August 24, 2016

It is reported that LB Homes Group,  a property development company   and the International Cultural Exchange Association Australia, an tourism and entertainment company  will host a Concert of “Glory and Dream”  in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong  at Sydney Town Hall on September 6 and at Melbourne Town Hall on September 9, 2016 respectively.

Mao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) was one of top three  mass murderers alongside  Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin in the 20th century, and he was a tyrant who  killed more innocent  people than Hitler and Stalin combined.  According to the declassified files of the Chinese Government and open data sources, as a criminal against humanity Mao practiced a genocide policy during his reign which led to the murder of at least 42,130,000 innocent lives including

-over 2 million landlords slaughtered in the Land Reform Movement in the period from 1950 to 1952;

- over 710,000 “counterrevolutionaries”(mainly junior officials of the former government and military of the Republic of China) in the period from 1950 to 1953;

-36 million to 45 million civilians died of man-made famine during the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1961;

-3,420,000 (or 20 million, as disclosed by General YE Jieying, a late Marshal of the PLA according to one source) persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976.

According to Wikipedia, Hitler had murdered 11 million to 17 million German civilians, including 6 million Jewish people. Stalin had killed about 15 million lives during his reign. With enormous support from Mao, Pol Pot had slaughtered 1 million to 3 million Khmer people as well.

Multiculturalism in Australia should not be abused to praise criminals against humanity and promote political extremism. What Mao had brought to the Chinese and the world was his massive appalling crimes and a nightmare of century. Any praise for Mao the tyrant is against universal values of the humankind  and an insult  to the modern civilization. The fascist aesthetics under disguise of art and culture is the shameless means of the brainwash propaganda and a way of exporting the totalitarian culture of the Chinese Communist Party, which is a full contempt and challenge to the fundamental values of Australia.

Such an ideological infiltration has brought in cold blood and hatred, and it is constantly tearing the heart of senior Chinese Australians of generations who have experienced Mao’s cruel persecutions, in the meanwhile eroding the mainstream Australian values such as freedom, equality, peace and compassion. 

In view of the facts stated above, we declare

I.   to condemn any campaign of praising Mao on the land of Australia which may be launched by any individual and groups, and to condemn Peter H T Zhu, Chairman of LB Homes Group and Yuan Ye, President of International Cultural Exchange Association Australia for their sponsoring and hosting of a concert praising Mao the tyrant.

II.  to firmly urge the Council of the City of Sydney and the Council of the City of Melbourne to terminate the relevant property lease agreements, for the government owned property should not be used for promoting evils and inhumanity.

Embrace Australian Values Alliance (EAVA) (Please Contact JP Cheng on +61-434 479 416,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.）

Sydney Network for Democracy in China (SN4DC) (Chen Yonglin +61-433 918 099,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Global Service Centre for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party Australia Ltd

（John Zhuo  +61-433 333 893，This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.）

Australia and New Zealand Branch of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy(Dr. Zhong Jinjiang+61-414 561 725 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.）

Australia Branch of the Federation of Democracy for China (FDC) (Zhang Xiaogang +61-411 369 661, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Support Network for the Persecuted in China, Australia (SNP) (Sun Liyong +61-433 348 606mandarin only, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Melbourne Alliance for Chinese Democracy Movement (Gao Jian +61-433 169 889This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Sydney Youth Dragon and Lion Dance Troupe (William Ho +61-417275325This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

The Qi‘s Cultural Foundation(Qi Jiazhen, +61-430 645 307，This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

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