The American CEO of a famous sneaker manufacturer that sells “Air Jordans” was recently asked if he benefited from a regime that supported human rights violations. His answer rang cynical and inhumane, “[Our company] is of China and for China.”
It's obvious that in this country, we have become increasingly deaf to various world governments’ abuses upon their own people. In July 1921, the (CCP) was founded in order to create a “communist heaven on earth.” To assume control, the CCP targeted a long list of enemy groups: “spies,” land-owning “capitalists,” pro-democracy students, intellectuals, ethnic minorities, and religious believers. Since its inception, the party has been systematically eliminating all enemies.
During the more than 70 years of its rule, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has killed tens of millions of its own citizens to remain in control. From 1959 to 1961 it created the worst man-made disaster in human history. Because Mao Zedong ordered a four-year
campaign to increase China’s steel production to surpass America and Great Britain, he ordered Chinese peasants to build backyard furnaces to make steel.
These poverty-stricken citizens neglected their crops and were left with nothing to eat. As a result, from 1959 to 1961 tens of millions of people died during the Great Famine. It has been recorded that the starving peasants turned to eating wild animals, grass, and bark. Their desperate efforts to survive led many to cannibalism, with people eating the corpses of strangers, friends, and even killing their own children for food. Historians have accounted for 5,000 recorded cases of Chinese cannibalism during this time.
In 1999 a Chinese historian, Guo Hua, published an article claiming that up to 40,000 members of the Red Army had been executed by their own government…within one month.
The human carnage that began with Mao Zedong’s regime remained constant after his death in 1976. The result was that party members who opposed him were killed in a massive purge. According to its own report, 90 percent of the party’s officials were identified as “spies” and were executed. Chinese historians tell us that torture methods inflicted on these spies included burning their skin, cutting off female breasts, and pushing bamboo sticks underneath their fingernails. These were just a few of the atrocities committed.
Unfortunately, millions of religious believers, ethnic minorities, and government dissidents continue to be violently repressed today.
Given these human rights abuses, I can survive without purchasing my “Air Jordans” anytime soon.
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