STATE TERRORISM IN THE NAME OF COMMUNISM: A CASE OF CHINA

State terrorism is not a new phenomenon. In the past, it existed in various names of ideology. It is only in the recent years that those past regimes as well as many contemporary governments are analyzed under the cover of "state terrorism." State terrorist regimes use the tactics of intimidation, coerced conversion and selective or auto-genocide. The Communist China is one of the greatest examples of this. Communism is a theory based on hope, on the liberation of humankind from the exploitation of man by man and the establishment of a new, more equitable, world order. But, in most communist countries especially in China, it has been the opposite. The regime has all along used terrorist tactics to silence the voice of the people. There is little difference between the Jiang's "610 Office" and the terrorists that carried out the 9-11 tragedy. Jiang's first priority is to abolish Falun Gong. Thousands and thousands of practitioners are jailed, beaten and tortured to death. So many families have lost someone to these acts of state terrorism. Also, in China's northwest provinces, especially in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, the 9/11 attack provided an opportunity to the regime. The worldwide campaign against terrorism has given Beijing the perfect excuse to crack down harder than ever on anybody against the communist regime. There is an end of every extremism and, I believe, China's Communist gang's lives are close to extinction.

Dr. S. Serajul Islam
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Lakehead University
955 Oliver Road
Thunder Bay
Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1