[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H778-H779]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE CHINA HOLOCAUST

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, every Member should read the editorial in the 
Washington Post called ``Holocaust: The China Parallel.'' It is by 
Walter Reich, the director of the Holocaust Museum and the chairman of 
the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Human Rights.
  What does he say?

       According to the reports provided by Human Rights Watch, 
     the starved children in the Chinese orphanages look very much 
     like the starved children in the German ``Children's 
     Specialty Institutions''; the Chinese institutions, too, 
     administer sedatives to some children selected for death; 
     they, too, use false diagnoses as coverups; they too, cremate 
     the remains of starved children; and they, too, employ 
     physicians, many of whom probably tell themselves that the 
     children dying under their care would have died anyway, and 
     in any case are useless eaters in a country challenged by 
     scarce resources.
       The parallels between the Chinese orphanages and the Nazi 
     programs to kill disabled children are alarming. These 
     parallels remind us that human beings, including physicians 
     and other caregivers, are extraordinarily vulnerable to 
     inhuman acts and extraordinarily capable of justifying their 
     behavior on what they see as rational grounds. And they 
     remind us that countries in which democratic institutions are 
     forcibly forbidden and human rights systematically quashed 
     are ones in which human life becomes, quite simply, 
     expendable.

 
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  Finally, somebody has said something about the similarities between 
the Holocaust and the activities of the Chinese Government.
  Now, I know the Clinton administration will not do anything. But will 
the Congress do anything? This Congress has done nothing. The business 
of this Congress is business. You have watched priests put in jail in 
China; you have watched bishops be put in jail in China; you have 
watched Harry Wu's enslavement. Now you watch 60 Minutes and orphans 
being killed, and we know the Clinton administration has done nothing, 
but this Congress, this Congress, where we all have the right to speak 
out, we have done nothing.

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