Sens. Rick Scott, Marsha Blackburn Introduce Bill to Memorialize Victims of Communist Chinese Tyranny

• Mao Zedong killed at least 40 million people during his time in power.
• Forced labor, forced sterilization, family separation, and other abuses against Uyghurs that led the United States Government to determine that genocide and crimes against humanity were occurring in Xinjiang.
• The suppression of Tibetan religious and cultural practices, including restrictions on monasteries, language instruction, and expressions of loyalty to the Dalai Lama.
• The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and subsequent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing.
• The imprisonment of democracy advocates, lawyers, journalists, and dissidents, including figures such as Liu Xiaobo, Xu Zhiyong, Ilham Tohti, and Jimmy Lai.
• The crackdown on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement in 2020.
• The persecution of religious groups, including underground Christian churches, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan Buddhists, and other faith communities.
• Restrictions on freedom of expression, censorship of the press and internet, and the use of advanced surveillance technologies to monitor citizens.
• The history of political campaigns under Communist Party rule resulting in widespread suffering (i.e. the Anti-Rightist Campaign, the Great Leap Forward)