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Dafa Practitioners Successfully Air Truth Clarification Videos in Nahe City, Heilongjiang Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Minghui (Clearwisdom) journalist reports from Mainland
China: Recently in Nahe City, Heilongjiang Province, Dafa practitioners
successfully aired truth clarification videos through the local cable TV system.
About 600 households viewed the program, which included the truth about the
persecution against Dafa and Dafa practitioners. It had a huge impact among the
people.
Background information:
Clarifying the truth by tapping into TV signals is a heroic act, due to
long-term persecution and the Jiang group's demonizing of Dafa. The Chinese
government has blocked all positive information on Falun Gong during the past
four years, and it is a selfless and heroic act to uphold justice, for Dafa
practitioners risk their lives to speak the truth and redeem people from having
their minds poisoned.
Since 1996, Falun Gong practitioners have been denied freedom of belief and
basic human rights. Especially after July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan's
group used the government machinery to publicly persecute all Dafa
practitioners.
In the past four years, many witness accounts showed that the policy of the
"610 Office," which was set up to specialize in persecuting Falun Gong, is to
"defame their reputations, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them
physically." However, the facts of this persecution are covered up and twisted
by countless lies, which prevented many people from realizing that the
persecution is taking place in their own immediate area. Ever more people were
misled and deceived by these lies, and as a result, like a reflex, they hated
and misunderstood Falun Gong, even to the point that they feared
Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. According to verifiable statistics on the Clearwisdom website, as of the end
of October, 2003, at least 810 Falun Gong practitioners have died as a result of
this persecution because they refused to give up the practice of
Truth-Compassion-Tolerance and they persisted in speaking the truth.
In late October 2001, information from inside the Chinese government revealed
that the actual death toll had reached 1,600. At least 6,000 practitioners have
been illegally sentenced to prison, and hundreds of thousands of practitioners
were sent to labor camps.
Over 50 types of torture commonly used in persecuting Falun Gong
practitioners by police and labor camps around the country include long-term
sleep deprivation, shocking practitioners simultaneously with several
high-voltage electric batons for a long time in sensitive places (including the
mouth, chest, armpits, breasts and private parts), beating with limbs tied in
four opposite directions. They also use the dungeon, a water dungeon, out-door
latrines, "dead person's bed," and sitting planks to torture practitioners or
lock them up in solitary confinement; they force practitioners to sit on metal
chairs, "tiger bench" (a torture designed to break a person's leg), to do squats
for a long period of time; they tie up the practitioners with rope and hammer
nails under the practitioners' fingernails, they pinch the practitioners' bodies
with pliers; they pull out the practitioners' nails with pliers, etc.
During the morning of July 22, 2003, several thousand Falun Dafa
practitioners from all over the world gathered in front of Capitol Hill in
Washington, D.C. and held a symbolic public tribunal against Jiang Zemin. The
public prosecutor, a practitioner, addressed the audience, "Imagine the despair
and anger of a family who knows nothing of what happened to their loved one and
has literally nowhere to turn. For the authorities to simply claim they have not
killed a single practitioner - they were all supposedly suicides or death by
natural causes is incomprehensible, immoral and the worst of the worst
behaviors. And sometimes death can almost be a relief, if the alternative is
unending torture and torment. Police guards burning the flesh, the mouth, the
genitals with electric batons, hammering metal spikes under fingernails,
whipping with spiked wooden sticks, beating with metal clubs, sexual humiliation
and rape... the list goes on."
According to a report published by the World Organization to Investigate
the Persecution of Falun Gong ("WOIPFG") on March 20, 2003, "The
regime has expended one quarter of China's financial resources to persecute
Falun Gong, which is one of the main reasons why the persecution is able to
last. This funding comes from diverting foreign investments and Chinese
citizens' earnings, as well as the illegal fines forcibly imposed upon Falun
Gong practitioners and their family members and work units. A great deal of
funding has been allocated to public security, national security, the criminal
"610 Office" across the nation, and the foreign affairs department. The
sustained defamation campaign and information blockade have cost a great deal of
the country's financial resources. This has put tremendous pressure on the
livelihoods of people throughout China and brought grave consequences to the
nation's economic development."
This persecution, started by Jiang out of personal jealousy, is completely
based on lies. This persecution is also covered up by all kinds of lies. People
who were brave enough to seek out and speak the truth were brutally persecuted,
and some people in Mainland China were given lengthy prison sentences only
because they were suspected of visiting Minghui Net online. Falun Gong
practitioners in China and abroad have made arduous efforts and tremendous
sacrifices in order to expose and stop this persecution.
Dafa practitioners risk their lives to reveal the truth to the people by
tapping into TV signals, which deeply frightens the "610 Office" on all levels.
Recently, the central "610 Office" has sent a special case group to Nahe City in
an attempt to arrest practitioners who took part in this activity. With
cooperation from judicial, legal and police departments in Heilongjiang
Province, a large-scale search was conducted. Several practitioners have been
arrested.
This incident has also affected neighboring Fuyu County, where some
practitioners' homes were ransacked and the practitioners were illegally
interrogated and fined. Posting date: 11/6/2003 |