My grandpa was a wealthy person as well as a very devoted Buddhist. He was kind to people all his life and helped the poor often. Once when he went to the wharf to collect cargo, he saw a worker falling down from the bridgeboard and break his spine. He voluntarily paid all his medical expense and his whole family’s living expense. But after the CCP took over China, such a good person as he was driven to live in a small shed that was used to store firewood. Deluded by the CCP, his grandchildren participated in persecuting him, dragging him out to parade on the street with a humiliating board hanging on his neck. My grandma died with grief before the end of the Cultural Revolution.

My granduncle received scholarship to study in Cambridge, England in the area of radar technology. He returned to serve China during the Kuomintang (KMT) period, and chose to stay when the CCP took control of China. He was proficient in many languages, such as English, Russian, German and French; he was among the first group of senior engineers approved by the State Council. But such a talented person as he was relegated to sweep floors in a small rural factory during the Cultural Revolution. His wife was active in an organization allied with the CCP – it was she who persuaded her husband to stay in China to contribute to the country. In the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, she worked as a Chief of General Affairs in a school. One day people found a dead mouse in the cooked rice at the school canteen, and accused her of doing this purposely. To prove her innocence, she killed herself by jumping off the top of a six-story building. All their children were sent to the frontier regions. Her son ended up losing both of his legs during a freezing storm in Xinjiang region. A complete family was thus broken apart by the evil CCP.

My parents lived under the evil CCP’s control for several decades. So frightened themselves, they educated us not to pay any attention to politics since we were very young. Although they have left the CCP-controlled China for many years, it seems still very difficult for them to get rid of the shadow of terror in their life time.

Recently I read the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” and have been quite disturbed. Those terrible atrocities the CCP has inflicted on the Chinese nation reminded me of the experience of my own family. I am convinced that the CCP is undoubtedly an evil spirit. I declare my resignation from the Young Pioneers and the Communist Youth League so as to remove the beast’s mark branded on me forcibly. I hope all my friends and relatives who read this statement will follow me in choosing a bright future.

Bu Haiping
From New Zealand
May 29, 2005

- Original Chinese Statement