致联合国秘书长的公开信
并致：联合国安理会、联合国人权理事会及欧盟议会成员国
尊敬的秘书长先生：
二十二年前，中共独裁政权面对以学生为主的和平的民主运动，悍然动用数以万计的军队“平息反革命暴乱”。在难以想象的暴力行动中，全副武装的士兵和坦克攻击和平示威者。他们向天安门广场以及附近区域的手无寸铁的中国公民开枪，导致数以千计的人员死亡和伤残。
年轻的男女在坦克的履带下丧失生命，或成为残疾。另一些人死于士兵的枪林弹雨。母亲失去了他们的儿子和女儿；儿童成为孤儿，永远失去了父母的爱抚和拥抱；多少个家庭破碎了。这是现代中国历史上最为悲剧性的一天。
但那些下令屠杀的罪犯和他们的追随者却至今没有受到惩罚。其中一些人仍然占据目前中国政府的重要权力位置，他们在继续侵害中国公民的权益。
1998 年，试图组建中国民主党的的人士被大量逮捕和判刑。 1999
年起，中国政府骚扰、监禁、折磨数以万计的法轮功修炼者，其中许多人死于这样的折磨和虐待。 2008
年，中国政府广泛迫害由刘晓波等发起的呼吁宪政改革的《零八宪章》签名人。 2011
年春，面对茉莉花革命的匿名网络呼吁，上百名异议人士和人权捍卫者被逮捕、拘留、被失踪。
遭受骚扰和拘留的不仅是中国的政治活动人士，中国政府还对在
2008
年四川地震中失去了孩子的父母进行监控和侮辱，其中有人因为和平请愿要求调查孩子的死因而被逮捕。同样的事发生在毒奶粉受害儿童的父母身上。长期以来，中国政府还实行了迫害基督徒、强迫堕胎、歧视压迫少数民族、非法拆迁、土地剥夺等残酷的政策。今天，任何一位中国公民都面临因为要求政府承担应有的责任而被贴上威胁国家安全的标签遭到迫害的危险。
我们希望您能注意到去年 12 月奥斯陆诺贝尔和平奖颁奖仪式上留给 1989 年的抗议者之一、 2010
年度该奖得主刘晓波的空椅子，目前他仍然被囚禁在中国监狱，他的妻子及全部家人被中国政府当做人质，这些的都是中国人权状况的缩影，应该引起您及国际社会的充分关注。
以上这些状况有一个清晰的起点， 1989 年 6 月 4 日。此后的所有人权侵犯都是天安门屠杀的延续。在过去的 22
年中，中国政府无情地镇压一切起而捍卫权力的个人、民族、信仰或公民组织。
我们可以说，在过去的 22
年中，中国共产党政府没有一天不在镇压以和平手段维护基本人权的活动人士和公民。这些镇压表明中国政府把自己置于国际人权标准和他们自己制定的法律之上。
中国政府对国内和国际规则的漠视和践踏使其成为超越国界的威胁。最近，卡扎菲就引用天安门屠杀来为自己寻求“正当性”辩护。卡扎菲敢于为杀人进行这种可耻的辩护，就因为国际社会未曾对中国独裁者的犯罪行为进行惩罚。
对于利比亚，我们由衷赞赏联合国安理会于今年通过的 1970 和 1973 号决议。我们也相信联合国应该做出更多努力来保护中国人民免受中国政府的人权侵犯。
我们相信《联合国宪章》和《世界人权宣言》以及其它国际人权公约和国际人权机制要求您即使面对成员国的威胁，也能坚持联合国的价值观。
我们强烈要求您将中国独裁者 22
年来的暴行提交联合国安理会，中国政府已经对国际和平和安全构成了严重威胁，这种威胁还在增加。联合国安理会有必要要求所有成员国，公开做出决定，针对中国政府对其人民的非人道对待，通过决议并采取公开行动：
一，要求中国政府立即停止重大而系统的人权侵犯；二，采取必要的手段，禁止对于天安门屠杀及其它重大而系统的人权侵害负有责任的人进入国境；三，冻结对天安门屠杀和其它重大而系统的人权侵犯负有责任的中国官员的现金及其它财产；四，针对天安门屠杀和近期的人权侵犯，向国际刑事法庭提出起诉，安理会应展开调查并向法庭提出调查信息。
考虑到中国政府会利用其联合国安理会成员的地位阻止安理会通过一项明确的伸张正义的决定，我们强烈要求联合国成员召开紧急特别成员大会，通过决议（包含以上条款），要求中国对其大规模人权侵犯及违背国际条约义务的做出解释。
另外，联合国大会应该要求中国政府遵守其对人权条约的承诺，并允许对包括天安门屠杀在内的人权侵犯进行有信誉和独立的调查。大会应该要求秘书长在下次会议召开时就中国的人权状况向联合国人权理事会提交一份报告，并鼓励联合国人权理事会对中国残暴对待人民的问题建立特别的监控和报告机制。
如果现在不对中国政府采取行动，将纵容中国的独裁者继续其针对人民的犯罪行为，同时也是对国际上少数以中国模式作为榜样镇压和屠杀其人民的的独裁者构成支持。在这一问题上的无所作为，只能让联合国的人权声明成为笑料，并让世界的和平和安全处在严重的威胁之下。
此致敬礼！
2011 年 6 月 4 日姓名：签名：职业：居住地：
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On June 4,
2011
Initiatives for China will present an
Open Letter to UN
Secretary General Ban-ki Moon
regarding the Chinese government’s serious
and on-going
human rights violations against its own people
SIGN
ON – Submit your signature at p201164@gmail.com What kind of government
systematically jails, tortures, disappears and harasses large numbers of its own
people who dare to speak out in favor of democracy, justice and truth?
JUNE 4, 2011 marks the 22nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Unarmed Chinese university students who had gathered in the Square to peacefully
demonstrate and show their support for democracy were overrun and mercilessly
gunned down by heavily armed soldiers and armored tanks. Despite the outcry of
world outrage, those political governmental leaders who authorized the slaughter
are still in power today. Their policies of brutal persecution continue.
1989 Students at Tiananmen Square Killed, jailed, detained, harassed
1998 Founders of the Chinese Democracy Party Jailed, detained, disappeared,
harassed
2008 Signers of Charter 08 Jailed, detained, disappeared,
harassed
2010 Winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize In solitary
confinement, not allowed to receive visitors, not allowed to receive the Peace
Prize, wife under house arrest; colleagues jailed, detained, disappeared &
harassed
2011 Participants in peaceful Jasmine Revolution demonstrations
Jailed, detained, disappeared, harassed
Homes searched and property
confiscated
In addition to the above very specific examples, China’s
on-going policies of repression extend over an extremely wide range:
Persecution and harassment of religious faiths
Diluting and degrading of
ethnic cultures
Forced abortions – Families with more than their ‘quota’
of children are forced to undergo abortions to comply with China’s One Child
Policy
Forced evictions – Homes demolished and property confiscated to
make way for real estate development or events such as the Beijing Olympics,
Shanghai Expo, and Disneyland projects
Families of victims of disasters
such as the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the poisoned milk episodes are harassed,
imprisoned, and humiliated when they seek justice for the loss of their
children.
These and countless untold human rights violations occur every
day in China. They are unspeakable acts of violence committed by a government
against its own people.
And it is getting worse. While paying lip service
to western countries, China is forging close relationships with world dictators
which serve to strengthen and reinforce its current conduct rather than
discourage it.
Initiatives for China’s open letter to the
Secretary-General will call attention to this situation, and urge the U.N. to
act now with all the administrative and diplomatic tools at its disposal. A
series of steps outlined in the letter provide a suggested framework for such
necessary and vital action. YOUR SIGNATURE IS RESPECTFULLY REQUESTED. Please add
your signature to the letter and speak out in favor of democracy and justice for
those who voices cannot be heard. Sign on to show the U.N. Secretariat that the
world is watching and waiting for their response. P201164@gmail.com
Project Leaders:
Dr.YANG Jianli President Initiatives for China
Dr.HAN Lianchao Vice President Initiatives for China
Contact Person:
Laura Butera Director of International Programs Initiatives for China
Open Letter to the Secretary-General of United Nations
His Excellency
Ban Ki-moon
The United Nations
1 United Nations Plaza
New
York, New York 10017-3515
CC: Member States of the UN Security Council,
Member States of the UN Human Rights Council, and European Parliament
June 4, 2011
Dear Mr. Secretary-General:
Twenty-two years ago
today, Chinese Communist dictators, responding to student-led pro-democracy
protests, called out tens of thousands of troops to “crush a
counter-revolutionary riot." In a spasm of unimaginable violence, heavily armed
soldiers and tanks attacked peaceful protesters. They shot at unarmed Chinese in
and near Tiananmen Square, resulting in the death and maiming of thousands of
their own citizens.
Young men and women vanished beneath tank tracks or
lost their limbs. Others perished in a hail of gunfire from soldiers using
assault rifles. Mothers lost their only sons and daughters. Children were
orphaned, left to forever miss their parent’s love and warm embrace. Families
were shattered. This was the single most tragic day in the history of modern
China.
The criminals who authorized this evil bloodletting and the
henchmen who committed it on their behalf – these killers were left unpunished.
And some still occupy positions of power inside China’s present day government
where they continue to abuse Chinese citizens.
In 1998, the regime
engaged in mass arrests and imprisonment of democracy activists attempting to
form their own political parties. In 1999, it began a campaign of harassment,
imprisonment and torture of tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners, many
of whom died from this brutality. In 2008, the regime persecuted the signers of
Charter 08 led by Liu Xiaobo to call for a constitutional reform. After
anonymous calls by Chinese people for a Jasmine Revolution in February, more
arrests, detentions and disappearances of dissidents and human rights defenders
followed.
And it is not only political activists who face constant
harassment and detention. The Chinese government has heaped additional pain and
insult on the parents of children who died in the 2008 earthquake by arresting
them for peacefully petitioning their government for the truth about their
children’s death. The same has happened to parents of children who died from
drinking tainted milk. For decades, the Chinese government has been implementing
its cruel policies of forced abortions, large-scale illegal evictions, and land
grabbing and acquisition without just compensation. Today, all of China’s
citizens are in danger of being labeled as “a national threat”, simply for
asking their own government for accountability.
We draw your attention to
the empty chair at the peace prize ceremony this past December in Oslo for a
June 4th protests leader, Liu Xiaobo, who is still jailed in the Chinese prison,
and for his entire extended family, including his wife, being held hostage now
by the Chinese regime, to alert you to an ever worsening human right situation
in China.
This situation has a clear starting point – June 4th, 1989 –
and all subsequent gross human rights violations are a continuation of the
Tiananmen Square Massacre. Over the past 22 years, the Chinese regime has
ruthlessly suppressed any individual, or ethnic, religious or civic group that
stands up to defend their own rights. Every corner of China—from Lhasa to Urumqi
to Beijing—is experiencing systematic human rights violations.
We can
tell you that not a single day has gone by within the past 22 years without the
Chinese Communist regime “cracking down” on peaceful activists and citizens
defending their rights. These crackdowns serve to prove that the Chinese regime
feels itself to be above international human rights norms and the expressed laws
made by the regime itself in its own constitution.
The regime’s
willingness to abrogate both domestic and international rules is a threat to
people well beyond China’s borders. Just recently, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
justified his slaughtering of Libyan citizens by citing the Tiananmen Square
Massacre in China. Gaddafi could only dare to make this type of disgraceful
justification for murder because the international community had failed then,
and fails now, to punish China’s Communist dictators’ past and current criminal
behavior.
With respect to Libya, we wholeheartedly applaud United
Nations’ Security Council Resolution Number 1970 and Resolution Number 1973
adopted this year. Yet we also believe the UN should be doing far more to
address the protection of China’s civilian population from continuing violations
of Chinese citizens’ human rights.
We believe that the UN Charter, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human
Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments require you,
the Secretary-General, to uphold the values of the UN, even at the risk of
challenging Member States.
We strongly urge you to bring to the
attention of the UN Security Council the past and current atrocities committed
by China’s Communist dictators, which have imposed a serious and growing threat
to international peace and security. It is imperative that the Security Council
openly and publicly address China’s inhumane treatment of its own people by
passing a resolution requiring that all Member States:
demand an
immediate end to the gross and systematic violation of human rights in China;
take necessary measures to prevent the entry into or transit through their
territories of individuals who are responsible for the Tiananmen Square
Massacre, or for other gross and systematic violations of human rights in China;
freeze all funds, other financial assets and economic resources which are on
their territories, which are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the
individuals responsible for the Tiananmen Square Massacre or for other gross and
systematic violations of human rights in China;
refer the Tiananmen
Square Massacre, and the recent crimes against the Chinese citizens, to the
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; the Council shall provide
information regarding these crimes against humanity to the Prosecutor to
initiate investigations proprio motu.
Should China use its UN
prerogatives to prevent the UN Security Council from adopting a well-defined
resolution, we strongly urge UN Members to call an emergency special session of
the General Assembly to adopt a resolution (including the above-mentioned
provisions) to hold China accountable for its gross human rights violations and
for its failure to abide by its international treaty obligations.
Additionally, the General Assembly resolution must call on the Chinese
government to fully respect its human rights obligations and allow credible and
independent investigations of all allegations of human rights violations,
including the Tiananmen Square Massacre. It must also request the
Secretary-General to submit an interim report assessing the situation of China’s
human rights abuses to the Human Rights Council at its next session and to
encourage the UN Human Rights Council to establish a special monitoring and
reporting mechanism on China’s inhumane treatment of its people.
Failure
to act now against the Chinese regime will not only encourage that dictatorship
to continue its crimes against the Chinese people, but also bolster the
remaining handful of dictators in the world who shield themselves behind the
“Chinese model” to justify continual repression and slaughter of their own
people. Inaction on the regime only makes a laughingstock out of the UN human
rights proclamations, and presents a dire threat to international peace and
security.
Yours sincerely,
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