Coalition Asks US to Name CCP a Criminal Organization

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By Kevin Hogan
Dec. 05, 2020

Members of the Captive Nations Coalition met with Secretary of State Pompeo in D.C. on Thursday. The human rights advocates called on the U.S. government to designate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a transnational criminal organization.

That’s in part because the CCP is allegedly reaping the organs from living prisoners of conscience, according to an international tribunal. A person who practices the spiritual discipline Falun Dafa said he’s grateful to Pompeo for being the first Secretary to condemn the CCP’s persecution of the faith.

“I express deep gratitude for that. And also I emphasize in the past more than 10 years, Falun Gong practitioners have been focusing on exposing the CCP’s crime of organ harvesting, live organ harvestings. So he [is] fully aware about these issues. And he [is] also emphasizing that department of state is working on this issue and Assistant Secretary Robert Destro actually have a team working on this issue as well,” said Sean Lin.

The Captive Nations Coalition consists of peoples who were either directly oppressed and/or taken over by the Chinese Communist party. That partly includes Uyghurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong, Kazakhs, and Hong Kongers, according to the coordinator Se Hoon Kim.

“But to really demonstrate with the fact that it is at the end of the day, something that everyone needs to pay attention to, because if we don’t, because if we do not pay attention to at the very least, the threat of the CCP will most likely land on our shores someday. And we want to prevent that,” said Kim.

A representative of Hong Kongers told Pompeo that America’s support is critical for them to defend their democracy and freedom.

“If we don’t have the support of the United States government, it seems that Hong Kong will go down the path of becoming the next Uyghur population or the next Tibet. So we don’t want that to happen. And it’s really, really necessary for us to convey that idea to the United States government,” said Joyce Ho.

Participants thanked Secretary of State Pompeo for continuing to speak out in the international arena, condemning the CCP for trampling on human rights and suppressing freedom of belief.

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