Congressional Record—House H6040

H6040 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 2, 2009 a stress area where American soldiers Mr. KRATOVIL. Madam Speaker, I police, members of the armed forces and were trying to help those in need? object to the vote on the ground that a other citizens; Twenty percent of those who have quorum is not present and make the Whereas on May 20, 1989, martial law was fought, who have been on the front declared in Beijing after authorities had point of order that a quorum is not failed to persuade demonstrators to leave lines, whether in Iraq or Afghanistan, present. Tiananmen Square; have posttraumatic stress disorder. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Whereas during the late afternoon and Most are misdiagnosed, most are ant to clause 8 of rule XX and the early evening hours of June 3, 1989, ten- to undiagnosed, and the stigma is slowly Chair’s prior announcement, further fifteen thousand helmeted, armed troops car- peeling away. They need our help. proceedings on this motion will be rying automatic weapons and traveling in Their families need our help. postponed. large truck convoys moved into Beijing to So not only did we go into a war un- The point of no quorum is considered ‘‘clear the Square’’ and surrounding streets of demonstrators; prepared, but we did little for those withdrawn. Whereas on the night of June 3 and con- who put their lives on the front line f tinuing into the morning of June 4, 1989, sol- while we, supposedly gray men, decided diers in armored columns of tanks outside of where they would go and when they RECESS Tiananmen Square fired directly at citizens would return and how many times they The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- and indiscriminately into crowds, inflicting would return to the battlefield. We are high civilian casualties, killing or injuring ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair unarmed civilians who reportedly ranged in fools, to say the least. declares the House in recess subject to We need to think about what’s going age from 9 years old to 61 years old; and the call of the Chair. whereas tanks crushed some protesters and on. These brave men and women have Accordingly (at 4 o’clock and 25 min- onlookers to death; taken the entire burden while we act as utes p.m.), the House stood in recess Whereas after 20 years, the exact number if nothing happens. These senseless subject to the call of the Chair. of dead and wounded remains unclear; cred- deaths will not be forgotten. ible sources believe that a number much I ask all of us to vote for this legisla- f larger than that officially reported actually tion and remember their families b 1707 died in Beijing during the period of military God bless America. Thank you. control; credible sources estimate the AFTER RECESS wounded numbered at least in the hundreds; Mr. MCMAHON. Madam Speaker, the tragic detentions at the time were in the thou- events that occurred at Camp Liberty in Iraq The recess having expired, the House sands, and some political prisoners who were are a sad and prominent reminder that the was called to order by the Speaker pro sentenced in connection with the events sur- mental health needs of our service men and tempore (Ms. RICHARDSON) at 5 o’clock rounding June 4, 1989, still languish in Chi- women are simply not being met. and 7 minutes p.m. nese prisons; I have co-sponsored H. Res. 471 not only to Whereas there are Chinese citizens still f express my sympathy, but because I know imprisoned for ‘‘counter-revolutionary’’ of- that such a tragedy could have been avoided. COMMEMORATING 20TH ANNIVER- fenses allegedly committed during the 1989 demonstrations, even though, according to A month ago, 46 of my colleagues in the SARY OF THE TIANANMEN the 1997 revision of China’s Criminal Law, House and I sent a letter to Chairman MURTHA SQUARE SUPPRESSION the ‘‘offenses’’ for which they were convicted and Ranking Member YOUNG of the defense Mr. LEVIN. Madam Speaker, I move are no longer crimes; appropriations subcommittee, supporting Sec- to suspend the rules and agree to the Whereas the Tiananmen Mothers is a group retary Gates’ recommendations to increase of relatives and friends of those killed in resolution (H. Res. 489) recognizing the June 1989 whose demands include the right mental health funding in the FY10 DOD budg- twentieth anniversary of the suppres- et by $300 million. to mourn victims publicly, to call for a full sion of protesters and citizens in and and public accounting of the wounded and I hold fast to this request and hope that this around Tiananmen Square in Beijing, dead, and the release of those who remain increase will contribute to an increase in men- People’s Republic of China, on June 3 imprisoned for participating in the 1989 pro- tal health professionals to treat the invisible and 4, 1989 and expressing sympathy to tests; wounds of our men and women in uniform. the families of those killed, tortured, Whereas members of the Tiananmen Moth- Mental Health screenings should be con- and imprisoned in connection with the ers group have faced arrest, harassment and fidential, mandatory and comfortable for those discrimination; the group’s Web site is democracy protests in Tiananmen blocked in China; and international cash do- who have witnessed the unimaginable on the Square and other parts of China on battlefield. H.R. 1308, The Veterans Mental nations made to the group to support fami- June 3 and 4, 1989 and thereafter. lies of victims reportedly have been frozen Health Screenings and Assessments Act, The Clerk read the title of the resolu- by Chinese authorities; which I have introduced with my colleague, tion. Whereas Chinese authorities censor infor- Congressman TOM ROONEY aims to do just The text of the resolution is as fol- mation that does not conform to the official this by eliminating the stigma of mental treat- lows: version of events surrounding the ment through mandating screenings for all re- Tiananmen crackdown, and limits or pro- H. RES. 489 turning service men and women. hibits information about the Tiananmen Again, my heart goes out to the families of Whereas freedom of expression and assem- crackdown from appearing in textbooks in bly are fundamental human rights that be- the victims of the Camp Liberty shootings. We, China; long to all people, and are recognized as such Whereas Chinese authorities continue to in the Congress, must act to ensure that such under the Universal Declaration of Human suppress peaceful dissent by harassing, de- a tragedy does not happen again. Rights and the International Covenant on taining, or imprisoning advocates for demo- Through granting Secretary Gates’ request Civil and Political Rights; cratic processes, journalists, advocates for and enacting H.R. 1308, we will ensure that Whereas June 4th, 2009, marks the 20th an- worker rights, religious believers, and other the victims of the awful Camp Liberty tragedy niversary of the day in 1989 when the Peo- individuals in China, including in Xinjiang will not be forgotten and hopefully, prevent ple’s Liberation Army and other security and in Tibet, who seek to express their polit- such catastrophes from occurring in the future. forces finished carrying out the orders of ical dissent, ethnic identity, or religious Ms. FALLIN. Madam Speaker, I yield Chinese leaders to use lethal force to dis- views peacefully and freely; and perse demonstrators in and around Beijing’s back the balance of my time. Whereas Chinese authorities continue to Tiananmen Square; harass and detain advocates for democratic Mr. KRATOVIL. Madam Speaker, I Whereas the death on April 15, 1989, of Hu processes, such as Mr. Liu Xiaobo, a yield back the balance of my time. Yaobang, former General Secretary of the Tiananmen Square protester, prominent in- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Communist Party of China, was followed by tellectual, dissident writer, and more re- question is on the motion offered by peaceful protests calling for the elimination cently a signer of Charter 08 (a call for the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. of corruption, acceleration of economic and peaceful political reform and respect for the KRATOVIL) that the House suspend the political reforms, especially freedom of ex- rule of law published on-line in December rules and agree to the resolution, H. pression and freedom of assembly; and call- 2008 by over 300 citizens, and subsequently ing for a dialogue between protesters and Res. 471, as amended. endorsed by thousands more), who remains Chinese authorities on these issues; under house arrest: Now, therefore, be it The question was taken. Whereas by early May 1989, citizens advo- Resolved, That the House of Representa- The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the cating publicly for democratic reform across tives— opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being China included not only students, but also (1) expresses sympathy to the families of in the affirmative, the ayes have it. government employees, journalists, workers, those killed, tortured, and imprisoned as a

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Many defied into the Tiananmen Square crackdown, as- China relationship has grown dramati- that order, choosing instead to remain sisted by the United Nations High Commis- cally on a variety of foreign policy faithful to their aspirations. The world sioner for Human Rights and the Inter- issues and on our economic relation- took note, and we today preserve that national Committee of the Red Cross; ships. In pursuing these relations suc- memory for history. (3) calls on the legal authorities of People’s cessfully, a key challenge has been to Republic of China to review immediately the I reserve the balance of my time. cases of those still imprisoned for partici- find the right combination of pursuit of The Chairman of the committee will pating in the 1989 protests for compliance basic American values. That was a take over the remainder of the time. I with internationally recognized standards of challenge in consideration of trade re- salute him, if I might, for his work and fairness and due process in judicial pro- lations with China in its accession to that of the ranking member on the ceedings, and to release those individuals the WTO. There was incorporated in committee and all of those who joined imprisoned solely for peacefully exercising the legislation before Congress in 2000 in supporting this resolution. their internationally-recognized rights; the creation of the Congressional-Exec- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without (4) calls on the People’s Republic of China utive Commission on China to pursue to end its harassment and detention of and objection, the gentleman from Cali- its discrimination against those who were in- issues relating to human rights, includ- fornia will control the remainder of the volved in the 1989 protests not only in Bei- ing labor rights and the rule of law. time. jing, but in other parts of China where pro- The commission has actively engaged There was no objection. on these issues and has issued a com- tests took place, and to end its harassment b 1715 and detention of those who continue to advo- prehensive report every year since its cate peacefully for political reform such as inception. Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, I Mr. Liu Xiaobo, a signer of Charter 08 who When peaceful protesters gathered in yield myself such time as I may con- remains under house arrest, and his wife, Liu Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and in sume. Xia; over 100 other Chinese cities, it rep- Madam Speaker, I rise in very strong (5) calls on the People’s Republic of China support of this resolution ‘‘recognizing to allow protest participants who escaped to resented a burst of freedom. They or are living in exile in the United States called for the elimination of corruption the 20th anniversary of the suppression and other countries, or who reside outside of and the acceleration of economic and of protesters and citizens in and around China because they have been ‘‘blacklisted’’ political reforms, especially freedom of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, People’s in China as a result of their peaceful protest expression and freedom of assembly. Republic of China, on June 3 and 4, activity, to return to China without risk of These protesters included not only stu- 1989.’’ The words ‘‘Tiananmen’’ mean retribution or repercussion; and dents but also government employees, ‘‘Gate of Heavenly Peace.’’ Sadly, how- (6) calls on the Administration and Mem- journalists, workers, police and mem- ever, the events of that dark night 20 bers of the Congress to mark the 20th Anni- years ago were anything but heavenly versary of the events at Tiananmen Square bers of China’s armed forces. People appropriately and effectively by taking steps peacefully filled the square until thou- or peaceful. that includes— sands of armed forces moved in, sur- It was during that dark night that (A) meeting whenever and wherever pos- rounding the demonstrators. On June 4, the hopes of a generation for a new and sible with participants in the demonstra- 1989, soldiers fired directly into the democratic China were cruelly tions who are living in the United States; crowds outside of Tiananmen Square, smashed along with the papier-mache (B) meeting with others outside of China killing and injuring unarmed civilians. and wire statue of the Goddess of De- who have been ‘‘blacklisted’’ in China as a The exact number of the dead and mocracy, built with youthful idealism result of their peaceful protest activities; by art students in Tiananmen Square. (C) signaling support for those in China wounded remains unknown. The who demand an accounting of the events sur- wounded are estimated to have num- It was during that dark night that a rounding June 4th, 1989; and bered at least in the hundreds. Deten- single, brave figure in the picture seen (D) expressing support for those advocating tions at the time were in the thou- around the world stood in silent defi- for accountable and democratic governance sands. Some political prisoners still ance of army tanks as they rolled to- in China. languish in Chinese prisons. ward the square. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- We today express our sympathy to It was during that dark night that ant to the rule, the gentleman from the relatives and friends of those killed the people of China watched in horror Michigan (Mr. LEVIN) and the gen- and injured on that day, and we stand as their own so-called ‘‘People’s Army’’ tleman from Texas (Mr. POE) each will with them as we honor the memory of turned assault weapons and bayonets control 20 minutes. those whose lives were lost and those on their own people, who reportedly The Chair recognizes the gentleman who continue to suffer today. Let us be ranged in age from 9 years old to 61 from Michigan. absolutely clear: this resolution asks years old, all of whom were partici- GENERAL LEAVE nothing of China that is inconsistent pating in a peaceful demonstration. Mr. LEVIN. Madam Speaker, I ask with commitments to international It was during that dark night that unanimous consent that all Members standards to which China, in principle, the blood of student martyrs stained a may have 5 legislative days to revise has already agreed. We ask of China’s square where a previous generation of and extend their remarks and include leaders full and independent investiga- students had petitioned the rulers of extraneous material on the resolution tions into the Tiananmen Square China for democracy during the May 4 under consideration. crackdown with a full commitment to movement in 1919. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there openness, and we call on Chinese au- It was during that dark night that objection to the request of the gen- thorities to release those individuals the pain began for the Tiananmen tleman from Michigan? imprisoned solely for peacefully exer- Mothers who, through two decades of There was no objection. cising their internationally recognized harassment and intimidation, have dis- Mr. LEVIN. Madam Speaker, I rise in rights. We call on Chinese authorities played the courage to keep their dead strong support of this resolution. I now to end the harassment and detention of children’s hopes alive and their dreams yield myself as much time as I may those who were involved in the 1989 alive of liberty. consume. protests and to end the harassment and It would be easy to forget that night This resolution recognizes the 20th detention of those who continue to ad- of the long knives. It would be easy to anniversary of the suppression of Chi- vocate peacefully for political reform. look at the glittering business towers nese protesters and citizens in I encourage my colleagues to support rising above an increasingly prosperous Tiananmen Square. Freedom of expres- those in China who demand an ac- China and say that is in the past and

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He spent 5 years in in that dark night in Tiananmen leagues for bringing this legislation to prison and in reeducation-through- Square when they murdered their own the floor. labor camps for supporting the people, mostly students. Twenty years ago, a generation ago, Tiananmen students and for ques- Now, two decades later, a time for thousands, millions of Chinese stu- tioning the one-party system. Late last truth and a time for truth telling is dents, workers, and citizens assembled year, he was again arrested for being overdue. That is why this resolution in Tiananmen Square and all of the one of the organizers of the Charter ’08, calls on the Chinese authorities to in- streets leading to it and from it to an online public petition for democracy vite full and independent investiga- bravely speak out. It was about pro- and the rule of law. About 5,000 people tions into the Tiananmen Square moting more freedom in China in terms signed it. Imagine the courage of these crackdown, assisted by the United Na- of accountability of the government in people to sign such a petition. Liu con- tions High Commissioner for Human ending corruption. It was about, again, tinues to be held without charges. We Rights and the International Com- more transparency and the ability to call for his immediate and uncondi- mittee of the Red Cross. speak and to assemble. It was about tional release. A famous saying goes that ‘‘Those the aspirations of people in a country Let me read the name of Dr. Wang who forget their past are destined to that they love and their desire to have Bingzhang. He is very famous. There repeat it.’’ Neither China nor the world dialogue with their leaders on the fu- was an article in the paper yesterday could stand a repeat of that horrific ture of China. about him. Hu Jia, Shi Tao, Chen tragedy of the Tiananmen Square Mas- It will be forever seared in our mem- Guangcheng, Gao Zhisheng, Yan sacre. ory what happened next. The People’s Zhengxue, Pastor Zhang Rongliang, It is time to honor the dead, express Liberation Army, the People’s Army Bangri Chogtrul Rinpoche, and profound sympathy to the surviving was used against the people, crushing Ronggyal Adrag are being held. Some family members, and to seek a full and demonstrators in Tiananmen Square of these are from Tibet as well. There honest accounting of the shocking and crushing dissent throughout China. are others, but I want to submit these events that occurred two decades ago And so again, Tiananmen Square is the names for the RECORD as they are rep- this week before that gate which is place where many people assembled, resentative of the situation. meant to symbolize heavenly peace. but the demonstrations were beyond I just had the privilege of visiting I urge my colleagues to strongly sup- that and well into Beijing and across China last week. We had magnificent port this resolution, and I reserve the the country. hospitality from the Chinese Govern- balance of my time. We remember, again, one of the most ment, and I am grateful for the oppor- Mr. BERMAN. Madam Speaker, I’m enduring images which actually hap- tunity they gave us to hear about their very honored to yield 1 minute to the pened after the crush, after the order plans for climate change and issues of Speaker of the House. For those of us was given to clear Tiananmen Square global concern. It also afforded me the who were in this Chamber at the time by such and such a time on June 4. A opportunity to speak about human of the Tiananmen Square movement 20 day or two later, a brave man stood be- rights in China and Tibet and congres- years ago, we all remember that there fore the tank. One of the most endur- sional concern about it to the Presi- was no one more passionate or elo- ing images of the 20th century will for- dent, the Premier and the Chairman of quent on the aspirations of those stu- ever be seared again in the conscience the National People’s Congress. In dents and more outraged by the dash- of the world, the picture of the lone terms of our dialogue, congressional ing of those aspirations, whether the man standing before the tank in the and interparliamentary dialogue, I people at the square or of the Chinese street bringing a line of tanks to a think it was clear from our visit that people generally or the thousands of halt. When the tanks moved, he moved. this concern is bipartisan, and any dia- Chinese students who were studying in He even climbed on the tank to com- logue we had between our two con- the United States at that time and municate to the person in charge of the gresses would have to include a discus- watching that happen, than Leader tank that Beijing was their city and sion of human rights. PELOSI. they did not want tanks overtaking it. When we were there, the first meet- I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the Today that spirit of Tiananmen lives in ing we had was with Bishop Jin of Speaker of the House. the hearts and minds of those con- Shanghai to discuss the status of reli- Ms. PELOSI. I thank the gentleman tinuing to work for freedom in China gious freedom in China. He was opti- for yielding. and beyond. The heroes had the cour- mistic about the Catholics that he led And I thank him and SANDER LEVIN age to speak out for freedom. in Shanghai having some more freedom and Congresswoman ILEANA ROS- There will be other observances of and making progress in that regard. LEHTINEN for bringing this legislation the Berlin Wall coming down through- And I respect that. But that is not the to the floor. I associate myself with the out Europe in the next weeks and case for all who wish to exercise their comments of Mr. POE and my friend, months. And actually, while the Chi- religious freedom in China. And again, Mr. WOLF. We have been working on nese students, workers, and demonstra- China is a country of contradictions. this issue for a very long time in our tors used the Goddess of Democracy as You see progress here and you see op- task force on China ever since I think the symbol in Tiananmen Square, in- pression there. Perhaps it is how re- even before Tiananmen. spired by our Founders, they, in turn, gions deal with these issues. But the Human rights in China is a very, very inspired others throughout Europe and fact is that much more needs to be important issue. China is a very impor- the rest of the world to speak out for done in terms of religious freedom. tant country. The relationship between freedom, and they did achieve freedom. I mentioned that we had submitted our two countries is very important Unfortunately, the Chinese did not. this letter to the Chinese Government. economically, security-wise, cul- Some of the people arrested at the When we were in Hong Kong we met turally, and in every way. But the size time of Tiananmen Square are still in with Han Dongfang. Mr. WOLF, you of the economy, the size of the coun- prison. We really don’t have all of their know him. Han Dongfang was in try, and the size of the relationship names, but we do have the names of Tiananmen Square as a bus driver at doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t speak some prisoners of conscience that I the time, and he gave us his view about out. I have said that if we don’t speak brought to the attention of the Chinese what was happening and what opportu- out about our concerns regarding Government. In a letter to the Presi- nities that could be there. human rights in China and Tibet, then dent of China, I included some of those, It is something that is not taught to we lose all moral authority to discuss and I want to read them into the children. What we learned is that some

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That is pretty KEY PRISONERS IN CHINA WHO SHOULD BE U.S. Congress in September 2007, he was remarkable. But the fact is that the RELEASED—SUBMITTED MAY 27, 2009 taken away by the police for over 50 days, and tortured. Gao disappeared again on Jan- world will never forget, and that image Liu Xiaobo was detained and transported uary 19, 2009. His current whereabouts are is one that inspires those who aspire to to an undisclosed location in December 2008 freedom wherever it is in the world. unknown. without any legal proceeding. He was one of Yan Zhengxue, a 63-year old writer and I do believe that all countries of the the original signers of Charter 08 that calls painter, was detained on October 18, 2006, world have to get to a place of more for new policies to improve human rights during a police raid on his home in the openness, more transparency and more and democracy in China. Liu is reportedly Jiaojiang district of Taizhou city, Zhejiang accountability of government. And per- under residential surveillance at a location province. The Taizhou People’s Intermediate haps the issue we visited the Chinese outside of his residence, in violation of Chi- Court convicted him on April 13, 2007, of in- about, climate change, is one that can na’s Criminal Procedure law. It is my under- citing subversion and sentenced him to three standing that he has not been allowed to open some doors. Environmental jus- years in prison after he attended a con- meet with his lawyer or family except for ference in the U.S. several years earlier and tice can help people have clean air and one brief visit with his wife. Under Chinese published on the Internet three articles crit- clean water and get answers from their law, a person under residential surveillance ical of the Chinese government. Yang’s cell government as to why they do not have does not need permission to meet with his mate reportedly attacked him, causing head it. lawyer. injuries. Yang’s family is concerned about Today, on this floor, and this week Dr. Wang Bingzhang was abducted by Chi- his diminishing physical and mental health we are observing something that is sa- nese authorities in Vietnam in June 2002 and due to harsh treatment in prison. cred ground when we talk about human brought to China. He was then convicted and Pastor Zhang Rongliang is a Christian sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary rights in the world. It is a remarkable leader who was detained in Zhengzhou city, confinement in a trial that produced no evi- Henan province, in December 2004 and sen- occurrence that will continue to in- dence or witnesses to prove the charges tenced in June 2006 to seven years and six spire people throughout the world and against him. Dr. Wang is an internationally months in prison. Authorities charged him also inspire those in China who hope recognized pro-democracy activist and the with ‘‘fraudulently obtaining border-exit for and aspire to freedom. UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention documents’’ and illegally crossing the border Mr. Lantos, our late colleague, intro- found that Wang’s detention is arbitrary. Dr. in an effort to attend missions conferences. duced me to the Dalai Lama and the Wang is a permanent resident of the United He had been beaten, detained, and harassed a issue of human rights in China and States and his sister and daughter are U.S. number of times since his conversion to Tibet. He was always saying to me, citizens. He is currently held in Beijiang Christianity in 1969. He is reportedly in poor Prison in Shaoguan, Guangdong province, health and suffering from diabetes. ‘‘don’t be discouraged; the fight for and suffers from phlebitis and has had three Bangri Chogtrul Rinpoche, a lama who human rights is a long one.’’ But who major strokes. At minimum, he should be re- lived as a householder, was convicted of in- would have thought that 20 years after leased on medical parole. citing splittism and sentenced to life impris- Tiananmen Square we would be observ- Hu Jia was detained in December 2007 and onment in September 2000. He and his wife ing this, that people would still be im- sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in March managed a children’s home in Lhasa. The prisoned and that we would be submit- 2008. The decision to take him into custody Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court com- seems to have been made after leaders in muted his sentence from life imprisonment ting names of people who want to be to a fixed term of 19 years in July 2003, and able to speak more freely, to assemble several Chinese provinces issued a manifesto demanding broader land rights for peasants then reduced his sentence by an additional and have more accountability from whose property had been confiscated for de- year in November 2005. He is serving his sen- their government? velopment. Hu pleaded not guilty on charges tence, which will be complete on July 30, For this and many other reasons, I’m of ‘‘inciting subversion of state power’’ at his 2021, in Qushui Prison near Lhasa. He suffers grateful to our colleagues for their trial. from heart disease and gall stones. leadership in bringing this legislation Shi Tao is a Chinese journalist serving a Ronggyal Adrag, a nomad, climbed onto a to the floor. Thank you for that oppor- ten-year prison sentence for sending an stage at a horse-racing festival in Litang county, Sichuan province, on August 1, 2007, tunity. email description of a government order pro- hibiting Chinese media from recognizing the and shouted slogans calling for the Dalai And with that, Madam Speaker, I Lama’s return to Tibet, the release of Gedun want to submit, in full, my letter and fifteenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests to a New York-based democ- Choekyi Nyima (the Panchen Lama identi- the list of prisoners. This is important racy website. Shi Tao was convicted with fied by the Dalai Lama), freedom of religion, because they say the worst form of email account information provided by and Tibetan independence. The Ganzi Inter- punishment for someone who is a polit- Yahoo! China. His lawyer, Guo Guoting, was mediate People’s Court sentenced him on No- ical prisoner is to say that no one re- repeatedly harassed in an effort to prevent vember 20, 2007, to eight year’s imprisonment members that you are here. No one re- him from representing Shi Tao. for inciting splittism. members why you are here. So think Chen Guangcheng, a self-trained legal ad- b 1730 vocate who tried in June 2005 to investigate about that as you are in prison. Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, I Well, we want them to know that in reports that officials in Linyi city, Shandong province, had subjected thousands of people yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from the Congress of the United States, we to forced abortions, beatings, and compul- Virginia, (Mr. WOLF), the ranking do know about them, we do care about sory sterilization in order to meet popu- member of the Appropriations Sub- them, and that we will continue to call lation control targets. Although central gov- committee on Commerce, Justice and for their freedom. ernment officials agreed that the officials Science, and also, he’s the co-chair of MAY 27, 2009. used illegal means, authorities rejected the the Tom Lantos Congressional Human Hon. HU JINTAO, class-action lawsuit Chen tried to file. Chen was tried on August 24, 2006, and sentenced Rights Commission. President, Mr. WOLF. I thank the gentleman. I People’s Republic of China. to four years and three months for ‘‘inten- DEAR PRESIDENT HU: I am writing to ask tional destruction of property’’ and ‘‘gath- also want to thank the chairman and for your assistance in obtaining the release ering people to disturb traffic order.’’ Chen, the ranking member and the Speaker of certain individuals detained or imprisoned who is blind, has reportedly been severely for their efforts to bring this important in China. It is my understanding that these beaten in jail and has gone on a hunger resolution to the floor. individuals are prisoners of conscience and strike to protest the beatings. He is serving Twenty years after peaceful pro-de- they are detained or imprisoned for exer- his sentence in Linyi Prison. mocracy demonstrators gathered in cising rights that are guaranteed to them Gao Zhisheng, founder of a Beijing law Tiananmen Square and were brutally under Chinese law or under international firm, has represented numerous activists, re- crushed, the human rights situation in ligious leaders, and writers. On October 18, human rights conventions that have been China remains bleak. Not only does the signed or ratified by the Chinese govern- 2005, Gao wrote an open letter to Hu Jintao ment. and Wen Jiabao, exposing widespread torture government consistently silence dis- Attached is a list of selected prisoners and against Falun Gong practitioners. On No- sent, repress religious believers and sti- brief descriptions of their cases. I look for- vember 4, officials shut down his law firm fle opposition, but it is in the business

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Perhaps if he’s there will be freedom, the government op-ed, which I’d like to submit for the caught up or wherever he is in Beijing will be changed and the people of RECORD, which opens with an exchange today he will correct the record and at China, the good people of China, and that the author, Dan Southerland, had least say something. they are good people. with a Chinese student a couple of Our own economic reality has effec- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The years ago. Southerland, chief of the tively silenced our voice, a tragic loss time of the gentleman has again ex- Washington Post’s Beijing Bureau in for all those political dissidents who pired. the late Eighties, references his time languish in the Chinese laogai, those Mr. POE of Texas. I yield the gen- as a reporter in Beijing on the now in- house church Christians who worship tleman an additional minute. famous June 4, 1989. secretly in their homes, the Tibetans— Mr. WOLF. The good people of China He writes, ‘‘but it soon became clear and I’ve been to Tibet. They have plun- will be able to live in freedom, and that June 4 meant nothing to her,’’ a dered Tibet. The Uyghurs who are there can be a rally in Tiananmen student. ‘‘Chinese censors have man- being persecuted, the Muslims who are Square, a prayer meeting in aged to erase all mention of that trag- being persecuted by the Chinese Gov- Tiananmen Square, where millions can edy from the country’s textbooks and ernment. come from every denomination and state-run media.’’ And the Catholic Church. There are worship in peace and have freedom and The human rights situation in China 34 bishops in jail today in the Catholic justice and democracy. is made worse by America’s diminished Church, and yet no one speaks out on So we must remember, remember commitment to raise these issues and behalf of the Catholic Church. those who suffer. They are the heroes be a voice for the voiceless. I’m sad- And lastly, the Falun Gong who have for China. And we will see this govern- dened to say today that this has been suffered so much. ment change and we will see, in my true of successive administrations of Since my first trip to China in 1991 lifetime, freedom in China. both political parties. with my good friend, Congressman [From the Washington Post, June 2, 2009] In her first trip to the region, Sec- SMITH, the human rights situation has TIANANMEN: DAYS TO REMEMBER retary of State Clinton failed to make gotten worse, despite promises to the (By Dan Southerland) even a cursory public mention of contrary during the debate to grant Two years ago I met a Chinese student who human rights, saying that, ‘‘those China most favored nation status. One was entering graduate school in the United issues can’t interfere with economic, of the worst votes that this institution States. I told her I had been in Beijing dur- security or environmental matters.’’ has ever cast was to give this evil em- ing ‘‘6–4,’’ the Chinese shorthand for the Now, why would the Secretary of pire, if you will, in China the most fa- massacre of June 4, 1989. State say that? A Washington Post edi- vored nation trading status. ‘‘What are you talking about?’’ she asked. torial following her trip and similarly It was during this trip that we visited At first I thought she might not have un- derstood my Chinese, but it soon became dismissive comments on human rights Beijing Prison Number One. Chinese clear that ‘‘June 4’’ meant nothing to her. I in Egypt said that Secretary Clinton authorities informed us that approxi- probably shouldn’t have been surprised. is, quote the Washington Post, and I mately 40 Tiananmen Square pro- In the 20 years since that day in 1989 when thank them for this editorial, ‘‘sending testers were in prison. Our requests to Chinese troops opened fire on unarmed civil- a message to rulers around the world visit the demonstrators were denied. ians near Tiananmen Square, Chinese cen- that their abuses won’t be taken seri- But instead, we found some demonstra- sors have managed to erase all mention of ously by this U.S. administration.’’ tors making socks for export to the that tragedy from the country’s textbooks Nor were they taken seriously in the and state-run media. United States whereby they were work- But for me, Tiananmen is impossible to waning days of the last administration. ing on free and cheap labor to sell forget. As Beijing bureau chief for The Post, Congressman SMITH and I traveled to things to the United States. I covered the student demonstrations that Beijing last July, just 1 month prior to The SPEAKER pro tempore. The began in mid-April, tried to track a murky the commencement of the 2008 Olym- time of the gentleman has expired. power struggle among top Chinese leaders pics. We brought with us a list of over Mr. POE of Texas. I yield the gen- and managed a small team of young, Chi- 700 political prisoners to present to tleman an additional 1 minute. nese-speaking American reporters. Ambassador Li, the current chairman Mr. WOLF. Unbelievably, 20 years What I remember best was the sudden after Tiananmen, our own State De- openness of many Beijing citizens of all pro- of the Foreign Affairs Committee in fessions. They were inspired by throngs of the National People’s Congress, and partment Human Rights Report indi- students calling for political reform, media pressed for the release of all political cates that the Chinese Government freedom and an end to ‘‘official profit- prisoners in China. still has not provided a comprehen- eering.’’ One night during our trip we were sible, credible accounting of all those People I believed to be Communist Party scheduled to meet with several human killed, missing or detained in connec- supporters were suddenly telling me what rights lawyers for dinner. All but one tion with the violent suppression of the they really thought. Some who had been si- person scheduled to meet us was de- 1989 demonstration. lent in the past even debated politics on street corners. tained or otherwise prevented from at- But Tiananmen is not simply a com- In early May, Chinese journalists peti- tending by the Chinese security forces. memoration of a past event. Dozens of tioned for the right to report openly on the The one activist with whom we were people are still believed to be impris- Tiananmen protests, which on May 17 able to meet was arrested later that oned in connection with the dem- swelled to more than a million people evening, and he and his family con- onstrating at Tiananmen, and millions marching in the capital. Journalists from all tinue to face harassment by security more Chinese citizens still hope for the the leading Chinese newspapers, including forces. Very little was done by the Em- end to their oppression. the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the bassy or the State Department in the In a Constitution Day speech, Presi- Communist Party, joined in. Their slogan was ‘‘Don’t force us to lie.’’ last administration when that took dent Ronald Reagan described the For a brief period, Chinese journalists were place. Silence was their response, basi- United States Constitution as ‘‘a cov- allowed to report objectively on the student cally, to this problem. enant we have made, not only with protests. But this press freedom was short- Now we see just this week, news re- ourselves, but with all of mankind.’’ lived and ended May 20 with the imposition ports indicate that Treasury Secretary In closing, Madam Speaker, we have of martial law and the entry of the People’s Geithner desperately sought to assure an obligation to keep the covenant. Liberation Army into Beijing. China, our biggest creditor, that their And I continue to pray, as many people At first, Beijing residents manning make- billions of dollars in U.S. government prayed during the days of the evil em- shift barriers blocked the troops. But late on the evening of June 3, tanks, armored per- debt were not a liability. pire in the Soviet Union, pray for the sonnel carriers and soldiers firing automatic Why didn’t Geithner at least raise fall, the collapse of the Chinese, of the weapons broke through to the square. the issue of human rights? Couldn’t he Russian Government, and the collapse The death toll quickly became a taboo sub- have just said something about it? of the Wall, many and millions are ject for Chinese media.

VerDate Nov 24 2008 04:01 Jun 03, 2009 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K02JN7.064 H02JNPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC68 with HOUSE June 2, 2009 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H6045 Chinese doctors and nurses who had openly And I especially want to thank the And even before Tiananmen, another sided with students on the square, and who Speaker of the House, NANCY PELOSI, brave man, Mr. Wang Youcai, was ac- had allowed reporters into operating rooms for insisting that we keep alive the tive in the Chinese democracy move- to view the wounded, came under pressure to memory of Tiananmen Square. ment. In 1989 he was the Secretary- conceal casualty figures. One brave doctor at a hospital not far from Madam Speaker, 1989 was a tumul- General of the Beijing Higher Edu- Tiananmen Square led me and a colleague to tuous year. It was the year Solidarity cation Students Autonomous Union in a makeshift morgue, where we saw some 20 won the elections in Poland, the year the Tiananmen Square protest. A grad- bullet-riddled bodies laid out on a cement the people of Germany tore down the uate student at Peking University, he floor. I later learned that the doctor was Berlin Wall, and the year six Jesuit was arrested in 1989 and sentenced in ‘‘disciplined’’ for allowing us to view that priests were murdered by the Salva- 1991 to 4 years in prison for counter- scene. doran military. A Chinese journalist I considered a friend revolutionary propaganda and incite- And in May and June of 1989, it was ment. He was paroled in 1991, following tried to convince me that government esti- the year when the people of China mates of fewer than 300 killed were correct a visit by then-Secretary of State, and that these included a large number of spontaneously came together calling James Baker. military and police casualties. I later for political and economic reforms. In 1998, Wang and a group of fellow learned from colleagues of his that this jour- Students, journalists, workers, govern- Chinese citizens tried to officially reg- nalist was working for state security. ment employees, police, and even mem- ister the China Democracy Party, but After comparing notes with others, my bers of the Armed Forces, nonviolently it was banned by the Chinese Govern- guess was that the actual death toll was at raised their voices and asked their gov- least 700, and that most of those killed were ment. And in December of 1998, Wang ernment, the Chinese Government, to was sentenced to 11 years in prison for ordinary Beijing residents. listen to the people and engage in di- It’s almost incredible that the Chinese gov- subversion. He was released in 2004, due rect dialogue on how to reform the na- ernment has succeeded for so long in cov- to U.S. and international pressure, and tion. ering up a tragedy of this magnitude. sent into exile. But for those who closely monitor the con- Because the largest gathering was in tinued repression of civil liberties in China— the largest main square of China, He has since lived in the United and the government’s stranglehold on news Tiananmen Square in Beijing, this mo- States, studying at Harvard and the deemed ‘‘sensitive’’—it’s not surprising. ment in history is known as University of Illinois, and he continues Chinese authorities continue to intimidate Tiananmen Square. to be a member of the Chinese Democ- reporters, block Web sites and jam broad- After an internal struggle, the Chi- racy Party and firmly believes that the casts of outside news organizations. China is nese authorities decided they did not transition to constitutional democracy the world’s leading jailer of journalists and will occur in China. cyber-dissidents. want to talk directly with their people. Chinese youths are among the most Web- Instead, they chose to respond with These are just two of the millions of savvy in the world. But Chinese search en- brute force that forever links the words stories surrounding the events known gines, chat and blog applications, as well as ‘‘Tiananmen Square’’ with the brutal as Tiananmen Square. And I would like Internet service providers, are equipped with quelling of democracy, dissent and to take a moment to remember the filters that block out certain keywords in- human aspiration. hundreds, perhaps thousands who were corporated in a blacklist that is continually Earlier today the Tom Lantos murdered in Tiananmen Square or updated. China’s censorship is multipronged, some- Human Rights Commission held a hear- later imprisoned or sent into exile. And times heavy-handed and sometimes sophisti- ing entitled, ‘‘20 years After the Crack- I want to remember the families and cated, allowing debate on some issues and down: Tiananmen Square and Human friends and the colleagues of those who shutting it down on others, such as Rights in China.’’ And I would like to died and those who survived. Tiananmen. briefly describe just two of the individ- Madam Speaker, I will enter into the Censors hold online service providers and uals who testified before the Commis- RECORD articles by Dr. Jianli Yang and Internet cafe owners responsible for the con- sion. Mr. Ha Jin, both of whom live in Mas- tent that users read and post. A small Mr. Fang Zheng was leaving blogging service will usually err on the side sachusetts, and have recently pub- of caution rather than lose its license be- Tiananmen Square in the early morn- lished reflections on Tiananmen cause of a debate about June 4. ing of June 4, 1989, along with other Square. Dr. Jianli was a student in Lines that cannot be crossed shift from student protesters in an orderly re- Tiananmen, and Mr. Ha, a member of time to time, leaving citizens uncertain and treat. He suddenly realized that a mili- the People’s Liberation Army and a therefore prone to self-censorship. tary tank was approaching them from student in the United States. The good news is that the blackout isn’t behind. Sensing the imminent danger, complete. We know from Radio Free Asia’s This week there will be a number of he used all his strength to push a fe- events on Capitol Hill and around call-in shows that some younger Chinese male student out of the tank’s path. In know just enough about Tiananmen to want Washington to remember Tiananmen to learn more. doing so, both his legs were crushed by Square. I encourage my House col- I work with several Chinese broadcasters the tank’s rolling treads. leagues, congressional staff and House Fang Zheng has continued to live in who were students in Beijing on June 4. employees to take advantage of this China. He has refused to cooperate Many of them saw more than I did. And they opportunity and hear from firsthand are here to remind me—and many Chinese— with the government in its effort to eyewitnesses like U.S. journalists. of a history we should never forget. cover up the truth of his lost legs and Mr. BERMAN. Madam Speaker, I am the massacre that took place. For the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The very pleased to yield 5 minutes to the past 20 years he’s been harassed and time of the gentleman has expired. chair, or co-chair, of the Tom Lantos closely monitored by the police. Mr. BERMAN. I am pleased to yield Human Rights Caucus, an outspoken Always an excellent athlete, he ex- the gentleman an additional 30 sec- advocate for human rights internation- celled at sports, even after his legs onds. ally and domestically, the gentleman were amputated. He won two gold med- Mr. MCGOVERN. They will be able to from Massachusetts (Mr. MCGOVERN). als and broke two Chinese national hear from firsthand eyewitnesses like Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I records at the 1992 All-China Disabled U.S. journalists speaking at the want to thank the gentleman from Athletic Games. And in 1994 he was for- Newseum on reporting live from California (Mr. BERMAN), the chair of bidden to participate in the Far East Tiananmen Square, watching the docu- the Foreign Affairs Committee, for his and South Pacific Region Games, and mentary ‘‘Tank Man’’ in the Congres- leadership on this issue and for his ad- last year he was banned from com- sional Visitor Center, celebrating vocacy of human rights. peting in the 2008 Special Olympics around a replica of the Goddess of De- And I also want to thank my good held in Beijing. mocracy Statue on the west lawn of friend, Congressman SANDER LEVIN, for With the help of the mothers of the Capitol, or attending other hear- introducing this resolution. Tiananmen Square and other brave ings and events. I want to thank Congressmen FRANK Chinese who keep alive the memory of The Chinese Government wants not WOLF and CHRIS SMITH for their dedica- Tiananmen Square inside China, Fang only the Chinese people but the world tion to promoting human rights in Zheng is here in Washington to remem- to forget Tiananmen Square. It is up to China. ber the 20th anniversary. each of us to keep the memory alive.

VerDate Nov 24 2008 04:01 Jun 03, 2009 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A02JN7.032 H02JNPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC68 with HOUSE H6046 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 2, 2009 [From the New York Times, May 31, 2009] June 4, 1989. In one bold, violent stroke, the with public debate emerging on difficult EXILED TO ENGLISH one-party regime, teetering on the verge of questions from ethnic relations, to foreign collapse, found reprieve. Zhao’s vision of a affairs, to government corruption, to HIV/ (By Ha Jin) more moderate democratic future, one me- AIDS and the environment. In other words, BOSTON.—I was in the People’s Liberation ticulously documented in his recently re- China would have embarked on a peaceful Army in the 1970s, and we soldiers had al- leased memoirs, vanished from the scene, its transition to democracy. A democratic ways been instructed that our principal task author put under house arrest. China—one that followed Zhao’s model— was to serve and protect the people. So when There could hardly be a better time for would have prospered economically, too. the Chinese military turned on the students Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Instead, today China feels the con- in Tiananmen Square, it shocked me so Premier Zhao Ziyang to be published, as the sequences of rejecting this path of reform. much that for weeks I was in a daze. memoirs will be in both English and Chinese The same corruption that motivated the op- At the time, I was in the United States, this week. Early June marks the 20th anni- position 20 years ago is today an open sore finishing a dissertation in American lit- versary of Tiananmen Square—a memory on the face of Chinese society. Eighty per- erature. My plan was to go back to China that will certainly remind China of the cent of China’s wealth is thought to be con- once it was done. I had a teaching job wait- democratic ideals left behind in tragedy. trolled by the top 10 percent of party offi- ing for me at Shandong University. Reading Zhao’s account, I—and no doubt cials. And it’s visible. Corruption distorts After the crackdown, some friends assured other readers—cannot help but imagine what every aspect of Chinese society, from the me that the Communist Party would admit China would be like today if Zhao had pre- shoddy workmanship of the elementary its mistake within a year. I couldn’t see why vailed in June 1989. What if the dissenters schools that collapsed during last year’s they were so optimistic. I also thought it who stood firmly before the government in earthquake (while the homes of party offi- would be foolish to wait passively for histor- Tiananmen Square had gained Zhao as a cials stood firm) to the summary displace- ical change. I had to find my own existence, powerful ally to their cause? Would China ment of more than 300,000 Beijing citizens in separate from the state power in China. have devolved into political chaos? Or would the name of ‘‘beautification’’ to prepare for That was when I started to think about it be a robust democracy, steeped in cultural the 2008 Olympics. No wonder, then, that cor- staying in America and writing exclusively freedoms, social justice, and economic vi- ruption is still the largest source of alien- in English, even if China was my only sub- brancy? In seeking to answer that question ation between the CCP and the population. ject, even if Chinese was my native tongue. about the past, we can learn much about the Endemic corruption is the grievance cited in It took me almost a year to decide to follow present: a China that in terms of its political an estimated 100,000 major protests each the road of Conrad and Nabokov and write in system and tendency toward year in China. a language that was not my own. I knew I authoritarianism has evolved little since To the outside world, Chinese society has might fail. I was also aware that I was for- 1989, and yet has become both the United prospered. But internally, it has atrophied going an opportunity: the Chinese language States’ second-largest trading partner and morally and socially. China maintains its had been so polluted by revolutionary move- its most significant competitor. competitive edge through a base exploitation ments and political jargon that there was Looking back at the crucial moment in of its workers, who labor without rights or great room for improvement. 1989, it is first important to keep in mind avenues of recourse. Even the most advanced Yet if I wrote in Chinese, my audience how easily things might have turned in a dif- free market economies find it hard to com- would be in China and I would therefore have ferent direction. China’s movement toward pete. The Chinese government becomes rich, to publish there and be at the mercy of its democracy in 1989 was not as far-fetched as but ordinary people do not. The average Chi- censorship. To preserve the integrity of my it might seem today. In fact, support for the nese citizen contributes less to the country’s work, I had no choice but to write in democratic movement was so great that it GDP today than he or she did in 1988. English. caused an unprecedented split within the One of the most famous slogans for China’s To some Chinese, my choice of English is a CCP leadership. A quarter or even a third of reforms has been to ‘‘cross the river by feel- kind of betrayal. But loyalty is a two-way the officials in Beijing joined the protesters. ing stones.’’ Surely, Deng Xiaoping meant to street. I feel I have been betrayed by China, Most of the rest were sympathetic toward infer a gradual notion of change. Instead, the which has suppressed its people and made ar- the students. The degree of dissatisfaction metaphor today mockingly describes a soci- tistic freedom unavailable. I have tried to within the party was very high, and many ety at odds with itself, lacking direction to write honestly about China and preserve its agreed with the protesters that the CCP had support its ever-looming one party struc- real history. As a result, most of my work lost any pretense of being a ‘‘people’s’’ party ture. The contradiction will not easily go cannot be published in China. and had become a self-serving elite. away—and will likely flare again, just as it I cannot leave behind June 4, 1989, the day That disillusionment came from a series of did two decades ago. Zhao Ziyang foresaw that set me on this solitary path. The mem- market-oriented reforms begun a decade ear- this perpetual confrontation years ago, argu- ory of the bloodshed still rankles, and work- lier, in 1978. Although the changes produced ing that unless the Chinese government moved toward real democratic reform ‘‘it ing in this language has been a struggle. But rapid economic growth, they also led to con- will be impossible to resolve the abnormal I remind myself that both Conrad and tradictions: opening the economy negated the moral authority of the Communist revo- conditions in China’s market economy.’’ Nabokov suffered intensely for choosing They were prophetic words, indeed. Today, lution and unleashed unbridled corruption in English—and that literature can transcend even as China’s leadership has moved further its place. The 1989 democracy movement had language. If my work is good and significant, from Zhao’s vision, the Tiananmen ideals two slogans. One was ‘‘Freedom and democ- it should be valuable to the Chinese. never left the political dialogue. More than racy,’’ and the other was ‘‘No official busi- at any time in the last two decades, people ness dealings, no corruption.’’ After [From Foreign Policy, May 2009] might just be willing to protest to bring Tiananmen Square protesters were quashed AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF CHINA those ideals back again. Until then, we are and their government sympathizers, like left to confront the equally predictive words (By Jianli Yang) Zhao, sidelined, corruption blossomed just as The memoirs of Zhao Ziyang provide in- of the Soviet-era dissident, Andrei Sakharov: much as China’s GDP (the fastest-growing ‘‘The world community cannot rely on a gov- sight into what China would be like today if among developed states over the last 25 the 1989 democracy movement had prevailed. ernment that does not rely on its own peo- years) has. ple.’’ ‘‘We must establish that [the] final goal of It didn’t have to be this way. If the democ- political reform is the realization of this ad- racy movement had succeeded, the CCP Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, I vanced political system. If we don’t move to- would likely still be the ruling party. But its yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from wards this goal, it will be impossible to re- policies and goals would have evolved more California (Mr. ROHRABACHER), ranking solve the abnormal conditions in China’s democratically under Zhao’s leadership. In member of the Foreign Affairs Sub- market economy.’’ the last chapter of his memoirs, the former committee on International Organiza- One of the most sincere advocates for an general-secretary of CCP praises the Western tions, Human Rights and Oversight. ‘‘advanced political system’’ in China—a sys- system of parliamentary democracy and says Mr. ROHRABACHER. Madam Speak- tem that included an independent judiciary, it is the only way for China to address cor- er, June 4 marks the 20th anniversary freedom of the press, and the right of citi- ruption and inequality. He would no doubt zens to organize (in a word, democracy)—was have led the country down this path. of the massacre of the Chinese democ- not a disenchanted dissident or an armchair Zhao’s reforms, one might imagine, would racy movement at Tiananmen Square academic. Writing at the most unlikely of have proceeded at a purposeful but amenable in Beijing. This date marks a turning times, the man was Zhao Ziyang, secretary pace, beginning with an opening of partial point, and it also marks a day of shame general of the Chinese Communist Party freedoms of assembly and demonstration. for the bloody murder, a murder that (CCP). Zhao was toppled in 1989 after trying Student organizations would have become was committed by the Communist to peacefully negotiate with student dem- lawful, eventually precipitating a lift on the party bosses when they sent Chinese onstrators—like myself—in Tiananmen ban on political parties. The press would Square. His fall paved the way for hard-lin- likewise feel a weight lifted, and the coun- troops to slaughter the idealistic Chi- ers, under the leadership of CCP official try’s National People’s Congress would have nese people who were demanding de- Deng Xiaoping, to crush the demonstrations become more than a rubber-stamp assembly. mocracy in Tiananmen Square at this with soldiers and tanks on the morning of Public participation would have followed, time just 20 years ago.

VerDate Nov 24 2008 03:13 Jun 03, 2009 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A02JN7.033 H02JNPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC68 with HOUSE June 2, 2009 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H6047 This day the government of China af- make short-term profits by making I was there by myself, but the square firmed to the world that it is a crimi- deals with the gangsters who have op- was packed. Once again, it was packed nal enterprise that is perfectly willing pressed the people of China, there are with a lot of people, with a lot of stu- to murder unarmed people in order to Americans here who still hold true to dents. I was well-received by those stu- stay in power. the values of Jefferson, of Wash- dents. They wanted to talk to me. ington—of our Founding Fathers—and They were very friendly, and they were b 1745 that there are Americans who still hold friendly to me for the sole reason that Shame on those Communist Party true to those values that liberty and I was an American. Otherwise, they did bosses who still 20 years after justice for all is more important than not know me at all. Tiananmen Square would still mas- short-term profit gains for American While talking to some of the students sacre advocates of democracy if they capitalists. who weren’t afraid to talk to me be- would gather in their streets, just as Mr. BERMAN. Madam Speaker, let cause of the authorities that were they would massacre Falun Gong mem- me first ask you how much time I may nearby, one of them whispered to me in bers one at a time as they would arrest consume. perfect English that we want what you them, put them into prison, murder The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- have in America. Of course, he was them, and would sell their body parts, tleman from California has 8 minutes speaking of that word ‘‘liberty.’’ Down just as they would murder Tibetan na- remaining. in the soul of every person on Earth, I tionalists or Christians or other reli- Mr. BERMAN. Madam Speaker, I believe, is that spirit that the good gious believers. Shame on Beijing. yield myself such time as I may con- Lord gives us for freedom. I think we Shame on the people of the world who sume. are made that way. We are made that would treat the Government of Beijing First of all, I would like to thank my way in this country, but we are made as if it were the same as a democratic good friend, Representative SANDY that way throughout the world, and government. LEVIN of Michigan, for his leadership as those students in China are made that June 4 is not just a day of shame for the chief sponsor of this resolution and way as well for they seek and hope to the Beijing regime, however. It is a day as the co-Chair of the Congressional- obtain the word ‘‘liberty.’’ of shame for our government as well. Executive Commission on China. The rulers in China need to release Under President Reagan, we made it First and foremost, I would like to the Tiananmen Square students. China clear that the United States would con- express my sympathy to the families of should show the world that they are no tinue providing credit, investment, those killed, tortured and imprisoned longer going to continue to murder beneficial trade arrangements, and as a result of their participation in the their own people who peaceably dis- technology transfer as long as China democracy protests in Tiananmen agree with the government. was willing to continue on the path of Square and in other parts of China 20 In Beijing, not only is there reform and on the path of making their years ago this week. Tiananmen Square, but also nearby is The world must not forget the hor- society more open. Reagan, had he the Forbidden City. The Forbidden rendous events which occurred that been confronted with Tiananmen City got its name because it was a fateful day when the Chinese Army was Square, would have sent a message: if walled fortress where the emperors for ordered to clear the square, using le- you send the troops in to massacre thousands of years would live and rule thal force against its own citizens. these people, the deal is off. You will the massive country of China, but they Hundreds of unarmed civilians were pay a price. forbade the people to come into the killed or injured. The Chinese Govern- Do you know what our government Forbidden City. The Forbidden City ment detained thousands of Chinese did? It wasn’t President Reagan. It was still exists in a mentality way in China citizens in connection with the pro- President Herbert Walker Bush. Do you for the City of Beijing still forbids its tests. Many of them still languish know what his message said? It said own people the freedom to speak as today in Chinese prisons. they wish, the freedom to assemble, nothing because he didn’t send a mes- Even after 20 years, the precise num- sage, and that was the message the and it forbids the freedom of the people ber of dead, wounded, and detained re- to disagree with their government in a murderers in Beijing needed to hear. mains unclear. Chinese authorities still America really doesn’t give a damn peaceful way. censor information that does not con- In the name of liberty and in the about democracy. America doesn’t care form to its official version of events name of freedom in which we believe, about human rights. We care about surrounding the Tiananmen massacre. we have an obligation here in the making a buck, and if you have to The government also limits or bans in- United States to speak out against the slaughter the people at Tiananmen formation about the crackdown from acts of terror that the Chinese Govern- Square, the Americans will never ever appearing in Chinese textbooks. ment imposes on their own people. We protest; they won’t whisper a protest; How can China claim its place as a need to remember the dark nights of they won’t cancel contracts, because major global power if the government June 1989. We need to light a candle to money is more important to the Amer- refuses to address the Tiananmen pro- bring openness and transparency to the icans than freedom. tests in an honest and candid way? How acts that the Chinese Government Well, I’m afraid that did not rep- can China develop into a modern soci- committed on its own students. resent the America that I’m all about. ety if its own citizens are prevented And that’s just the way it is. That immorality of siding with a dicta- from knowing their own history? Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Speaker, torship, of siding with the gangsters, of This resolution calls on the Chinese I would like to thank, Mr. LEVIN for introducing siding with the murderers in order to Government to initiate a full inves- this important resolution commemorating the make a short-term profit—that pol- tigation into the crackdown, to review 20th anniversary of the brutal suppression of icy—is coming back to haunt us now. the cases of those still imprisoned for innocent men, women and children in China. That policy has created a monster in participating in the protests and to end Twenty years ago, in May 1989, hundreds Beijing—a powerful, powerful force for its harassment and discrimination of thousands of demonstrators gathered on evil in this world that we now must against those who were involved. Fi- Tiananmen Square and elsewhere in China to confront. nally, this resolution recognizes those express their desire for peaceful democratic Today marks an anniversary—an an- Chinese citizens who have suffered for reform. In the face of these massive dem- niversary of shame on those who com- their efforts to keep the struggle for onstrations the Chinese Communist Party mitted the murders, an anniversary of democracy alive during the last two hesitated. There were apparently some decent shame on what our reaction was to decades. men and women in the party’s leadership, who those murders and to the repression I urge my colleagues to support this had begun to understand what a tragedy that took place 20 years ago. resolution. Communist rule has been for the Chinese Let us send a message to the people I reserve the balance of my time. people, countless millions of whose lives had of China: We are on their side. Hope- Mr. POE of Texas. I yield myself such been destroyed by its famines and cultural fully, if nothing else, this resolution time as I may consume. revolutions and totalitarian social controls. will let them know that, as our people Madam Speaker, in 1992, I had the op- But we know what happened. Jiang Zemin stumble over themselves in trying to portunity to go to Tiananmen Square. [JANG ZUH-MEEN] pushed the reformers

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Venezuela, Iran, and Russia, to name a few the invitation of President Bill Clinton, General Earlier this year, Secretary of State Hillary countries, human rights has been dramatically Chi Haotian, the Defense Minister of the Peo- Clinton said she wouldn’t let China’s shame- downgraded, and everyone understands this. ple’s Republic of China, the general who was less human rights record ‘‘interfere’’ with other And Secretary Clinton has effectively taken the operational commander of the soldiers issues including and especially China’s pur- human rights off the U.S. agenda with the Chi- who slaughtered pro-democracy demonstra- chase of U.S. treasury securities to finance nese Government, telling the global media that tors in and around Tiananmen Square in June America’s debt. Wittingly or not, that kind of concern for the protection of human rights of of 1989, said, ‘‘Not a single person lost his life attitude enables abuse and torture. the Chinese people can’t be allowed to ‘‘inter- in Tiananmen Square.’’ In the early 1990s, Congressman FRANK fere’’ with the economic crisis, climate change, According to General Chi, the Chinese Army WOLF and I visited Beijing Prison Number 1, a and security—as if human rights were discon- did nothing more violent than, and I quote him, bleak gulag where 40 Tiananmen Square pris- nected and irrelevant to those issues. ‘‘pushing of people.’’ oners were being unjustly detained. We saw And so, Madam Speaker, it is all the more General Chi not only met with Mr. Clinton in firsthand the price paid by brave and tena- important that the House of Representatives the White House but was accorded full military cious individuals for peacefully petitioning their pass this resolution, and by doing so: honors, including a 19-gun salute and visits to government for freedom. And it was not pretty. express sympathy to the families of those military bases. Rather than getting the red car- They looked like the walking skeletons of who suffered so terribly as a result of the Chi- pet, General Chi should have been held to ac- Auschwitz. nese Government’s actions 20 years ago, and count for his crimes against humanity. Despite the hopes and expectations of our solidarity with those who continue to suffer To counter the big lie, I quickly put together some that robust trade with China would usher human rights abuses at the hands of Chinese and chaired a hearing of eyewitnesses to the in at least a modicum of respect for human Government officials; Tiananmen Square massacre, including sev- rights and fundamental liberties, the simple call for a full and independent investigation eral Chinese, a former editor of the People’s fact of the matter is that the dictatorship in into what occurred during the Tiananmen Daily, and Time Magazine’s Beijing bureau China oppresses, tortures and mistreats mil- Square suppression; call on the Chinese Government to release chief. lions of its own citizens. all those, including those who participated in I also invited General Chi or anyone else to Moreover, China is the land of the one- the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, who testify before our committee from the govern- child-per-couple policy, a barbaric policy that are wrongfully imprisoned in violation of their ment of China. They were no-shows, although makes brothers and sisters illegal. Forced abortion, force sterilization and ruinous fines human rights; and I left a chair for them. call on the Administration to take aggressive One of our witnesses, a man by the name are routinely deployed to ensure compliance with this Draconian and utterly cruel family action in support of China’s human rights de- of Xuecan Wu, the former editor of the Peo- fenders. ple’s Daily, was singled out by Li Peng for planning policy. The criminal slaughter of Tiananmen has Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, this week, punishment and got 4 years in prison for trying had terrible and lasting consequences for the on June 3 and 4, we will mark the 20th anni- to tell the truth to his readers in Beijing. Chinese people, and for the world. China had versary of the tragic events at Tiananmen Mr. Wu called General Chi’s lie about no reached a turning point, and failed to turn. Square in Beijing in 1989. I remember very one being killed ‘‘shameless’’ and told my sub- Twenty years later, it still has not turned. vividly the terrible images of tanks rolling committee that he personally saw at least, and The Chinese people still live under a one- through the square. At the time, I happened to I quote him here, ‘‘at least 30 carts carrying party government that ruthlessly represses be in Krakow, Poland as an election observer dead and wounded people.’’ dissenters and democratic activists, that con- for Poland’s first free elections. As we Eyewitness Jian-Ki Yang, Vice President of trols all news media and blocks and censors watched the television coverage from Soli- the Alliance for a Democratic China, testified, the Internet. The Communist party still en- darity Headquarters, we did not know the con- and I quote, ‘‘I saw trucks of soldiers who got forces a one-child policy that makes brothers text or the details of the event that was unfold- out and started firing automatic weapons at and sisters illegal, and regularly conducts ing before us. We didn’t know what we were the people. Each time they fired the weapons, campaigns of forced abortion. It still per- witnessing, and speculated that it was stock three or four people were hit, and each time secutes religious believers, and it has stepped footage meant to intimidate the Polish people the crowd went down to the ground. We were up its campaign of cultural genocide in from voting the next morning. there for about an hour and a half. I saw 13 Xinjiang [SHIN JANG] and Tibet. Of course, the reality of what had happened people killed. We saw four tanks coming from The men and women who rule China today soon became clear: a brutal crackdown on the square, and they were going very fast at are the prote´ge´s of the criminals of Chinese supporters of democracy. Twenty a very high speed. The two tanks in front were Tiananmen, and, in order to claim legitimacy, years later, on the occasion of this anniver- chasing students.’’ do everything they can to suppress the facts sary, we should take the opportunity not only He went on to say, ‘‘They ran over the stu- about Tiananmen. Last summer FRANK WOLF to remember the victims of that terrible event, dents. Everyone was screaming. We counted and I walked across Tiananmen Square—offi- but to assess both the path that China has 11 bodies.’’ cials searched us before we entered the since followed and our bilateral relationship. Time Magazine’s David Aikman, another square, and squads of police surrounded us We know well that China has a very long eyewitness said, and I quote, ‘‘Children were while we were on it, terrified we might hold up way to go in eradicating human rights abuses. killed holding hands with their mothers. A 9- a simple sign or banner. Later, we tried to look Unlawful and politically motivated year-old boy was shot seven or eight times in up ‘‘Tiananmen Square’’ on the tightly-con- imprisonments, ethnic persecution and restric- the back, and his parents placed the corpse trolled Chinese Internet. Of course, mere men- tions on free speech rank highest among the on a truck and drove through the streets of tion of the slaughter has been removed from abuses that persist. But that is only part of northwest Beijing on Sunday morning. ‘This is the Chinese Internet. As noted in the resolu- China’s story in the past two decades. Hun- what the government has done,’ the distraught tion before us, the Chinese authorities censor dreds of millions of Chinese people have also mother kept telling crowds of passersby any effort to inform the public about what oc- been lifted out of poverty because of eco- through a makeshift speaker system.’’ curred in June 1989. nomic reforms, and today have a far better Madam Speaker, 20 years after Tiananmen I also want to say that our government has quality of life than ever before. Chinese civil Square, the Chinese government perpetuates not done enough to support the Chinese peo- society has developed, government trans- General Chi’s Orwellian fabrication that no one ple. And our failure has been a defining event parency has improved and a number of key died. In truth, thousands died and approxi- for our own foreign policy, also with terrible human rights laws have been passed. Of mately 7,000 were wounded. consequences for the world. course, laws aren’t worth the paper they are Twenty years after Tiananmen Square, an The Chinese Communist Party, and dic- printed on if they are not enforced, but that untold number of democracy activists remain tators around the world, drew the conclusion only highlights the need to develop legal insti- incarcerated for peacefully advocating human that America’s talk of human rights was just tutions and a professional, independent judici- rights. To be jailed by the Chinese, as we all hot air, that the only interests that really matter ary that can enforce the laws that have been know, means torture, humiliation, and severe to us are financial. passed. deprivations. The ugly spirit of the Tiananmen Our government has a duty to speak up All of this paints a mixed picture—but one Square Massacre continues. The brave and more on human rights in China. Unfortunately, that is slowly improving. In China’s 5,000-year

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By working with the Chi- RECOGNITION ACT OF 2009 Aderholt Davis (TN) Kilroy nese and encouraging economic and political Adler (NJ) Deal (GA) Kind Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, from the Akin DeFazio King (IA) reform, on a bilateral and multilateral basis, Committee on Rules, submitted a priv- Alexander DeGette King (NY) we have been able to ensure that the move ileged report (Rept. No. 111–131) on the Altmire DeLauro Kingston toward greater freedom and accountability Andrews Dent Kirk resolution (H. Res. 490) providing for Arcuri Diaz-Balart, L. Kirkpatrick (AZ) continues. By bringing China into the WTO consideration of the bill (H.R. 31) to Austria Diaz-Balart, M. Kissell and other multilateral institutions, we have provide for the recognition of the Baca Dicks Klein (FL) bound the Chinese to a rules-based system Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and Bachmann Dingell Kline (MN) where the rule of law is the only arbiter. Bachus Doggett Kosmas for other purposes, and providing for Baird Donnelly (IN) Kratovil Looking down the road, we see that the Chi- consideration of the bill (H.R. 1385) to Baldwin Dreier Kucinich nese government has a very long way to go extend Federal recognition to the Barrow Driehaus Lamborn Bartlett Duncan Lance indeed before it has the moral authority that Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chick- Barton (TX) Edwards (MD) Langevin only comes from being of the people, by the ahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern Divi- Bean Edwards (TX) Larsen (WA) people and for the people. But we also cannot sion, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Becerra Ehlers Larson (CT) lose sight of the road behind us, the progress Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Mona- Berkley Ellison Latham Berman Ellsworth LaTourette that has already been made. Any improve- can Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Biggert Emerson Latta ment in the quality of life of the Chinese peo- Indian Tribe, which was referred to the Bilbray Eshoo Lee (CA) ple since 1989 is due in large part to engage- House Calendar and ordered to be Bilirakis Fallin Lee (NY) Bishop (GA) Farr Levin ment with the American people. If we are to printed. Bishop (NY) Fattah Lewis (CA) ensure that progress does not stop until every f Bishop (UT) Filner Lewis (GA) Chinese person is free and the rule of law pre- Blackburn Flake Linder vails, we must continue to engage, encourage APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO Blumenauer Fleming LoBiondo Blunt Forbes Loebsack and hold China accountable. HOUSE COMMISSION ON CON- GRESSIONAL MAILING STAND- Boccieri Fortenberry Lofgren, Zoe Mr. POE of Texas. I yield back. Boehner Foster Lowey ARDS Mr. BERMAN. Madam Speaker, if the Bonner Foxx Lucas The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Bono Mack Frank (MA) Luetkemeyer gentleman has yielded back the bal- Boozman Frelinghuysen Luja´ n ance of his time, I will yield back the ant to 2 U.S.C. 501(b), and the order of Boren Fudge Lummis balance of my time. the House of January 6, 2009, the Chair Boswell Gallegly Lungren, Daniel announces the Speaker’s appointment Boucher Garrett (NJ) E. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Boustany Gerlach Lynch of the following Members of the House question is on the motion offered by Boyd Giffords Mack to the House Commission on Congres- the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Brady (PA) Gingrey (GA) Maffei sional Mailing Standards: Brady (TX) Gohmert Manzullo LEVIN) that the House suspend the Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN, California Braley (IA) Gonzalez Marchant rules and agree to the resolution, H. Bright Goodlatte Markey (CO) Mr. PRICE, Georgia Res. 489. Brown (SC) Gordon (TN) Markey (MA) Mr. MCCARTHY, California Brown-Waite, Granger Marshall The question was taken. f Ginny Graves Massa The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the Buchanan Grayson Matheson Burgess Green, Al Matsui opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE Burton (IN) Green, Gene McCarthy (CA) in the affirmative, the ayes have it. Butterfield Grijalva McCarthy (NY) Mr. BERMAN. Madam Speaker, on The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Buyer Guthrie McCaul ant to clause 8 of rule XX, proceedings Calvert Gutierrez McClintock that I demand the yeas and nays. Camp Hall (NY) McCotter will resume on motions to suspend the The yeas and nays were ordered. Campbell Hall (TX) McDermott rules previously postponed. Cantor Halvorson McGovern The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Votes will be taken in the following Cao Hare McHenry ant to clause 8 of rule XX and the order: Capito Harman McHugh Chair’s prior announcement, further Capps Hastings (FL) McIntyre House Resolution 421, Capuano Hastings (WA) McKeon proceedings on this motion will be House Joint Resolution 40, and Cardoza Heinrich McMorris postponed. House Resolution 489, in each case by Carnahan Heller Rodgers Carney Hensarling McNerney the yeas and nays. Carson (IN) Herger Meek (FL) f The first electronic vote will be con- Carter Herseth Sandlin Melancon ducted as a 15-minute vote. Remaining Cassidy Higgins Mica RECESS electronic votes will be conducted as 5- Castle Hill Michaud Castor (FL) Himes Miller (FL) minute votes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Chaffetz Hinchey Miller (MI) f Chandler Hinojosa Miller (NC) ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair Childers Hirono Miller, Gary declares the House in recess subject to RECOGNIZING 75TH ANNIVERSARY Clay Hodes Miller, George the call of the Chair. OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS Cleaver Hoekstra Minnick NATIONAL PARK Clyburn Holden Mitchell Accordingly (at 5 o’clock and 55 min- Coffman (CO) Holt Mollohan utes p.m.), the House stood in recess The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Cohen Honda Moore (KS) subject to the call of the Chair. finished business is the vote on the mo- Cole Hoyer Moore (WI) Conaway Hunter Moran (KS) tion to suspend the rules and agree to Connolly (VA) Inglis Moran (VA) f the resolution, H. Res. 421, on which Cooper Inslee Murphy (CT) the yeas and nays were ordered. Costa Israel Murphy (NY) Costello Issa Murphy, Patrick b 1840 The Clerk read the title of the resolu- Courtney Jackson (IL) Murphy, Tim tion. Crenshaw Jenkins Murtha The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Crowley Johnson, E. B. Myrick AFTER RECESS question is on the motion offered by Cuellar Jones Nadler (NY) Culberson Jordan (OH) Napolitano The recess having expired, the House the gentlewoman from the Virgin Is- Cummings Kagen Neal (MA) was called to order by the Speaker pro lands (Mrs. CHRISTENSEN) that the Dahlkemper Kanjorski Neugebauer tempore (Mrs. TAUSCHER) at 6 o’clock House suspend the rules and agree to Davis (AL) Kaptur Nunes and 40 minutes p.m. the resolution, H. Res. 421. Davis (CA) Kennedy Nye

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