Women’s World Surfing Champ Boycotts China

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Reggie Littlejohn


Women’s Rights Without Frontiers applauds Cori Schumacher, the reigning Women’s World Longboard Surfing Champion.  Schumacher is boycotting the 2011 World Tour on moral grounds, because one of the events will be held in China.  Citing a hearing before the United States Congress Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, Schumacher wrote the following to the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP):

“I have deep political and personal reservations with being a part of any sort of benefit to a country that actively engages in human rights violations, specifically those in violation of women. The ASP’s reconnaissance of possible sites in China for events last year and its first ASP event in China followed an important US congressional hearing on China’s “One Child Policy,” a policy sanctioned by the Chinese government that is implicated in gendercide, sexual slavery, forced sterilization and forced abortions. (http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=congressional)”

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers issues the following statement:

“To Ms. Schumacher: You are a woman of tremendous courage, conviction and backbone — a shining light not only to female athletes, but to all women who are struggling for basic human dignity, all over the world.  Your decision to boycott the ASP 2011 World Tour comes at a price.  Your sacrifice is a great inspiration to the women of China and has been publicized there widely.  You embody the highest ideals of athleticism – not only outstanding achievement in your sport, but also a consummate moral vision that finds expression in courageous and self-sacrificing action.  We salute you.

“To the ASP:  China’s One Child Policy is enforced through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.  It is also a driving force behind gendercide, sexual slavery, and female suicide.  It causes more violence towards women and girls than any other official policy on earth and any other official policy in the history of the world.  Why are you dignifying this brutality by holding your tournament in China?  Read the Congressional Testimony of forced abortion victim Wujian and watch the four minute video, “Stop Forced Abortion in China!”  Then do the right thing:  move your tournament to the shores of a land whose waves are not awash in the blood of women.”

Relevant Links:

Congressional Testimony of Forced Abortion Victim Wujian:

http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=wujian

Stop Forced Abortion in China! (four minute video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY

Petition against forced abortion in China:

http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition

Article Announcing Schumacher’s boycott:

http://blog.surf-station.com/2011/03/world-champion-boycotts-2011-asp-tour/

Report of Schumacher’s Boycott in Mandarin on Voice of America:

http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110416-women-world-champion-119972704.html

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China: Family Planning Official Stabs Man to Death

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Reggie Littlejohn

Linyi City, Shandong Province, China.   On the night of March 21, 2011, near the home of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, a Family Planning Official stabbed a young man to death while he was trying to protect his father from a beating.  Family Planning Officials entered the home of Mr. Xu Shuaishuai looking for his sister to seize her for a forced sterilization.  When they could not find Mr. Xu’s sister, they beat and injured his father.  When Mr. Xu tried to defend his father, one of the Family Planning Officials stabbed Mr. Xu in the heart twice with a long knife.  Mr. Xu died on the way to the hospital.

Local government authorities have not apologized to the family of Mr. Xu, nor have they arrested the murderer.  The local news agencies have declined to report on the murder.  A full translation of the Boxun report is below.

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers extends its condolences to the family of Mr. Xu.  We also forcefully condemn this atrocious crime.  We demand that the Chinese Communist Party bring the family planning murderer and his accomplices at the Family Planning Office to swift justice.

The murder of Mr. Xu underscores the brutality of the coercive enforcement of China’s One Child Policy.  The first level of coercion is directed against the women themselves.  In this case the Family Planning Officials came to Mr. Xu’s home to seize his sister for a forced sterilization.  The violence, however, extends to family members, including siblings, parents and even elderly grandparents.

The fact that no action is being taken against the family planning murderer demonstrates one of two things:  either the Chinese Communist Party sanctions murder to enforce its One Child Policy, or the CCP has lost control of its Family Planning Officials and is unable to bring the murderer to justice.

This family planning murder is a shocking and extreme example of the way in which the CCP uses the seemingly innocuous “One Child Policy” to terrorize the people of China, but every day coercive family planning presses fear into the hearts of the Chinese people.  Women who become pregnant without a birth permit — illegally pregnant – are terrified of discovery and forced abortion.  Fathers feel helpless to protect their wives and children.  Paid informants – friends, neighbors, co-workers — tear down trust in Chinese society.  Family members can be detained and tortured.

The One Child Policy, moreover, is causing a demographic disaster for the nation of China and it makes no sense to continue it.  Because of the traditional preference for boys, girls are disproportionately aborted.  This “gendercide” has given rise to a critical gender imbalance:  there are now an estimated 37 million more men than women in China.  Thirty seven million men who will never marry is an irresistible, driving force behind sexual slavery, not only in China but in the surrounding countries as well.  And in the year 2030, China’s retirees will overtake the ability of the diminished youthful population to support it.  China has no social security and no effective plan to deal with this “senior tsunami.”  Because of the lack of young workers, China is no longer a source of inexpensive labor and is losing foreign investment to other nations.  See, e.g., “China’s Workforce Dries Up,” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8409513/Chinas-workforce-dries-up.html, March 30, 2011.

The CCP instituted the One Child Policy in 1980 to enhance China’s economic prosperity.  Ironically, this same Policy has become China’s economic death sentence.  Why, then, does the CCP insist on keeping this policy long after it has served its purpose?  Could it be that the purpose of the One Child Policy is no longer to control the size of the population, but rather to keep a tight fist on social and political control?   Could it be that the One Child Policy not only results in terrorizing the population, but in fact instilling terror has become its very purpose?

How does this affect us?  We (the people of the United States, England, and other nations) are helping finance the infrastructure used in coercive family planning in China.  The international community funds UNFPA, United Nations Family Planning Fund, as well as IPPF, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and Marie Stopes International.  These organizations are operative “abortion providers” in China.  In 2008, then Secretary of State Colin Powell found that UNFPA was complicit in coercive family planning in China.  And the IPPF website openly declares, “The China Family Planning Association (CFPA) plays a very important role in China’s family planning programme.  It supports the present family planning policy of the government, which is appropriate for the present national situation . . .” http://www.ippf.org/en/Where/cn.htm.  Meanwhile, the website for Marie Stopes International, lists as “major partners” the Family Planning Commissions of several provinces in China. http://www.mariestopes.org/Where_we_work/Countries/China.aspx

Why are we financing the infrastructure of coercive family planning and forced abortion in China with taxpayer money?

To sign a petition against forced abortion and sexual slavery in China, click here. http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition

Translation of the report published on Boxun:

http://boxun.com/news/gb/china/2011/03/201103272151.shtml

Linyi County, Shangdong Province, China.  About 7:00 p.m. on the evening of March 21, 2011, Family Planning Officials from Jiuqu Town, Hedong District, Linyi County, Shangdong province, together with the women’s director of Suyubu village of Jiuqu town –a total of more than 10 people — came to the home of Mr. Xu Shuaishuai (the victim) in Xiao Xujia Zhanzi Village in Taiping Town of Hedong District.  They arrived to coerce the sister of Xu Shuaishuai to be forcibly sterilized.

When the Family Planning Officials could not find the sister of Xu Shuaishuai, they initiated an argument with the father of Xu Shuaishuai and they began to beat him.  When Mr. Xu Shuaishuai saw his father being beaten and injured, he came out and tried to stop the beating.  Suddenly, one of the Family Planning Officials stabbed Mr. Xu Shuaishuai twice in the heart with a long knife.  Mr. Xu Shuanishuai immediately fell unto the ground, bleeding.  He died on the way to the hospital.

News of this incident immediately spread:  the local Family Planning Officials illegally went to the home of a local famer and viciously murdered an innocent young man who tried to protect his father in his own home.  The local farmers protested and strongly condemned this action. When the family members of the victim approached the local government and Public Security Bureau asking for justice, they were rejected and given various excuses.  No one from the Family Planning Department apologized to the family of the victim. The murderer is still enjoying his freedom as though nothing had happened.

The family of the victim also stated that they did come to ask for help from the local news media, but the local media always listen to the local government.  The local news paper, Yimeng Evening, told the family that they dared not report the incident.  The local TV Program, called “Today’s Law,” stated that they need to report to the leaders, and that they are waiting for  direction from above.

With the unexpected, heavy blow of losing her son, the mother of the victim is now suffering a mental disorder, sometimes crying and sometimes laughing.  Meanwhile, the honest and faithful father lost all human feeling while facing the ruthless conduct of the local government.  At times he wishes he had died together with his murdered son.

Originally reported by Xu Jin on the Weiquan web site, as told by Lu Feng of Linyi.  http://groups.google.com/group/weiquanwang_CHRD/browse_thread/thread/62f35e9684440133?pli=1

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China May Drop One-Child Policy, But Coercive Abortion Likely Would Continue

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Reggie Littlejohn

Posted on Mar 31, 2011 | by Tom Strode

WASHINGTON (BP)–China may consider lifting its one-child policy, but that does not mean it will terminate its practice of coercive population control, an American advocate for women’s rights says.

A two-child policy to start in 2015 was proposed at the annual meeting of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the National People’s Congress the week of March 6-12, according to The Lancet, a British medical journal. If enacted, the change would discard the current one-child policy in cities. A two-child policy already is in place in rural areas and among minorities, if the first is a girl.

Communist Chinese officials often have brutally enforced the one-child policy since it was implemented in 1979. Government actions against those found in violation have included forced abortions on women in the eighth and ninth months of pregnancy and compulsory sterilizations. Penalties also have included fines, arrests and the destruction of homes.

The program — which requires all women to have a birth permit before becoming pregnant and monitors the reproductive cycles of women of child-bearing age — also has resulted in the infanticide and abandonment of female babies, according to reports.

Reggie Littlejohn says a switch to an urban, two-child policy will not soften China’s population control program.

“The problem with the One Child Policy is not the number of children allowed,” Littlejohn said in a written statement to Baptist Press. “Rather, it is the fact that the policy is enforced through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide. Even if some couples will eventually be allowed to have two children, the Chinese Communist Party has emphatically not stated that they will cease their appalling methods of enforcement.”

Littlejohn is president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, a coalition that combats coercive abortion and sexual slavery in China.

Evidence from the regions already with a two-child policy shows the higher limit has done little to prevent the widespread aborting of girls in a country with a heavy preference for boys. The “areas in which two children are allowed are especially vulnerable to ‘gendercide,’ the sex-selective abortion of females,” Littlejohn said.

A study of the data from nine provinces in the 2005 Chinese national census showed 160 boys are born for every 100 girls, she said. A 2009 British medical journal analysis of the information concluded, she said, “Sex-selective abortion accounts for almost all the excess males.”

The resulting gender imbalance will result in an estimated 30 to 40 million more marriage-age men than women by 2020, according to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. “This gender imbalance is a powerful, driving force behind trafficking in women and sexual slavery, not only in China, but in neighboring nations as well,” Littlejohn said.

The enforcement of China’s population control policy “causes more violence toward women and girls than any other official policy on earth, and any other official policy in the history of the world,” Littlejohn said.

Wang Yuqing, deputy director of China’s Committee of Population, Resources and Environment, spoke in favor of gradually expanding the two-child policy, according to the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. He cited China’s aging population as a reason for the change.

Critics of China’s policy point to another statistic as an additional example of the fallout from forced population control: There are about 500 suicides a day by Chinese women, according to the World Health Organization, making China the only country in the world with a higher female suicide rate than that of males.

American opponents of China’s one-child policy have urged the Obama administration and the United Nations to end their apparent indifference on the issue. They have called for President Obama to reverse his policy of funding the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which has been found to support China’s program. Obama reinstituted support for UNFPA, providing more than $100 million to the agency the last two years.
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Tom Strode is Washington bureau chief for Baptist Press.  The Baptist Press is the news service of the Southern Baptist Convention.  Republished with permission.

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Reggie Littlejohn Testifies on One Child Policy at European and British Parliaments

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Reggie Littlejohn

Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and expert on China’s One Child Policy for the China Aid Association (Midland, Texas) and Human Rights Without Frontiers (Brussels, Belgium), spoke on the topic,  “Coerced Abortion in ‘Sexual and Reproductive Rights’ in China” at both the European Parliament in Brussels (March 22, 2011) and the British Parliament Palace at Westminster in London (March 23, 2011), at the invitation of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute and the All-Party Parliamentary Working Group on Human Dignity.

Here are excerpts from Ms. Littlejohn’s remarks:

On March 8, 2011 the world marked the milestone of the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day. While we celebrate the great advance of women’s rights in many nations, women in other nations have seen a decline.  As the president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, I am dedicated to the plight of the 100 million missing women who are victims of “gendercide,” the sex-selective abortion of baby girls.  And let us not forget the women in China who are victims of the One Child Policy, which is enforced through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.  I have been asked to speak about China’s One Child Policy in the context of “Sexual and Reproductive Rights.”  The women of China have had perhaps their most fundamental sexual and reproductive right stripped away:  the right to bear children.

Most people know that China has a One Child Policy.  Very few people stop to think about how it’s enforced – through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.  The coercive enforcement of China’s One Child Policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth.  It is the largest women’s rights issue in the world today, affecting one out of every five women in the world.  Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice on this issue, no one supports forced abortion, because it is not a choice.

The One Child Policy causes violence against women and girls in the following ways:

First, forced abortion is violent.  Women are literally dragged out of their homes.  These forced abortions can happen up the ninth month of pregnancy.  Sometimes the women themselves die.

This is picture of Liu Dan.  In 2009, she was 21 years old and 9 months pregnant when family planning police grabbed her out of her home, dragged her pleading and crying to the local family planning office, and forcibly aborted her full term baby.  They did this even though they already knew from medical tests that she had high blood pressure and that a forced late term abortion would be dangerous for her.  After the forced abortion, she lay alone and unconscious in an operating room in the family planning center.  Sensing something was wrong, her fiancé burst into the room at 3:00 a.m. to find her bleeding from the eyes, nose, ears and mouth.  Even so, the family planning police refused to call for emergency help, until her family insisted.  Help arrived too late.  Liu Dan died, along with her full term baby.

I believe that forced abortion as it is practiced in China is official government rape.  It is the violent, state sanctioned penetration of a woman to destroy her bodily integrity.  A victim of forced abortion, like a victim of rape, is traumatized physically, emotionally and spiritually.  She will never be the same again.  Forced abortion tramples on the human dignity of women.  Any discussion of women’s rights, of human rights, or of human dignity, would be a charade if forced abortion in China is not front and center.  Rather, the Chinese Communist Party’s forced abortion policy is systematic, institutionalized violence against women.

[Note:  To view the video, “Stop Forced Abortion in China!” click here.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY.]

Forced sterilization is also violent and can lead to life-long health complications.

Regarding infanticide, read the chilling document called “Best Practices – Infanticide.”  It’s a web-based discussion copied from the official website for Chinese obstetricians and gynecologists about how best to kill infants being born alive during induced labor forced abortion.  [Note:  To read this document, click here.  http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=congressional.]

Because of the traditional preference for boys, girls are selectively aborted, resulting in the snuffing out of little female lives.  It is estimated that there are 100 million women and girls missing in the world today due to sex selective abortion.  This is called gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of baby girls.

Because of this gendercide, there are an estimate 37 million more men than women living in China today  — 37 million frustrated men who will never marry because their future wives were aborted before they were born.  This gender imbalance is in turn the driving force behind human trafficking and sexual slavery, not only within China but also the surrounding countries, including North Korea, Vietnam, Burma, Mongolia and Thailand.

China has the highest female suicide rate in the world.  According to the World Health Organization, 500 women end their lives every day in China.  I don’t think that the despair that leads to suicide is unrelated to the coercive enforcement of the One Child Policy.

Forced abortion.  Forced sterilization.  Infanticide.  Gendercide.  Sexual slavery.  Suicide.  These are the unintended consequences of the One Child Policy.

Not only are the women themselves persecuted, but those who stand up for them are persecuted as well.  Blind activist Chen Guangcheng is a national hero in China, because he has had the courage to stand up against the hated One Child Policy.  Chen exposed the fact that there were 130,000 forced abortions and sterilizations in Linyi County in 2005.  For this he was jailed for four years and three months, tortured, and denied medical treatment.  Last month a video featuring Chen Guangcheng was leaked to the West.  The next day Chen and his wife, Yuan Weijing, were “beaten senseless” in retaliation for the release of the video.  They were denied medical treatment.  Women’s Rights Without Frontiers calls for the immediate, unconditional release from house arrest of Chen Guangcheng and his family, and for urgent medical treatment.  Those in China cannot criticize the One Child Policy without putting themselves and their families at risk.  [Note: To sign a petition to Free Chen Guangcheng, click here: http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/.]

In China, a woman’s body is not her own.  It belongs to the state.  A woman’s womb is the most intimate part of her body – physically, emotionally and spiritually. For the Chinese Communist Party to force its bloody hand right into a woman’s womb and crush the life inside her is a heinous crime against humanity.  It must be stopped. [Note:  To sign a petition to stop forced abortion in China, click here:  http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition.]

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International Women’s Day: Reggie Littlejohn is Keynote Speaker, Award Recipient

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Reggie Littlejohn

Reggie Littlejohn highlighted the suffering of women under China’s One Child Policy as the Keynote Speaker and Award of Excellence recipient at the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day celebration in Boston on March 8, 2011.  Below are her remarks.

I am deeply humbled to receive the Award of Excellence on this historic day, and I applaud the Women’s Information Network for its vision and courage in highlighting the biggest women’s rights issue in the world today:  the coercive enforcement of China’s One Child Policy.  I accept this award on behalf of the women and families who continue to suffer because of forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.  In accepting this award I acknowledge Congressman Chris Smith, and his wife Marie, who have gone before me as true heroes tirelessly advocating against forced abortion in China for decades.  I also acknowledge Bob Fu, Mark Shan and Brother George of the China Aid Association, who have worked shoulder to shoulder with me in the delicate and difficult effort to document coercive family planning in China.  I acknowledge the anonymous sources within China who have risked their safety to leak to the West the brutal truth about coercive population control at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.

Today marks the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day.  Think of how far we’ve come in the past 100 years.  Women of the 20th century have been true trail-blazers, shattering almost every glass ceiling that loomed above our foremothers of 100 years ago. Marie Curie became pre-eminent in the sciences, winning not just one, but two Nobel Prizes.  Amelia Earhart was a pioneer in aviation, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.  We have seen the rise of great women humanitarians, such as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Mother Teresa.  And we have seen several powerful Prime Ministers:  Golda Meir of Israel, Indira Gandhi of India, and Margaret Thatcher of the UK.  It is only a matter of time before we see a woman President of the United States.

While women in some areas of the world celebrate the great advances in women’s rights in our nations, women in other areas have seen a decline.  As the president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, I am dedicated to the plight of more than half a billion women in China who are victims of the One Child Policy.  They have had perhaps their most fundamental right stripped away:  the right to bear children.  And let us not forget the 100 million missing women who are victims of “gendercide,” the sex-selective abortion of baby girls.

Most people know that China has a One Child Policy.  Very few people stop to think about how it’s enforced – through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.

The coercive enforcement of China’s One Child Policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth.  It is the biggest women’s rights issue in the world today.  It does not matter whether you are pro-life or pro-choice on this issue.  No one supports forced abortion, because it is not a choice.

The One Child Policy causes violence against women and girls in the following ways:

First, forced abortion is violent.  Women are literally dragged out of their homes.  These forced abortions can happen up the ninth month of pregnancy.  Sometimes the women themselves die during late term forced abortions.  [Note:  to view a four-minute video, “Stop Forced Abortion in China!” click here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY]

Second, forced sterilization is also violent and can lead to life-long health complications.

Third, regarding infanticide, I point you to a document I submitted into the Congressional Record, called “Best Practices – Infanticide.”  It’s a web-based discussion copied from the official website for Chinese obstetricians and gynecologists about how best to kill infants being born alive during induced labor forced abortion.  [Note:  To read this document and other expert reports, click here. http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=congressional]

Fourth, because of the traditional preference for boys, girls are selectively aborted, resulting in the snuffing out of little female lives.  It is estimated that there are 100 million women and girls missing in the world today due to sex selective abortion.  This is called gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of baby girls.

Fifth, because of this gendercide, there are an estimate 37 million more men than women living in China today  — 37 million frustrated men who will never marry because their future wives were sex-selected for abortion before they were born.  This gender imbalance is in turn the driving force behind human trafficking and sexual slavery, not only within China but also the surrounding countries, including North Korea, Vietnam, Burma, Mongolia and Thailand.

Sixth, China has the highest female suicide rate in the world.  According to the World Health Organization, 500 women end their lives every day in China.  I don’t think that the despair that leads to suicide is unrelated to the coercive enforcement of the One Child Policy.

Forced abortion.  Forced sterilization.  Infanticide.  Gendercide.  Sexual slavery.  Suicide.  These are the unintended consequences of the One Child Policy.

Not only are the women themselves persecuted, but those who stand up for them are persecuted as well.  Blind activist Chen Guangcheng is a hero in China, because he has had the courage to stand up against the hated One Child Policy.  Chen exposed the fact that there were 130,000 forced abortions and sterilizations in Linyi County in 2005.  For this he was jailed for four years and three months, tortured, and denied medical treatment.  Last month a video featuring Chen Guangcheng was leaked to the West.  Chen and his wife, Yuan Weijing, were “beaten senseless” in retaliation for the release of the video.  They were denied medical treatment.  Women’s Rights Without Frontiers calls for the immediate, unconditional release from house arrest of Chen Guangcheng and his family, and for urgent medical treatment. [Note:  to sign a petition to Free Chen Guangcheng, click here: http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=chen-guangcheng]

Those in China cannot criticize the One Child Policy without putting themselves and their families at risk.  As an American, I have free speech.  Because I can speak out, I feel the moral obligation to do so.

How does forced abortion in China affect us as Americans?  In two ways:

First, CNN’s Ted Turner has repeatedly called for the whole world, including the United States, to adopt the One Child Policy, most recently at the Cancun Climate Conference in December 2010.  Turner says that its enforcement is not coercive.  This statement is demonstrably false.  Adopting the One Child Policy worldwide would hurl women’s rights back to the dark ages.

Second, forced abortion in China affects us as Americans because we’re subsidizing it by funding the UNFPA, which was found by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to be complicit in coercive family planning in China.  Why should American tax dollars subsidize forced abortion in China?

People often ask me how I became involved with this issue.  For years I was a litigation attorney and represented large companies in their intellectual property or commercial lawsuits.  In the mid-nineties I represented a Chinese refugee in her case for political asylum.  She had been forcibly sterilized — dragged out of her home screaming and pleading, strapped down to a table, and sterilized without anesthesia.  The surgical instruments were not sanitary, so she suffered from a massive infection that left her with chronic back pain, abdominal pain and migraines, destroying her health.  It was through this dear woman that I discovered the horrifying reality behind the One Child Policy.

In 2003 and for several years afterwards, I faced my own personal health crisis.  During mastectomy surgery, I became infected with a highly drug-resistant MRSA staph infection.  Overnight I went from being a big firm lawyer to lying flat on my back, completely disabled, and crying out to God to spare my life.  As I faced my own mortality, my heart went out to those who were worse off than I was, especially women like my former client who were undergoing forced abortion or forced sterilization at that moment.  Facing death, I wanted my life to make a difference for them.  I believe I was restored to complete health by a divine hand and given a mission that sets my heart on fire:  to end forced abortion and sexual slavery in China.  Doors have swung open to me as I embraced this mission.

Every woman here has her own story, and no one on earth is immune from suffering.  May our pain make us more compassionate towards the needs of others, especially those in even greater pain.  Perhaps you have already found an issue that sets your heart on fire and you have dedicated your life to making a difference for others.  If so, I wish you all the best.

But perhaps you haven’t yet.  Do you want your life to have more meaning and purpose?  Do you want to have an impact?  Women in the United States and all over the world need your help.  In the US, we have an urgent problem with human trafficking and sexual slavery.  There are many excellent organizations that address this issue.  Donate money to them, or volunteer for them.  Get involved!  If you want to help fight forced abortion in China, please let me know — I’d love to work with you.  It’s amazing how much power there is in simply putting the link to an organization on your Facebook page or tweeting about it.  You can start by signing the petition to free Chen Guangcheng. http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=chen-guangcheng

There are women all over the world who desperately need our help – victims of female genital mutilation, bride burning, stoning, honor killing, forced abortion, forced sterilization, gendercide, sexual slavery.  These practices must be stopped, and stopping them is no small challenge.  We need the full commitment of every person who is able to help.  Think of the issue that breaks your heart.  Resolve to take the first step towards helping women who need you today – the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day.  A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step. Remember, women are not free until all women are free.

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Obama Kowtows to Beijing — Voice of America Broadcasting into China to be Slashed

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Reggie Littlejohn

For almost 70 years, Voice of America has been broadcasting uncensored news and the spirit of democracy into China, a nation suffering under a brutal, totalitarian regime.  Now, the Obama Administration has put VOA’s Mandarin services on the chopping block.  If the plan goes through, VOA will no longer broadcast TV or radio into China, beginning October 1.  The excuse given is budget cuts, and yet according to my contacts at VOA, eliminating VOA’s Mandarin services will not save any taxpayer money.  Rather, the money that would have gone to the Mandarin services will simply go to other VOA services.

If it’s not saving money, why cut the Mandarin services?  Is it a coincidence that this proposed cut follows closely on the heels of the U.S. visit of President Hu Jintao?  Why is DC kowtowing to Beijing, just as Beijing is ramping up its propaganda machine in the West?  According to a Washington Times article, China is ready to launch 60 U.S. affiliates — to broadcast communist propaganda across our land.

I believe that the VOA Mandarin Service has been singled out for the chopping block precisely because of its effectiveness – it has been the leading international broadcaster into China for nearly 70 years and has an enormous following inside China.  VOA has been a thorn in the side of the Chinese Communist Party by exposing, for example, the persecution of human rights lawyers and the use of forced abortion to enforce China’s hated One Child Policy.   My interview about China’s One Child Policy on VOA’s Mandarin Service generated an ardent and wide-ranging discussion, in which people from all over China called in to comment and discuss.  The interview gave Chinese citizens a national forum in which to debate passionately held beliefs – an opportunity they otherwise would not have had, but for VOA.  (See links to this interview at the end of this blog.)

The VOA Mandarin Service serves an absolutely critical and unique role in getting the truth into China, giving Chinese citizens access to information they otherwise would not have because of information blackouts within China.  The BBC has also just announced that it is cutting out its Mandarin services.  Where will the Chinese people get news they can trust?  How will the voice of democracy be heard by those languishing under the steel fist of totalitarianism?   We must stand up and fight against this attempt to silence the voice of democracy and freedom in China!  Please vote in the Washington Times Poll to keep VOA Mandarin Services:

Keep VOA Mandarin Service – VOA Poll

http://www.washingtontimes.com/polls/2011/feb/15/should-obama-cancel-voa-broadcasts-china/

The following articles are relevant to this blog post:

Washington Times:  VOA Radio Broadcasts into China Signing Off, While Beijing Boosts Propaganda

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/15/obama-admin-to-cancel-voice-of-america-china-broad/print/

VOA:  Congressional Battle Brewing Over VOA Mandarin Service Cuts

http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/02/16/congressional-battle-brewing-over-voa-mandarin-service-cuts-2/

China Daily:  VOA, BBC Cease Radio Shows Into China

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-02/17/content_12029152.htm

Reggie Littlejohn’s interview on China’s One Child Policy, Voice of America, Audrey Fan Ye, September 23, 2010

Part 1 of 3 2010-09-23 时事大家谈(1/3): 中国一胎化政策30周年

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR-_Of4_K2c

Part 2 of 3  2010-09-23 时事大家谈(2/3): 中国一胎化政策30周年

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6L3yPv4rOE

Part 3 of 3  2010-09-23 时事大家谈(3/3): 中国一胎化政策30周年

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lex8652YDyo

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China: Forced Abortion Opponent “Beaten Senseless” by Government Agents — Chen Guangcheng

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Reggie Littlejohn

A new video featuring One Child Policy activist Chen Guangcheng was leaked to the China Aid Association Wednesday.  It has just been reported that this morning, Chen and his wife, Yuan Weijing, were “beaten senseless” in retaliation for the release of the video.

Blind activist Chen exposed the systematic use of forced abortion in implementing China’s One Child Policy.  His work has not gone unnoticed by the world.  Time Magazine named him in its list of “2006’s Top 100 People Who Shape Our World,” in the category of “Heroes and Pioneers.”  In 2007 he was awarded the Magsaysay award, known as Asia’s Nobel Prize.

The Chinese Communist Party, however, took a different view.  For standing up for the rights of Chinese women, Chen was handed a four year, three month jail sentence, was tortured and denied medical treatment, and is now languishing under house arrest.  No one had heard from him since September until yesterday, when he released this video.

We are alarmed about the brutal beating of Chen and his wife, who are reportedly unable to move from their beds.  We are also indignant about the conditions of Chen’s house arrest.  A total of 66 security police surround their home day and night.  Chen has been denied medical treatment.  Nor can they communicate with the outside world, as their phone and computer access have been cut off.

At least that was the plan of the Chinese Communist Party.  That plan was shattered by “a reliable government source who is sympathetic to Chen’s cause and outraged by the treatment of Chen,” according to CAA.  In other words, Chen’s video was leaked to the West by a Chinese government insider.

This “reliable government source” must be a person of tremendous courage.  The CCP is no doubt interrogating all those responsible for walling Chen off from the world, to determine which of them was responsible for providing Chen with the means to get his message out.  If the person responsible for leaking the video is discovered, I shudder to think what may happen to them.

What does this act of defiance by a “reliable government source” say about the credibility of the CCP within China?  Has its human rights record become so debased that its own security police are willing to risk their safety to stand up for those they have been hired to victimize?

Not only are Chen and his family under house arrest, but security forces appear to have intimidated his entire village.  According to a Radio Free Asia report last month, a woman attempting to visit Chen said, “No one in this village will speak a word about [Chen] . . . None of the villagers I spoke to, nor the police, was even willing to utter his name.”

Why is the CCP so determined to crush Chen, as though he were a dangerous criminal?  The CCP wants the world to believe that its One Child Policy is voluntary.  Chinese President Hu Jintao, during his visit to Washington last month, told Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen that China has no policy of forced abortion.  In contrast, Chen single-handedly exposed the fact that there were 130,000 forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations in Linyi County, Shandong Province in just one year, 2005.  If China truly has no forced abortion policy, then why didn’t the regime jail those who were performing these forced abortions?  Why instead has it jailed and beaten Chen Guangcheng?

The fact that Chen remains under house arrest proves that President Hu’s statement is false.  The fact that Chen remains unyielding – continuing to urge his fellow citizens to stand up for their rights in China – must rankle party bosses.

Chen Guangcheng is the “Tank Man” against China’s One Child Policy. Impoverished, beaten and blind, Chen nevertheless possesses the surpassing backbone to stand alone against the grinding juggernaut of this totalitarian regime.  The CCP apparently perceives in Chen a real threat to its crumbling legitimacy.

In pressing for justice for Chen and his family, let us not forget those for whom he has sacrificed his freedom:  the women and families of China who are being shattered daily by forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.  The coercive enforcement of China’s One Child Policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth.  It is the greatest women’s rights issue in the world today.  It does not matter whether you are pro-life or pro-choice on this issue.  No one supports forced abortion, because it is not a choice.

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers calls for the immediate, unconditional release from house arrest of Chen Guangcheng and his family, and for urgent medical treatment. To sign a petition to Free Chen Guangcheng, click here: http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/

A wise man once said, “A house divided cannot stand.”  The CCP does everything it can to present itself as a monolithic behemoth, but does it recognize in the hated One Child Policy its Achilles heel?

AUTHOR’S NOTE:  The following links are relevant to this article:

Malcolm Moore, The Telegraph, 2/10/11
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8316265/Blind-Chinese-activist-beaten-senseless.html

Exclusive Video Shows Ill Treatment and Illegal Detention of Blind Activist Chen Guangcheng, China Aid, 2/9/11
http://www.chinaaid.org/2011/02/exclusive-video-shows-ill-treatment.html?utm_source=BP_recent

Qiao Long and Richard Finney, “Chinese Women Forced to Abort, Radio Free Asia 2/3/11
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/abortions-02032011105802.html

Xin Yu and Sun Jian, “No Let-Up for Activists,” Radio Free Asia 1/12/11
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/nobel-01122011123903.html

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Radio Free Asia — Chinese Women Forced to Abort

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Reggie Littlejohn

Radio Free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/abortions-02032011105802.html

CHINA – FORCED ABORTION – ONE-CHILD POLICY

China’s One-Child policy leads to widespread suffering and abuse.

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers – Friends grieve at the funeral of a 21-year-old Chinese woman who died following a forced abortion in February, 2009.
February 3, 2011 – Chinese authorities routinely force women to terminate “unauthorized” pregnancies despite President Hu Jintao’s denial that the practice exists, experts say.

Hu’s denial came at a meeting with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, when the Chinese leader made a state visit to the United States last month.

In a statement released following the meeting, Ros-Lehtinen said she had challenged Hu on a range of Chinese human rights abuses.

“Out of all the issues I raised, the only one which received a response from Mr. Hu was my statement urging the end of China’s forced abortion policy. I was astonished when he insisted that such a policy does not exist,” Ros-Lehtinen said.

Speaking in an interview, women’s rights advocate Reggie Littlejohn slammed Hu’s statement as “an absolutely appalling misrepresentation.”

“It is an undeniable fact that forced abortion occurs in China, and we have lots of evidence of this,” said Littlejohn, president of the California-based Women’s Rights Without Frontiers.

“At the provincial and at the local level, regulations say that ‘out-of-plan’ pregnancies shall be terminated,” Littlejohn said, referring to measures taken to enforce China’s strict One-Child policy limiting the number of allowable births.

“Women who have pregnancies out of plan are required to take ‘remedial measures,’ which is a euphemism for forced abortion,” she added.

“So I just believe that [Hu’s] statement was false and misleading.”

‘An execution’

In a case reported in October by RFA, a woman in the southern Chinese city of Amoy in Fujian province was detained in her 32nd week of pregnancy by local family planning officials, beaten, and forced to undergo an abortion.

Chinese netizens exposed the case on the microblogging site Twitter, calling for public attention to the fate of the pregnant woman, Xiao Aiying, and condemning the late-term abortion as “an execution.”

Xiao’s husband Luo Yanquan said in an interview that Xiao had been taken from their home late one night by local family planning cadres.

“She refused to go and insisted on waiting for me to be home, but they forced her to leave,” Luo said.

“They took her to the Street Committee Office and locked her up there, taking her cell phone away and barring anyone from visiting her. Several men beat her up, bruising her legs and feet. She was kept there for about 40 hours,” Luo added.

Luo said that Xiao was then taken to Amoy’s Siming Hospital, checked into a room in the obstetrics ward, and injected with drugs to induce an abortion.

“Neither my wife nor I signed an agreement,” Luos said.  “But the cadres ‘approved’ and signed the paperwork and presented it to the hospital.”

“This was a forced abortion,” Luo said.

‘Routinely punished’

In a 2010 report, the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China noted that local officials in China had continued during the year “to coerce women with unauthorized pregnancies to undergo abortions  in both urban and rural areas across China’s major regions.”

Violators of China’s One-Child policy “are routinely punished with fines, and in some cases, subjected to forced sterilization, forced abortion, arbitrary detention, and torture,” the Commission added.

“China’s population planning policies in both their nature and implementation violate international human rights standards,” the Commission said.

Reported by Qiao Long for RFA’s Mandarin service. Translated by Chen Ping. Written in English with additional reporting by Richard Finney.   Reprinted with permission.

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Hu, Don’t Deny Forced Abortion in China — Open Letter

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Reggie Littlejohn

Reggie Littlejohn speaks out against forced abortion in China at the Capitol Hill Press Conference on Chinese Human Rights of 1/18/11. Also pictured are Bob Fu, President of China Aid, Geng He, wife of Gao Zhisheng, and Congressman Chris Smith.

Dear President Hu Jintao,

When questioned by Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the new chair of our House Foreign Affairs Committee, you denied that China forces women to have abortions under its One Child Policy.  What you told Rep. Ros-Lehtinen is a falsehood, astonishing in its audacity.  By attempting to deceive our Congressional Representative, you are attempting to deceive the US government and the American people.

Your claim is easy to disprove.  In October 2010, an appalling video appeared of a woman who had been beaten and forced to abort at eight months.  The video shows the jail cell in which this pregnant woman and others like her are forced to receive injections through their wombs and into the skulls of their unborn babies, to kill them.  This is happening to thousands of women all over China.  You can watch this video here.  http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=25

Forced abortion is not the only atrocity committed in the name of the One Child Policy. Here are some other serious human rights violations that leaked out of China in 2010:

Forced Sterilization. Between April 7 to 27 of 2010, the Population and Family Planning Bureau detained 1,300 people in a campaign to sterilize nearly 10,000 people in the city of Puning, Guangdong Province.  In order to meet sterilization quotas, the Puning population control authorities detained parents—as well as other family members, such as elderly grandparents—for refusing the sterilization procedures.

Infanticide. In May 2010, crematorium workers in Guangdong Province found an infant crying in a “medical waste” receptacle on its way to being cremated, according to Xinhua, China’s official news agency. The crematorium workers immediately sent the infant back to the hospital. Later that day, the hospital sent the infant back to the crematorium, dead. The hospital offered no explanation of the cause of death.  To see a web-based discussion among Chinese doctors about how best to kill infants who are being born alive during induced labor forced abortions, read “Best Practices – Infanticide.”  This document was found on the official Chinese website for obstetricians and gynecologists. http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=congressional

Psychiatric Torture. In November 2010, Radio Free Asia reported that Gu Xianghong languishes in an “Ankang,” a special Chinese psychiatric hospital run by police.  In a video quoted by RFA, Gu says, “They put electrodes on my temples and they were burned black. They handcuffed me and chained my feet . . . My [entire family] and home have been ruined by the village government.” They also subjected her to injections against her will. According to the report, Gu has been jailed nine times in the Ankang since 1992.  Why?  Because she is suing the local government over “family planning issues.”

President Hu, if forced abortion, forced sterilization, infanticide and psychiatric torture are not policies of the Chinese Communist Party to enforce the One Child Policy, then why are you not prosecuting those cadres who are perpetrating these crimes against humanity?  Why, instead, are you persecuting those who are exposing these crimes?  Take, for example, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who exposed the 130,000 mass forced abortions and forced sterilizations in Linyi County, Shandong Province, in 2005. For this he served a four-year prison sentence, during which time he was severely beaten and denied medical attention.   On April 30, 2006, Time Magazine named him in its list of “2006’s Top 100 People Who Shape Our World,” in the category of “Heroes and Pioneers.”  Now, he remains languishing under house arrest.  Free Chen Guangcheng!

The coercive enforcement of your One Child Policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth and any other official policy in the history of the world.  And yet, on September 26, 2010, the China Daily News reported an official statement by the head of your National Population and Family Planning Commission that the One Child Policy will remain in force for “decades.”

President Hu, your attempted cover-up will not work.  We are committed to exposing the truth about your One Child Policy:  it is China’s war on women and girls.  Our online petition has now gathered more than 5000 signatures from 88 countries, so I speak for people from all over the world when I say, stop forced abortion in China!

Sincerely,

Reggie Littlejohn, President

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers

Online Petition: http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition

Author’s Note:

The following links are relevant to this letter:

Hu Denies Forced Abortions:  US Lawmaker

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j3Mh3tnXMcd0WNe-hRScjwTSjTdg?docId=CNG.0dd9bfe0c5ee86343c03c93188764bfa.b61

China to Stick with One Child Policy, USA Today, 9/26/10

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-09-27-china-one-child-policy_N.htm

Appalling Youtube Video – Forced Abortion at Eight Months 10/21/10

http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=25

One Child Policy Victim “Treated” with Electroshock, Injections, [Online] Available http://newsblaze.com/story/20101103050138zzzz.nb/topstory.html, November 3, 2010

“Aborted Baby Cries Before Cremation,” Australian Women Online, [Online] Available http://www.australianwomenonline.com/forced-abortion-and-sterlisation-in-china/, June 3, 2010

“China’s Forced Sterilization Campaign Is a Crime Against Humanity,” The Epoch Times, [Online] Available http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/34698/, May 4, 2010

“21 Dead Babies Found Floating in a Shandong River,” China Aid Association, [Online] Available http://www.chinaaid.org/qry/page.taf?id=144&_function=detail&sbtblct_uid1=1425&_nc=95bebd613c14942943b26c8375af5223, April 8, 2010

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Pres. Obama and Pres. Hu, Forced Abortion in China Must Be Stopped!

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Reggie Littlejohn

On January 18, Reggie Littlejohn spoke at the Capitol Hill press conference on Chinese human rights called by Congressman Chris Smith.  Littlejohn urged President Obama to discuss human Rights with President Hu Jintao during his visit to DC.  Here is a transcript of her remarks.

Pres. Obama:  China’s Forced Abortion is Violence Against Women

In 2009, Liu Dan was 21 years old and 9 months pregnant when family planning police grabbed her out of her home, dragged her pleading and crying to the local family planning office, and forcibly aborted her full term baby.  They did this even though they already knew from medical tests that she had high blood pressure and that a forced late term abortion would be dangerous for her.  After the forced abortion, she lay alone and unconscious in an operating room in the family planning center.  Sensing something was wrong, her fiancé burst into the room at 3:00 a.m. to find her bleeding from the eyes, nose, ears and mouth.  Even so, the family planning police refused to call for emergency help, until her family insisted.  Help arrived too late.  Liu Dan died, along with her full term baby.

China’s One Child Policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other official policy on earth.  It is China’s war on women.  I say to President Obama, any discussion of women’s rights, or human rights, would be a charade if forced abortion in China is not front and center.  It does not matter whether you are pro-life or pro-choice on this issue.  No one supports forced abortion, because it is not a choice.  Rather, the Chinese forced abortion policy is systematic, institutionalized violence against women.

The Chinese Communist Party says that the One Child Policy is none of our business – that it’s their internal affair.  This argument is a smoke screen.  First, the Chinese government has signed several international treaties that protect the rights of women and families.  Forced abortion violates these treaties.

Second, the One Child Policy has given rise to gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of baby girls.  Because of this, there are an estimated 37 million more men than women in China – men who will never marry because their future wives were aborted before they were born.  This gender imbalance is the driving force behind human trafficking and sexual slavery.  Women and girls not only within China, but also from many of the surrounding countries, are trafficked as sex slaves and forced brides to service these 37 million “bare branches.”

This is not an internal affair for China.  It is an international issue, and it calls for an international response.  Women’s Rights Without Frontiers announces that we have an online petition to stop forced abortion and sexual slavery in China.  We already have more than 5000 signatures from 88 countries, all over the world.  So, through this petition, I represent more than 5000 people from 88 countries who are saying with one voice:  President Hu Jintao, stop forced abortion in China!

Another thing the CCP would like the world to believe is that ethnic minorities are exempt from the One Child Policy.  This is pure propaganda.  My colleagues at TibetTruth have just released an extensive, comprehensive report of the atrocities committed against Tibetan women in the name of the One Child Policy. http://tibettruth.com/2011/01/14/report-exposes-horrors-of-coercive-birth-control-in-occupied-tibet/ And Rebiya Kadeer has submitted into the Congressional Record a hard-hitting report on the genocidal use of the One Child Policy against the Uyghurs. http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=congressional

How does forced abortion in China affect us as Americans?

CNN’s Ted Turner has repeatedly called for the whole world, including the United States, to adopt the One Child Policy, most recently at the Cancun Climate Conference just last month.  Turner says that its enforcement is not “draconian.”  This statement is demonstrably false.  The One Child Policy is enforced through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.  Adopting it world wide would hurl women’s rights back to the dark ages.  Ted Turner, if you’re watching, I challenge you to debate me on this — if you dare to have a substantive exchange on this subject.

Forced abortion in China affects us as Americans because we’re subsidizing it by funding the UNFPA, which was found by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to be complicit in coercive family planning in China.  Why should American tax dollars subsidize forced abortion in China?

In China, a woman’s body is not her own.  It belongs to the state.  A woman’s womb is the most intimate part of her body – physically, emotionally and spiritually. For the Chinese Communist Party to force its bloody hand right into a woman’s womb and crush the life inside her is a heinous crime against humanity.  I call upon President Obama – if you care about women’s rights, if you care about human rights – tell President Hu Jintao, FORCED ABORTION IN CHINA MUST BE STOPPED.

To sign a petition against forced abortion and sexual slavery in China, click here:

http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition

To watch a video exposing the truth about the One Child Policy, click here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh+div-1r-1-HM

To watch the Press Conference on C-Span, click here.  (Littlejohn’s remarks are at 57:35 to 1:04)

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HumanRightsinChina10

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