This article should cause Christians in America to respond with compassion,
concern and prayer for our persecuted Christian brethren in China. It should
ALSO create in our minds the following question, in light of coming MARTIAL LAW.
According to THE TRILATERAL ALLIANCE TREATY (a little publicized treaty in which
both Russian and Chinese soldiers will be used to help arrest us, fire
upon us, seize our weapons, perform house-to-house
"search/seizure/arrest" under future martial law) Chinese troops will
be unleashed against the American people in the future. What kind of behavior
can we expect from them towards Christians, etc., if THIS is the kind of brutal
actions now taking place in China???
And let's NOT forget the thousands of CHINESE 40 foot "cargo
containers" that have quietly been imported to this nation, which are in
fact actually PRISONER BOXCARS equipped with shackles and a modern guillotine
bolted to the inside of each? They have reportedly been steadily arriving from
China on our west coast, and are being unobtrusively shipped out by truck and
train across this nation, prepositioned for the hour of martial law
round-up of all resisters.
Do not be surprised if such brutality, now being manifested in China (and in
fact repeatedly manifested throughout the past years of a brutal communist
regime in China), is transferred to Americans under martial law as the covert
Chinese troops are finally unleashed against us.
-Pam Schuffert reporting from across America
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Monday, February 11, 2002
BEIJING — Chinese authorities have killed 129 people and arrested
nearly 24,000 in a crackdown on Christian churches that operate outside
government control, a group of Chinese religious activists said Monday.
In a report released in New York, the Committee for Investigation on Persecution
of Religion in China published what it said were official documents outlining a
campaign that includes torture to stamp out independent worship.
The report accused senior Chinese leaders of approving the violence.
The accusations come at a sensitive time for China, a week before President Bush
makes his first official visit to Beijing. A Hong Kong businessman imprisoned
for smuggling Bibles to a banned church was released this weekend after Bush
expressed concern about him.
China's communist government allows only state-monitored worship. It is
struggling to rein in new religious movements that have attracted millions of
followers in recent years.
The most prominent target has been the Falun Gong spiritual movement, banned in
1999 as a threat to public safety and communist rule. But other targeted groups
span the spectrum from Roman Catholics to Buddhists to newer organizations with
unorthodox views.
"The level of persecution aimed against unregistered Christians in China is
high," said the report. "The persecution against underground
Christians has escalated and originates at the highest central levels of the
Chinese government."
The committee is run by Chinese Christians living abroad.
Robin Munro, a British human rights researcher who has no connection to the
committee, said he reviewed the documents that it gathered and believed they
were genuine. He said it was the biggest quantity of internal Chinese government
documents that he had seen assembled by one group.
"It paints a pretty frightening picture of the Chinese security
authorities' attempt to suppress a wide range of spiritual groups," Munro
said by telephone from London.
Calls seeking comment from China's Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Public Security
and the official Roman Catholic and Protestant organizations weren't answered
Monday. Most government offices were closed on the eve of the Chinese New Year.
Estimates by foreign religious scholars of the number of underground, or house,
church members run as high as 60 million. The official Christian churches have
about 15 million followers.
The 141-page report released Monday cites documents that it said were supplied
by activists in China and officials who oppose the crackdown.
They include a report that says the United States and Taiwan are using Falun
Gong and other religious groups to undermine China's stability.
In addition, researchers investigated house churches in 20 provinces and found
that 129 people had been killed, 23,686 arrested and 4,014 sentenced to
re-education, according to the report. It didn't say how most of the deaths were
alleged to have taken place or how the research was carried out.
The report accused Chinese authorities of using criminal charges against
religious leaders to avoid criticism about damaging freedom of worship.
It noted the case of Gong Shengliang, founder of the banned South China Church.
Gong was sentenced to death in December on charges of rape and using a cult to
undermine the law, according to members of his church and human rights monitors.
According to the report, 63 other South China Church leaders have been detained
and some sentenced to up to seven years in prison. It said one was missing and
may have been killed.
The report cited statements by followers of other groups who said they suffered
rape, beatings, electric shocks and other abuse.
The group claimed to have obtained documents showing that the harsh tactics were
approved by senior leaders including Vice President Hu Jintao, who is expected
to succeed President Jiang Zemin as China's next leader.
