In March this year the number of people who had registered their withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reached 20 million. As of May 1, that number had reached 21,235,451, a number exceeding the entire population of Australia and indicating a rate of around 30,000 resignations a day.
This is "a most momentous event in human history," said Professor C L Chiou who taught at the University of Queensland. "The Chinese Communists…are in great trouble."
Speaking at a rally in Brisbane on Saturday April 28, one of many held in Australia and around the world to mark the 20 million who quit the CCP, Professor Chiou said that "every day there are uprisings by the peasants, by the workers" in China.
When this chronic dissatisfaction is combined with recent horrific revelations that the CCP is harvesting organs from persecuted Falun Gong practitioners, it is only a matter of time before the Chinese Communist Party collapses, Professor Chiou said.
The Quit the CCP movement grew out of the 2004 release of The Nine Commentaries, a cutting edge exposé of the underbelly of the Chinese Communist Party [see ninecommentaries.com ]. The "Nine Ping" as it is sometimes known, has inspired Chinese in their droves to resign from the Party.
To accommodate the increasing number of resignations flowing in by phone, fax, letter and e-mail, The Global Service Centre for Quitting the CCP opened in the US in 2005. It now offers round the clock service to those who want to resign from organisations associated with the CCP and has Quit the CCP representatives in major cities around the world.
Spokesman for the Vietnamese community in Brisbane Duc Minh Truong said he had spoken at a Quit the CCP rally last year and predicted that the then two million resignations would blow out to 10 million by the following year. Twenty million far exceeded his expectations he said.
"I don't dare predict again," Mr Duc said, "I will be wrong again but I do believe the Chinese Communist regime will collapse soon."
Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett offered words of encouragement to those, not only at the rally, but also those in China who were taking a stand for freedom and democracy.
"I believe the more the truth is known about the persecution, about the suppression of basic freedom, about attempts to subvert and prevent democracy, the more support will be brought together," Senator Bartlett said, "not just from Australia but from everywhere else in our region and around the world."
Ken Francis, from the National Civic Council (NCC) also attended the Brisbane rally saying the NCC had been fighting for democratic freedoms for over 60 years and offered support to all those people endeavouring to see China, a place where people could safely "practice their ideals".
"We understand what you are doing, we understand the difficulty of your quest but we understand that in the end human rights, the human condition will survive and will emerge triumphant," he said.
At a similar rally, held in Melbourne April 21, Amnesty International representative, Robyn Kilpatrick, said there were many issues she could talk about from an Amnesty International perspective, "because there a lot of human rights violations in China, whether they be persecution of political prisoners, lack of religious freedom, lack of media freedom or the persecution of Falun Dafa [Falun Gong]".
Ms Kilpatrick warned that The 2008 Olympic Games were fast approaching but the promised human rights reforms made by the Chinese Communist Party had not materialised.
"It is very important as members of the public to continue to remind China of their human rights obligations as they prepare for the Olympic Games," she said.
Dr Richard DiNatale, from the Greens, and City Councillor Janet Rice both stressed the importance of balancing economic and human rights interests.
"We cannot quarantine economic values," Mr DiNatale said.
Australian Olympic Silver Medallist in Swimming Jan Becker told the rally that the CCP conduct ran counter to the Olympic spirit and every power should be drawn upon to stop the persecution of Falun Gong and improve human rights in the lead up to the Games.
Other speakers at the Melbourne rally included Vice-President of the Federation for a Democratic China Liang Youcan, former Chinese 6−10 police officer Hao Fengjun, Spokesperson for the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong Xiao Zhonghua, and Melbourne Service Centre for Quitting the CCP representative Ling Ming.
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