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On August 31, 1980, a new national union or “Solidarity,” not controlled by the communist party was formed in Poland. In the Eastern European history, the “Solidarity” movement has been labeled the first step toward freedom from the communist dictatorship. The trigger of the “Solidarity” movement was a strike at the Gdansk Shipyard, where a female worker was fired because she complained about rising meat prices. The strike, led by Lech Walesa, later spread around the country and over 10 million people participated. Back in 1970, the Polish communist government used force to crack down on similar strikes and uprisings. By the end of 1989, with the rapid changes taking place in Eastern Europe, under the pressure of the people’s freedom movement, the Polish communist government was forced to negotiate with Solidarity in the Polish Roundtable Negotiations. Walesa was elected president in the 1990 Polish legislative elections, which became one of the important events marking the fall of communism in Poland.
In November 1989, the First Secretary of East Berlin, Günter Schabowski, announced in a radio speech that people should begin the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Tens of thousands of people immediately went to the Berlin Wall where the vastly outnumbered border guards were forced to open access points and allow them through. October 3, 1990 was the date of German Reunification, marking the end of communism in East Germany. The leaders of the communist party were charged with murder. In 1993, a 70 meter long wall was built as a memorial to this important era in history. In November 1989, in Czechoslovakia, a peaceful student demonstration in Prague sparked a series of popular demonstrations with 2.5 million peaceful protesters. They demanded a reassessment of the “Prague Spring 1968”— a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia after World War II, during the Soviet era. With the collapse of other communist governments and increasing street protests, the communist party of Czechoslovakia announced on November 28 that it would relinquish power and dismantle the single-party state. In December 1989, the demonstrations continued to demand the removal of ruling party status for the communist party from the Constitution, and to remove Marxism-Leninism from the education system. In April 1990, the “Czechoslovak Socialist Republic” changed its name to “Czech and Slovak Federative Republic”, and adopted the legislative election. The communist leaders, including Gustav Husak and Mikos Jakes, were ousted and put on trial for allowing the Soviet invasion.
In December 1989, Romanian dictator Ceauşescu executed the defense minister Vasile Milea, who supported the idea of a “people’s army for the people.” Ceauşescu characterized the “Timişoara event”- where police fired at the unarmed protesters - as a revolt. After the truth was brought to the public, people gathered in Revolution Square, which led to the overthrow of the Ceauşescu government. On December 25 a military court sentenced Ceauşescu and wife to death, on charges ranging from illegal gathering of wealth, to genocide. They were executed the same day. The new democratic Romania since enjoyed economic growth.
In March 1991, under pressure from the public’s demand for democracy the Albanian Party of Labor was forced to abandon the one-party state and to adopt free elections. In March 1992, Albania’s second parliamentary election saw the fall of the Socialist Party of Albania (the former Albania Communist and Labor Party), which marked the fall of communism in Albania. Prior to this, in the beginning of 1967, the Albania Communist Party’s atheist dictatorship banned all religious activities— of which 70% was Muslim, 20% was Albanian Orthodox Christians, and 10% Catholic. All monasteries and churches were forced to close. All religious ceremonies were forbidden. After arduous efforts from Albania’s democracy activists, in November 1990 Albanians regained their right to freedom of religious belief.
In August 1991, the Soviet Conservative Coup, which involved a group of communist party members, tried to stop the move toward democracy. The general public, military and even former communist party members, stood up against them. In a discussion forum, consisting of 100,000 elite members of the society, over 90% were against communism. In November 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued a decree banning the communist party of the Soviet Union throughout the Russian Republic. On December 8, 1991, the leaders of the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian republics met in Belavezhskaya Pushcha and signed the Belavezha Accords, declaring the dissolution of the Soviet Union and replacing it with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned as president of the USSR, declaring the office extinct and ceding all the powers still vested in it to the president of Russia— Boris Yeltsin. This is recognized as the official dissolution of the Soviet Union.
In December 1991, a referendum and the first presidential elections took place in Ukraine, formally declaring Ukraine an independent state.
In 1997, “The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression” was first published in France, under the title of “Le Livre noir du communisme : Crimes, terreur, repression”. It was then published in the United States by the Harvard University Press. It is a book which describes a history of repression, both political and civilian, by communist states, including genocide, extrajudicial executions, deportations and man-made famines.
In May 2004, in order to ban communism, Latvia put an equal sign between crimes of Nazism and Communism in the form of law.
In November 2004, The Epoch Times published a series of editorials entitled “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party”. The editorials give an in-depth analysis of the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party in China. This then triggered the global wave of quitting the Chinese Communist Party. In early 2005, The Epoch Times published a “solemn declaration” and established the website for quitting the CCP.
On January 1, 2005, fifty overseas Chinese scholars and specialists declared to quit the CCP. This action started the massive wave of quitting the CCP by the Chinese people.
The founder of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi, renounced his membership of China’s Communist Youth League in February, 2005 in an article entitled “Turning the Wheel.” This article, along with another article entitled “Turning the Wheel Towards the Human World,” was widely read among the Falun Gong practitioners in China and around the world. The daily number of people who quit the CCP has since increased from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands.
On February 22, 2005, the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP was established. The service centers aim to provide multiple channels for Chinese people to quit the CCP, establish regional Service Centers around the world, organize discussion forums on the Nine Commentaries and quitting the CCP, organize public gatherings and parades, and introduce the Nine Commentaries and the quitting the CCP movement to the leaders and citizens of other countries.
On April 21, 2005, the number of people who quit the CCP reached 1 million. On April 23, over 200 organizations from over 20 countries gathered on Foley Square in New York City to celebrate these courageous one million Chinese people. Afterwards, 4000 people participated in a parade in China Town, which attracted huge numbers of on-lookers. 200,000 special edition Epoch Times newspapers and 100,000 “Nine Commentaries” in English were distributed on the same day. At the same time, over 30 countries around the world held similar gatherings.
In June 2005, the book titled “Mao: The Unknown Story” by writer Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday was published. The book depicted Mao using a lot of information that had not been published before. In an interview with the Radio Free Asia, Chang said: “Mao is responsible for the deaths of 70 million Chinese people. Thirty-eight million of those died during the famines of the Great Leap Forward from 1958-61. On a moral level, there isn’t a single good thing to say about him. Mao is not the hero of the Chinese people, and his portrait should not be hanging in Tiananmen Square. The Chinese people should be told the truth about him.”
In July 2005, the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP named July 1st “Global Quitting the CCP Day” and July the “Global Quitting the CCP Month”.
In the evening of July 3rd, 2005, 25 television stations in mainland China, including the CCTV, were tapped into and the “Nine Commentaries” was broadcast along with news about millions of people quitting the CCP. This event effectively spread the word of quitting the CCP in mainland China.
On October 3, 2005, a symposium entitled “A World Without the Communist Party” was held in the Parliament Mansion of the Czech Republic. Marek Benda, a member of the Czech Republican Party, presided over the seminar as host. Honored guests, seven experts and well-known figures made speeches at the seminar. Among those who attended were: Steve Ispas on behalf of Epoch Times USA, Mr. Jan Rum, Chairman of the Czech Olympic Observation Association, Lord Francis Thurlow from the UK, Mr. Man-Yan, director of the German International Association of Human Rights, Mr. Peter Zvagulis, an award-winning reporter, Ms. Michaela Freiova, a reporter of the Christian Journal from Cretas and Mr. Petr Kutilek, the First Secretary of the Czech Olympic Observation Association.
On October 18, 2005, the number of people who had quit the CCP reached 5 million. Quitting the CCP had become a popular topic in mainland China. Service centers for quitting the CCP have spread across China’s provinces and cities. The rallies organized by the overseas service centers and other organizations continued around the world in cities, such as Amsterdam, Sydney, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Houston, Austin, etc.
On November 26, 2005, a symposium entitled “2005 Path to the Baltic Sea – the World without Communism” was held in Latvia’s capital city Riga. Mr. Peteris Simsons hosted the symposium. The meeting passed a referendum to condemn the crimes committed by the communist dictators in the Baltic Sea region, aiming to help future generations remember the crimes of communism. The referendum called for countries that are still under communist rule, especially China, to stop persecution based on religious beliefs. This included the persecution of Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan monks, and lawyers, writers and pro-democratic activists. The referendum also called for democratic countries to develop a system which prevents further development of communism.
On December 14, 2005, the Political Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly held a meeting in Paris. The resolution of “The need for international condemnation of the crimes of communism” was passed. This was an important public condemnation of communism from a political organization.
In December 2005, “the foundation for investigating the crimes of communism” was established in Estonia. The foundation’s aim is to prove to people that, as an ideology, communism is no different from Nazism.
On December 20, 2005, a political affairs committee in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) passed a draft resolution strongly condemning communist totalitarian governments’ crimes against human rights and expressing understanding and sympathy towards the victims. It called for members of the European Union to reassess the history of communism, to publically condemn the crimes of communism if they have not separated themselves from it.
On January 27, 2006, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)— a leading political human rights watchdog that brings together parliamentarians from 46 countries across the continent – adopted a resolution condemning abuses committed by communist regimes for the first time. A similar resolution condemning Nazism took place half a century earlier. The resolution demanded that eastern European countries modify school text books and to build memorials for the victims of communism.
On April 7, 2006, US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher spoke with reporters about the Chinese government harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese labor camps. He said, “This case can be investigated either inside or outside, and the truth should be made known to the American people and the people of the world. This is gruesome and clearly beyond the moral standards of almost every country that I know. It's time for the civilized world to say "no" to the monsters that are tearing apart people in China and enriching themselves from others' bodies.”
On April 25, 2006, the number of people who quit the CCP reached 10 million. The Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP obtained analysis data from the Southern CA internet data analysis center stating that 60%, about 7 million were former CCP members quitting the CCP.
In May 2006, many Lithuanian political leaders attended the “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance International Art Exhibition” and gave speeches afterwards to condemn the CCP’s persecution of the Falun Gong practitioners. Former president of Lithuania and member of the European Parliament, Vytautas Landsbergis said: “Communism is in its nature, an ideology against humankind. Its evilness destroys human nature and the basis for human life. It brings about tyranny and hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths. Human beings are kind, but communism is no soil for kindness.”
On December 18, 2006, Romania’s president Traian Băsescu delivered a speech to Parliament (broadcast live on television) in which he condemned Romania's pre-1989 communist regime. Băsescu stated that the totalitarian communist regime in Romania was a case of an illegitimate regime. The speech drew international attention and support from former Czech president Vaclav Havel, former Bulgarian prime minister Jelio Jelev, former Poland president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa, former Romanian president Emil Constantinescu, the former king of Romania Mihai, and Prince Radu and Princess Margareta.
On March 26, 2007, the number of people who had quit the CCP reached 20 million. Support rallies were held around the world.
On April 17, 2007, former Polish president and military leader Wojciech Jaruzelski was charged with “communist crimes”, which could result in a 10 year prison term.
On April 22, 2007, the forum titled “Communism endangering mankind” was held in the Ukraine capital city Kiev. Historians, sociologists, human rights representatives, and representatives from other political organizations attended the forum to discuss measures to eliminate the Communist Party of Ukraine, to abolish communist ideology, and to charge those responsible.. It was decided to reassess the crimes of communism in Ukraine and organize memorial activities and build a museum to commemorate the victims of communism in the 20th century.
On May 1, 2007, a large scale anti-communism campaign was held in in Prague, Czech Republic. The theme of the campaign was “anti-communism, anti-Nazism, anti-totalitarianism.” The Czech prime minister said at the gathering: “We can promise everyone that as long as we have the support of general public, we will establish a government without the communist party.” He also emphasized that “we are responsible for educating our children, so that they are aware of the crime and tyranny of communism, that they will ensure the tragedy caused by communism will never re-occur, and that democracy will be with us forever.”
On June 12, 2007, in Washington D.C., the Victims of Communism Memorial was dedicated by President Bush. In his speech, he equated communism to terrorism. Bush stated that 20th century saw the most death in the history of mankind, that communism murdered one billion lives, tens of millions of whom were murdered in China. Bush pointed out that “it is important that we recall these lessons because the evil and hatred that inspired the death of tens of millions of people in the 20th century is still at work in the world.” “We dedicate this memorial because we have an obligation to future generations to record the crimes of the 20th century and ensure they're never repeated.”
On July 25, 2007, former President of Bulgaria and prominent anti-communism activist Zhelyu Zhelev visited Taiwan. He said that communism is the most extreme form of totalitarianism, and that its damage to mankind is more than that of the Fascism. He called for the international community to condemn communism. Zhelev was born in Bulgaria and is a prominent leader promoting democracy in eastern European countries. He enjoys the same fame as the president of Poland, Walesa and the president of Czech Republic, Havel.
On November 24, 2007, ten thousand people gathered in Saint Michael’s Square in Ukraine’s capital Kiev to commemorate victims of the Soviet-era forced famine. Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko attended, along with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, and ministers representing the gamut of the country’s political parties. In his speech, Yushchenko urged “world condemnation of communist terror.” He said that evil can only be labeled evil and nothing else, that those who support the evil will be punished. During the great famine of Ukraine from 1931 to 1933, a total of 10 million people starved to death, among which 4 million were children. Ukraine used to be called the “bread basket” of Europe, however, during the 1930s Soviet authorities forced peasants across the former USSR to give up their privately held land and join collective farms. Ukrainian farmers had their produce confiscated and their food supplies blocked, and this caused the Great Famine. During the Soviet era, there were all together three famines. The famine during 1932 and 1933 was the worst.
On December 25, 2007, the number of people who had quit the CCP reached 30 million, and many were CCP officials. CCP thugs continued their violent attacks on overseas service centers and their volunteers. The thugs also stole the Epoch Times newspaper from distribution points around the world.
On May 18, 2008, in an event to commemorate political victims held in the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine President Yushchenko gave a speech. He said, “see clearly the communist totalitarian, harbor no hope”. He urged those who still are hoping for a better communism to see clearly its totalitarian nature, and in the meantime, demanded to put those, who do not admit the Soviet crimes against Ukraine, to justice. Yushchenko said, “no matter who you are, no matter how old you are, no matter what you do, what communism wants is absolute power over you. Under this totalitarian dictatorship, humans will forget about morality and their soul. They will become animal-like and inhuman.” Yushchenko named May 18th the day to commemorate political victims.
On May 29, 2008, the foundation for investigating communist crimes was established in Estonia. The foundation aims to investigate and publicize the crimes of communism and communist countries and prove to people that as an ideology, communism is the same as Nazism. One of the founders, the prime minister of Estonia said that another mission of the foundation is to support those who have broken away from communism and to help those who are still under communist rule.
On June 14, 2008, Baltic Sea countries and Ukraine organized commemorations for the victims of the Soviet and Stalin eras, urging the international community to see the crimes of communism as the same as the crimes by Nazism. June 14th was named the “Memorial day for victims of communist genocide.” The President of Latvia said, “We must not forget this tragedy in Latvian history.”
On June 30, 2008, the last Polish communist party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski was charged in court.
In July 2008, the Coalition of Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) submitted signatures from those condemning the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong to the head quarters of International Olympic Committee located in Luzern, Switzerland. The signature gathering took six months, gaining support from people in 131 countries. 1,215,793 people signed the petition including 1,700 VIPs. On June 24, the Australian government unanimously passed a motion to press for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China. This was the first formal message from the Australian Government and was viewed as the direct result of the global signature gathering activities.
In July 2008, the number of people who had quit the CCP reached 40 million. The “global month for quitting the CCP” was supported by people and organizations in mainland China.
On October 3, 2008, Germany celebrated the 18th anniversary of the fall of communism in Berlin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during an interview with the biggest newspaper “Bild” that the disintegration of east German communism was a wonderful thing.
In Canada, a group representing some 240 Polish-Canadian groups, as well as groups representing Canadians from 10 other ethnic backgrounds are advocating for a monument to the victims of communism to be erected in downtown Ottawa. The other groups represented include Latvian, Cuban, Czech, Slovakian, Argentine, Chinese, Iranian, Korean, Ukrainian, Estonian and Canadian. The Polish ambassador attended a gathering on December 14, 2008 and said, “Communism is anti-humanity. We have experienced countless tragedies.” Ambassadors and their delegates from 14 countries have written to the Canadian Prime Minister calling for the creation of a memorial.
United States President Barack Obama, during his inauguration speech in early 2009, once again equated communism to terrorism and made communism a target to dismantle.
Starting March 2009, many democratic countries, including the United States, have regarded the “certificate for quitting the CCP” as a lawful document for immigration purposes. The global wave of quitting the CCP and eliminating communism has won popular support among overseas Chinese people.
February 17, 2009, in Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh, a war crimes tribunal for the first time convened a trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders. The UN-backed war crime tribunal was established under international law aiming at prosecuting the Pol Pot regime for crimes against humanity. In today’s world where communism still exists in China, the formation of the tribunal is monumental to the development of international law. The charges against the former Khmer Rouge leaders are not only towards those communist individuals, but also towards the Cambodian communist regime.
On March 18, 2009, a public hearing called “European Conscience and Crimes of Totalitarian Communism: 20 Years After” was held in the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels. Deputy prime minister for European affairs of the Czech Republic Alexander Vondra, together with Ján Figeľ, the European Commissioner, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a Vice-President of the European Parliament, and Jan Zahradil, László Tökés and Jana Hybášková, Members of the European Parliament, attended the hearing. Two-time prime minister of Estonia, Mart Laar said that the earlier China breaks away from the CCP the better. People should know that communism is evil no matter where it is. Former Czech Republic prime minister Vaclav Havel said that the crimes of communism must be assessed and made known to the next generation.
On February 1, 2009, the number of people who had quit the CCP reached 50 million.
In March 2009, Mr. Li Fengzhi, a former officer of China’s Bureau of State Security (BSS), announced his withdrawal from the CCP in Washington D.C. and held a press conference in Capitol Hill. He urged international leaders to pay closer attention to the human rights situation in China. US Senator Dana Rohrabacher attended a rally supporting Mr. Li and the 50 million people who had already quit the CCP. This event was reported by many western mainstream media, such as CNN, AFP.
On April 2, 2009, the European parliament passed the resolution: “European conscience and totalitarianism” in Brussels. The resolution condemned totalitarianism and communist dictatorships, proclaiming August 23 a Remembrance Day for victims of all totalitarian communism. To recognize the human dignity and justice, commemorations were held throughout the year to celebrate the fall of communism in eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of the initiators of the resolution, EP senator, Tokes said that the whole of Europe will unite to condemn the anti-humanity crimes committed by totalitarian communism.
On April 8, 2009, member of the National Assembly of France, Marc Le Fur, advocated to show the film “Katyn Massacre” in the national assembly hall. Katyn massacre was a mass murder of 25,000 thousand victims, including Polish military officers, policemen, intellectuals, and civilian prisoners of war by the Soviet NKVD during World War II. The murder took place in the Katyn Forest in Russia, in an attempt to stop Poland from gaining freedom. The Polish ambassador to France, Tomasz Orlowski, former French Minister of Culture and human right activist, Jack Lang, chairman of the France-Poland friendship committee, Jean-Louis Leonard, and several members of the France National Assembly attended the showing. All agreed that it is time to expose the crimes of communism.
On April 13, 2009, the New Zealand Service Center for Quitting the CCP organized a rally to support 55 million people quitting the CCP. The rally took place in Elizabeth Square in Auckland. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key asked his secretary Emma Holmes to send a letter to express his support.
On April 28, 2009, Afghanistan quietly celebrated the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Communist Party. The anniversary parade was cancelled and the money intended for the parade was allocated to provinces of Badakhshan and Ningjia Ha province earthquake victims. President Hamid Karzai hosted a memorial gathering attended by former Mugabe Hedding leaders, military officers and diplomats.
On May 17, 2009, in an event to commemorate political victims held in the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, President Yushchenko said that the symbols of totalitarian communism should be completely eliminated. He said those who do not admit the crimes of communism will be eliminated and that these kinds of crimes will not be forgiven by history.
On July 7, 2009, the Canadian government decided to build a memorial for the victims of communism near the war museum in Ottawa. The memorial foundation was dedicated in November 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Before that time, groups suggested adding a display in the National History Museum to educate the future generation about communist tyranny.
On July 16, 2009, many gathered at Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. to support a rally calling to “disintegrate the CCP, end the persecution”. Over ten US senators participated and gave speeches at the rally.
On July 20, 2009, many gathered in London’s Parliament Square to support a rally calling to “disintegrate the CCP, end the persecution”. UK politicians from across the political spectrum called on the British government to take action to help end the persecution. EU Parliament member Batten said, “We cannot be on the same side of the enemy of mankind.” Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake urged the British government to support the human rights of Falun Gong practitioners. Neville Farmer, PPC and Vice Chair Chinese Liberal Democrats called on the British government not to turn a blind eye to the practice of harvesting organs in China from a live bank of Falun Gong practitioners for profit. Farmer said, “I want to plead with the Chinese Government to put an end to one of the most disgusting abuses of human life since the second world war, the practice of organ harvesting for profit."
On August 6, 2009, New York Senator Tony Avella held a press conference in front of the Flushing public library in Queens to formally reject Asian American Business Development Center’s invitation to China. He said, “Because in China, many citizens, including Falun Gong practitioners, are being persecuted for their religious beliefs. Last year’s attack on Falun Gong practitioners in Flushing was carried out by the CCP’s Chinese embassy. It is unacceptable that CCP is expanding its persecution of religious belief to overseas.” Avella urged other senators not to visit China.
In August 2009, the number of people who quit the CCP in a single month reached its highest ever: 1,689,500.
In September 2009, the number of people who had quit the CCP broke 60 million.
On November 30, 2009, the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, approved an amendment to the criminal code which outlaws the production, possession, distribution or sale of items in print, recordings or other symbols of communism, such as sickles, hammers, red flags and red stars, etc. The amendment also bans the display of the Nazi symbols. Both the communist and Nazi symbols represent totalitarianism. The communist symbols cannot exist in the land of Poland anymore. In fact, laws and regulations like this had been established in some Baltic countries years ago. Lithuania passed a similar law one year earlier and Latvia has already applied similar law in the 1990s.
In November 2009, Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko said that he was going to submit a bill to parliament to ban communist symbols. On the eve of the Memorial Day for Starvation Victims, the curator of the Ukrainian Archives and National Foreign Intelligence Service, Viatte Petrovic, said if the communist party of Poland regards itself as the successor of the communist party of the former Soviet Union, then the Polish government should ban all activities of the communist party. The communist party of the former Soviet Union massacred millions of people in Poland in the 1930s.
On November 19, 2009, the Spanish National Court ruled to sue former Chinese communist leader Jiang Zemin and four top Chinese communist officials Luo Gan, Bo Xilai, Jia Qinglin and Wu Guanzheng, on charges of genocide and torture. This ruling was based on the principle of universal jurisdiction, evidence and witness’ testimony, the report jointly issued by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Provided there was no objection in the four to six weeks period of Defense, international arrest warrants could be issued to the defendants. In case the defendants enter into any countries with which Spain has an extradition treaty, the defendants will be extradited to Spain to face the charge. The Alliance of Global Public Trial of Jiang Zeming announced: the culprit head of the persecution of Falun Gong has been sued by courts in 30 countries by 35 lawyers in over 55 cases. It is believed that more rightful adjudications will be given by more and more international courts.
On December 17, 2009, a landmark ruling was made by Dr. Octavio Aroz de Lamadrid, the judge of the Argentine Federal and Criminal Corrective Court No. 9. The ruling ordered the indictment and international arrests of former Chinese communist leader Jiang Zemin and his right hand man Luo Gan, on charges of genocide and torture against Falun Gong practitioners in China. Following Spain, Argentina is the second country to issue judicial action against violations of human rights by the Chinese Communist Party in China. If Jiang Zeming and Luo Gang enter into any countries with which Argentina has an extradition treaty, they could be arrested and brought to Argentina to face the charges.
On January 9, 2010, the number of people who had quit the CCP broke 66 million.
On January 14, 2010, a Ukrainian court convicted the former leader of the Soviet Union of genocide for the forced starvation in Ukraine in the 1930s. The Kiev Court of Appeal stated in its ruling that former leaders of the Soviet Union Communist Party, including Stalin, were responsible for the deaths of 4 million Ukrainian people.
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