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The Final Trial - The End Will Soon Come for Jiang's Regime By Zhong Yan
(Clearwisdom.net)
While paying close attention to the current Gulf War situation, people are
hoping for new peace and development in the world. However, in the last four
years, a war without guns has been making its presence known ever more clearly.
One may be able to see through the superficial appearances of this war, which is
directly related to the basic morality of human beings, and see its essence,
which may help to usher in a new civilization for human beings after all of the
current wars and diseases have run their course.
On this battlefield, one side seems to be very powerful. They have unequalled
strength: a government-controlled media reaching every corner of the country, an
army with a huge number of soldiers, policemen, jails, and other state
apparatuses. They are backed up by ministries of judicial affairs, foreign
affairs, culture, science, technology, and education, and have an unprecedented
amount of money allocated for their support. The other side seems weak. Many of
them are elderly people, women and children, who are not only weaponless but
also believe that one should neither fight back when hit nor curse back when
cursed. Yet the situation is in fact just the reverse. The first side, which
seemed so powerful in the beginning, now feels it increasingly difficult to
control public opinion, while the other side, which seemed weak in the
beginning, has grown ever stronger, with righteous forces from all over the
world joining in its cause.
The only reason that the seemingly powerful side had to launch an attack on
the seemingly weak side was one dictator's desire for power, which had grown
bloated to such an extent that he could not tolerate the fact that more and more
people were following the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and
Tolerance," to become good people, instead of merely following him. To satisfy
his narrow-minded and twisted desire for power, he used his influence and power
to try to eliminate the seemingly weak side, spreading monstrous lies to people
all over the world and using brutal force to support it.
This seemingly powerful side has two weapons: lies and violence. Those
involved in the attack have been carrying out the policy of "defaming their
reputations, bankrupting them financially, and destroying them physically"
against Falun Dafa practitioners.
About four years have passed since the beginning of this attack. Yet even
after suffering much misery and distress, the seemingly weak side has neither
been defeated, nor struck back in any fashion. However, they have changed the
situation they face in a peaceful, rational and righteous way. The changes that
Falun Gong practitioners, the target of the attacks and persecution from the
Chinese government, have made in their situation are manifesting themselves more
and more clearly.
1. Clarifying the Truth and Revealing the Lies
Throughout the whole world, Falun Gong practitioners clarify the truth about
Falun Gong and expose the persecution in order to make their persecutors'
slanderous lies, spread by the Chinese government, collapse on their own. Those
in power who try to defame Falun Gong practitioners through spreading lies have
in fact lost their own reputations by earning the labels of "human rights
scoundrel" and of being responsible for "state-sponsored terrorism." Nowadays,
many countries in Europe, America as well as Australia are denouncing this
persecution.
In its most recent report on human rights, the US State Department has again
condemned Jiang Zemin's persecution of Falun Gong. The State Department listed
in detail the cruel means used by the Chinese Communist Party to torture Falun
Gong practitioners. At the same time that these atrocities are occurring,
though, Falun Dafa has spread quickly overseas and has won the favor of the
people and governments of many nations. The hundreds of honors and awards that
Falun Dafa has received in more than 60 countries serves as evidence of this.
2. Investigating Criminals and Punishing Murderers and Assailants
In terms of the Chinese economic situation, most of the government officials
involved in the persecution of Falun Gong in China are guilty of corruption, led
by Jiang himself. According to a large amount of evidence and reports gathered
by the "World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (an
international non-profit organization)," these corrupt officials, be they
members of the Central Committee or local government officials, have consumed a
massive amount of the country's resources to recklessly persecute Falun Gong and
to benefit personally in the process. As a result of this persecution, more than
640 Falun Gong practitioners have been confirmed to have died from torture;
thousands more may have been tortured to death as well, as it is very difficult
to obtain information due to the Jiang regime's tight information blockade.
Cases of death from torture have continuously occurred in more than 30
provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central
government's control. At least 6000 Falun Gong practitioners have been illegally
sentenced to prison, more than 100,000 have been illegally sent to forced labor
camps, and several thousand have been forcibly sent to mental hospitals and
injected with nerve-damaging drugs.
Corrupt officials have ransacked and confiscated Falun Gong practitioners'
private homes, fired hundreds of thousands of practitioners from their jobs,
frozen practitioners' incomes, imposed illegal, high fines, illegally raised
bail rates, and have even forced practitioners' family members to pay cremation
fees after their relatives were tortured to death and forcibly cremated.
According to a reliable and confidential source, Jiang's regime has used one
fourth of its national resources to persecute Falun Gong. They have spent
between 1.7 and 2.5 million Yuan per day just to search for and arrest Falun
Gong practitioners on Tiananmen Square. At the same time, Jiang has also used
the country's resources to satisfy himself. Jiang spent about 100 million Yuan
to buy himself a private plane and renovate an old house in his hometown. He
used his power to promote his son Jiang Mianheng to the position of
vice-director of the Chinese Academy of Science. Jiang put in 6.4 billion
American dollars for a single contract with a Taiwanese electronics company. On
February 27, 2001, Jiang allocated 4 billion Yuan in a single fund to give his
son authority to set up instruments used to spy on Falun Gong practitioners. To
gain support from another country for his policy of persecuting Falun Gong,
Jiang did not hesitate to sell a portion of China equal in size to 100 Taiwans.
According to Hong Kong's Kaifang and Zhengmin magazines, many high-ranking CCP
officials have escaped to other countries with embezzled money. In 2000, as much
as 48 billion US dollars left the country in this manner.
Not long ago, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun
Gong began to take action to gain support from organizations and individuals to
conduct a thorough investigation of the corrupt officials involved in the
persecution of Falun Gong, collecting information on their criminal acts, where
they have stashed their embezzled money, and finding out who should receive
legal sanctions. Jiang Zemin's regime has taken advantage of international
investment and economic aid to carry out its policy of trampling on people's
freedom of belief and depriving people of their human rights. Now, politicians
and government officials in many western societies have come to understand this.
On January 20, 2003, a bill was proposed in the Canadian Parliament requesting
an end of economic aid to those countries where freedom of belief is suppressed.
3. The Final Trial - Sounding the Death Knell of Jiang's Regime
During the past four years, Jiang has given many ruthless orders to officials
and police in forced labor camps, jails and detention centers all over the
country in regards to the persecution of Falun Gong. Some of these include: open
fire on practitioners posting flyers, claim that practitioners killed in the
persecution had committed suicide, and to cremate practitioners' bodies
immediately after they are killed (to eliminate evidence of officials'
wrongdoing). In other words, he has given corrupt officials and police free
reign to do whatever they please in persecuting Falun Gong. Throughout the
country, "610 Offices" have been established and placed above the law and above
any local government, solely for the purpose of persecuting Falun Gong, and
their officials kidnap, arrest, illegally bring to court, and torture Falun Gong
practitioners--all in an attempt to have them give up their beliefs.
Yet the arm of the law is long, and unjust causes find little support in the
end. The righteous forces are growing stronger all over the world and are
bringing to trial one of the worst perpetrators of "crimes against humanity" in
history. Since October 2002, people with righteous attitudes have sued Jiang
Zemin in courts on the charge of "genocide," and the World Organization to
Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong has gotten involved as well, following
its oath "To investigate the criminal conduct of all institutions,
organizations, and individuals involved in the persecution of Falun Gong; to
bring such investigation, no matter how long it takes, no matter how far and
deep we have to search, to full closure; to exercise fundamental principles of
humanity; and to restore and uphold justice in society."
According to one report, on the 3rd day (March 19) of the 59th
UN Conference on Human Rights, the organization "Track Impunity Always" and the
Swiss Falun Dafa Association held a joint press conference about a lawsuit being
brought against ex-president Jiang Zemin in Switzerland. Mr. Phillip Grand, the
plaintiffs' lawyer, answered reporters' questions and indicated that Jiang Zemin
will face lawsuits in different countries and possible punishment of a lifelong
jail term.
On March 12 in the Hague, ICC, a new permanent international criminal court
was established to deal with dictators and war criminals. Eighteen judges were
sworn in. The purpose of this court is to try those individuals who have been
sued for serious crimes against common citizens, as opposed to against a country
or army. Supporters hope this court will play a critical role in preventing,
investigating and controlling serious human rights violations.
Who will be the first villain to be tried in this court? Perhaps you can
already see through the smoke of the weaponless battlefield in China.
Posting date: 4/29/2003 |