COMMEMORATING THE SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARTYRDOM OF LIU XIAOBO
來源：民主中國（https://minzhuzhongguo.org)
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刘晓波先生一生做了三件大事
Liu Xiaobo did three major things in his life
• “六四”声援学生成为黑手
Supported “June 4th” students democratic movement and became “black hands”
• 创建和发展独立中文笔会
Established and developed the independent Chinese PEN Center
• 巩固和发展民主中国网刊, 用以身殉道的方式来弘扬《零八宪章》。
Strengthened and developed the “Democratic China” Electronic Journal and drafted and promoted “Charter 08”, which sacrificed his own life.
独立中文笔会（简称独立笔会），创建于2001年7月，
Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) was founded in July 2001. Liu Xiaobo and I are among the 31 founders of ICPC. Liu Xiaobo was Twice elected president from 2003 to 2007. During Xiaobo’s tenure as the ICPC president, on October 30, 2004 and January 2, 2006, he organized PEN Freedom of Writing Award Ceremony in Beijing , the Lin Zhao Memorial Award was established in 2006 in ICPC’s second meeting.
而且，笔会还于2005年4月23日下午，在成都召开讨论会, 向刘宾雁先生和所有海外流亡人士致敬。当时，北京、成都、南京、
Moreover, ICPC held a seminar in Chengdu on April 23, 2005, in which writers Saluted to Liu Binyan and all overseas writers-in-exile. During this period, ICPC members in Beijing, Chengdu, Nanjing, Guiyang and other cities in China promoted constitutionalism, human rights and exposed the lies of the CCP by means of Reading Clubs. These activities shocked the authorities in Beijing. Therefore, Xiaobo was not only monitored, but also summoned and taken away by Beijing police many times. What is commendable is that even though he lived in mainland China, he was not afraid of the CCP’s repeated harassment and suppression. He stood up to promote the spirit of freedom, safeguard the writers’ physical and spiritual freedom, defend their writing and publishing rights, and ensure the free dissemination of their works.
《民主中国》创刊于1990年4月。2006年10月，
《 Democratic China 》 was founded in April 1990. In October 2006, due to the retirement of Su Xiaokang, Liu Xiaobo, Zhang Zuhua and I jointly took over the 《 Democratic China 》 electronic journal, dedicated to accumulating civic strength, tearing down the iron wall of autocracy, and building China into a free, democratic, and constitutional country . During these 17 years, Liu Xiaobo was martyred, Zhang Zuhua has been under house arrest, and batches of mainland Chinese authors and signers of “Charter 08” were punished by the CCP authorities for their words, some of them were thrown into prison, and even persecuted to death. However, China’s constitutional activities are still continuously happen one after another. On World Human Rights Day last year, the co-signers of “Charter 08” published the “43rd batch of signatures”. The number of signatures have exceeded 14,000.
刘晓波先生早在2005年就指出：《未来的自由中国在民间》。
As early as 2005, Liu Xiaobo pointed out : “The future of free China lies in the people”. This has profoundly affected and changed the decision-making of the US government. Today, the US government has changed its hope for changes in the CCP system, and has instead emphasized the separation of the Chinese government from the Chinese people. As Liu Xiaobo said before his death: “When the consciousness of rights and freedom among the Chinese people is awakened, the fundamental hope of promoting China’s reform lies not in the government but in the people.”
名憾帝都笔一支，
自由风云涤英魂。
民间已无刘晓波，
宪政尚有后来人。
我们永远怀念刘晓波先生。
A pen that shocked the imperial capital,
a heroic soul cleansed by freedom’s storm.
Liu Xiaobo is no longer among us,
But through his successors constitutional government will be born.
Liu Xiaobo always lives with us!
作者简介：
民主中国主编 Editor-in-chief, democratic China
独立中文笔会会长 President, Independent Chinese PEN Center
