Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced legislation to create a memorial outside of the CCP Embassy in Washington, DC, honoring the victims of communism.
The bill, called Honoring the Victims of Communist China’s Tyranny Act, creates a permanent memorial to honor those killed by communist ideology dating back to Mao Zedong. It specifically honors the “victims of genocide and crimes against humanity committed by the Chinese Communist Party, especially those who have suffered persecution under policies implemented during Xi Jinping’s tenure as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party” as well as “individuals otherwise persecuted for the peaceful exercise of fundamental human rights, including the free exercise of their political and religious beliefs, in the People’s Republic of China.”
The memorial is to include language expressing the “hope and prayer that the Chinese people may one day enjoy the blessings of liberty.” It will also include educational elements describing the genocide of religious minorities, culture suppression, imprisonment of dissidents, and other restrictions on religious freedom.
“Xi Jinping and Communist China are responsible for some of the worst human rights violations in human history. Those who are brave enough to fight back and speak up against them pay the price, like my friend, Jimmy Lai,” Scott said in a statement on the bill. “Countless others have been forced into slave labor; some face torture, forced sterilization, organ harvesting, and other horrors. As Xi’s henchmen at the embassy walk into work every day, they should have to face the litany of crimes in which they’ve been complicit.”
Scott declared that the “people of China deserve nothing less than the God-given liberty and unalienable rights America’s founders fought for 250 years ago. America should have zero tolerance for Communist China and its crimes.”
Similarly, Blackburn said that the CCP is “guilty of the worst human rights abuses imaginable, including genocide, brutal religious persecution, forced labor, and forced sterilization.”
