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WATCH Reggie on CBN News “Set it Straight” China’s 3-Child Policy

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Reggie Littlejohn

Screenshot: Gary Lane of CBN News interviews Reggie Littlejohn about China’s new Three-Child Policy

Dear Friends,

Thanks to CBN News and Gary Lane for allowing me to “Set It Straight” in this interview: “China’s 3-child Policy Is No Cause to Celebrate.” We discuss my conviction that forced abortion, especially of single mothers, will continue under the new 3-child policy, as will the sex-selective abortion of baby girls. Also, I challenge the Chinese Communist Party to release from concentration camps all Uyghur parents who were detained because they have three children. Please watch, like and share this 5-minute video. This will really help us get our message out! You can watch it HERE.

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Our “Save a Girl” campaign is helping “Peizhi” and her impoverished family survive.

Posted on June 12, 2021 by Reggie Littlejohn

Peizhi is six months old, born into a poor farming family in rural China. She is the second daughter in her family. Neighbors laugh at them because they have no son, bringing shame on the family. But they love little Peizhi anyway.

Life is difficult for Peizhi and her family. Her mother seriously injured her leg two years ago, and never fully recovered. Now she is unable to do any fieldwork. She cooks and cleans for the family, and watches out for Peizhi’s grandfather. Peizhi’s grandfather lives with them, but he has dementia and needs someone to watch him all the time or he will wander away from home and not be able to find his way back. Peizhi’s father supports everybody, and this role is very stressful on him. As a poor farmer, he simply cannot provide for two disabled family members and two daughters, without the help of his wife in the field. According to Peizhi’s mother, her husband suddenly looks like an old man. She has been worried about finances and about the strain on her husband.

It was a great relief to Peizhi’s parents when our “Save a Girl” fieldworker visited them to offer support for a year. Peizhi’s mother said she believes Peizhi must “have an angel blessing her,” because the whole family has received good luck because of this beautiful little girl.

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Watch: Reggie’s message to Hong Kong re: Tiananmen Square

Posted on June 4, 2021 by Reggie Littlejohn

Reggie speaks to the people of Hong Kong, June 4, 2021

The people of Hong Kong are having their basic human rights stripped away before their eyes by the Chinese Communist Party. For decades, they have held a huge, candlelight vigil in Victoria Park, to commemorate the June 4, 1989 massacre on Tiananmen Square. The CCP has banned that vigil this year. Here is my message of encouragement and hope, which was streamed into Hong Kong on June 4.

You can watch the video HERE.

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Text: Reggie’s Message to Hong Kong re: Tiananmen Square

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Reggie Littlejohn

Message to the People of Hong Kong
June 4, 2021, 32nd Anniversary of the
Tiananmen Square Massacre

Reggie Littlejohn, Founder and President
Women’s Rights Without Frontiers

Warmest greetings to the people of Hong Kong. I am greatly humbled to address you on this somber anniversary.

My name is Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers. We expose and oppose forced abortion and the sex selective abortion of baby girls in China. We stand with the people of Hong Kong in your fight for basic human rights.

I imagine that on June 4, you will be watching this with a heavy heart. No one has been more loyal and dedicated than you have in keeping the memory of the Tiananmen Square Massacre alive. For three decades, your massive, candlelight vigils in Victoria Park have been an inspiration to the world. You have remembered the freedom fighters who died on Tiananmen Square, so that their sacrifice would not be forgotten.

And now, you in Hong Kong are losing your own freedom. So many of your
bravest souls are now languishing in jail. It is a hallmark of a totalitarian regime that it slams its greatest heroes in jail.

And yet, you keep fighting bravely on. The Chinese Communist Party is trying to re-write history, to blot out the memory of June 4, 1989. They are banning the Vigil, changing textbooks and museum exhibits, promoting the lie that Hong Kong’s brilliant success belongs to the Chinese Communist Party.

The authorities have cited health concerns about the coronavirus as the “reason” the June 4 vigil will be banned. Everyone knows that is just an excuse.

If the CCP really cared about health, they would not have unleashed the
coronavirus on the world. They would not have forcibly aborted 400 million women and babies under the One Child Policy. They would not be executing prisoners of conscience to harvest their organs for transplant. They would not be committing genocide against the Uyghurs. And if the CCP really cared about health, they would not have massacred hundreds, or possibly thousands, of innocent victims on Tiananmen Square.

The CCP does not care about health. All they care about is expanding their power at your expense and at the expense of the whole world. They have no business hosting the Olympic Games in 2022. These Games should be moved or boycotted. We have launched a website, genocidegames.org, where you can sign a petition to move or boycott the Games. In fact, as I testified before the United States Congress a couple of weeks ago, I believe that all the 152 nations that are signatories to the 1948 Genocide Convention are required to boycott the Olympics, because they have committed themselves to punishing any nation that is committing genocide. And I believe that, because of its unleashing of the coronavirus, its theft of hundreds of billions in intellectual property, and its spreading of deadly fentanyl, the CCP should be designated as a transnational criminal organization.

You are so brave to speak truth to power from Chinese soil. Even if you can’t assemble in Victoria Park for a candlelight vigil, you can still hold a candlelight vigil in your own home. You can put a candle in your window. You can say a prayer for those who died on Tiananmen Square. You can pray for the God of the universe to intervene on behalf of Hong Kong.

The CCP wants everyone to believe that it has absolute power, but it does not. The CCP thinks that it is God, but it is not. And God will not be mocked.

The CCP can stop a vigil, but it cannot stop something even more powerful than a vigil. It cannot stop the power of the human heart lifted up in desperate prayer. It cannot stop the power of God, who loves you and answers your prayers. I believe that, if we all join together and fast and sacrifice and pray, in His time and in His miraculous way, the God of freedom will set you free.

I am with you, but far more important, God almighty – the God who created
heaven and earth — is with you in this battle. Thank you and God bless you.

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China’s New Three-Child Policy – Womb Police Still in Business

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Reggie Littlejohn

iStock photo (credit: flux82)

In an article entitled, “China Relaxes Family Planning Policy to Allow Couples to Have Three Children,” a Chinese Communist Party-affiliated news outlet announced curtly today:

China officially further relaxed its family planning policy, allowing couples to give birth to three children. The move aims to improve China’s population structure and actively respond to the country’s aging problem. This is a developing story. We will update it later.

Reggie Littlejohn, Founder and President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, issued the following Statement:

China’s move from a two-child policy to a three-child policy is nothing to celebrate. China should abolish all coercive population control. It is not the business of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to “allow” couples, or single women, to have children of whatever number.

A three-child policy keeps the “womb police” in business. They will still be tracking women’s fertility and birth, and punishing those who find themselves “illegally pregnant.” According to a 2020 Radio Free Asia report, “. . . an average of 8 million ‘extra’ pregnancies are aborted in China each year.” Since the new three-child policy applies to only “couples,” single women will still be forcibly aborted, as will fourth children. These gross violations of women’s rights and human rights must be stopped, effective immediately.

Will the three-child policy apply only to Han Chinese, or will it also apply to the Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang / East Turkistan? According to a ground-breaking report by the Associated Press, “Having too many children is a major reason people are sent to detention camps, the AP found, with the parents of three or more ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines. Police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for hidden children.” Under the new three-child policy, will the CCP immediately release any Uyghur parents detained because they have three children?

A three-child policy will likely increase gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of baby girls. When the two-child policy was instituted, some couples who had a girl for their first child decided to have a second child – but only if that second child would be a boy. In 2017, for example, shortly after the two-child policy was instituted, one woman’s husband, who wanted their second child to be a boy, forced his wife to abort four girls in a year, and then she died. I am concerned that the gender of third children will be heavily skewed towards males, because the females will have been selectively aborted, due to deadly son preference.

Most couples in China are not willing to have a second child of either gender, largely because of the expense. For this reason, China did not experience the baby boom it had expected when it moved to the two-child policy in 2016. Indeed, its birth rate has plummeted to the lowest in decades. It is facing a demographic crisis because of its rapidly aging population. The move to a three-child policy is too little, too late to avert this impending disaster.

Why, then, is China retaining coercive population control of any kind? As I have long argued, the CCP will never end coercive population control, because coercive population control is keeping the CCP in place. It is social control, masquerading as population control. Terror is the purpose of the policy.

The CCP is a brutal, totalitarian regime, responsible for multifarious human rights abuses. Coercive population control, however, is unique in that it touches each individual and community. The CCP maintains its terrifying grip on power by extending its arm from Beijing and inserting its hand into every womb to declare life or death over the beating heart inside.

Related Links:

China Relaxes Family Planning Policy to Allow Couples to Have Three Children, 5/31/21

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1224937.shtml

Xinjiang Hospitals Aborted, Killed Babies Outside Family Planning Limits: Uyghur Obstetrician 8/17/20

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/abortions-08172020144036.html

China Cuts Uighur Births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization 6/29/20

https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-china-health-269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c

Woman in China dies after husband forced her to have 4 abortions in a year as he wanted a son: Report 7/19/17

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/woman-in-china-dies-after-husband-forced-her-to-have-4-abortions-in-a-year-as-he

Population Control in China: State Sponsored Violence Against Women and Children 4/30/15 (Littlejohn testimony at 3:16 p.m.)

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114hhrg94474/html/CHRG-114hhrg94474.htm

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WATCH: Reggie’s EWTN interview on Raymond Arroyo’s The World Over with Rep. Chris Smith

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Reggie Littlejohn

Screenshot: Reggie Littlejohn and Raymond Arroyo on The World Over, May 20, 2021

Dear Friend,

Last Tuesday, I testified at a United States Congressional Hearing entitled, “China: Genocide and the Olympics.” The hearing was chaired by Congressman Chris Smith, who I believe has done more for Chinese human rights than anyone else on Capitol Hill. Raymond Arroyo interviewed us both for one of EWTN’s flagship broadcasts, The World Over. The interview discusses the hideous atrocities of the Chinese Communist Party, and why they do not deserve to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Please watch and share this powerful, 12-minute interview. You can watch it HERE.

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Congressional Testimony of Reggie Littlejohn: China, Genocide and the Olympics

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Reggie Littlejohn

Olympic Flag-(Shutterstock–credit:lazyllama)

Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission,

and

Congressional-Executive Commission on China:

Hearing

China, Genocide and the Olympics

May 18, 2021- 1:00 p.m.

Virtual, via WebEx

Statement of Reggie Littlejohn

Founder and President

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers

China’s Genocide in Xinjiang / East Turkistan Must be Punished Under the Genocide Convention of 1948; The 2022 Olympics in Beijing Must Be Moved or Boycotted

“In January [2021], the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, the United Nations urged every country to honor the six million Jewish victims of Nazi genocide by developing programs to prevent future genocides. In a UN ceremony, American and European leaders joined Holocaust survivors in conveying the urgent responsibility to remember the Holocaust by defending the truth – now more than ever. For the last 76 years, we have committed to “never again” permit genocide to happen on our watch.

“But it’s happening – right now.“

With these words Ellie Cohanim (Deputy Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism at the United States Department of State) and Keith Krach (former Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment) open their Opinion piece, published in Newsweek, entitled, “The Chinese Communist Party is Committing Genocide. Now. You can Stop It.”[1]

The reference to the Holocaust is apt, especially considering that in 1936, the Olympic Games were held in Berlin, Germany. Predictably, they proved to be an enormous propaganda windfall for Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, affording it unwarranted international prestige, legitimacy and credibility. Arguably, these benefits served as a smokescreen for the horrific crimes against humanity that the Nazi regime subsequently unleashed in its genocidal Holocaust against six million Jews and in the course of the world war Hitler precipitated.

Today, we are confronting another totalitarian regime actively engaging in another genocide. We must not make the mistake again of allowing a genocidal regime to glory in hosting the world’s most prestigious international event. Indeed, as a signatory of the Genocide Convention of 1948, the United States cannot allow this to happen.

The Chinese Communist Party (“CCP”) Is Committing Genocide Against Ethnic Minorities in Xinjiang

On his last full day in office, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo issued an official determination that the Chinese Communist Party “has committed crimes against humanity against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs . . .” as well as “genocide.”

Former Sec. Pompeo’s Statement sets forth the CCP’s crimes against the Uyghurs, including widespread arbitrary imprisonment, forced abortion, forced sterilization, forced labor, draconian restrictions on freedom of religion, and torture. He concludes, “. . . we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state.”[2]

Current Secretary of State Antony Blinken has confirmed this genocide determination.[3]

The abuse of the Uyghurs by the CCP fulfills every element of the crime of Genocide[4], under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (“Genocide Convention”)[5] and the Rome Statute.[6] Article II of the Genocide Convention states:

Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The CCP is committing not just one, but all five of these acts of genocide.[7]

There has been some dispute as to whether the CCP has exhibited the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part,” the Uyghurs. I believe they have, for two reasons. First, their rhetoric reveals this intent. According to Sec. Pompeo’s Genocide Determination:

[Chinese Communist] Party apparatchiks . . . are delivering far darker messages to their own people, portraying Uyghurs as “malignant tumors,” comparing their faith to a “communicable plague,” and exhorting the Party faithful to implement a crushing blow, telling them “you can’t uproot all the weeds hidden among the crops in the field one-by-one; you need to spray chemicals to kill them all.”[8]

Second, intent need not be stated, but “more often, it must be inferred from a systematic pattern of coordinated acts.”[9]

Remedies: The Genocide Convention Requires the “Prevention and Punishment” of the CCP’s Genocide

Whether the CCP’s acts against the Uyghurs are “crimes against humanity” or “genocide” is more than difference in semantics. The fact that these acts constitute genocide brings into effect the requirements and remedies of the Genocide Convention. Specifically, Article 1 of the Convention states, “The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.” As a Contracting Party, the United States has committed itself to “prevent and punish” those committing genocide. So have the other signatories the world over. A global boycott of the “Genocide Games” in Beijing should be just the beginning of this punishment.

Further, under Article VIII, “Any Contracting Party may call upon . . . the United Nations to take such action . . . as they consider appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide . . .” The United States and other Contracting Parties should launch an initiative at the United Nation to punish the CCP for its genocide and prevent further acts of genocide.

The CCP disputes that it is committing genocide, activating Article IX: “Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation . . . of the present Convention . . . shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.” Thus, the United States and other Contracting Parties can call upon the the International Court of Justice to decide on the dispute between the U.S. and the CCP as to whether the CCP is committing genocide.

Domestically, under Article V, the United States has agreed “to enact . . . necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present Convention, and in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide . . .” Opposing the CCP’s genocide in Xinjiang is an issue that has received powerful bipartisan support, which can be summoned to enact further legislation to give teeth to our opposition to genocide.

The Olympics Should Be Moved or Boycotted.

On April 15, 2021, more than 100 leaders associated with national security, human rights and faith organizations signed an Open Letter [10] to the leadership of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (formerly the “USOC,” now the “USOPC”) urging it to press for the 2022 Winter Games to be held in a venue other than Beijing, China, in light of the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity. If a “Freedom Games” venue cannot be offered as an alternative to the “Genocide Games,” we have called for a boycott. As co-author and a primary signatory on that letter, I ask that it be entered into the Congressional Record.

While we did not receive a direct answer from the USOPC, I believe we received an indirect answer. Sarah Hirshland, CEO of the USOPC to Congress, wrote in a letter to Congress, obtained by Politico[11], that the United States should not boycott the Games. She acknowledges that those who have called for a boycott “have raised valid concerns about China’s conduct, including the oppression of the Uyghur population which the United States has designated a genocide.” At the same time, she asserts, “an athlete boycott of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is not the solution to geopolitical issues.”

This assertion ignores the fact that human rights in China have seriously deteriorated since they hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Since that time, not only has the CCP committed genocide against the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. It has also committed egregious human rights abuses in Tibet and Hong Kong, employed the world’s most repressive “surveillance state,” complete with a “social credit system” to ensure submission, become one of the world’s worst persecutors on the basis of religion, practiced forced organ harvesting, continued its practices of systematic forced abortion and sterilization under the One and Two Child Policies, has one of the world’s worst records for human trafficking and sexual slavery, and despoiled the environment.

The USOPC’s statement also ignores the inconvenient truth that signatories to the Genocide Convention are obligated to prevent and punish those committing genocide, as discussed above.

China Should Be Banned From Participation in the Olympics.

South Africa was banned from the Olympics in 1964 to 1988 because of its practice of apartheid.[12] Likewise, the International Olympic Committee should express the disapproval of the CCP’s genocide and other crimes against humanity by banning China from the Olympics.

The CCP is a Transnational Criminal Organization[13]

In addition to the hideous abuses to which the CCP has subjected the longsuffering Chinese people and the captive nations under its boot, it is also spreading its aggressive contagion all over the world. The CCP is relentless in advancing its own interests at the cost of others. It is threatening Taiwan and aggressively pursuing control of the South China Sea. It unleashed Covid-19 on the world, concealing its knowledge of human to human transmission and pushing international travel while locking down internal domestic travel, costing millions of lives worldwide and more than half a million in the United States alone.[14] The CCP is practicing “debt trap diplomacy” through its “Belt and Road” initiative.[15] It is flooding the United States with deadly fentanyl.[16]

It is time to call the CCP what it is: a transnational criminal organization. The world should treat the CCP as a Pariah State, breaking all diplomatic and economic ties.

Conclusion

The 2020 Olympic Charter states, “The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.” Honoring arguably the greatest human rights abuser in the world with the privilege of hosting the Olympics runs directly counter to the Olympic Charter. Holding the Games in Beijing does a tremendous disservice to athletes, as well as to those suffering under the totalitarian fist of the CCP. The least we can do is move or boycott the Olympics.

[1] The Chinese Communist Party Is Committing Genocide. Now. You Can Stop It. Keith Krach and Ellie Cohanim. 3/17/21. https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-communist-party-committing-genocide-now-you-can-stop-it-opinion-1576333#

[2] Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang. January 19, 2021. https://2017-2021.state.gov/determination-of-the-secretary-of-state-on-atrocities-in-xinjiang/index.html, p. 3.

[3] Blinken Names and Shames Human Rights Abusers. Colm Quinn, March 31, 2021. https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/31/blinken-uyghur-china-human-rights-report/

[4] First Independent Report into Xinjiang Genocide Allegations Claims Evidence of Beijing’s ‘Intent to Destroy’ Uyghur People. Ben Wescott and Rebecca Wright. March 9, 2021. https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/09/asia/china-uyghurs-xinjiang-genocide-report-intl-hnk/index.html

[5] The Legal Definition of Genocide. http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext-printerfriendly.htm

[6] Article II of the Genocide Convention was included without change as Article 6 of the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext-printerfriendly.htm at p. 3.

[7] The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention. March, 2021.

https://newlinesinstitute.org/uyghurs/the-uyghur-genocide-an-examination-of-chinas-breaches-of-the-1948-genocide-convention/; Sterilizations, IUDs, and Mandatory Birth Control: The CCP’s Campaign to Suppress Uygur Birthrates in Xinjiang. Adrian Zenz. June, 2020. https://jamestown.org/product/sterilizations-iuds-and-mandatory-birth-control-the-ccps-campaign-to-suppress-uyghur-birthrates-in-xinjiang/; Xinjiang Hospitals Aborted, Killed Babies Outside Family Planning Limits: Uyghur Obstetrician. August 17, 2020. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/abortions-08172020144036.html. China Cuts Uighur Births with IUDs, Abortion, Sterilization. June 29, 2020. https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-china-health-269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c

[8] Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang. January 19, 2021. https://2017-2021.state.gov/determination-of-the-secretary-of-state-on-atrocities-in-xinjiang/index.html, p. 2. (Emphasis added.)

[9] The Legal Definition of Genocide (Including Discussion and Key Terms) http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext-printerfriendly.htm

[10] Open Letter to the United States Olympic Committee, April 15, 2021, primary signatories, Brian Kennedy, Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China, and Reggie Littlejohn, Founder and President, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, and 110 additional signatories. https://genocidegames.org/

[11] Politico has provided the letter via PDF, which can be accessed by searching with the terms, “Politico Sarah Hirshland.”

[12] 1964: South Africa Banned from the Olympics http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/18/newsid_3547000/3547872.stm

Apartheid-Era South Africa and the Olympics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid-era_South_Africa_and_the_Olympics

[13] It’s Time to Designate the Chinese Communist Party a Transnational Criminal Organization. Frank Gaffney. December 4, 2020.

It’s time to designate the Chinese Communist Party a Transnational Criminal Organization

[14] How China Locked Down Internally for Covid-19 but Pushed Foreign Travel. Sandip Sen. April 30, 2020. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/blogs/Whathappensif/how-china-locked-down-internally-for-covid-19-but-pushed-foreign-travel/

[15] How China’s Belt and Road Became a Global Trail of Trouble. Wade Shepard, January 29, 2020. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2020/01/29/how-chinas-belt-and-road-became-a-global-trail-of-trouble/?sh=45f2f965443d

[16] Fentanyl and Geopolitics: Controlling Opioid Supply from China. Vanda Felbab-Brown. July 22, 2020. https://www.brookings.edu/research/fentanyl-and-geopolitics-controlling-opioid-supply-from-china/

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Reggie to Testify Tuesday at Congressional Hearing re: China Olympics

Posted on May 16, 2021 by Reggie Littlejohn

Reggie standing in front of the United States Capitol, before testifying at a previous hearing

Dear Friend,

We have some exciting news! WRWF’s Reggie Littlejohn will be testifying before two Congressional Committees on Tuesday, in a hearing entitled, “China, Genocide and the Olympics.” We are hoping that this hearing will be viewed all over the world and will ignite a powerful movement to hold China accountable for its many human rights atrocities. See our Announcement below for details on how you can watch this hearing.

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On Tuesday, May 18 at 1:00 p.m. EDT, The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China will hold a joint hearing to examine the implications of holding the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in the People’s Republic of China, regardless of their serious violations of human rights. The Hearing announcement can be viewed HERE. The hearing itself may be watched live HERE.

Reggie Littlejohn, Founder and President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and chair of the Olympics Task force of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, will testify about China’s many egregious human rights violations and crimes against humanity. She will discuss the reasons that the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang/East Turkistan constitutes genocide. She will explore the implications of this determination under the Genocide Convention of 1948, especially concerning a possible relocation or boycott of the Games.

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and the Committee on the Present Danger: China are spearheading an initiative to stop the “Genocide Games.” Their website and Open Letter to the U.S. Olympic Committee can be viewed HERE. This letter was signed by more than one hundred leaders associated with national security, human rights and faith organizations. As co-author and a primary signatory of this Letter, Littlejohn will ask that the Letter be entered into the Congressional Record.

Hosted by:

Rep. Christopher Smith, Co-Chair, TLHRC

Rep. James McGovern, Co-Chair, TLHRC

Sen. Jeffrey Merkley, Chair, CECC

Witnesses:

Dr. Yang Jianli, Founder and President, Citizen Power Initiatives for China

Susan V. Lawrence, Specialist in Asian Affairs, Congressional Research Servidfe

Sophie Richardson, China Director, Human Rights Watch

Rayhan Asat, Human Rights Lawyer and Advocate

Samuel Chu, Managing Director, Hon Kong Democracy Council

Reggie Littlejohn, Founder and President, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers

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Reggie Co-Leads Initiative to Stop the Genocide Games in Beijing

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Reggie Littlejohn

108 Leaders and Luminaries Sign Open Letter to the U.S. Olympics Committee: Stop the ‘Genocide Games’ in Beijing

Invite the Public to Sign a Petition Asking the USOC to Respond to China’s Myriad – and Worsening – Crimes Against Humanity; Hold ‘Freedom Olympics,’ Instead

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Women’s Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF) and the Committee on the Present Danger: China, (CPDC) have released an open letter urging the United States Olympics Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympics out of China. Failing that, the signatories declared that they would mobilize with others to boycott what amounts to “Genocide Games.”

Reggie Littlejohn commented, “It has been officially determined by the United States Department of State and other governmental bodies that the Chinese Communist Party committing genocide against religious and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang / East Turkistan. It is a travesty that they are being honored as the hosts of the 2022 winter Olympic games. Under no circumstances should the finest athletes on earth be forced to compete on the soil of one of the most murderous regimes in human history. We hope to work with the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee to identify an appropriate venue for the ‘Freedom Olympics’ alternative to the ‘Genocide Games’ in Beijing.”

Signing for the sponsoring NGOs were Reggie Littlejohn, the founder and President of WRWF, and CPDC Chairman Brian Kennedy. Among the 108 other signatories who joined them are many courageous Chinese freedom-fighters and human rights activists as well as luminaries from a broad range of disciplines.

The Open Letter begins with a powerful reminder: Adolf Hitler shamelessly exploited his role as host of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin to legitimate his regime, consolidate power and prepare to mount the Holocaust and launch World War Two.

Today, we are witnessing another totalitarian regime determined to use the 2022 Beijing Olympics to advance its quest for absolute control at home and global domination abroad. This prospect has become all the more abhorrent in the wake of the U.S. State Department declaring that the Chinese Communists are engaged in an ongoing genocide against millions of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Province.

The letter makes clear that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is perpetrating a host of other, egregious crimes against humanity, including: religious persecution, forced abortion and sterilization, involuntary organ harvesting, forced labor, mass surveillance, detention of dissidents, unrivalled environmental predation, and the deliberate unleashing of the coronavirus pandemic on the world. Given that the deadline for the response from the USOC was today, the signatories will be pressing for a boycott.

Others determined to join this fight against tyranny and for the Freedom Olympics are invited to learn more and sign a petition at GenocideGames.org.

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Open Letter: Stop the Genocide Olympics!

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Reggie Littlejohn

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Dear Friends,

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers (WRWF) and the Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) released today an open letter urging the United States Olympics Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympics out of China. Failing that, the signatories declared that they will mobilize with others to boycott what amounts to “Genocide Games.”

[See the text of the Letter below.]

Signing for the sponsoring NGOs were Reggie Littlejohn, the founder and President of WRWF, and CPDC Chairman Brian Kennedy. Among the 108 other signatories who joined them are many luminaries – including courageous Chinese freedom-fighters and human rights activists like Chen Guangcheng, Wang Dan, Bob Fu, and Teng Biao– and luminaries from a broad range of disciplines like: Rep. Frank Wolf (Ret.), Frank Gaffney, Eric Metaxas, Kelley Currie, Ellie Cohanim, John-Henry Westen, Fr. Frank Pavone and George Weigel.

The Open Letter begins with a powerful reminder: Adolf Hitler shamelessly exploited his role as host of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin to legitimate his regime, consolidate his power and prepare to mount the Holocaust and launch World War II.

Today, we are witnessing another totalitarian regime determined to use the 2022 Beijing Olympics to advance its quest for absolute control at home and global domination abroad. This prospect has become all the more abhorrent in the wake of the U.S. State Department declaring that the Chinese Communists are engaged in an ongoing genocide against millions of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Province.

The letter makes clear that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is perpetrating a host of other, egregious crimes against humanity as well, including: religious persecution, forced abortion and sterilization, involuntary organ harvesting, forced labor, mass surveillance, detention of dissidents, unrivalled environmental predation, and the deliberate unleashing of the coronavirus pandemic on the world.

Others determined to join this fight against tyranny and for the “Freedom Olympics” are invited to learn more and sign a petition at GenocideGames.org. Do it today!

Here is the text of the letter and the list of signatories:

April 15, 2021

Ms. Susanne Lyons
Chairman
U.S. Olympic Committee
27 S Tejon St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Re: Stop the 2022 Genocide Games

Dear Ms. Lyons:

In 1936, the Olympic Games were held in Berlin, Germany. Predictably, they proved to be an enormous propaganda windfall for Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, affording it unwarranted international prestige, legitimacy and credibility. Arguably, these benefits served as a smokescreen for the horrific crimes against humanity that the Nazi regime subsequently unleashed in its genocidal Holocaust against 6 million Jews and in the course of the world war Hitler precipitated.

Today, we are confronting another totalitarian regime actively engaging in, among crimes against humanity, another genocide. Yet, as of now, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and its international counterpart are preparing to enable the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to receive and exploit a propaganda bonanza that will make what the Nazis enjoyed pale by comparison. That must not happen.

As you know, the United States government has determined that the CCP is genocidally oppressing millions of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in the region of western China they call East Turkistan and the Chinese Communists have branded Xinjiang. At least one million of these victims are incarcerated in scores of concentration camps, some replete with crematoria, where they are being brainwashed, raped, forcibly aborted and sterilized, tortured, organ-harvested and forced to perform slave labor. Is that acceptable to the U.S. Olympic Committee? Would your organization want to be associated with, let alone be seen as condoning, such barbaric behavior?

The U.S. government has prohibited the importation of cotton produced in East Turkistan lest American consumers unwittingly support the CCP’s slave labor practices. Western companies in China that are complying with this requirement – including some that are sponsors of the 2022 Beijing Olympics – are being punished by the Chinese government for such compliance. Does the U.S. Olympic Committee really want to side with China’s slave-masters?

That would especially be the case since the PRC has given no indication that it will abandon the genocidal oppression of Uyghurs and others, let alone dismantle the massive infrastructure used for this purpose. Rather, the CCP will no doubt exploit the “Genocide Games” as proof that the world is indifferent to, if not actually implicitly endorsing, its crimes against humanity.

If the Chinese Communist Party’s systematic oppression of those enslaved in its Captive Nations – including not only Uyghurs, but Tibetans, Southern Mongolians and the people of Hong Kong – were not bad enough, countless millions of Chinese citizens are also victims of the CCP. China employs the world’s most comprehensive state surveillance and a repressive “social credit system” to ensure their submission. Were a Beijing Olympics to occur next year, athletes, international staff and visitors would all be subjected to these invasive and coercive totalitarian techniques, as well.

In addition, Olympians would effectively be legitimating the CCP’s assiduous persecution of millions of religious believers. Millions of Chinese Christians, Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong practitioners and Muslims are among those who have been subjected to CCP imprisonment, torture and executions in the last several decades.

Then there is the matter of the Chinese Communist Party’s involuntary extraction of vital organs. Eminent international human rights experts have found that forced organ harvesting is taking place in the PRC on an industrial scale. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of China’s own people, ethnic and religious minorities and prisoners of conscience have been murdered to profit the CCP. Is the U.S. Olympic Committee willing to associate with the perpetrators of these crimes?

The CCP is the perpetrator of the murderous One Child Policy, through which they have “prevented” 400 million lives through forced abortion, involuntary sterilization, forced contraception and infanticide. Because of son preference, tens of millions of baby girls have been selectively aborted. Forced abortion and sex-selective abortion continue in China under the Two Child Policy. There are now 30 to 40 million more men living in China than women, leading to rampant sex trafficking, forced marriage and sexual slavery. Is it fair to female athletes to force them to compete on Chinese soil, where females are rampantly subjected to the most violent forms of sexual violence?

Communist China is also guilty of unrivaled environmental predations, to the great detriment of both its own people’s health and safety and those of others downwind or downstream from, for example, the CCP’s toxic pollution, damning of rivers and devastating overfishing of international waters. Is your Committee prepared to ignore such irresponsible conduct, to say nothing of subjecting American athletes, USOC personnel and attendees to China’s potentially hazardous environmental conditions?

Finally, holding the 2022 Olympics in Beijing would amount to a vindication of the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to avoid responsibility for the ongoing, murderous coronavirus pandemic that emanated from Wuhan and was then deliberately spread around the world, thanks to the PRC allowing international flights to continue after severely restricting domestic travel. Again, the question occurs: Does the USOC wish to be remembered as standing with the millions of American and other victims of the CCP virus or with those who unleashed it?

For all these reasons, we – the undersigned members of the Committee on the Present Danger: China and leaders of the international human rights community who also stand against the Chinese Communists’ ongoing genocide and other crimes – call upon the U.S. Olympic Committee to lead an urgent international effort to relocate the 2022 Winter Games to another venue in this country or elsewhere, providing a “Freedom Olympics” alternative to the “Genocide Olympics.” Failing that, you are on notice that we will bend every effort to boycott the Games.

We remind you that the 2020 Olympic Charter states: “The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.” Honoring arguably the greatest human rights abuser in the world with the privilege of hosting the Olympics runs directly counter to the Olympic Charter. Holding the Games in Beijing does a tremendous disservice to athletes, who do not want their desire to prove themselves the world’s best to be put in the service of the world’s worst oppressors.

Moreover, under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, to which both China and the United States are parties, the official designation of CCP genocide by the U.S. government requires that we “punish” the offending regime. Specifically, Article 1 of that binding international treaty states: “The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.”

We are, therefore, obliged at a minimum not to reward the Chinese Communist Party with hosting perhaps the most prestigious international event in the world. Instead, we should recognize the CCP as the Transnational Criminal Organization it is and treat it accordingly.

Please advise us at the earliest possible moment whether you and the rest of the U.S. Olympic Committee will stand with us or with the genocidal Chinese Communist Party. If we do not hear within ten days of the date of this letter that you are pressing the IOC to move the Games, we will press for a boycott.

Sincerely,

                                                                Brian Kennedy
                                                                Chairman
                                                                Committee on the Present Danger: China

                                                                Reggie Littlejohn
                                                                Founder and President
                                                                Women’s Rights Without Frontiers

cc:

International Olympic Committee
President Joe Biden
Vice President Kamala Harris
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken
National Security Advisor to the President Jake Sullivan
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member James Risch
House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Greg Meeks
House Committee on Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Michael McCaul
Tom Lantos Commission
International Religious Freedom Caucus
Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Worldwide Corporate Sponsors of the 2022 Olympics:

         Airbnb
         Alibaba Group
         Allianz
         Atos
         Bridgestone
         Coca-Cola
         Dow Chemical
         General Electric
         Intel
         Omega
         Panasonic
         Proctor & Gamble
         Samsung
         Toyota
         Visa, Inc.

Additional Signatories: (108 Signatures)

Carrie Abbott, President, The Legacy Institute

Theodore Baehr, Chairman, MOVIEGUIDE®

Ryan Bomberger, Chief Creative Officer, The Radiance Foundation

Kim Bongiornro, Co-founder, Moral Action Ministry

Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, President, Human Life International

Andi Buerger, Founder, Voices Against Trafficking

Douglas Burton, Senior editor, RuralWatch.News

Ann Buwalda, Executive Director, Jubilee Campaign USA

Yaxue Cao, Director and Editor, China Change

Chris Chappell, Host, China Uncensored

Guangcheng Chen, Human Rights Activist, Author, Barefoot Lawyer

M K Cheng, Advocate, Democracy for Hong Kong in the UK Union

Samul Spurgeon Babu Chuttugalla, Pastor, Youth Gospel Crusade

Bill Clark, NW Director, Peace Catalyst International

Ellie Cohanim, Signing in her Individual Capacity

Anders Corr, Publisher, Journal of Political Risk

Blanquita Cullum, Co-Founder, Voices Against Trafficking

Kelley Currie, Signing in her Individual Capacity

Peggy Dau, Representative, IranAliveMinistries

Stefania Della Santa, Missionary, Associazione L’ONDA

Paula DeSutter, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Tendere’ Veritas Consulting

Hatgin Dolgion, President, Inner Mongolian People’s Party

Gunnery Sergeant Jessie Jane Duff, US Marine Corps (Ret.), Military Advisor, Committee Present Danger: China

Nicholas Eberstadt, Signing in his Individual Capacity

Stephen Enada, President, International Committee on Nigeria

Rt. Rev. Andudu Adam Elnail, Bishop, Co-leader of the GAFCON Suffering Church Network

Charles Faddis, Senior Partner, Artemis

Joseph Farah, Founder and CEO, World Net Daily

Willy Fautre, Founder and Director, Human Rights Without Frontiers

Kevin Freeman, Founder, NSIC Institute

Bob Fu, Founder and President, ChinaAid

Frank Gaffney, Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China

Lela Gilbert, Sr. Fellow for Int’l Religious Freedom, Family Research Council

Dr. Sasha Gong, Signing in her personal capacity

Ethan Gutmann, Signing in his Individual Capacity

Bryan Hickox, Chairman, The Jesus Alliance

Joyce Ho, Founder and Director, Project Black Mask HK

Walter Hoye, CEO, Issues4Life Foundation

Salih Hudayar, Founder & President, East Turkistan National Awakening Movement

Dolkun Isa, President, World Uyghur Congress

Charles Jacobs, President, Americans for Peace and Tolerance

Steve Jalsevac, President, LifeSiteNews.com

Kevin Jessip, Chairman, Save the Persecuted Christians

Sheryl Kaufman, Board Member, Americans for Limited Government

David Kilgour, Member (Ret.), Canadian Parliament

Se Hoon Kim, Director, Captive Nations Coalition (CNC)

Gordon Klingenschmitt, Chaplain, The Pray In Jesus Name Project

Ilshat Kokbore, Director of Chinese affairs department, World Uyghur Congress

Al Kresta, President & CEO, Ave Maria Radio

Tash Lamsang, President, Tibetan Youth Congress NY&NJ

Ann Lau, Chair, Visual Artists Guild

Dede Laugesen, Executive Director, Save the Persecuted Christians

Chung Hang Baggio Leung, Former Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, HK Legislative Council

Sean Lin, Executive Director, Truth Warrior Alliance

Ted Lipien, President, Free Media Online

Clare Lopez, Signing in her personal capacity

Carnes Lord, Professor of Strategic Leadership, US Naval War College

Robert Maness, CEO, Iron Liberty Group LLC

Richard Manning, President, Americans for Limited Government

Bradley Mattes, President, Life Issues Institute

Faith McDonnell, Director of Advocacy, Katartismos Global (KGI Global)

Jill McElya, President, Invisible Girl Project

Eric Metaxas, President and Founder, Socrates in the City

John Mills, Former Director, Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs, Retired – Department of Defense

Janet Morana, Executive Director, Priests For Life

Allen Morris, Executive Director, Concerned Methodists

Anne Morse, signing in my individual capacity

Steve Mosher, President, Population Research Institute

Maura Moynihan, Author, researcher, Tibet Policy Group

Troy Newman, President, Operation Rescue

Ayman Abdel Nour, President, Syrian Christians for peace

Elizabeth Nowrasteh, Screenwriter, The Stoning of Soraya M. And The Young Messiah

Jenny Noyes, Executive Director, New Wineskins Missionary Network

Ghulam Osman, President, East Turkistan Government in Exile

George Parker, Executive Director, Revealing Light Ministries

Jorge Parrott, President, Christ’s Mandate for Missions

Janet Parshall, Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host/Author, In The Market with Janet Parshall

Rev. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life

Bart Peacher, Founder/President, It Is Time Israel

Paul Pickern, CEO, All Pro Pastors International

Mike Ramirez, Event Coordinator, San Antonio, Texas Patriots’ Group

Shakeel Raphael, Director, Free Nadeem Samson

Tenzin Sampho, Represent, US-Tibet Committee

Suzanne Scholte, President, Defense Forum Foundation

Donald Shenk, Director, Gospel Tide Broadcasting Association

Deborah Sigmund, Founder & Executive Director, Innocents at Risk

Terese Simpson, Signing in her Individual Capacity

Mark Singer, Co-founder, Moral Action Ministry

Molly Smith, President, Cleveland Right to Life

Gani Stambekov, President, Free Kazakhs

Patricia Streeter, Co-leader, Anglican Persecuted Church Network

Carol Swain, President, Be the People Project

Juliana Taimoorazy, Founder and President, Iraqi Christian Relief Council

Biao Teng, President, China Against the Death Penalty

Bradley Thayer, Professor, CPDC Advisor

Enghebatu Togochog, President, Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center

Quoc-Hung Tran MD, Vice President, Vietnam Democracy Center

Dan Wang, Student Leader, Tiananmen Square Pro-Democracy Movement

George Weigel, signing in his individual capacity

John-Henry Westen, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, LifeSite News

Frank Wolf, Member of Congress 1981-2014, retired

Jianli Yang, President, Citizen Power Initiatives for China

Elizabeth Yore, Esq., Founder, YoreChildren

Gong Yi Yuan, Chairman, Hong Kong Freedom Beacon Inc.

Maria Zack, President, Nations in Action

Jing Zhang, Executive Director, Women’s Rights in China

Lin Zhang, Writer, Liberty China

Fengsuo Zhou, Founder and President, Humanitarian China

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