcomes a new China without the Communist Party, a new China that the Chinese people are looking forward to and worthy of living in as their own country. 
  • At 1:30 pm on July 18, 2007, the Epoch Times held a ‘the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party’ forum at the US Capitol with a topic of “Revealing the real China”. Three US lawmakers attended the forum. Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee paid special tribute to more than 23 million Chinese people who announced their renouncement from the Party. She said, “I announced that I withdraw from the CCP. I also would like to withdraw from the CCP in the name of those who have lost their lives in prison. I don’t want to continue to have those crimes on earth. I don’t want to continue to have endless persecution…to drive out the darkness and abandon the Communism.
  • On June 24th and 25th, 2005, more than 40 groups including the Epoch Times Media Group and China’s Amnesty jointly held a Rally called “Quit the Chinese Communist Party, Gain Freedom” with a series of activities in Chicago. About a thousand people participated in the rally. They supported the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and 2.5 million people to renounce from the CCP. The Chinese people’s renouncement from the CCP caused by the Nine Commentaries book is attracting the attention of Western society. Jack McGuire, Senator of Illinois, said: “I support this movement about the opposition to the CCP which is changing China. The renouncement of the CCP has shown your courage and at the same time, build a road to peacefully end tyranny regime.” Kay Barnes, Mayor of Kansas, Missouri, said: “I am very happy and support your rally here in Chicago on this weekend.” Texas State Councilor Kay O’Connor said: “We believe that communism is the common enemy of mankind. Communism is always accompanied by lies, violence and terrorism.” Daniel P. Brady, president of the Republican Party of Illinois, said: “In history, freedom is always 61 conquering oppression, it is because of the dedication and hard work of the warriors for freedom like you.” http://ept.kan.center/gb/5/5/30/n938170.htm On the afternoon of May 29, 2005, US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld came to the Lincoln Memorial’s veteran concert and made a speech. He said: “In 1987, many families died because they tried to escape the communist system. They swam through the Czech River or climbed the Berlin Wall and by other extreme ways to escape.” He signed on a signature board supporting Tuidang Movement when he passed through a local activity at Washington DC.

    Appendix II – Chronology of the Global Decommunization Over Past 30 Years
  • From May 27 to June 2, 2018, a series of forums were held in Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung in Taiwan, paying close attention to Chinese people’s movement of Tuidang “Three Quits” that had reached 300 million, to the US policy on the CCP and the “The Ultimate Goal of Communism”, revealing the evilness of the CCP, and encouraging the people of Taiwan to courageously face the CCP and keep the traditional Chinese culture.
  • On May 9, 2018, the forum focusing on the “Three Quits” of 300 million Chinese was held in the US Congress. Politicians and experts on China from different countries said that the large-scale spiritual awakening of the people brought bright hopes to China’s future and also inspired the international community.
  • On March 23, 2018, the total number of “Three Quits” exceeded 300 million.
  • In the afternoon of February 3, 2018, at a forum held at the Montgomery County Council in Rockville, Maryland, USA, a number of experts on China explored and discussed the new book “The Ultimate Goal of Communism”, and the influence of nearly 300 million people quitting the CCP to China and the world.
  • On the occasion of World Human Rights Day on December 18, 2017, the Epoch Times reported that Taiwan displayed the persistence in defending the value of human rights. The Taiwan Immigration Department, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) and other interministerial official bodies formed a joint review council, further restricting the CCP’s human rights villains from entering Taiwan. The first “blacklist” targeted the persecutors of Falun Gong practitioners. Their “professional exchange group” was also turned down and all were not allowed to enter.
  • In the afternoon of December 20, 2017, US Congressmen, New Zealand politicians in America, human rights lawyers, and political commentators condemned the CCP’s atrocities of persecuting people at a seminar held in the US Congress, and supported nearly 300 million Chinese people to withdraw from the CCP. They believe that the CCP not only persecutes the people in China, but also poses a threat to all mankind. It is wise not to support evil and to withdraw from the CCP.
  • On December 10, 2017, the world premiere screening of the large-scale documentary “Irrefutable Evidence” (new edition) was held at the Flushing Taiwan Pavilion in New York. This is a large-scale documentary that displays the most comprehensive and systematic evidence of the CCP’s live organ harvesting atrocities. The film collects the essence of the investigation report of the CCP’s live organ harvest for more than a decade by WOIPFG (World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong). Through the manner of teaching film, it introduces in a meticulous and in-depth way the logical relationship between the evidences and the background significance, and systematically reveals the irrefutable evidences of the CCP’s live organ harvesting crime, an evilness that transcends history. With a large amount of conclusive evidence, the film demonstrates that the live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners is not a civil act, it is a crime of national scale. It is a state act that was personally ordered by Jiang Zemin (former head of the CCP), administrated by the political and judiciary committee, executed by the military, the armed police and the judicial system. It is a crime never seen on this planet.
  • On the “International Human Rights Day” on December 10, 2017, Teressa Chu, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Falun Gong Human Rights Lawyers Group, announced the latest statistics on “Global Signature Collection Drive Supporting Chinese People Filing Criminal Complaints against Jiang Zemin.” As of December 8, 2017, with over 2.6 million (2,602,650) people in 31 countries around the world supporting and responding, it is the largest human rights righteous-act in the 21st century.
  • In November 2017, on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the publication of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, the editorial office of the Nine Commentaries published a new book, The Ultimate Goal of Communism. Combining history and reality, it deeply analyzes the destruction of human culture and morality by the communism, and makes people more clearly aware of the detriments of the communism.
  • On the eve of the 19th National Congress of the CCP in September 2017, there were more than 2.52 million people in the world reporting the former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin to the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the Supreme Court of China. In the same month, Teressa Chu, spokesperson for the Taiwan Falun Gong Human Rights Lawyers Group, arrived in Washington, DC, to submit the statistical materials and co-sign CDs to the US about the global participation supporting the Chinese people filing criminal complaints against Jiang Zemin. At the same time, Chu handed over to the US partial list of the defendants of the CCP officials involved in the persecution of Falun Gong in the past 18 years, demanding that human rights villains be prohibited from entering the country, freezing the properties if they are available.
  • In May 2017, 50 members of the Communist Party of China in Dali County of Shaanxi Province announced their withdrawal from the Communist Party of China.
  • In September 2016, the total number of the “Three Quits” exceeded 250 million.
  • On June 13, 2016, the US House of Representatives unanimously passed Resolution 343, demanding that the CCP immediately stop the “forced organ harvesting” against Falun Gong 63 practitioners and other prisoners of conscience. The bill was co-sponsored by the Republican and Democratic Party members of the US Congress on June 25, 2015; on January 12, 2016, it was approved in the Asia-Pacific Group of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; on March 16, 2016, it was unanimously approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
  • On May 10, 2016, some Falun Gong practitioners from eastern Canada celebrated World Falun Dafa Day in front of the Parliament Hill in the capital, Ottawa. Congressman Guinness, a deputy critic of human rights and religious freedom, praised Falun Gong practitioners: “I commend you, the work you have done is earth-shattering, and you are constantly raising the issue of persecution and letting members of Congress pay attention. I appreciate you, not only because of your activities, and because of your (inner) hope. When the persecution occurs year after year, maybe some people will give up because of temptation and lose hope, but you don’t. Things will change, things must change in China.”
  • On February 2, 2016, Ted Poe, a member of the US Congress, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and former Texas State Judge, called Xi Jinping, the chairman of the CCP to publicly arrest and publicly try Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the CCP and to return the justice to Falun Gong practitioners when he accepted a joint interview with the Epoch Times and NTDTV. He said: “More than 1 million people around the world are saying: Put Jiang Zemin to trial. This will bring justice. Anyway, I think Jiang Zemin should be put to trial, and should be put to trial now. Give the world, the Chinese people and Falun Gong practitioners an account.”
  • On December 17, 2015, the Ukrainian court passed a motion filed by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice to ban all the Communist Party, and ordered a total ban on the Communist Party’s activities in Ukraine.
  • On December 15, 2015, the number of people filing criminal complaints against the former CCP leader Jiang Zemin to the Supreme Procuratorate and the Supreme Court of China has exceeded 200,000, and the “Tide of Suing Jiang” has entered a new milestone.
  • On the afternoon of November 28th, 2015, a forum with the theme of “The Great Change in China and the Crisis of the CCP” and the 11th Anniversary of the Nine Commentaries and Tuidang were held at the Montgomery County Council in the suburbs of Washington, DC.
  • Before the “Party Day” of the CCP on July 1st, 2015, a total of 1003 workers in Xiangtan City’s Color Weaving and Dyeing Factory in Hunan Province were so desperate that they collectively requested to quit the party, among them were many senior party members with memberships lasted for decades of years.
  • On June 11, 2015, Unian, the largest news agency in Ukraine, reported on China’s Tide of Quitting the CCP, and the former Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin’s persecution of Falun Gong. It also reported in detail the various kinds of torture that the CCP imposed on Falun Gong practitioners and the atrocities of the CCP’s live organ harvesting on Falun Gong practitioners.
  • In May 2015, the Supreme Court of China started to employ the “Filing Registration System,” requiring “Any case must be filed and any complaint must be dealt with.” Falun Gong practitioners in China took the opportunity to file criminal complaints against the former CCP leader Jiang Zemin to the Supreme Procuratorate and the Supreme Court of China and form a wave. Previously, in August 2000, the first case of Chinese citizen accusing Jiang Zemin appeared in Beijing, the plaintiffs were Hong Kong resident Zhu Keming and Beijing resident Wang Jie. In October 2002, Falun Gong practitioners successfully delivered a subpoena to Jiang Zemin in Chicago. Since then, there have been many complaints against Jiang Zemin overseas. On April 14, 2015, the total number of people who have announced quitting the Party (or abbreviated as “Tuidang”) exceeded a milestone of 200 million. This not only marked that 200 million Chinese descendants have been free from the evil CCP’s mind control, but also was a harbinger of more Chinese people to be awakened rapidly, and “The Heaven Condemns the CCP” is coming at a faster pace. The day without the CCP will soon arrive!
  • On April 9, 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament passed law banning Nazi and Communist symbols as well as their ideologies. Violation of the law may result in 5-to-10-year jail sentence. The new law was signed by President Petro Poroshenko and came into effect. In many places in Ukraine, people started movements to rename streets that were named after Soviet communist leaders, clear the hammer and sickle communist symbols, and destroyed statues of Lenin or other Soviet communist leaders.
  • In March 2015, The Speaker, a mainstream German media, reported about the Tuidang Movement initiated by the Epoch Times series editorials titled “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party”. Despite persistent suppression by the CCP, the report said, the number of Chinese announcing quitting the Party continued to grow with the assistance of courageous volunteer from mainland China and the Global Tuidang Center. The center based in New York City received about 120,000 Tuidang announcements every day.
  • In January 2015, it set a new record that 3.588 million people announced Tuidang in a single month.
  • On October 17, 2014, a Friday, Broad Press Inc. and the Epoch Times Media Group held a forum at Presidio Library, San Francisco, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the release of “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party”. Five experts or scholars were invited to speak at the forum. Their talks gave deep analyses of the enormous impact brought about by “Nine Commentaries” to Chinese society over ten years, including triggering an unstoppable Tuidang Movement which is a predestined trend of celestial changes.
  • On August 7, 2014, an UN-supported Cambodian special court sentenced two former Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea to life imprisonment. Khieu was once Khmer Rouge’s state chairman and Nuon was once the communists regime’s deputy general secretary of the Central Committee and president of the People’s Representative Assembly. Both were charged with committing genocide, crime of war and crime against humanity in Cambodia in the late 1970’s.
  • In August 2014, the number of people announcing Tuidang in a single month exceeded 3 million by reaching 3.1969 million.
  • On April 5, 2014, the Chinese Epoch Times reported that more than 100,000 people announced Tuidang in a single day for consecutive days via its website’s online Tuidang platform. This set the highest record since December 3, 2004 when Tuidang statistics began to be collected.
  • On March 20, 2014, lawyers Jiang Tianyong, Tang Jitian, Wang Cheng, Zhang Junjie and some Falun Gong practitioners along with their family members, for the third time visited Qinglongshan Brainwashing Center run by Heilongjiang’s Land Reclamation Bureau. They requested immediate release of Falun Gong practitioners then still being illegally detained in the center. In the morning of the next day, nearly 20 police officers forcibly invaded the hotel they lived in, and kidnapped the four lawyers and seven Falun Gong practitioners or their family members. On the same day, a mainland China Human Rights Lawyer group made an announcement, requesting the authority to immediately release all detained lawyers and practitioners, and calling for closedown of black jails named after “Rule of Law Education Base”. In a single day, 102 lawyers and 346 citizens signed online to support the request. On March 23, more than 100 lawyers and justice advocates from all over China gathered in front of the Jiansanjiang Administration, protesting their unlawful brutality against humanity. There were also many lawyers applying to hold parades or protests nationwide against Jiansanjiang authority’s heinous abuse of human rights and law.
  • On November 15, 2013, the number of Chinese announcing Quitting the CCP and all its affiliated organizations exceeded 150 million, scaring the evil CCP regime to an unprecedented level.
  • On August 23, 2013, the Canada government announced funding up to 1.5 million Canadian dollars to construct a Memorial to Victims of Communism monument in Ottawa. The design was finalized on May 17, 2017. The construction of monument was expected to complete by the end of 2018.
  • On August 14, 2013, in response to requests from many places regarding group Tuidang, the Global Tuidang Center made the announcement “Regarding Group Tuidang”. The announcement provided instructions to the public regarding group Tuidang meanwhile keeping old Tuidang paths.
  • On June 14, 2013, over 5,000 movie projectionists from Hunan Province made a consensus that they strongly demand quitting the Communist Party, publicly announce group Tuidang and petition to Beijing authority. There were 8,000 rural movie projectionists in total in Hunan Province, and most of them were Communist Party members. In 1970’s and 1980’s, those rural intellectuals toured among villages either by bicycle or by foot, to project “red movies” serving propaganda purpose for the CCP. They were well-known as the “red projectionists” of that age. However, over years they had not received any subsidies from the CCP authority. The majority of them have been old, ill or disabled, living a hard life without being taken care of as a result of being abandoned by the authority.
  • Around 7am in the morning of one day in mid-June, 2013, Toronto Tuidang Hotline received a call from a mainland Chinese employee from a company in Guangdong Province. He had called previously to announce Tuidang for himself. That time he requested group Tuidang for about 4,000 people at one time.
  • In the end of 2012, the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) included Global Tuidang Center’s report into US government archive, which was then printed by US Government Printing Office. The 27-page report has 7 sections and introduces China’s Tuidang Movement in detail. The entire hearing report included all CECC’s commissioners that were 7 senators, 7 house representatives, and 5 high administrative officials including the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
  • In December 2012, the number of people announcing Tuidang in a single month exceeded 2 million, reaching 2.1674 million.
  • On December 18, 2012, the Congressional-Executive Commission On China (CECC) held a large-scale congressional Falun Gong issue Hearing in the Senate. Based on the theme of “Falun Gong in China: Retrospective and Update”, 8 witnesses described the CCP’s persecution against Falun Gong over 13 years with their own experiences and factual details. Charles Lee, the spokesperson of Global Tuidang Center introduced the Tuidang Movement at the hearing.
  • On September 12, 2012, a US-congressional hearing on live organ harvesting in China was held. The hearing was organized and hosted by Dana Rohrabacher , House Representative (R-Calif.), House Committee Member on Foreign Affairs and chairman of Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and Chris Smith, House Representative (R-N.J.), House Committee Member on Foreign Affairs and chairman of Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights. Witnesses that attended the hearing included Ethan Gutmann, investigation journalist, Damon Noto, the spokesman of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, and Charles Lee, the spokesperson of Global Tuidang Center (then named Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party).
  • In October 2012, employees of Sichuan Jian Nan Chun Liquor started a right protection movement. Police officers were called upon by the company to arrest protesters, and also beat many of them. Seventy-two employees who were Party members subsequently announced group quitting the Communist Party.
  • October 3, 2012, 106 United States Congressmen signed a “Dear Colleague Letter” to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, expressing their concerns about the forced organ harvesting in China, and requesting the State Department release any information they might have on this very important matter. The Dear Colleague letter was co-sponsored by Representative Robert Andrews (D-NJ) and Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) and circulated in the House.
  • Sept. 12, 2012, a congressional hearing on organ harvesting in China was held. The hearing was organized and co-chaired by two members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs: 67 Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), chairman of the Africa, Global Health and Human Rights Subcommittee. The witnesses are: Ethan Gutmann (investigative journalist), Dr. Gabriel Danovitch (professor of medicine at UCLA), Dr. Damon Noto (the spokesman with the medical society Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting), and Charles Lee (spokesman for the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party).
  • July 2012, Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice President of the European Parliament responsible for Democracy and Human Rights, issued a proclamation in honor of Tuidang. “[The] Tuidang movement has brought to the international community a renewed vision of a world without communism through a peaceful and spiritual movement,” said the proclamation.
  • July 2012, the number of those quitted the CCP reached over 120 million.
  • June 12, 2012, Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was awarded the “Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom” during a wreath laying ceremony at Capitol Hill. Presented on behalf of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the award also commemorated the fifth anniversary of the memorial ceremony.After the ceremony, Rumsfeld and other attendees at the event expressed their support for the “tuidang” movement—a movement which encourages Chinese people to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party.
  • February 2012, the number of those quitted the CCP reached over 110 million.
  • October 25, 2011, US Congress HR416: Condemning Communist China’s discrimination, harassment, imprisonment, torture, and execution of its prisoners of conscience, and supporting the Tuidang movement whereby Chinese citizens renounce their ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
  • August 2011, the number of those quitted the CCP broke 100 million.
  • July 13, 2011, S.Res. 232: A resolution recognizing the continued persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China on the 12th anniversary of the campaign by the Chinese Communist Party to suppress the Falun Gong movement, recognizing the Tuidang movement whereby Chinese citizens renounce their ties to the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliates, and calling for an immediate end to the campaign to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
  • In and before 2011, the Taiwan Legislative Council and 16 county and city councils successively passed the resolution of “not welcoming, not inviting, and not receiving” the CCP’s human rights villains.
  • Feb. 2011, the number of those quitted the CCP broke 90 million.
  • September 2010, the number of those quitted the CCP broke 80 million.
  • March 16, 2010, H.Res. 605 (111th): Recognizing the continued persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China on the 11th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party campaign to 68 suppress the Falun Gong spiritual movement and calling for an immediate end to the campaign.
  • March 2010, the number of those quitted the CCP broke 70 million.
  • On 14th January 2010, Ukraine Court ruled that Former Leader of Soviet Union convicted genocide in the forced starvation in Ukraine in the 1930’s. Kiev Court of Appeal stated in its ruling, Former Leaders of Soviet Union Communist Party, including Stalin, was responsible for death of 4 millions Ukraine people in the forced starvation in 1930s.
  • On January 9, 2010, the number of those quitted the CCP broke 66 million.
  • On 17th December 2009, a landmark ruling was made by Dr. Octavio Aroz de Lamadrid, the judge of the Argentine Federal and Criminal Corrective Court No. 9. The ruling ordered the indictment and international arrests of former Chinese communist leader Jiang Zemin and his right-hand man Luo Gan, on charges of genocide and torture against Falun Gong practitioners in China. Following Spain, Argentine is the second country to issue judicial action against the violation of human rights by Chinese Communist Party in China. If Jiang Zeming and Luo Gang enter into any countries with which Argentina has an extradition treaty, they might be arrested and brought to Argentine to face the charges.
  • On November 19th, 2009, Spanish National Court ruled to sue former Chinese communist leader Jiang Zemin and four top Chinese communist officials Luo Gan, Bo Xilai, Jia Qinglin and Wu Guanzheng, on charges of genocide and torture. This ruling was based on the principle of universal jurisdiction, evidence and witness’ testimony, the report jointly issued by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch Society, and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Provided there is no objection in the four to six weeks period of Defense, international arrest warrants could be issued to the defendants. In case the defendants enter into any countries with which Spain has an extradition treaty, the defendants will be extradited to Spain to face the charge. Alliance of Global Public Trial of Jiang Zeming announced: the culprit head of persecution of Falun Gong has been sued to courts in 30 countries by 35 lawyers in over 55 cases. It is believed that more rightful adjudications will be given by more and more international courts.
  • In November 2009, Ukraine President, Yushchenko, said that he was going to submit the bill to the parliament to ban communist symbols. On the eve of the Memorial Day for Starvation of Victims, the curator of Ukrainian Archives and National Foreign Intelligence Service, Viatte Petrovic, said if the communist party of Poland regards itself as the successor of the communist party of former Soviet Union, then Polish government should ban all activities of the communist party. The communist party of former Soviet Union massacred millions of people in Poland in 1930’s.
  • On Nov. 30, 2009, the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, approved an amendment to the criminal code which outlaws the production, possession, distribution or sale of items in print, recordings or other symbols of communism, such as sickles, hammers, red flags and red stars, etc. The amendment also bans the display of the Nazi symbols. Both the communist and Nazi symbols represent totalitarianism. The communist symbols cannot exist in the land of Poland anymore. In fact, laws and regulations like this have been established in some Baltic countries years ago. Lithuania passed a similar law one year ago and Latvia has already applied similar law in the 1990’s.
  • Nov. 10, 2009, during the 20th anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a long line of giant dominos were toppled along the original location of the wall. When it reached the last domino–the one adorned with Chinese characters symbolizing the CCP – did not fall. The question is not IF but WHEN the CCP will fall.
  • Oct. 3, 2009, Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP opened its second office in Los Angeles, CA.
  • September 2009, the number of those quitted the CCP broke 60 million. August 2009, the number of those quitted the CCP in a single month reached its highest ever: 1,689,500.
  • On August 6, 2009, New York Senator Tony Avella held a press conference in front of the Flushing public library in Queens to formally reject Asian American Business Development Center’s invitation to China. He said, “Because in China, many citizens, including Falun Gong practitioners, are being persecuted for their religious believes. Last year’s attack on Falun Gong practitioners in Flushing was carried out by the CCP’s Chinese embassy. It is unacceptable that CCP is expanding its persecution on religious believes to overseas.” Avella urged other senators to not visit China.
  • On July 20, 2009, many gathered in the Parliament Square in London in support of “disintegrate the CCP, end the persecution”. UK politicians from across the political spectrum called on the British government to take action to help end the persecution. EU Parliament member Batten said, “We cannot be on the same side of the enemy of mankind.” Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake urged the British government to support the human rights of Falun Gong practitioners. Neville Farmer, PPC and Vice Chair Chinese Liberal Democrats called on the British government not to turn a blind eye to the practice in China of harvesting organs from a live bank of Falun Gong practitioners for profit. Farmer said, “I want to plead with the Chinese Government to put an end to one of the most disgusting abuses of human life since the second world war, the practice of organ harvesting for profit.” Their speeches represent the voice of British people out of their righteous minds.
  • On July 16, 2009, many gathered in Washington D.C. Capitol Hill in support of “Disintegrate the CCP, End the Persecution”. Over ten US senators participated and gave speeches in the rally.
  • On July 7, 2009, Canadian government decided to build a memorial for the victims of communism near the war museum in Ottawa. The memorial foundation will be dedicated in November 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the meantime, groups suggested adding display in the National History Museum to educate the future generations of the communist tyranny.
  • May 17, 2009, in the event to commemorate political victims held in the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine President Yushchenko said that the symbols of totalitarian communism should be completely eliminated. He said those who do not admit the crimes of communism will be eliminated and that this kind of crimes will not be forgiven by history.
  • On April 28, 2009, Afghanistan quietly celebrated the 17th anniversary of the fall of Soviet Communist Party. The parade was cancelled and the money intended for the parade was allocated to provinces of Badakhshan and Ningjia Ha province earthquake victims. President Hamid Karzai hosted a memorial gathering attended by former Mugabe Hedding leaders, military officers and diplomats.
  • On April 13, 2009, New Zealand Service Center for Quitting the CCP organized a rally to support 55 million people quitting the CCP. The rally took place in Elizabeth Square in Auckland. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key asked his secretary Emma Holmes to send a letter to express his support.
  • On April 8, 2009, member of the National Assembly of France, Marc Le Fur, advocated to show the film “Katyn Massacre” in the national assembly hall. Katyn massacre was a mass murder of 25,000 thousand victims, including Polish military officers, policemen, intellectuals, and civilian prisoners of war by Soviet NKVD during World War II. The murder took place in the Katyn Forest in Russia, in an attempt to stop Poland from gaining freedom. Polish ambassador to France, Tomasz Orlowski, former French Minister of Culture and human right activist, Jack Lang, chairman of the France-Poland friendship committee, JeanLouis Leonard, and several members of the France National Assembly attended the showing. All agreed that now is the time to expose the crimes of communism.
  • On April 2, 2009, European parliament passed the resolution on “European conscience and totalitarianism” in Brussels. The resolution condemns the totalitarianism and communism dictatorship, proclaiming 23 August a Remembrance Day for victims of all totalitarian communism. To recognize the human dignity and justice, commemorations will be held throughout the year to celebrate the fall of communism in eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of the initiators of the resolution, EP senator, Tokes said that the entire Europe will unite to condemn the anti-humanity crimes committed by totalitarian communism.
  • March 2009, Mr. Li Fengzhi, a former officer of China’s Bureau of State Security (BSS), announced his withdrawal from the CCP in Washington D.C. and held a press conference in Capitol Hill urging international leaders to pay closer attention to the human right situation in China. US Senator Dana Rohrabacher attended a rally supporting Mr. Li and the 50 million people who have already quitted the CCP. This event was reported by many western mainstream media, such as CNN, AFP.
  • On March 18th, 2009, the public hearing “European Conscience and Crimes of Totalitarian Communism: 20 Years After” was held in the European Parliament headquarter in Brussels. Deputy prime minister for European affairs of the Czech Republic Alexander Vondra, together with Ján Figeľ, European Commissioner, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Vice-President of the European Parliament, and Jan Zahradil, László Tökés and Jana Hybášková, Members of the European Parliament, attended the hearing. Two times prime minister of Estonia, Mart Laar said that the earlier China breaks away from CCP the better. People should know that communism is evil no matter where it is. Former Czech Republic prime minister Vaclav Havel said that the crimes of communism must be assessed and made known to the next generation.
  • February 17, 2009, in Cambodia capital city Phnom Penh, a war crimes tribunal for the first time convened of a trial of a former Khmer Rouge leader. The UN-backed war crime tribunal was established under the international law aiming at prosecuting the Pol Pot regime of the crimes against humanity. In today’s world where communism still exists in China, the formation of the tribunal is monumental to the development of the international law. The charges to former Khmer Rouge leaders are not only towards those communist individuals, but also towards the Cambodian communist regime.
  • Starting March 2009, many democratic countries, include the United States, have regarded the “certificate for quitting the CCP” as a lawful document for immigration purposes. The global wave of quitting the CCP and eliminating communism has won popular support among overseas Chinese people.
  • Feb. 1, 2009, the number of those quitted the CCP reached 50 million.
  • The United States President Obama, during his inauguration speech in early 2009, once again equated communism to terrorism and made communism a target to dismantle.
  • In Canada, a group representing some 240 Polish-Canadian groups, as well as groups representing Canadians from 10 other ethnic backgrounds are advocating for a monument to the victims of Communism to be erected in downtown Ottawa. The other groups represented include Latvian, Cuban, Czech, Slovakian, Argentine, Chinese, Iranian, Korean, Ukrainian, Estonian and Canadian. Polish ambassador attended a gathering on December 14, 2008 and said, “Communism is anti-humanity. We have experienced countless tragedies.” Ambassadors and their delegates from 14 countries have written to the Canadian Prime Minister calling for the creation of a memorial.
  • On October 3, 2008, Germany celebrated the 18th anniversary of the fall of communism in Berlin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during an interview with the biggest newspaper “Bild” that the disintegration of the east German communism was a wonderful thing.
  • July 2008, the number of those quitted the CCP reached 40 million. The “global month for quitting the CCP” was supported by people and organizations in mainland China.
  • July 2008, CIPFG submitted the signatures of those condemning the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong to the headquarters of International Olympic Committee located in Luzern, Switzerland. The signature gathering took six months around the world gaining support from 131 countries, 1,215,793 people, and 1,700 VIPs. On June 24, Australian government unanimously passed a motion to press for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China. This is the first formal message from the Australian government and is viewed as the direct result of the global signature gathering activities.
  • On June 30, 2008, the last Polish communist party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski was charged in court.
  • On June 14, 2008, Baltic Sea countries and Ukraine organized commemorations for the victims under Soviet and Stalin era, urging the international community to see the crimes by communism as the same as the crimes by Nazism.
  • June 14th was named the “Memorial day for victims of communism genocide”. The President of Latvia said, “We must not forget this tragedy in Latvia history.”
  • On May 29, 2008, the foundation for investigating communism crimes was established in Estonia. The foundation is to investigate and publicize the crimes of communism and communist countries and prove to people that as an ideology, communism is the same as Nazism. One of the founders, the Estonia prime minister said that another mission of the foundation is to support those who have broken away from communism and to help those who are still under the communism rule.
  • On May 18, 2008, in the event to commemorate political victims held in the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine President Yushchenko gave the speech of “see clearly the communism totalitarian, harbor no hope”. He urged those who still are hoping for a better communism to see clearly its totalitarian nature, and in the meantime, demanded to put those, who do not admit the Soviet crimes against Ukraine, to justice. Yushchenko said, “no matter who you are, no matter how old you are, no matter what you do, what communism wants is absolute power over you. Under this totalitarian dictatorship, humans will forget about morality and their soul. They will become animal-like and inhuman.” Yushchenko named May 18th the day to commemorate political victims.
  • On December 25, 2007, the number of those quitted the CCP reached 30 million, among which are many CCP officials. The CCP thugs continued their violent attacks on the oversea service centers and its volunteers. The thugs also stole the Epoch Times newspaper.
  • On November 24, 2007, ten thousand people gathered in Saint Michael’s Square of Ukraine’s capital Kiev to commemorate victims of the Soviet-era forced famine. Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko attended, along with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, and ministers representing the gamut of the country’s political parties. In his speech, Yushchenko urged ‘world condemnation of communist terror’. He said that evil can only be labeled evil and nothing else, that those who support the evil will be punished. During the great famine of Ukraine from 1931 to 1933, a total of ten million people starved to death, among which four million were children. Ukraine used to be called the “bread basket” of Europe, however, during the 1930’s the Soviet authorities forced peasants across the former USSR to give up their privately held land and join collective farms. The Ukraine farmers had their produce confiscated and their food supplies blocked, and thus caused the Great Famine. During the Soviet era, there were all together three famines. The famine during 1932 and 1933 was the worst.
  • Sept. 30, 2007, Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP opened its office in Flushing, NY.
  • On July 25, 2007, Former President of Bulgaria and prominent anti-communism activist, Zhelyu Zhelev visited Taiwan. He said that communism is the most extreme form of totalitarianism, and that its damage to mankind is more than that of the Fascism. He called for the international community to condemn communism. Zhelev was born in Bulgaria and is a prominent leader promoting democracy in the eastern European countries. He enjoys the same fame as the president of Poland, Walesa and the president of Czech Republic, Havel.
  • On June 12, 2007, in Washington D.C., the Victims of Communism Memorial was dedicated by President Bush. In his speech, he equated communism to terrorism. Bush stated that 20th century saw the most death in the history of mankind, that communism murdered one billion lives, tens of millions of whom were murdered in China. Bush pointed out that “it is important that we recall these lessons because the evil and hatred that inspired the death of tens of millions of people in the 20th century is still at work in the world.” “We dedicate this memorial because we have an obligation to future generations to record the crimes of the 20th century and ensure they’re never repeated.”
  • On May 1, 2007, a large scale anti-communism campaign was held in in Prague, Czech Republic. The theme of the campaign was “anti-communism, anti-nazism, antitotalitarianism”. Czech prime minister said in the gathering: “We can promise everyone that as long as we have the support of general public, we will establish a government without the communist party.” He also emphasized that “we are responsible for educating our children, so that they are aware of the crime and tyranny of communism, that they will ensure the tragedy caused by communism will never re-occur, and that democracy will be with us forever.”
  • On April 22, 2007, the forum titled “Communism endangering mankind” was held in the Ukraine capital city Kiev. Historians, sociologists, human rights representatives, and representatives from other political organizations attended the forum to discuss measures to eliminate the Communist Party of Ukraine, to abolish the communism ideology, and to put those responsible to charges. It was decided to reassess the crimes of communism in Ukraine and organize memorial activities and build a museum to commemorate the victims of communism in the 20th century.
  • On April 17, 2007, former Polish military leader and president Jaruzelski was charged with “communist crimes”, which could lead to ten years in prison.
  • On March 26, 2007, the number of those quitted the CCP reached 20 million. Support rallies were held around the world.
  • On Dec. 18, 2006, Romania president, Traian Băsescu delivered a speech to Parliament (broadcast live on TV) in which he condemned Romania’s pre-1989 communist regime. Băsescu stated that the totalitarian communist regime in Romania was a case of an illegitimate regime. The speech drew international attention and support from former Czech president, Vaclav Havel; former Bogariya prime minister Jelio Jelev; former Poland president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Lech Walesa; former Romania president, Emil Constantinescu; former king of Romania, Mihai, Prince Radu and Princess Margareta.
  • Oct. 22, 2006, Mr. Jia Jia, former Secretary General of the Science and Technology Experts Association of Shanxi Province, left his tour group upon arriving in Taiwan and sought political asylum. Four days later, he was deported and arrived in Hong Kong. He brings with him news of widespread discontent among Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and hopes for a democratic China. Jia emphasized, “If everyone quits the CCP in public, there will be no place for the CCP any longer. I want to be a model for people.”
  • In May 2006, many Lithuanian political leaders attended the “Truthfulness-CompassionForbearance International Art Exhibition” and gave speeches afterwards to condemn the CCP’s persecution of the Falun Gong practitioners. Former president of Lithuania, member of the European Parliament, Vytautas Landsbergis said: “Communism is in its nature, an ideology against humankind. Its evilness destroys human nature and the basis for human life. It brings about tyranny and hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths. Human beings are kind, but communism is no soil for kindness.”
  • On April 25, 2006, the number of those quitted the CCP reached 10 million. Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP obtained analysis data from the Southern CA internet data analysis center, that 60%, about 7 million, were CCP members quitting the CCP.
  • On April 7, 2006, US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher spoke with reporters about the Chinese government harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese labor camps. He said, “This case can be investigated either inside or outside, and the truth should be made known to the American people and the people of the world. This is gruesome and clearly beyond the moral standards of almost every country that I know. It’s time for the civilized world to say “no” to the monsters that are tearing apart people in China and enriching themselves from others’ bodies.”
  • On Jan. 27, 2006, PACE — a leading political human rights watchdog that brings together parliamentarians from 46 countries across the continent — adopted the resolution condemning abuses committed by communist regimes for the first time. A similar resolution condemning Nazism took place half a century ago. The resolution demanded the eastern European countries to modify the school text books and to build memorials for the victims of communism.
  • On December 20, 2005, a political affairs committee in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) passed a draft resolution strongly condemning communist totalitarian governments’ crimes against human rights and expressing understanding and sympathy towards the victims, calling members of the European Union to reassess the history of communism, to publicly condemn the crimes of communism if they have not separated themselves from it.
  • In December 2005, “the foundation for investigating the crimes of communism” was established in Estonia. The foundation is to prove to people that as an ideology, communism is no different from Nazism.
  • On December 14, 2005, the Political Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly held a meeting in Paris. The resolution of “The need for international condemnation of the crimes of communism” was passed. This is an important public condemnation of communism from a political organization.
  • On November 26, 2005, the symposium entitled “2005 Path to Baltic Sea – the World without Communism” was held in the Latvia capital city of Riga. Mr. Peteris Simsons hosted the symposium. The meeting passed the referendum to condemn the crimes committed by the communist dictators in the Baltic Sea region, aiming to help future generations remember the crimes of communism. The referendum called for countries that are still under the communism rule, especially China, to stop the persecution based on religious believes. This included the persecution on Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan monks, and lawyers, writers, pro-democratic activists. The referendum also called for democratic countries to develop a system which prevents further development of communism.
  • October 18, 2005, the number of those quitted the CCP reached 5 million. The topic of quitting the CCP has become a popular one in mainland China. Service centers for quitting the CCP have spread across China’s provinces and cities. The rallies organized by the overseas service centers and other organizations continued around the world in cities, such as Amsterdam, Sydney, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Huston, Austin, etc.
  • October 3, 2005, a symposium entitled “A World without the Communist Party” was held in the Parliament Mansion of the Czech Republic. Marek Benda, a member of the Czech Republic Party, presided over the seminar as host. Honored guests, seven experts and wellknown figures made speeches at the seminar. Among those who have attended were: Steve Ispas on behalf of Epoch Times USA, Mr. Jan Rum, Chairman of the Czech Olympic Observation Association, Lord Francis Thurlow from the UK, Mr. Man-Yan, director of the German International Association of Human Rights, Mr. Peter Zvagulis, an award-winning reporter, Ms. Michaela Freiova, a reporter of the Christian Journal from Cretas and Mr. Petr Kutilek, the First Secretary of the Czech Olympic Organization of Observation.
  • Aug. 18, 2005, the Nine Commentaries won the “Asian American Issues – Online” category of the AAJA National Awards at the 2005 Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) convention held in August 2005. The “Commentaries” were subsequently translated into more than 30 other languages.
  • July 15, 2005, the number of those quitted the CCP reached 3 million.
  • In the evening of July 3rd, 2005, 25 TV stations in mainland China, including the CCTV, were tapped into and the “Nine Commentaries” was broadcasted along with the news about millions of people already quitted the CCP. This event effectively spread the word of quitting the CCP in mainland China.
  • In July 2005, the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP named July 1st the “Global Quitting the CCP Day”, and July the “Global Quitting the CCP Month”.
  • In June 2005, the book titled “Mao: The Unknown Story” by writer Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday was published. The book depicted Mao using a lot of never-been-published materials. In an interview with the Radio Free Asia, Chang said: “Mao is responsible for the deaths of 70 million Chinese people. Thirty-eight million of those died during the famines of the Great Leap Forward from 1958-61. On a moral level, there isn’t a single good thing to say about him. Mao is not the hero of the Chinese people, and his portrait should not be hanging in Tiananmen Square. The Chinese people should be told the truth about him.”
  • May 31, 2005, the number of those quitted the CCP reached 2 million.
  • On April 21, 2005, the number of those quitted the CCP reached 1 million. On April 23, over 200 organizations from over 20 countries gathered on Foley Square in New York city to celebrate the courageous act of these first one million Chinese people. Afterwards, 4000 participated in a parade in China Town, which attracted huge numbers of on-lookers. 200,000 special edition Epoch Times newspaper and 100,000 “Nine Commentaries” in English were distributed on the same day. In the meantime, over 30 countries around the world held similar gatherings.
  • On Feb. 22, 2005, the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP was established. The Service Centers aim to provide multiple channels for the Chinese people to quit the CCP, establish regional Service Centers around the world, organize discussion forums on the Nine Commentaries and quitting the CCP, organize public gatherings and parades, and introduce the Nine Commentaries and the quitting the CCP movement to the leaders and citizens of other countries.
  • The founder of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi, renounced his membership of Communist Youth League in February, 2005 in an article entitled “Turning the Wheel”. This article, along with another article entitled “Turning the Wheel Towards the Human World”, received strong followings among the Falun Gong practitioners in China and around the world. The daily number of those who quitted the CCP has increased from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands.
  • On Jan. 1, 2005, fifty overseas Chinese scholars and specialists declared to quit the CCP. This action started the massive wave of quitting the CCP by the Chinese people.
  • Dec. 3, 2004, the first renunciation statement by an overseas former Communist Party member was sent to The Epoch Times.
  • In November 2004, The Epoch Times published a series of editorials entitled “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party”. The editorials give an in-depth analysis of the crimes of communism and the Chinese Communist Party committed in China. It then triggered the global wave of quitting the Chinese Communist Party. In early 2005, The Epoch Times published a “solemn declaration” and established the website for quitting the CCP.
  • May 2004, In order to ban communism, Latvia put an equal sign between crimes of Nazism and Communism in the form of law.
  • June 2002, a 2.7 million year old megalith was discovered in Zhangbu Township, Pingtang County, Guizhou Province. Six protruding Chinese characters can be clearly seen. It reads: Chinese Communist Party Collapses. In 1997, “The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression” was first published in France, under the title of “Le Livre noir du communism : Crimes, terror, repression”. It was then published in the United States by the Harvard University Press. It is a book which describes a history of repressions, both political and civilian, by communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations and artificial famines.
  • In December 1991, a referendum and the first presidential elections took place in Ukraine, formally declaring Ukraine as an independent state.
  • In August 1991, the Soviet Conservative Coup, which involved a group of communist party members, tried belatedly to stop the tied towards democracy. It was rejected by the general public, military and the majority of awakened former communist party members. In a discussion forum, which consisted of 100,000 elite members of the society, over 90% of the whom were against communism.
  • In November 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued a decree banning the communist party of Soviet Union throughout the Russian Republic. On December 8, 1991, the leaders of the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian republics met in Belavezhskaya Pushcha and signed the Belavezha Accords declaring the dissolving of the Soviet Union and replacing it with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
  • On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned as president of the USSR, declaring the office extinct and ceding all the powers still vested in it to the president of Russia: Yeltsin. This is recognized as the official dissolution of the Soviet Union.
  • March 1991, under the pressure of the democratic demand from the general public, Albanian Party of Labor was forced to abandon the one-party state and to adopt free election. March 1992, Albania’s second parliamentary election saw the fall of the Socialist Party of Albania (former Albania Communist and Labor Party), which marked the fall of communism in Albania. Prior to this, in the beginning of 1967, Albania Communist Party’s atheism dictatorship banned all religious activities, of which 70% was Muslim, 20% was Albanian Orthodox Christianity, 10% was Catholic. All monasteries and churches were forced to close. All religious ceremonies were forbidden. After the long time effort of the democratic forces, in November 1990, Albanians have gained back their freedom of religious believes.
  • December 1989, Romanian dictator Ceauşescu executed the defense minister Vasile Milea, who supported the idea of “people’s army for the people”. Ceauşescu characterized the “Timişoara event”, where police fired at the unarmed protesters, as a revolt. After the truth was brought to the public, people gathered in the Revolution Square, which led to the overthrown of the Ceauşescu government. December 25, Ceauşescu and wife were sentenced to death by a military court on charges ranging from illegal gathering of wealth to genocide, and were executed on the same day. The democratic Romania has since enjoyed economic growth. By 2006, the GDP was over 10,000 dollars.
  • November 1989, in Czechoslovakia, a peaceful student demonstration in Prague sparked a series of popular demonstrations with 2.5 million peaceful protesters. They demanded to reassess the “Prague Spring 1968”. With the collapse of other communist governments and increasing street protests, the communist party of Czechoslovakia announced on November 28 that it would relinquish power and dismantle the single-party state. December 1989, the demonstrations continued to demand the removal of the ruling party status of the communist party from the Constitution, and to remove the Marxism-Leninism from the education system. In April 1990, the “Czechoslovak Socialist Republic” changed its name to “Czech and Slovak Federative Republic”, and adopted the legislative election. The communist leaders, including Gustav Husak and Mikos Jakes, were ousted and put on trial for their allowing the Soviet invasion.
  • November 1989, First Secretary of East Berlin, Günter Schabowski announced in a radio speech to begin the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Tens of thousands of people immediately went to the Berlin Wall where the vastly outnumbered border guards were forced to open access points and allow them through.
  • October 3, 1990 was the date of German Reunification, marking the end of communism in East Germany. The leaders of the communist party were charged with murder. In 1993, a 70 meter long wall was built as a memorial to this important era in history.
  • September 17, 1980, a new national union “Solidarity”, which was not controlled by the communist party, was formed in Poland. In the Eastern European history, the “Solidarity” movement has been labeled the first step toward freedom from the communist dictatorship. The trigger of the “Solidarity” movement was the strike at the Gdansk Shipyard, where a female worker was fired because she complained about the rising meat price. The strike, led by Lech Walesa, later spread around the country and over 10 million people participated. Back in 1970, the Polish communist government used forces to crack down similar strikes and uprisings. By the end of 1989, with the rapid changes taking place in Eastern Europe, under the pressure of people’s freedom movement, the Polish communist government was forced to negotiate with Solidarity in the Polish Roundtable Negotiations. Walesa was elected president in the 1990 Polish legislative elections, which became one of the important events marking the fall of communism in Poland.
  • May 1989, Bulgaria communist government’s repression against the Muslims caused the massive exodus of some 300,000 Muslim Bulgarian citizens. Throughout the country, strikes and uprisings followed. In the same year, Todor Zhivkov, Bulgaria’s communist dictator for 35 years, was forced to resign. The absolute ruling party status of the communist party was removed from the Constitution, and free election was adopted. In the October 1991 election, the communist rule over Bulgaria came to an end. Shortly after the election, Zhivkov was put on trial.
  • In February 1989, Hungary reassessed the 1956 “Hungarian Anti-Soviet Revolt” to be a “popular uprising” and endorsed a multi-party system. In May 1989, Hungary communist party general secretary and party president János Kádár was ousted. In October, the legislation was adopted for multiparty parliamentary elections. A center-right coalition government, Hungarian Democratic Forum, won the first free parliamentary election in March 1990, marking the end of the communist rule in Hungary.
  • The spirit of the Baltic Sea. On August 23, 1989, two million people from the Baltic Sea region stood hand in hand to form a 600km long human chain through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, in order to show the shocking world their resolve to stop the Communist dictatorship. In1990, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia announced their independence and marked the end of the communist rule in the region.

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