LA Weekly

This is fantastic. People all around the world who care about human rights are coming together to protest the Chinese Communist government's brutal human rights abuses and its suppression of freedom of expression. I hope that these "Olympics" will go down in history like the Nazi Olympics of 1936, because the similarity between the Nazi regime and the government of the People's Republic of China is striking.

The most egregious and widespread of human rights abuses are the Chinese government's population control and ethnic cleansing through the so-called "One-Child Policy," which has for decades used the inhuman methods of forced abortions and sterilizations on women. The Nazis also used sterilization as a form of ethnic cleansing of the Jewish people. Both Nazism and the current Chinese government were founded on the goal of population control - by blaming the world's problems either on a group of people, or on human life itself.

Chinese authorities discriminate against the Tibetans both through violent suppression of their voices, and through use of the One-Child policy to decimate their population. The Uyghur population of East Turkestan lives in terror of the Chinese authorities who are destroying them, their language and their faith, but most of all, the human life growing inside of Uyghur mothers. Sterilizations and forced abortions are rampant in the Chinese-occupied dictatorship of East Turkestan.

There have even been incentives for Han Chinese to move into East Turkestan, to "outbreed" the Uyghurs. The resemblance to Nazism becomes uncanny when one recalls that the Nazis also took measures to set apart individuals who had "Teutonic" characteristics. Women were detained for coupling with Teutonically-pleasing men in special Nazi institutions for the breeding of an Aryan super-race.

But ethnic cleansing is just part of the goal in China, a country that forcibly aborts on and sterilizes on its own Han Chinese as well. The National Family Planning Committee of China even admits that since the beginning of the One-Child Policy, hundreds of millions of births have been prevented. History shows, and will show, that this has been, and continues to be, through forcible, brutal means.

My question is this: why isn't this particular atrocity getting more attention and dialogue even in Western media? Certain members of the press will say that there are so many other things going on. But if we aren't hearing enough voices from China, it is precisely because they are silenced with violence; terminated as swiftly as their children and their ability to have children. What could be more tragic in our world today? What could be more worthy of our attention, and, as the Olympics approach, more evident of history repeating itself?

In a country where it is so easy to get an abortion, we must speak out on behalf of women who are deprived both of their reproductive organs and their unborn children.

Erika Victoria Zemmol
erika-zemmol@sbcglobal.net

This is fantastic. People all around the world who care about human rights are coming together to protest the Chinese Communist government's brutal human rights abuses and its suppression of freedom of expression. I hope that these "Olympics" will go down in history like the Nazi Olympics of 1936, because the similarity between the Nazi regime and the government of the People's Republic of China is striking.

The most egregious and widespread of human rights abuses are the Chinese government's population control and ethnic cleansing through the so-called "One-Child Policy," which has for decades used the inhuman methods of forced abortions and sterilizations on women. The Nazis also used sterilization as a form of ethnic cleansing of the Jewish people. Both Nazism and the current Chinese government were founded on the goal of population control - by blaming the world's problems either on a group of people, or on human life itself.

Chinese authorities discriminate against the Tibetans both through violent suppression of their voices, and through use of the One-Child policy to decimate their population. The Uyghur population of East Turkestan lives in terror of the Chinese authorities who are destroying them, their language and their faith, but most of all, the human life growing inside of Uyghur mothers. Sterilizations and forced abortions are rampant in the Chinese-occupied dictatorship of East Turkestan.

There have even been incentives for Han Chinese to move into East Turkestan, to "outbreed" the Uyghurs. The resemblance to Nazism becomes uncanny when one recalls that the Nazis also took measures to set apart individuals who had "Teutonic" characteristics. Women were detained for coupling with Teutonically-pleasing men in special Nazi institutions for the breeding of an Aryan super-race.

But ethnic cleansing is just part of the goal in China, a country that forcibly aborts on and sterilizes on its own Han Chinese as well. The National Family Planning Committee of China even admits that since the beginning of the One-Child Policy, millions of births have been prevented. History shows, and will show, that this has been, and continues to be, through forcible, brutal means.

My question is this: why isn't this particular atrocity getting more attention and dialogue even in Western media? Certain members of the press will say that there are so many other things going on. But if we aren't hearing enough voices from China, it is precisely because they are silenced with violence; terminated as swiftly as their children and their ability to have children. What could be more tragic in our world today? What could be more worthy of our attention, and, as the Olympics approach, more evident of history repeating itself?

In a country where it is so easy to get an abortion, we must speak out on behalf of women who are deprived both of their reproductive organs and their unborn children.

Erika Victoria Zemmol
erika-zemmol@sbcglobal.net