作者 中国民主党英国总部党员 程敏
2024年10月13日，这一天是北京四通桥事件两周年纪念日，同时也是彭立发先生被捕入狱迄今两周年整。中国民主党英国总部多位党员与著名旅英作家一同前往中国驻英大使馆前，马建先生与在场党员一同高呼口号，抗议中共长期非法拘押彭立发，要求中共释放彭立发并停止监控骚扰其家人。
两年前，北京四通桥事件发生前，彼时的中国还停留在动态清零的恐怖阴影下，各地因封控政策导致的人伦惨剧层出不穷，上海的小提琴家陈顺平因急性胰腺炎前往医院就诊，因疫情政策被拒之门外，只能回家，最后苦熬一夜后不忍病痛折磨跳楼身亡。而诸如孕妇产子在即却因没有核酸报告不被收治等事件更是层出不穷。全国人民被动态清零政策折磨得惶惶不可终日，正是在这样的背景下，彭立发孤身一人来到北京四通桥上，悬挂了那张被载入史册的反抗中共暴政的横幅。向整个独裁政权发出挑战，抗议动态清零、反对独裁统治、呼吁自由民主。
四通桥事件发生后，彭立发在当天立即被捕，迄今已有两年，我们除了知道他还活着以外，几乎无法获得任何有关他的任何消息，譬如他被关在何处？遭受了何种虐待？何时能重见天日？而他的妻儿亲朋也都时刻处于中共的严密监控和限制自由下生活。虽然中共事后火速删除屏蔽了中国互联网上一切和彭有关的任何信息，但彭的行为绝不是飞蛾扑火式的一腔孤勇，而是在世界上造成了巨大的影响力和象征意义，更是点燃了亿万中国民众心中长期压抑的对动态清零政策和共产党独裁统治的怒火，直接催生了波及全国的、倒逼中共结束清零政策的抗议事件——白纸革命。
为众人抱薪者，不可使其冻毙于风雪。彭立发甘愿牺牲自己为正义、为亿万普罗大众发声，我们也一定要为了彭立发发声，中国共产党可以迫害刘晓波、彭立发，张展、阮晓寰以及无数知名的和默默无闻却同样为中国的民主事业牺牲自由与生命的良心犯，但中共永远无法代表正义，或许他们可以藉感恩和仇恨教育洗脑愚弄广大民众，借监禁与折磨去吓阻民主人士发声，借欺瞒与伪装骗取国际社会的信任。但民主是大势所趋，即便中共真的能一手遮天，但我们永远不会遗忘那些由中共一手造成，又被他们极力掩饰、讳莫如深的民族苦难，我们不会遗忘那些为民主发声而被中共关押折磨甚至失去性命的良心犯。人类对民主与自由的向往是刻在骨子里的，中共可以永远蒙骗一個人，可以暂时蒙骗所有人，但绝无可能永远蒙骗所有人。
如同中华民国的缔造者孙中山先生在1911年曾说过——中国现在正处在一次伟大的民族运动的前夕，只要是星星之火，就能在政治上造成燎原之势。，那么113年后，我们中国民主党今天也可以在此断言，彭立发、刘晓波、张展、阮晓寰等为了中国民主事业作出极大牺牲的民主志士们，他们亲手燃起的民主星火绝不会就此熄灭，而是与我们心中的火焰汇聚在一起传承下去，而未来会有更多的人了解他们、尊敬他们、继承他们。民主不灭，必将再起。其势更烈，终将燎原！
活动名单：马建，周小斌、成小丹，徐伟华、程敏、林明强，李皓博
活动组织者：周小斌、程敏
‘Eventually a prairie fire will start: commemorating the fire of resistance in Sitongqiao and Peng Lifa’
Author Cheng Min, member of the UK Headquarters of China Democracy Party
On 13th October 2024, it was the second anniversary of the Sitongqiao incident in Beijing, and also the second anniversary of the arrest and imprisonment of Mr Peng Lifa. A number of members of the CDP’s UK Head Office, together with a famous British writer, went to the Chinese Embassy in the UK, where Mr Ma Jian and other members of the party chanted slogans protesting against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s prolonged and unlawful detention of Mr Peng Lifa, and demanded that the CCP release Mr Peng Lifa and stop the surveillance and harassment of his family.
Two years ago, before the Sitongqiao incident in Beijing, when China was still under the shadow of the horror of dynamic zeroing, there were numerous human tragedies caused by the closure and control policy. Chen Shunping, a violinist from Shanghai, went to the hospital for treatment of acute pancreatitis, was refused entry due to the epidemic policy, and could only go home, and finally jumped to his death after a night’s hard suffering, unable to tolerate the torture of the disease. Incidents such as the pregnant woman who was about to give birth but was not admitted due to the lack of a nucleic acid report are even more numerous. Against this backdrop, Peng Lifa, alone on the Sitong Bridge in Beijing, hung the historic banner of defiance against the tyranny of the Communist Party of China (CPC), challenging the entire dictatorship. Challenging the entire dictatorial regime, he protested against dynamic zeroing, opposed dictatorial rule, and called for freedom and democracy.
Peng Lifa was arrested on the day of the Sitongqiao incident. It has been two years since then, and apart from the fact that he is still alive, we have hardly been able to obtain any information about him, such as where he is being held? What kind of abuse has he suffered? When will he see the light of day again? His wife, children, relatives and friends are also under the close surveillance and restriction of freedom by the CCP at all times. Although the Chinese Communist Party quickly deleted and blocked all information related to Peng on the Chinese Internet, Peng’s behaviour was by no means an act of courage like a moth to a flame, but rather it created a huge impact and symbolism around the world, and ignited the long-suppressed anger of hundreds of millions of Chinese people against the Dynamic Zeroing Policy and the Communist Party’s autocratic rule, which led to the White Paper Revolution – a nationwide protest event to force the Chinese Communist Party to end the Zeroing Policy. The White Paper Revolution, a protest event that has spread across the country and pushed the CCP to end the zero policy.
He who carries a salary for all must not be allowed to freeze and die in the wind and snow. Peng Lifa willingly sacrificed himself to speak out for justice and for the hundreds of millions of people in the general public. The CCP can persecute Liu Xiaobo, Peng Lifa, Zhang Zhan, Ruan Xiaohuan, and countless other well-known and obscure prisoners of conscience who have also sacrificed their freedom and their lives for the cause of democracy in China, but the CCP can never stand for justice, and perhaps they can educate and brainwash the general public to fool them by teaching them to be thankful and hateful, and to deter them from democracy by imprisonment and torture. Perhaps they can brainwash and fool the general public by teaching gratitude and hatred, deter democrats from speaking out by imprisonment and torture, and deceive the international community by deception and disguise. However, democracy is the general trend, and even if the CCP can really cover up the whole world with one hand, we will never forget those national sufferings caused by the CCP, which they have tried to cover up and kept secret, and we will never forget those prisoners of conscience who were imprisoned and tortured by the CCP, and even lost their lives, for the sake of speaking out for democracy. The aspiration of human beings for democracy and freedom is engraved in their bones. The CCP can fool one person forever, and it can fool all people temporarily, but it can never fool all people forever.
As Dr SUN Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China, once said in 1911 – China is now on the eve of a great national movement, and as long as there is a spark, it can cause a prairie fire in politics. So 113 years later, we in the CDP can also assert here today that the democratic aspirants such as Peng Lifa, Liu Xiaobo, Zhang Zhan, Ruan Xiaohuan and others who have made great sacrifices for the cause of democracy in China will never be extinguished, but will be handed down together with the flame in our hearts, and in the future, more people will understand them, respect them and inherit them. Democracy will not be extinguished, but will rise again. Its momentum is even stronger, and it will eventually start a prairie fire!
Event List: Ma Jian, Zhou Xiaobin, Cheng Xiaodan, Xu Weihua, Cheng Min, Lin Mingqiang, Li Haobo
Event organisers: Zhou Xiaobin, Cheng Min
