June 3rd CPD China conference in DC

And number in the tens of Millions

Far eclipsing

The murderous Nazi and Soviet regimes

Human rights activists and dissidents like Jen Bundchen

Harassed persecuted in forced to flee the country

As Czech novelist Milan kundera has noted the struggle of man against Power is the struggle

A memory

Against forgetting

That struggle requires that we tell the truth

An advocate for human rights

Even when inconvenient

Ultimately however

I believe this is the most strategically sound path

Soviet dissident Matan sharansky has called human rights

A quote powerful non conventional weapon

Against which the other side has no defense

Even though the CCP is successfully

Revising history for a generation of young Chinese

China's government is failing and its efforts

To erase the past

Because in the words of Hannah Arendt

The holes of Oblivion do not exist

Nothing human is that perfect

And there are simply too many people in the world

To make Bolivian

Possible

Indeed courageous men and women still speak out including those whose loved ones were killed

In the massacre 30 years ago

The memory organization comprised of Chinese individuals I mentioned earlier

Are the Tiananmen mothers

The Tiananmen mothers deserve our attention

Andar support

The boys and girls killed in the early morning hours of June 4th

30 years ago where their sons and daughters

And they more than anyone else refuse to let the world forget

What happened

China's rulers have tried to muzzle the Tiananmen mothers

In every way

Although they are elderly

Authorities routinely throw them into prison place them under house arrest

Monitor their every movement block their communication and disrupt their daily lives

And yet still the mother has refused to back down

As a group these mothers wrote in a letter earlier this year

The Entity indomitable courage of their children

The ones they're lost

Has always been with him

And this is why the Tiananmen mothers will never be silent

The channel and others continue the fight for Freedom that their sons and daughters started

They have inspired a new generation of leaders and freedom fighters in China and across the world

To renew the struggle against the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party