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Looking Back: Persecution of Falun Gong -- Jiang Commits Systematic Crimes Using the State Machinery
First drafted on July 17, 2001
(Clearwisdom.net) July 19 report: the true nature of Jiang's persecution
against Falun Gong manifests itself by his use of the entire resources of the
government machinery, including the systems, laws, policies and decrees to
commit crimes. The brutality of the persecution reveals its cruel and evil
nature and it also brings heavy disaster upon the Chinese people.
1. Organizational chart of how Jiang uses the government machinery to
persecute Falun Gong
Jiang Zemin | The Central Party Committee's Supervising Team in charge
of the dealing with Falun Gong, headed by Li Lanqing --- | | | 610 Office "headed by Luo Gan" Military Foreign Affairs Party Government - province (city) "610 Office" - county - town
- village - household - individual Police
Prosecutor
Legal system
Judicial
National Security
News media
Publishers
Academic field
Religious field
Cultural and Education field
Scientific Field
Legal and Law field
Corporations and companies
Cultural Field (art, music, etc.)
Anti-Cult Association
The systematic control of Falun Gong practitioners' activities are carried
out by the Party, governmental system, military, organizations, work units and
schools.
The systematic control of Falun Gong practitioners' persistent cultivation is
deemed as "politically subversive," charged as a "cult," and the practitioners
are fined, physically and mentally tortured and subjected to strict control.
The systematic control of Falun Gong practitioners' personal freedom is
carried out by prisons, shelters (under the administration of the local Civil
Affairs Bureau), labor camps (under the local police departments), and drug
rehabilitation centers.
The systematic control of Falun Gong practitioners' spiritual freedom is
carried out by mental institutions, brainwashing classes and forced reform
classes.
Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong uses systematic implication, which shows
the basic human rights and freedom of the Chinese people are completely
non-existent. The original 100 million Falun Gong practitioners, their family,
work units and neighbors are not the only ones who are deprived of their basic
human rights.
2. Through suppressing Falun Gong, Jiang destroys the legitimacy of the
governmental system
The organization and planning of the persecution is very systematic and
thorough. In order to persecute Falun Gong, Jiang made careful arrangements
through organizing and planning. As early as June 10, 1999, the "The Supervising
Group of the Central Party Committee Dealing with Falun Gong Issues" was founded
and headed by Li Lanqing, China's Vice Premier. The "610 Office" was established
under it, which creates and executes the policies pertaining to Falun Gong. It
is headed by Luo Gan, the secretary of the Political and Judicial Committee of
the Central Party Committee. The "610 Office" is a permanent member of the
Political and Judicial Committee and it is the ultimate powerhouse through which
Jiang can persecute Falun Gong. Next to the central office is a local "610
Office" in each province, city, autonomous region, and municipality. These were
established directly under the jurisdiction of the local political and judicial
committee. The sole duty of the "610 Office" is to conduct political
persecution. Being above the law, it is strikingly similar to the notorious
Supervising Team during the Cultural Revolution. The "610 Office" directly
operates and strictly controls the subordinate parties and governmental
organizations, such as the public security, the prosecutor's office, and the
people's court, as well as the national security, reform through forced labor
camps, reeducation through forced labor camps, and even the news media and
public opinion channels. They actively hold suppressive activities of the
persecution according to Jiang will, order and needs.
Jiang takes the lead and violates the laws of the country. The law prohibits
legal convictions because of one's belief, and one cannot be convicted on
actions that are not explicitly included in the law to be prohibited and
punished. The law prohibits the ruler's words superceding the law. All
democratic countries in the world acknowledge that the constitution is the
fundamental and highest law of the country, and they obey the constitutional
rule that all law, policies and administrative orders that go against the
constitution are null. Yet, Jiang can make up any law to fit his needs.
They create large amounts of Falun Gong-slandering lies, fake evidence and
made-up materials. They directed the making of 1,400 cases, created the lies of
accumulating money through unfair means, a luxury house and others to deceive
the people. They make up bogus theories and change the nature of the legal
spirit. They brazenly throw political accusations on anyone Jiang dislikes and
makes up "crimes committed." They collected and still collect fake witnesses to
shamelessly persecute Falun Gong.
They collect the names of Falun Gong practitioners in China and around the
world. They arrange for the surveillance, arrest and persecution of "important"
practitioners in charge.
Jiang encourages sham movements and uses various religions as tools to reach
political and diplomatic goals, which destroys the nature of religious
organizations.
Jiang destroys the interest of the Hong Kong people and completely reneges on
the government promise of "50 years without change."
In order to completely destroy Falun Gong, psychologically and theoretically,
Jiang orders his subordinate Luo Gan and people from the "610 Office" to find
so-called scholars and professionals from the theoretical field, the academic
world, scientific field, legal area, psychological field, religious field,
medical field, political studies field, sociological field, philosophical field,
linguistics field, who take parts from Falun Gong books and distorts and twist
the facts. On every occasion Jiang has deliberately distorted Falun Gong
teachings in the media and other public forums, then banned or mass destroyed
the original books and articles, which allows the dictator to deceive and coerce
the public.
There is no real government or rule of law when a dictator is in charge, and
there is no true scholar under the ruling of an autocratic government. Under
Jiang's totalitarianism, where is the legal base for the government agencies and
departments to exist, and how can they exercise their rights given by the law
and the people. Jiang destroys and corrupts the entire state machinery and
government. Under this dictatorship, independent thinkers are suppressed, how
can they be free from corruption and be upright, and keep academic integrity?
Where can the scholars have any dignity and respect? Jiang has not only
destroyed the historic opportunity of reform and an "open door policy;" he
destroyed the path of a whole generation of Chinese people who were supposed to
have the opportunity to return to their Chinese traditions.
3. To suppress Falun Gong, Jiang doesn't hesitate to resort to using the
State to publicly loot those he persecutes
Jiang destroys the Falun Gong practitioners financially through various
means, including ransacking their homes, seizing their land or homes,
automobiles and farm equipment, personal savings whether cash, bank accounts or
bonds, entire contents of their homes such as furniture, washing machines, TV
sets etc. All these items are taken away by authorities and never returned or
receipts for the seizure given. The practitioners are fired from their jobs and
evicted from state owned housing on to the street. Their salaries or pensions
are cut off.
When Falun Gong practitioners go to the government to appeal, upon arrest,
the first thing that is stolen from them is their money and valuable things in
their pockets. Levels upon levels of police officers extort money and impose
huge fines on the practitioners, who often have to pay for room and board of
escorting officials as well as pay up "guarantee money." When they are sent to a
prison and/or detention center, there they have to purchase toothpaste, a
toothbrush, toilet paper, a towel and soap at price many times higher than
market price. They have to pay high food money for low quality food. Some labor
camps arrest the practitioners and fine them, then release them and arrest them
again. Then they fine them again and release them. In this way the authorities
have established a steady financial income for themselves and others and Jiang
uses this as an incentive to keep the authorities persecuting Falun Gong
practitioners according to his orders.
Practitioners who are sent to brainwashing centers are forced to pay hundreds
or even thousands of Yuan for a session. Those who refuse to be "reformed" are
forced to continue their "education" and suffer escalating physical and mental
pressures. The financial burden alone is especially overwhelming.
Practitioners who are business owners go bankrupt because of the fines and
constant persecution. Urban practitioners become financially depleted, poor
people. Practitioners who are farmers have their farm machines, livestock and
crops taken away, or they are forced to sell them to pay the "fine." They are
completely deprived of their rights to make a living.
Many authorities make a good use of this opportunity to enrich themselves.
During the persecution against Falun Gong, corruption, which was already
considered a number one problem in the government, has been further expanded and
officially encouraged.
When physical torture efforts failed to satisfy Jiang's wishes, mental
torture was employed. They used many special psychiatric hospitals - similar to
the ones used under the autocratic rule of the former Soviet Union - to
persecute a great number of healthy Falun Gong practitioners by forcibly
injecting them with overdoses of nerve-damaging drugs. Most of these victims are
female. Of those who were subjected to overdoses of drugs or nerve-damaging
drugs, the ones who suffered to a lesser degree experienced vomiting,
uncontrollable shaking, a dull look in their eyes, a stiff neck, and loss of
memory. In more serious cases, people died as a result of medical abuse.
State police on duty brazenly rape female practitioners in public. Government
officials are free to instigate their subordinates to beat people to death
without being held accountable. State media is instructed to report lies,
directly feeding bad thoughts into people's minds. The head of state Jiang takes
the lead in telling lies, acting shamelessly, using power, money and pressure as
well as the highest level of a leading criminal regime to coerce governments and
leaders at various levels to commit group crimes, killing people without mercy.
After Jiang issued this order, "It's counted as suicide if a practitioner is
beaten to death," the number of cases of torture death of Falun Gong
practitioners saw a sharp increase.
4. To suppress Falun Gong, Jiang creates a systematic, institutionalized
network of corruption
Jiang created an extensive network of organizational systems in his
persecution of Falun Gong. He adopted an autocratic network, which covers the
entire nation and extended overseas. He not only took control of all state
machinery, various organizations and work units, but also established special
legislative and law reinforcing units, placing themselves above the state system
as well as government organizations as stipulated in the constitution. With the
"610 Office" acting as a new extra-constitutional authority that places itself
above state machinery, it coerces governmental, social and so-called public
organizations, and uses all opportunities, venues and formats to persecute Falun
Gong practitioners, such as destroying people's reputations through outright
fabrication and misrepresentation of the facts.
Jiang mobilizes the political sector, research and academic circles, the
legal field, the scientific and technological field, the religious field, the
media and publishing sector to offer suggestions, create theories, invent legal
evidence, compile false documents to provide the persecution with various types
of weapons to indiscriminately attack innocent people.
Jiang commands the China Central TV Station, the People's
Daily, the Central Broadcasting Station as well as all the media and
websites nationwide to launch a systematic offensive with lies, slandering Falun
Gong 24 hours a day. It also imposed a monopoly and blockade on information and
news, suppressing all differing opinions, sabotaging broadcasting, TV, newspaper
and websites, both inside and outside of China, forbidding foreign journalists
to report, interview or to take photos of the true situation. Jiang goes to any
length, such as attacking overseas websites.
Jiang uses all kinds of deception, brazen threats and coercion to pressure
officials nationwide, governments around the world, NGOs, other groups and
people from all walks of life to take a stand, to sign or to take actions
against Falun Gong according to his will and demands, treating organizations and
nations that criticize his groundless persecution as enemies and buying
shameless people in the world with money and trade deals to attack those
organizations and nations.
Jiang controls all the leaders in the Party, administration and military
forces, as well as in the legislative area, judiciary area, administrations, the
business sector, finance, trade, education and enterprises, and forced them to
comply with his general plan, to actively participate in the unified action of
the persecution.
Jiang orders all public security departments, prosecutors, courts, labor
camps to utilize despicable means of torture and punishment used in the history
and by all countries in the world to persecute Falun Gong with the order that
"death of Falun Gong practitioners from beating is nothing and shall be counted
as suicide." As a result, the number of Falun Gong practitioners deaths
increased sharply.
Jiang adopts an all-round network implication system. If a family has a
member practicing Falun Gong, that will implicate the parents, brothers and
sisters, husband or wife, their children, friends, their work units and school.
Their children cannot go to school, get a job or join the military, cutting off
any possible avenue for them to succeed and take care of their parents. Their
relatives who have jobs are forced into early retirement.
If someone practices the exercises in a detention center or a labor camp,
employees and cellmates are implicated and punished with various extra-legal
punishments. Some labor camps adopt a policy of "personal clamps," which means a
few prisoners are designated to supervise one practitioner, monitoring
everything the practitioner says or does. Battering and verbal abuse are
commonplace. Good people suffer while the true criminals are given free reign to
harm practitioners without restraint.
Jiang uses fame and money, awards and harsh punishments to carry out a series
of social networks of monitoring and controlling, very similar to the so-called
"dictatorship of the masses," which further developed into a national,
systematic and institutionalized dictatorial network. If someone informs against
a Falun Gong practitioner or a practitioner who distributes truth-clarifying
materials, he/she is rewarded with a certain amount of money; if someone
captures a Falun Gong practitioner or "reforms" a practitioner, he/she is
awarded certain points, which indicate how much money or promotion or increase
in salary one gets. Where the persecution is the most vicious, there are more
"repentance statements" and "guarantee statements" and more people who were
"reformed" by force. These places and individuals are praised as model units or
model individuals and are promoted at the national, provincial or municipal
levels as a way to mobilize and instigate people from all walks of life to
trample on state laws and to damage people's initiatives.
Jiang not only systematically persecutes Falun Gong as a whole politically,
ideologically, mentally, financially and physically; he also controls and
persecutes individual practitioners in a comprehensive and systematic manner. He
does so by using methods such as inspecting personal letters, tapping phone
calls, monitoring and tailing practitioners, confiscating ID cards, not allowing
them to travel, to go abroad, to move around or to visit relatives and friends.
Also included in this persecution are searching practitioners' homes and
confiscating personal belongings at will, not allowing them to hold experience
sharing meetings, dismissing them from public service, dismissing them from
party membership, youth league membership, military service, schools or
universities, confiscating cash and savings, business and household properties
and imposing huge fines on Falun Gong practitioners.
Abducting practitioners to brainwashing centers is another means of
persecution. If practitioners protest, they are sent to labor camps to be
reeducated through hard labor, or sent to psychiatric hospitals, drug
rehabilitation centers and administrative detention centers for further
persecution.
5. The persecution of Falun Gong completely exposed Jiang's brutal nature
The most fundamental function of a people's republic is to protect her
people. Jiang's persecution of 100 million kind Falun Gong practitioners is
openly and unscrupulously distorting a state power's basic nature and is
betraying her people. The brutal nature of Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners is as follows:
Beat and injure people's entire body from head to toe. These sadistic acts
include beating the head, boxing the ears, hitting the eyes, breaking the nose,
breaking teeth, cutting of the throat, breaking of the bones in the neck and
back, cuffing the hands and shackling the feet tightly till the bones and
tendons are broken, and using electric batons to shock the head, the mouth, the
breasts, the genital areas, the anus, and the limbs.
These torture methods include the most comprehensive torture methods ever
used, plus newly invented ones, such as cuffing the arms backwards [both arms
cuffed at one's back, one arm from above the shoulder and another one from below
the shoulder], sitting on a "tiger bench," force- feeding hot pepper water,
feeding or injecting harmful medicine, and other atrocities. According to
incomplete statistics, over 100 such methods exist. These tortures injure the
internal organs and nerves. Some people were beaten so severely they could not
stop vomiting blood and their lives are threatened. Some fainted many times from
the beating. Hundreds of people were killed as a result of torture for their
belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. The actual death toll from such
torture is far beyond this number.
Jiang uses bad people to harm good people. When they beat a Falun Gong
practitioner to death, they fabricate a lie that the person committed suicide,
claiming falsely that Falun Gong is at fault for the person's death.
Jiang's directives include giving forced abortions, even into the final
trimester of their pregnancy, to pregnant Falun Gong practitioners who are put
into labor camps, killing innocent unborn children simply for being inside the
womb of a Falun Gong practitioner. Authorities even tortured an 8-month-old
infant to death and his mother while trying to force her to renounce her belief.
Authorities in the Masanjia Labor Camp had stripped 18 female practitioners
and threw them into the male prison cells.
Jiang orders the cremation of practitioners who are still alive and breathing
to get rid of any evidence of torture.
Torturing the disabled practitioners to death, and torturing healthy
practitioners until they become disabled.
Harbin City's Wanjia Labor Camp was directly implicated in the deaths of 15
Falun Gong practitioners at one time. Jiang's plot of faking a "group suicide at
Mount Xiang" in 1999 failed when practitioner's learned about the plot and
refused to be lured to that location. Jiang failed in his staged immolation at
Tiananmen Square after analysis of the film footage clearly showed many
discrepancies.
A Beijing policeman publicly beat a female practitioner on the street, broke
two of her front teeth, dragged her under a nearby bridge and raped her. The
policeman also forcibly penetrated her with a police baton. The supervisor at
the Qianmen Police Station has raped female practitioners on many occasions.
The crimes committed by Jiang's regime are too numerous to be completely
listed here.
6. Through suppressing Falun Gong, Jiang has lived up to his role
as a ruling dictator
Why does Jiang hate Falun Gong so much? Many kindhearted people just don't
understand it, no matter how it can be explained. In fact, it is not too hard to
understand if you look at it carefully. It is difficult for Jiang to grab power
in light of the international trend to improve human rights, giving the people
more freedom and respecting people's choice of belief. Jiang chose to attack
Falun Gong. Because those Falun Gong practitioners are all good people that can
be relied on without any supervision, Jiang thought that he had found a breach
in the society and could achieve his goal of grabbing power. It is undeniable
that from Jiang's standpoint, he had reached his goal of dictatorship.
In China, even the people up to the premier have to keep quiet out of fear.
As for every citizen, policemen and local authorities hold the power of life and
death. Even if one's mind does not fit Jiang's dictate, he could bring himself a
fatal disaster. Jiang has used the country to commit crimes, systematically and
institutionally, and he has turned China into his tool for dictatorship and
means to carry out his brutality.
Jiang shameless persecution of Falun Gong is the exercising of a total
dictatorship over the Chinese people. He uses the model of dictatorship from the
Cultural Revolution, to completely deprive people of their quest for democracy,
freedom, politics, economics, society, culture, rights to life and rights of
survival. He attacks justice, morality and human rights in the world, and
challenges principles and truths in the society. He opposes the law and has
trampled on the international human rights treaty. He has become the world's
prime obstacle for developing and protecting human rights and advancing
peacefully.
Although Jiang has exhausted every ounce of his mental powers, he cannot
escape the justice of heaven. Committing these crimes is the process of
shackling Jiang himself onto the historical pillar of shame. Posting date: 8/3/2003 |
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