Commentary
The death of Jiang Zemin, former leader of the Chinese Communist Party, reminds us of the instrumental role he played in the mass killing of prisoners of conscience for their organs.
That mass killing would not have occurred without the decision of the Chinese Communist Party in 1999 to repress the practice of Falun Gong, a decision that Jiang sparked and led. That repression led in turn to mass demonstrations of practitioners bewildered that an innocent set of exercises with a spiritual foundation that the Chinese Communist Party had earlier encouraged would suddenly become subject to Party repression. These demonstrations further led to mass arrests and arbitrary indefinite detentions of those who would not renounce Falun Gong and turn on their fellow practitioners….