Exposing the Evil Acts Committed By the So-Called "Anti-Cult Association" in the Shenli Oil Fields
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in the Shenli Oil Fields
(Clearwisdom.net) On March 20, 2001, Lu Renjie, Zhang Fulu, Zhao Xiucheng,
and Jia Xianglun in the Shenli Oil Fields in Shandong Province established an
organization called the "Counter-Cults Association" to deceive the
public and carry out the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners, following the
orders of Jiang and his regime. The association president, Lu Renjie, was a
former Communist Party Secretary in the Shenli Oil Fields. He was arrested in
Beijing for corruption and was stripped of his position. After the persecution
of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, he took the initiative to found the
"Counter-Cults Association" in the Shenli Oil Fields. He became the
president and worked closely with the 610 Office. The name "Counter-Cults Association" is a cover that was intended
to deceive the public. The public believed it to be an academic research
organization. Its function, however, like that of the 610 Office, is to
persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. It has its own system, network, and
independent funding with support from the local political offices. It has
carried out many terrible deeds. Exercising its power over the local subordinate
political organizations, it has instigated unlawful crimes. Its only purpose is
to persecute practitioners, going to extremes in harassing them by funding many
different kinds of activities defaming Falun Dafa. The more activities they
sponsor, the more funding they receive. Its budget amounts to over several
million yuan (1) each year. The association has carried out many horrific activities and "tops the
list" of firsts in China in the following three areas: it is the first
enterprise publishing company to publish a collection of essays that slander
Falun Dafa; it is the first enterprise which set up a website to defame Falun
Dafa; and it is the first enterprise that started a large scale exhibit to
deceive the public about Falun Dafa. The organization has been established for
three years under the direction of Lu Renjie and Zhang Fulu. They employ a
network of technology and sponsor many writing competitions, including literary
and informational reports and articles. They have offered large sums of money
and have worked alongside the 610 Office and the public security office to
frame, slander and suppress Falun Gong. Moreover, they had done enormous harm to
the people of Shenli Oil Fields and the people of China. Following are some of
the criminal acts they have committed to Falun Gong in the past three years: 1. Establishing a network to persecute Falun Gong Because the 610 Office has received numerous public denunciations, it has
retreated from the public eye. The "Counter-Cults Association"
established in 2001 has taken over the functions of the 610 Office and has
achieved "success" beyond what the 610 Office could have achieved.
They founded 19 branches spread throughout the Shenli Oil Fields. It has direct
control over the deployment of two levels of branches and auxiliary entities to
carry out the persecution and has the authority to issue orders and directions.
It has permanent mechanisms in place to effect persecution activities and has
control over the "brainwashing centers" that have been spawned one
after another. To exert more influence on society, they have recruited
technical, cultural, educational and public health professionals as members to
bolster their organization. These professionals do not participate in the
activities. 2. Slandering Falun Dafa as they choose without fear of consequence They started running a website to smear Falun Gong and have published and
reprinted over 1,000 articles slandering Falun Gong. In the "Internet and
Counter-Cults" conference sponsored by the "China Counter-Cults
Association," the Oil Field Association aggressively promoted their
website-building experience. The association equipped workers from their
organizational departments and offices with computers to let all staff access
articles and information defaming Falun Gong. They assembled a group of inept scoundrels to compile and write several
hundred articles to discredit Falun Gong. Some of these articles were published
and distributed in Shandong Province and throughout China. Essay competitions
were held to encourage the uninformed public to write articles that incriminate
Falun Gong. The essays were then presented at the conferences held by various
counter-cult associations and were compiled and published into three essay
collections: From Infatuating to Awakening, The Sunlight Bud, and Book
of Exposure and Criticism. The last was written by Xi Xiuhai, Xu Tonghai,
Jia Xianglun, and Zhao Xiucheng. 150 copies were distributed at the eighth
public lecture sponsored by the "Chinese Counter-Cults Association"
convened in Xi'an in April 2003. It received high praise from He Zuoxia, a local
represetative of the Chinese Science Academy, Secretary General Wang Yusheng of
the "Chinese Counter-Cults Association," and Vice-Chairman Zhou
Zhonghsiang and Si Manan of the "Shandong Counter-Cults Association." Using government funds they purchased large quantities of the book to give a
copy to every staff member of the political affairs department and to all the
national petroleum system organizations throughout China. It had a broad
detrimental influence. They gave massive payoffs, provided material incentives,
and organized domestic and overseas travel to motivate writers to produce a
massive number of slanderous articles. At the same time, the association could
use the results to apply for more funding and receive more rewards for their
personal profit. The association secretary general, Zhang Fulu, was once the vice-minister of
human relations of the Shenli Oil Fields. He was a malicious person, corrupt,
cunning and a gossip. He published many books that were full of hate towards
Falun Dafa and controlled the operation of a website that viciously attacked
Falun Dafa. These people didn't really know anything about the practice of Falun
Dafa, blinded by their own bias of ignorance. They used the cloaks of
"science" and "atheism" to freely criticize and vilify Falun
Dafa. In their writings, they would throw out opinions and labels with no
rationality behind them. 3. Promoting activities designed to instill hatred of Falun Dafa They continued to commits acts against Falun Dafa in the oil fields in order
to sustain public hatred. Through practitioners' tireless efforts to clarify the
facts to the public, many people had learned the truth about Falun Dafa. The
association staff employed in this slanderous work to turn the public against
Falun Dafa had become clearheaded and had grown tired of the persecution and
declined to be a part of it. In order to keep up the momentum of the harassment,
they often called "all-hands" meetings and smaller scale meetings to
continue rousing support among the staff and to create pressures on the
subordinate units to continue their illegal harassment and pestering of Falun
Gong practitioners. They obstructed practitioners' effort to call an end to the
persecution and to restore their basic human right of freedom of belief. Besides publishing websites and books, the association conducted various
dishonorable activities designed to twist the facts, encourage hatred, and harm
human consciences by holding large scale exhibits to vilify Falun Dafa in 2001
and 2004. They held essay competitions offering large rewards to entice people
to write articles slandering Falun Dafa and published the writings in order to
maximize their poisonous effect. They sponsored dramatic performances defaming
Falun Dafa and broadcast them on TV and held contests with questions targeting
the suppression of Falun Dafa. They made their staff form into teams and
participate. They also built billboards in residential neighborhoods to post
propaganda slandering Falun Dafa. They even extended the persecution onto school campuses. They forced the
school teachers and students to setup signature drives defaming Falun Dafa,
produced vicious propaganda, and compiled songs smearing Falun Dafa for the
innocent school children to sing. Their activities poisoned the youth and
tremendously damaged the children. In 2002, they directed the schoolteachers and students to write articles to
smear Falun Dafa and advocated a student movement to "say no to
cults." They selected 208 articles out of the 1775 submitted and held a
presentation which was compiled into a collection called The Sunlight Bud,
the first student counter-cults essay collection. In 2004, the book was selected
by the "China Association for Caring" in an attempt to distribute the
books internationally in order to extend its poisonous effect overseas. On October 15, 2003, the association offered prizes in a questionnaire
contest designed to smear Falun Gong and published the answers in the Shenli
Daily newspaper. The departments that implemented the contests were
evaluated and given monetary rewards. In September 2001, they conducted a
large-scale "Counter-Cults for Civilization" exhibit, and Lu Renjie
cut the ribbon. On August 26, 2004, sponsored by the "Chinese Counter-Cults
Association," the "The Oil Field Counter-Cults Association"
mounted a so-called "Promote Science, Uphold Human Rights, and Counter
Cults" exhibit. Again Lu Renjie cut the ribbon and gave a speech. But a lie is a lie. No matter how much they tried to deceive the public, the
lie couldn't be sustained. Those who knew the truth were clearly resisting the
efforts to stir up hatred. There were only a very few people who went to see
this year's exhibit, so they had to urge the office staff to go. Practitioners
in Gudao assembled to send righteous thoughts when they opened the exhibit
there. On the second night of the exhibit, the exhibition windows were smashed,
leaving the room a mess. However, the door and room windows were intact with no
sign of a break-in. They could not figure out what had happened, so they quickly
cleared out the exhibits and left. 4. Persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners in the Shenli Oil Fields In recent years, the "Oil Field Counter-Cults Association" has
contributed to every facet of the persecution. It has masterminded all kinds of
schemes and tricks to torture practitioners. They established a system to reward
the public when they report on practitioners' truth-clarification activities and
severely punished the practitioners. They award 10,000-50,000 yuan to any prison
guard or staff member who transforms a practitioner. They are directly
responsible for the recent practitioner arrests in the oil fields. The association has direct control of the brainwashing centers in the oil
fields and implements the brainwashing activities. Practitioners who were
unyielding in their practice and who resisted the transformation effort with
hunger strikes were severely punished and imprisoned for a very long time. They instigated the transformed practitioners or "collaborators"
(2) to persecute practitioners. These helpers were used as tools to deceive the
public. The association participated in provincial and national activities and
was recognized as the most "progressive" unit in their campaign
experience of the persecution. Based on their criminal experience in persecuting
practitioners, they taught the local police how to establish a brainwashing
center and how to force-feed (3) practitioners who were on hunger strikes. 5. Luring the innocent with monetary and material rewards Falun Dafa practitioners' tireless truth-clarification efforts had helped the
general public to become clearheaded, making it more difficult for the
association to deceive the public. Thus, they devised a scheme of rewards for
reporting Falun Gong activities and widely publicized it by posting flyers,
broadcasting it on television, etc. It enticed some people to betray their
conscience for personal profit, and they consequently became part of the
persecution by committing the crime of selling out practitioners. In July 2004, the association broadcast the rules for getting the
"reward for reporting Falun Gong activities" on the Shenli TV station
and websites and also distributed flyers and established an office to implement
it. In October 2004 they held a ceremony to give out the first batch of rewards
ranging from 1,000-5,000 yuan. Over 20 people were rewarded. At least 17
practitioners had been arrested and sent to brainwashing centers or labor reform
camps. The association is a temporary organization with the power to arrest and
detain citizens. It harasses them and violates their human rights and even goes
so far as to use brutality in dealing with civilians. In the past three years,
the association and its members have played a major role in persecuting Falun
Dafa. They have deceived and harmed the kindhearted residents in the Shenli Oil
Fields while causing irreparable harm to Falun Dafa practitioners, their family
members, and relatives. Notes:
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/11/19/89545.html
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