Brussels, 06/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - In an open letter to renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zisheng, the vice-president of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Edward McMillan-Scott, said 'the Chinese regime remains brutal, arbitrary and paranoid but the innate intelligence and self-discipline of the Chinese, led by a developing civil society and emerging rule of law, must lead to a democratic future.' The British conservative MEP describes the eye-witness reports of ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China and the recently discovered widespread sale of the organs and body parts of murdered imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners. 'This is genocide, as defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,' explains McMillan-Scott, regretting that EU diplomacy on human rights issues in China had been 'largely fruitless.'