I am writing after I read the nine commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party, which I thought were excellently composed. I am a young Chinese woman and I wish to contribute the story of my family as written below, in an effort to support the commentaries and also to expose the crimes of the CCP. Please understand that Alexander Scott is my pen name as I wish to remain anonymous. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

After reading the Nine Commentaries on the CCP, I reflected upon my life and that of my family while living under the merciless rule of the Party. Similar to many other Chinese people who grew up in the same era, the anti-humanity and anti-god CCP has caused much suffering to many members of my family.

Because of the Party’s one-child policy, my mother, a schoolteacher at the time, was forced to have four abortions to avoid fines and possibly being expelled from her work unit. It was not only physically damaging but emotionally devastating as well. Years later when she spoke to me of the horrific experience, she was still angry that she was forced to endure the pains she did in order to comply with the inhumane policy.

During the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution, my paternal grandfather was called a “rightist sympathizer”, because he said “he’s only telling the truth” after reading Peng Dehuai’s 10,000 Word Letter. As a result, my grandmother was forced to confess her husband’s counterrevolutionary intentions, words and actions, and to draw a line between her husband and herself. Due to pressure and interrogation, my grandmother said whatever the revolutionaries wanted her to say about her husband, and her words were recorded and later used as evidence against her husband. Soon, my grandfather was sent to a farm to be “reeducated” while my grandmother was sent to 5.7 Cadre’s School. My grandfather was emotionally wounded and he soon developed epilepsy, which tortured him for an extended period of time. This incident irreversibly scarred their relationship, and from then on my grandparents often argued. She and my grandfather never slept again in the same bed.

I also remember that when I was in grade school, once I made a joke about the People’s Liberation Army when I was home alone with my parents. I said, “Overthrow the PLA!” Thinking my parents would just laugh it off. Instead they glared at me, and my father said, “Where did you learn that? Don’t ever say that again, ever!” Looking back at it, I realize the CCP has struck fear into the hearts of ordinary citizens, who are afraid of sudden disasters descending upon them because of a child’s playful words, as they recall painful memories from the Cultural Revolution like a lingering ghost.

As stated in the Nine Commentaries, the CCP has always relied on “violence and terror to gain and maintain power,” and in the process it has turned children against parents, students against teachers, and wives against husbands. I hope that my family’s story will help to expose the evils of the CCP.