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My Mother's Experiences Make Me Sympathize With Each Falun Gong Practitioner By Peng Pai
(Clearwisdom Net) My mother began to practice Falun Gong in 1997. She seemed to be more open
after practicing Falun Gong. She not only practiced the exercises every day, but also read the
related books and listened to the series of cassette recordings. I remember she practiced very well,
and read Zhuan Falun over and over. She told me she had read the book more than 100 times and
could recite some paragraphs. She also gave me a copy of Zhuan Falun and hoped that I could
become a Falun Gong practitioner. Because I was busy working at that time, and was young and lacked
diligence, I didn't read the book thoroughly. In the summer of 1999, Falun Gong was banned unexpectedly one day. I still remember the
television broadcasting the government public announcement repeatedly. The tense atmosphere made me,
an offspring of the "black five kinds" [Note: refers to five kinds of people defined by
communism as bad and dangerous to the communist government], realized that the communist
dictatorship was starting another nationwide movement to maintain its totalitarian rule. I predicted
that they would target every Falun Gong practitioner, including my mother. From that day, the officials in my mother's work place, the activists from the neighborhood
committee, and the police took turn "chatting" with my mother. My mother symbolically
turned in two [Falun Gong] books at the beginning (she should not have given in to the evil).
But they were still not satisfied, and asked for more. My mother experienced many home searches in
the past, and under the pressure, she turned in the remaining books and cassette recordings. They
were still not satisfied and applied more pressure to her. I sensed that my mother, who had lived
through many brutal political movements in the past, was under huge mental and psychological
pressure. I know that my mother is an unbending person, and she is silently defending her beliefs
and freedom. Although I am not a Falun Gong practitioner, my mother's experiences make me sympathize
with each Falun Gong practitioner. What makes me angry is after almost three years, the police still often show up at my home
unexpectedly, monitoring my mother's every movement in the name of looking after her. The worst were
those activists from the neighborhood committee. They live in the neighborhood and watch us
constantly. My home again became the target of surveillance and my family members again became a
"transforming target" in this movement. Besides me, I am sure that many Chinese are
familiar with the consistent style of the Party: they will by all means deprive people of their
rights in order to protect the party's dictatorship. I faithfully believe that one day our repressed
Chinese people will gain real freedom, and the human rights will be respected in China. Posting date: 6/20/2002 |