(Minghui.org) The Loudoun County Council passed a resolution on the afternoon of March 3, 2021 to raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, including forced organ harvesting. This is the fourth Virginia county to pass a resolution condemning the CCP’s forced organ harvesting this year.
Phyllis J. Randall (first from right), Chair At-Large of Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, and Koran T. Saines (second from left), Vice Chairman of Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, joins Falun Gong practitioners for a photo.
Loudoun County has a population of more than 410,000. The United States Census Bureau ranked Loudoun as the wealthiest county in the U.S. for more than ten consecutive years. Drawn by high-quality schools, a large number of Chinese immigrants recently moved there.
Chair of Loudoun County Board of Supervisors: Grateful for Practitioners' Raising Awareness
Phyllis J. Randall, Chair of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, who sponsored the resolution, said, “I didn’t know [forced organ harvesting by the CCP] was happening. Therefore, I am grateful to Falun Gong practitioners for telling the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors about this.”
Ms. Randall said that the CCP’s forced organ harvesting is murder and a terrorist act. She said that she felt the kindness of Falun Gong practitioners. “Although they are safe in the United States, they are worried about the safety of others and hope to stop this terrible act,” she said.
Regarding Falun Gong practitioners’ efforts to raise awareness, Ms. Randall said they wanted people to learn about the forced organ harvesting so that they could stop it. “I’m very impressed with this,” she said.
She said county, city, and state governments across the U.S. should join together and say no to the CCP’s forced organ harvesting. She hopes the federal government will take action against the CCP, including using trade, economic and other sanctions to help stop this crime.
Chair Randall said the resolution would be submitted to the Virginia Governor and congressional members.
Vice Chair of Loudoun County Board of Supervisors: We Need To Stop the CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting
Koran T. Saines, Vice Chairman of Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, said, “Thank you Falun Gong practitioners for sharing this information—otherwise, I wouldn’t have known about this issue.”
He said they would ask everyone in the community to support Falun Gong and be aware of the CCP’s atrocities.
He also said the perpetrators of forced organ harvesting must be sanctioned, and that the United States and the United Nations should have a dialog with the CCP and sanction the perpetrators to stop the atrocity.
Falun Gong Practitioner: Resolution Brings Hope
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Tang of Virginia spoke during the resolution-issuing ceremony and said, “The American media does not report enough on the CCP’s forced organ harvesting. But the CCP spares no effort to cover up the truth.”
She said that the resolution has far-reaching significance. “This resolution will help county residents and medical professionals to make wise decisions when considering organ transplantation.”
Finally, Tang said, “Your kind support for Falun Gong practitioners will bring hope to prisoners of conscience in China and their families in Virginia and the world. They all look forward to the day when the CCP stops forced organ harvesting.”
Resolution from the Loudoun County, Virginia
The resolution states, “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting practitioners of Flaun Gong in 1999 by detaining them in labor camps, detention centers and prisons where torture and abuse are routine.
“Falun Gong prisoners are reported to receive the longest sentences and the worst treatment including mental and physical torture as well as the immoral practice of non-consenting harvesting.”
The resolution also stated, “Dulles International Airport, located in Loudoun County, provides international flights to and from China and as such presents a real opportunity for this unethical practice to occur in this area.”
“The killing of religious or political prisoners for the purpose of selling their organs for transplant is an egregious and intolerable violation of the fundamental right to life.”
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