At half past five it was indeed a happy hour in the rapturous room of 2173 in the Rayburn building. Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was to unveil her Chairman of House Foreign Affairs Committee portrait, a position she held from 2011 to 2013. In front of an eager crowd of friends, family and supporters, Representative Ros-Lehtinen…
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New Memorial Dedicated, Holodomor “Field of Wheat”
The Nation’s Capitol added to its honored and assorted memorials by one on Saturday November 7. The Holodomor Memorial is dedicated to the millions of Ukrainians who perished during the 1932-1933 genocidal famines. In Ukrainian, holodomor means, “murder by starvation.” U.S. Representative Sander Levin (D-MI) was the keynote speaker at the dedication ceremony who introduced…
Harry Wu Discusses the Two-child Policy in China
The Eighth Communist Party of China (CPC) Fifth Plenum Session of the Central Committee has been canceled as of late October rescinding the one-child policy. All Chinese couples will have full liberalization for larger families with the current two-child policy, but public opinion is still apprehensive. Mr. Harry Wu, Executive Director of the Laogai Research…
U.S.-China Relations Evaluated Amidst Obama-Xi Summit
Breaking It All Down This week, as President Xi Jinping commences talks with the Prime Minister of Great Britain, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recalls the Obama-Xi Summit. On Tuesday the 20th of October 2015, host Bob Schieffer conducted an in-depth discussion with three eminent panelists: Kurt Campbell Chairman and CEO…
Laogai Museum Welcomes Acclaimed Author Diane Wolff
https://www.dianewolff.com/blog.htm?post=1010329The Lao Gai Museum was honored to welcome Diane Wolff at the start of October. It was a proud moment for the museum and founder Mr. Harry Wu. We hope the time spent here benefitted her research in her current endeavor to reach a more broad audience through her eloquent writing. She has cast a…
Laogai Memorial Museum Welcomes First Student Groups to New Location
LRF’s Executive Director and founder Mr. Harry Wu treated each assembly with an informative speech detailing his experience in the laogai camps and current state of China’s prison system. The intrigued students astutely asked questions and were then given a tour of the museum’s exhibits. The tour included, but was not limited to: a…
Museum Closed July 3-4
The Laogai Museum will close Friday July 3 and Saturday July 4 in observation of the Fourth of July holiday. The Laogai Museum will reopen Sunday July 5.
Students from School for Ethics and Global Leadership Visit Laogai Museum
A group of students from the School for Ethics and Global Leadership visited the Laogai Museum on March 31, 2015. The students received a guided tour of the artifacts on display in the museum from Laogai Research Foundation Executive Director and the founder of Laogai Museum Harry Wu. Mr. Wu gave an account of his own harrowing story in the Laogai camp…
Special Photo Exhibition: “Executions in China”
China executed approximately 2,400 people in 2013. China executes more people every year than the rest of the world combined. It puts more people to death per week than the U.S. does per year. Currently, 55 crimes are punishable by death, many of which are nonviolent or economic offenses. In addition, China’s criminal justice system…
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