[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 296 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 296

  Remembering, as the world acknowledges the 100th anniversary of the 
  Chinese Communist Party, the countless lives the Chinese Communist 
  Party has destroyed and the people currently living in fear of its 
                         tyrannical ambitions.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 2021

 Mr. Daines submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Remembering, as the world acknowledges the 100th anniversary of the 
  Chinese Communist Party, the countless lives the Chinese Communist 
  Party has destroyed and the people currently living in fear of its 
                         tyrannical ambitions.

Whereas the Chinese Communist Party will observe its centenary on July 1, 2021, 
        with a series of celebrations commemorating its history and 
        accomplishments toward improving the standing of China as a world power;
Whereas untold millions of Chinese citizens became casualties of the Chinese 
        Communist Party's quest for power, enduring severe loss and suffering in 
        what amounts to humanity's worst atrocities since World War II;
Whereas, during the Yan'an Rectification Movement from 1942 to 1945, more than 
        10,000 people were killed as the Chinese Community Party attempted to 
        attack and replace intellectuals with people who supported the Communist 
        ideology;
Whereas, during the Chinese Land Reform of 1949 to 1953, an estimated 4,700,000 
        landowners were murdered in order to redistribute land to peasantry;
Whereas, during the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries from 1950 to 
        1952, an estimated 712,000 people were executed for their political 
        views and 1,300,000 more were sentenced to ``labor reform'';
Whereas, during the Three-anti Campaign in 1951 and the Five-anti Campaign in 
        1952, Mao Zedong humiliated, terrorized, exiled, imprisoned, and killed 
        thousands of political opponents and capitalists, weakening the 
        economies of the major urban centers of China;
Whereas, during the Sufan Movement from 1955 to 1957, the Chinese Communist 
        Party carried out a purge of hidden counterrevolutionaries, arresting an 
        estimated 214,000 people and executing approximately 53,000 people;
Whereas, during the Anti-Rightist Campaign from 1957 to 1959, approximately 
        550,000 people suffered exile, imprisonment, and execution as Mao Zedong 
        conducted a purge of ``rightists,'' credited for creating the modern 
        one-party state of China;
Whereas, during the Great Chinese Famine from 1959 to 1961, an estimated 
        30,000,000 people died as a result of the policy of the Chinese 
        Communist Party, which prioritized industrialization over agriculture, 
        remembered today as one of the greatest man-made disasters in human 
        history;
Whereas, during the Socialist Education Movement from 1963 to 1965, an estimated 
        5,000,000 people were persecuted and 77,560 were executed for their 
        political beliefs;
Whereas, during the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989, an estimated 
        10,000 protestors were arrested or killed by the People's Liberation 
        Army after the Chinese Communist Party declared martial law;
Whereas, since the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997, the Chinese 
        Communist Party has increasingly undermined the autonomy and judicial 
        independence of Hong Kong, resulting in a series of deadly protests and 
        demonstrations;
Whereas, as of June 2021, an estimated 1,000,000 Uighur Muslims are subject to 
        mass detention and torture, including electric shock, waterboarding, 
        beatings, rape, forced sterilization, forced prostitution, stress 
        positions, forced administration of unknown medication, cold cells, and 
        organ harvesting in re-education camps in the Xinjiang province of 
        China;
Whereas, as of June 2021, an estimated 150,000 Tibetan Buddhists live in exile 
        in India and Nepal, 62 years after their leader, the Dalai Lama, sought 
        refuge from a Chinese uprising in Tibet; and
Whereas, as of June 2021, the Chinese Communist Party exerts increasing 
        political, military, economic, and social pressure on Taiwan in order to 
        undermine its freedom and independence: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that, as the world 
acknowledges the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on 
July 1, 2021, the Senate solemnly remembers the countless lives the 
Chinese Communist Party has destroyed and the people currently living 
in fear of its tyrannical ambitions.
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