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Today, 253 practitioners issued solemn statements declaring that everything they said and did that was not in accordance with the principles of Falun Dafa is now invalid. They will redouble their efforts to make up for the losses they have caused to Dafa and they will firmly cultivate Dafa to the end. Some middle school and elementary school students also issued statements declaring that everything they signed under coercion is invalid. Some non-practitioners also declared that the "Breaking-up Statement" they wrote under duress are void and that from today on they will practice Falun Gong and act in accordance with the universal principles of "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance" to become good people.

The Righteous Thoughts of People in the World

People Eager to Know the Truth

Today a cafeteria chef where I work suddenly told me, "I read in the newspaper yesterday that over 30 foreigners went to Tiananmen and practiced Falun Gong. Even foreigners are practicing Falun Gong!" I was not really acquainted with him. Why did he say that to me? I realized that he was seeking the truth. I responded immediately, "Actually Falun Gong is practiced in over 50 countries. It is only banned in China!" "Really?" The chef appeared to be surprised. Another predestined person got to know the truth.

Recently I went back to my alma mater to take care of some business. I overheard two instructors talking, "That's just like Falun Gong, they did it for the money! I heard they published many books and made a lot of money!" Many people were in the office at that moment. I realized why I was there and why I had heard that comment. I had to tell them the truth! I then told them, "What you said is wrong. Before April 25 1999, Falun Gong books were published and sold publicly. The news on TV and in newspapers is based on lies. Please don't spread such rumors!"

Clarifying the Truth in the Airport

I went to the airport one day to hand out newspapers to tourists going back to China. I approached some people and one person accepted it happily, while another person beside him asked with some hostility, "Is it a Falun Gong newspaper?" The person with the newspaper said to him, "What has Falun Gong done to you?" I was very glad to see his righteousness.

Many Chinese people were waiting at the gate of a China Airlines flight. I distributed newspapers and almost every person took one. One person was reading his own newspaper, so I didn't bother him and walked around him, but then he said, "You just gave them all newspapers. Why didn't you give me one?" I answered, "Sure, everybody will get one."

Break the Information Blockade - Clarify the Truth and Offer Salvation to People

"All of the chaotic world's un-righted wrongs and karmic relationships are settled with benevolent solutions." [ "Foretelling the Fa's Rectification of the Human World"] When clarifying truth to strangers, as long as we remove the emotion of fear we usually won't be blocked. When we clarify truth to our family, friends and former "enemies before cultivation," however, we experience obstructions. In order to clarify the truth to them and offer salvation to them, we first need to come up with benevolent solutions to settle our previous grudges with them. During this process, we must send forth the righteous thoughts and eliminate our last human attachments and karma.

Latest News from China

Botou City Police Department staffers were extremely afraid of Dafa practitioners going to Beijing to appeal. That's why they escalated the persecution once again and forced practitioners to turn in their identification cards. The enforcers then published this information online so that they can monitor the practitioners' movements. In May 2001, Mr. Fu Qimou had been illegally arrested and also detained and tortured for six months at Botou City's Detention Center. In November last year he was illegally sent to a forced labor camp. His current whereabouts are unknown.

Mr. Zhan Wei, a practitioner in Yingcheng City was arrested and escorted back to the local detention center after he went to Beijing to rectify the Fa. The thugs used all means to torture him, and, in spite of his severe bodily trauma, didn't send him to a hospital until he was on the verge of death. On the way to the hospital, Politics and Security section chief He Jianshe violently kicked Mr. Zhan's middle and lower back area and claimed he would beat Mr. Zhan to death. Mr. Zhan exposed the actions of the criminals who tortured him to his family, but before he could finish relating the whole event, he died.

On January 1, 2002, 18 Dafa practitioners in the Wanjia Hospital [the labor camp hospital] sent forth righteous thoughts at midnight and did Dafa exercises. The camp guards brutally beat them. The practitioners held a hunger strike and the lawless guards and doctors began a new round of persecution. A vicious doctor scraped open the pustules on a female practitioner's hands. Her name was He Miao. She endured the tremendous pain and didn't utter a sound, which powerfully shocked the evil.

Li Wenna, deputy leader of Group No. 5 at Heizuizi's Female Labor Camp in Changchun City ordered drug addicts to beat detained elderly practitioners. One practitioner was brutally abused and forced to raise her arms high and stand against the wall. Then this drug addict violently kicked her, saying she didn't stand up straight enough. Then the drug addict slapped her face. I have heart disease and was beaten until I collapsed to the ground.

The police in Longkou City of Shandong Province have illegally detained, beaten, humiliated and paraded me through the streets many times. On April 28 of last year, Ma Shumei, the head of the Political Security Division of the Police Department, sent out several police vehicles to surround my house. I was forced to jump from the fourth floor and injured my face. I was also threatened with imprisonment. My mother went to the town government. The town supervisor, Gao, said, "Are you looking for Ma Shumei? They arrest people in order to extort money from them or their relatives."

Li Chunfa, the Party Secretary for the Politics and Legislation Committee of Daan City, and Chen Yamin, the head of the Political Security Division of the City Police Department, ordered policemen to illegally abduct many Dafa practitioners to the Heizuizi Labor Camp. They also signed documents stating, "If these people die, the Heizuizi Labor Camp will not be held responsible." These malicious people went to practitioner Geng Jifeng's work place and beat her to the ground. They also kicked her fiercely on her chest and stomach and took her away.

Some True Examples of Residents in the Fangzi District of Weifang City, Shandong Province Receiving Retribution for Sabotaging Truth Clarification Activities

Acting on orders from higher authorities to persecute Falun Dafa, a village official peeled off some Dafa truth-clarifying posters. Shortly afterwards, he hurt his fingers while tying a bundle of straws together. His fingers later became infected and started to fester. He took injections and medicines for quite a long time but his fingers were not healing. His brother said that he had received retribution for peeling off the Dafa truth-clarifying posters.

There was a farmer who was especially fond of removing Falun Dafa posters. When someone told him that he would receive retribution, he argued that he didn't believe in retribution and kept on removing posters. A few days later, his wife died in a traffic accident; he filed a lawsuit but to this day he has not won it. He has now come to his senses and realized that it was retribution.

After being instigated by his teacher, a student went to peel off Dafa truth-clarifying posters. A few days later, he broke his leg while playing and was taken to the hospital where his bones would not set properly. It took him over a month to recover. Right now nobody will dare to tear off the posters and banners on the streets.

Two people in a village sabotaged Dafa and tore off truth-clarifying posters. One day, they fell off a motorcycle, one seriously injured himself and the other lost consciousness for two days. Another person didn't listen to advice and still tore off truth-clarifying posters. Soon afterwards, his wife suddenly died while she was on the phone.

Cultivation Stories

In 1999, just one month after I had begun my studies, I was expelled from school because I held firm to my belief in Falun Dafa. My mother was jailed in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, which caused my father, being in extreme sorrow and pain, to pass away on February 12, 2000. My grandfather on my mother's side died of an illness on September 12, 2001. Before my grandfather's death, my mother got some days off from the labor camp to come home to take a look at my grandfather. Now my mother and I have been forced into homelessness to avoid further persecution.

Female Dafa practitioner Peng Yan in Wuhan City, Hubei Province had been illegally arrested on many occasions. In March 2000, she was arrested and sent to Wuhan First Women's Labor Camp for printing Zhuan Falun. While in detention, she was twice forced to endure a torture named "the board shackle" for a total of 39 days. In this torture, she was forced to lie down on a cross-shaped board with her hands and feet secured to the board by iron shackles. She could not move at all. After learning the news that her brother Peng Min was tortured to death, she became even firmer in cultivating Dafa.

Ever since I started to practice Dafa, I had treated myself as a practitioner and I had tried my best to be a good wife, a good mother and a good daughter-in-law. With the help of Dafa, my husband finally quit smoking. After practicing Dafa, my mother-in-law, who used to have some eye ailment, could see clearly without having to apply drops. Because of this, she believed in Dafa from the bottom of her heart. My whole family is filled with an atmosphere of harmony.

More than one year ago, to avoid being taken to the brainwashing class, I was forced to go to another city that I knew nothing about. Later I got in touch with Dafa practitioners in that city and started to do truth-clarifying work. At the same time, I also found a new job. I worked hard and did very well on my job. My noble character moved my colleagues and my boss. My boss said cultivation is a matter of one's belief and he knew how to handle this (the fact that I practice Dafa). He also asked me to be careful.

News from Overseas

Today when practitioners all over the world sent forth righteous thoughts at set times, I suddenly realized that the hidden hatred that I had in my mind towards the evil had hindered me from sending forth pure and powerful righteous thoughts. Right then I felt my human side no longer existed and all the unrighteous factors in my own dimension dissolved in a split second.

Dafa practitioners in Mainland China wrote a letter to President Bush, urging him to help stop the state-run terrorism by Jiang's regime and to please pay attention to the practitioners who are being persecuted in China while he pays a visit there from February 21 to 22 this year.