Vigil in Washington D.C. for Chinese dissident, human rights defender and Nobel Laureate who died after prolonged imprisonment in China for nonviolently advocating for freedom in China. Yang Jianli spoke during the event organized by Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
By Yang Jianli
Tonight we mourn the tragic passing of Liu Xiaobo, a great loss to the people of China, indeed, to the entire humanity.
Liu Xiaobo was not only the best known freedom and democracy fighter of China, but, in life as well as in death, he represents the best of what China can ever be.
That is exactly why the leaders of China are so afraid of him, so
afraid of his words and deeds, and so afraid of his legacy. They are
afraid of the inevitable comparison between Liu Xiaobo’s Chinese dream
and Xi Jinping’s; they are afraid of the unavoidable likening of the
Chinese Communist regime to the Nazis regime because Liu Xiaobo has been
the first Nobel Peace Prize winner who died under confinement since
Carl von Ossietzky, a German pacifist and an opponent of the Nazis, who
died in 1938.
The CCP regime took pains to show the world it was strong and not afraid of Liu Xiaobo, yet its actions suggested otherwise. The CCP regime took pains to show the world that China is rising as a great civilized nation, yet its actions suggested otherwise. No nation that routinely persecutes, tortures and murders its best people can ever be described as strong, as great; no nation that does not allow a man such as Liu Xiaobo to die as a freeman is going to rise as a respected world power. Never.
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| Marion Smith (VOC), Dr. Yang Jianli (Initiatives for China), John Suarez (FCF) |
Dr. Yang Jianli’s Speech at “Remembering The Legacy Of Liu Xiaobo”
Hosted by Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Monday, July 17th, 2017 at Victims of Communism Memorial
By Yang Jianli
Tonight we mourn the tragic passing of Liu Xiaobo, a great loss to the people of China, indeed, to the entire humanity.
Liu Xiaobo was not only the best known freedom and democracy fighter of China, but, in life as well as in death, he represents the best of what China can ever be.
In April 1989, when the Tiananmen democracy movement
just broke out, he returned to Beijing from New York and became the most
important intellectual leader of the movement. After the Tiananmen
Massacre, he shouldered both moral and political responsibilities and
continued to fight from inside China while many others left the country
and even abandoned the movement. He was in and out prison and spent half
of the past 28 years after the Tiananmen Massacre in incarceration.
Never wavering in spirit, he shared the sufferings of his compatriots
and gave his life for them. He is a martyr and saint.
Yes. Liu Xiaobo is a martyr and saint who possesses a moral authority
that his persecutors can only envy. His legacy of love, justice, peace
and sacrifice will surely far outlive the deeds of those who persecuted
him.
The CCP regime took pains to show the world it was strong and not afraid of Liu Xiaobo, yet its actions suggested otherwise. The CCP regime took pains to show the world that China is rising as a great civilized nation, yet its actions suggested otherwise. No nation that routinely persecutes, tortures and murders its best people can ever be described as strong, as great; no nation that does not allow a man such as Liu Xiaobo to die as a freeman is going to rise as a respected world power. Never.
In death, Liu Xiaobo has overcome the limits of time
and space. The leaders of China wanted to bury him, trying make him
disappear all together. But these cowards failed to understand that Liu
Xiaobo is a seed. Where you bury him, there he grows. He is everywhere
and forever.
Source: Initiatives for China
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