{"id":677,"date":"2012-06-12T12:51:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T12:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2012-06-12T12:51:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T12:51:57","slug":"reggie-littlejohn-to-speak-at-the-victims-of-communism-memorial-commemoration-in-dc-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/reggie-littlejohn-to-speak-at-the-victims-of-communism-memorial-commemoration-in-dc-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggie Littlejohn to Speak at the Victims of Communism Memorial Commemoration in DC Today"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nhttp:\/\/victimsofcommunism.org\/media\/article.php?article=7743
\n<\/a>Victims of Communism Memorial, June 12, 2012
\nRemarks by Reggie Littlejohn, President
\nWomen\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers<\/p>\n

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Dr. Edwards and honored guests, I am greatly humbled by being asked to speak on this somber anniversary commemorating five years of the Victims of Communism Memorial.\u00a0 It is fitting that the Memorial statue itself is a replica of the Goddess of Democracy erected by the students on Tianamen Square \u2013 a beacon of hope for those students before they were then so brutally slaughtered by their own government.<\/p>\n

Indeed, this is the hallmark of Communistic governments:\u00a0 the peacetime mass killings of their own citizens.\u00a0\u00a0 It is estimated that the former Soviet Union under Stalin committed 20 million such killings, and that the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Tse-tung committed 65 million:\u00a0 together, 85 million.\u00a0 This number of murders of innocent civilians by their own governments boggles the mind.<\/p>\n

And yet even this number is dwarfed by another, hidden category of victims of communism \u2013 victims of China\u2019s One Child Policy.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers has learned that a woman in Shanxi Province, China, was forcibly aborted at seven months of pregnancy on June 3, 2012 \u2013 just last week.<\/p>\n

Feng Jianmei was beaten and dragged into a vehicle by a group of Family Planning Officials while her husband, Deng Jiyuan, was out working. \u00a0The officials asked for RMB 40,000 in fines from Feng Jianmei\u2019s family.\u00a0 When they did not receive the money, they forcibly aborted Feng at seven months, laying the body of her aborted baby next to her in the bed.<\/p>\n

Feng Jianmei is not alone.\u00a0 The Chinese Communist Party estimates that it has \u201cprevented\u201d 400 million lives through its brutal One Child Policy.\u00a0 Every one of these 400 million snuffed out lives is a victim of communism.<\/p>\n

Affecting 1.3 billion people, the coercive enforcement of China\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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  1. Forced abortion is traumatic to women.\u00a0\u00a0 This can happen up to the ninth month of pregnancy.\u00a0 Some forced abortions are so violent that the women themselves die, along with their full term babies.\u00a0 Forced abortion is official government rape.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Women who have violated the policy are often victims of forced sterilization, which can lead to life-long health complications.\u00a0 These forced abortions and forced sterilizations are often performed without anesthesia.<\/li>\n
    2. A document leaked out of China in November 2009 discusses methods of infanticide, including the puncturing of the skulls and injecting alcohol into the brains of full term babies, usually girls, to kill them during labor.<\/li>\n
    3. Because of the traditional preference for boys, sex-selective abortion of girls is common — a form of \u201cgendercide.\u201d<\/li>\n
    4. Because of this gendercide, there are an estimated 37 million more men than women in China today.\u00a0\u00a0 This gender imbalance is a major force driving sexual slavery of women and girls in Asia.<\/li>\n
    5. China has the highest female suicide rate of any country in the world \u2013 approximately 500 women a day.\u00a0 I believe this high suicide rate is related to forced abortion.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The One Child Policy is causing a slow-motion demographic disaster.\u00a0 Not only does the nation now suffer from a destabilizing gender imbalance, but also, there are not enough young people to sustain China\u2019s rapidly ageing population.\u00a0 Why, then, does China continue this policy?<\/p>\n

      I believe that China\u2019s One Child Policy is keeping the regime in place.\u00a0 It is social control, masquerading as population control.\u00a0 The Chinese Communist Party wields forced abortion as an instrument of terror to keep its people down.\u00a0 The infrastructure of population control coercion can be turned in any direction, to crush dissent. The use of a system of paid informants to identify illegally pregnant women tears at relationships of trust.\u00a0 If you cannot trust anyone, you cannot organize for democracy.<\/p>\n

      The true spirit of Communism is most clearly seen in the faces of the Chinese population control police as they drag women away, beat them, strap them down to tables, and force them to abort babies that they want, up to the ninth month of pregnancy.\u00a0 Whether China will turn and become a free, democratic nation, or whether China will continue down the path of totalitarian destruction, is the greatest issue of the twenty-first century and has vast implications for our own national security.\u00a0 Supporting democracy in China should be among the highest priorities of the leaders of the free world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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