CCP Is Carrying Out ‘Cold Genocide’ Against Falun Gong, Professor Says By
The atrocities committed by the Chinese regime in its decades-long persecution against Falun Gong practitioners amount to a “cold genocide,” according to a Canadian professor.
Maria Cheung, associate dean at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba, spoke at the fifth session of the World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting on Sept. 25.
David Matas, a Canadian human rights lawyer; Dr. Torsten Trey, executive director of U.S. based advocacy group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting; and Cheung were among the four authors that published a 2018 paper, “Cold Genocide: Falun Gong in China,” in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal.
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Cheung said that what the communist regime has done against Falun Gong practitioners in China—while meeting the classical definition of genocide—is different, given the length of the persecution—now in its 22nd year.
“It is a genocide by attrition, which is a slow process of annihilation that reflects the unfolding phenomenon of mass killing of a protected group under disguise—the public don’t see an immediate unleashing of violent death,” she said.
She noted that she and her co-authors called it a cold genocide, “which is hidden and lingers for over two decades without much notice.”
Standing in contrast to “cold genocides” are “hot genocides,” which the authors defined in their paper as “destructive acts of high intensity which annihilate the victim group in a short time span.”
Practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that’s also known as Falun Dafa, have been heavily persecuted in China since 1999. According to the Falun Dafa Information Center, millions of practitioners have been detained inside of prisons, labor camps, psychiatric wards, and other facilities in China, with hundreds of thousands facing torture while incarcerated.
