New Tang Dynasty Television
August 4, 2014
Beijing announced an investigation into Zhou Yongkang. However, CCP mouthpieces described Zhou’s crimes as “tangling interest groups” and “resisting reforms.” These are far different than those well known by Chinese, including “plotting a coup,” “suppressing innocent civilians in name of stability maintenance,” and especially “live organ harvesting.”
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced an investigation into its former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang. However, CCP mouthpieces described Zhou’s crimes as “tangling interest groups” and “resisting reforms.” These are far different than those well known by Chinese, including “plotting a coup,” “suppressing innocent civilians in name of stability maintenance,” and especially “live organ harvesting.”
After Zhou’s downfall was announced, CCP mouthpieces claimed Zhou’s crimes “violating party rules and state law, tangling interest groups, trading power for money and resisting reform.” The article is authored by “Guo Ping,” which is pronounced the same as “State Commentator” in Chinese. This suggests this is an authoritative article.
However, the article defines Zhou’s crimes very differently than what the Chinese are aware of.
Back to February 2012, former CCP Chongqing Director for Public Security Wang Lijun defected to the U.S. Consulate. In the middle of that month, the new CCP leader Xi Jinping visited the United States. During his visit, the Washington Free Beacon revealed that included in the materials submitted by Wang to the U.S. Consulate, there were details about a coup plotted by Jiang’s followers Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai. U.S. Vice President Biden also personally presented evidence to Xi.
In addition, under Zhou’s rule as secretary of the Central Politics and Law Commission, petitioners, democrats, dissidents, religious groups and Falun Gong practitioners had been placed under severe suppression. The cost of “stability maintenance” has exceeded the military expenditure for many years.
Then why did party mouthpieces make no mention of Zhou’s most serious crimes?
Bao Tong, secretary of former CCP president Zhao Ziyang: “I believe the decision was made by the CCP Central Committee. The reason is, in our regime the CCP must lead in every aspect. Therefore whether to fight against corruption, whether to criticize any person or group, when and when not to criticize, when and when not to announce, what to announce and what not to, all these are completely under the control of the Central Committee.”
Lin Zixu, political commentator: “Obviously, the announcement evades the crucial point. Without having committed extremely serious crimes, any Politburo Standing Committee member would not be publicly investigated by the CCP. The move on Zhou is unprecedented. However, due to concerns that the whole regime may collapse, the CCP does not say a single word about those crimes. In particular, if live organ harvesting is widely known by the public, the CCP will unavoidably be condemned by the whole world. That will bring the CCP’s governance to an end.”
On the other hand, the Chinese cheered a lot after Zhou’s fall. Beijing human rights activist Hu Jia comments that Zhou should be sentenced to death by hanging, as he had arrested human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, suppressed blind civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng, and persecuted numerous Falun Gong practitioners and petitioners all these years.
Chinese writer and human rights activist Liao Zusheng says even executing Zhou a thousand times would not be enough consolation for the injustice of the brutal murder of countless souls.
Sun Wenguang, former professor of Shandong University: “It is clear to me that the CCP only intends to dismiss Zhou Yongkang without eliciting significant social turbulence or threat to its regime. So what the party is doing now is to simplify the case into a purely corruption issue. The current CCP leaders do not really want to touch problems deeply rooted in the state.”
Former U.S. think tank researcher Ethan Gutmann recently revealed that during the writing of his new book The Slaughter, he discovered the smoking gun. The CCP had sold organs harvested from mainland Chinese Falun Gong practitioners on a massive scale.
In 2012, Ethan Gutmann attended a hearing at the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Organ Harvesting of Religious and Political Dissidents by the Chinese Communist Party as an independent investigator. According to Gutmann’s estimate, about 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners were murdered for organ harvesting between 2000 and 2008.
On July 9, the Council of Europe adopted Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs. In late July, 201 U.S. members of U.S. congress passed House Resolution 281 that publicly condemns the CCP’s forced organ harvesting and demands an immediately stop to it.
Lin Zixu: ”The current CCP leaders are not directly involved in live organ harvesting. However, the crimes against humanity had been committed by Jiang Zemin’s faction using the CCP’s power and dictatorship system. Therefore there is no way the current party leaders can bypass the issue. If they continue to do so, they may involve themselves in the crime and become scapegoats for Jiang and his followers.”
Only less than an hour after Zhou’s fall was announced on July 29, the People’s Daily released an article titled, “Arresting ‘The Major Tiger’ Zhou Yongkang Does Not Fully Combat Corruption.” This is seen as a signal of upcoming action directly against Jiang Zemin, the behind the scenes boss of Zhou Yongkang and Zeng Qinghong. Zeng, the former CCP vice president, has been reportedly placed under secret investigation.
