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Story from China: Clarifying the Truth to Guards in Beijing's Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp
(Clearwisdom.net) My son went to Beijing to clarify the truth and to
distribute truth-clarification materials during his summer vacation. They
arrested and sentenced him to one and a half years of forced labor, and
illegally detained him at Beijing's Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp. When I received a Visit Notice and my son's letter, I thought, "Although last
time when I went to his university to clarify the truth the result was very
good; now that he is in the labor camp, I'm afraid it is impossible to clarify
the truth there." As soon as this thought emerged I felt my whole body weak and
powerless and my head uncomfortable, too. I immediately realized this thought
was wrong. How could a Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioner fear evil?
Teacher said, "Those who do the so-called 'reform' work, too, are people who have been
deceived. Why not turn the tables and expose the evil and clarify the truth
to them?... and tell them about the cause and effect relationship of 'good
and evil always have consequences.'" ("A Suggestion," Essentials for Further Advancement II) How clear Teacher has made it! Yes, I would clarify the truth in the labor
camp! When I arrived at the labor camp it wasn't during visiting hours. I was
suddenly inspired and asked the doorman to find me the supervisor. In no more
than ten minutes, a middle-aged man came out of the room and looked around
asking, "Who was looking for me?" I approached him and answered, "I was looking
for you. Please come and talk with me over there." We walked to the wall about
twenty meters away from the gate and he asked me, "Who are you? What do you want
me for?" I answered kindly and seriously, "I came here as soon as I received the
Visit Notice. I asked you to come out because I wanted to give you a precious
gift. Everyone wants a happy life and a wonderful future; some people can have
them but some cannot. I have them, and I wish all my friends to have them. I
sincerely hope you can have them, too." Then I told him that the world needed "Truthfulness, Compassion and
Forbearance" and that a large number of Falun Dafa practitioners undertook the
will of heaven and spread Falun Dafa and validated Falun Dafa, and their moral
standard was raised and their spirits were purified. But they are now suffering
brutal persecution, which resulted in so many good people being sentenced to
jail, crippled or being killed. I told him the World Organization of
Investigation of the Persecution of Falun Gong had been established, and the
day to bring Jiang to justice was very close. I told him many police officers
had learned the truth and had changed their attitudes to Falun Dafa
practitioners. Finally, I said, "I hope you can make a clear distinction between
right and wrong, good and evil, and do not aid the evildoers to do evil." I spoke with him for two hours. He did not say a word but listened to me
quietly. As soon as I stopped he said, "I really admire you for being brave
enough to talk about these issues to someone like me in this place." I said,
"This is the gift I wanted to give you. Because it is for your good, I should
not fear anything." He said, "Thank you for your frankness and honesty. I do
appreciate your following of 'Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance,' however
why are you against the government, posting banners and distributing flyers?" I
told him, "We are not against the government, and we do not regard anyone as an
enemy. When Falun Gong practitioners completely follow Teacher Li's teachings to
purify their body and mind according to 'Truthfulness, Compassion and
Forbearance', the many advantages for the country, its people and the entire
human race become obvious. However, we are slandered by villains having
dangerous intentions who usurp state power to commit suicide or murder. Why
can't these slandered Falun Dafa practitioners speak out to say, 'I did not kill
anyone, I am innocent?'" He asked, "If you did not kill, of course you can say
so. Not only that, you can also accuse the slanderer." I said, "Right. But where
are Falun Dafa practitioners allowed to say so or accuse anyone? We trusted the
government and reported our situation to the government, but we were arrested
and sentenced to forced labor and not allowed to speak. Faced with this
situation, we use our own hard-earned money and buy paper, print some words of
truth on it, and give it to people, post it next to the road or on the wall,
telling people that we are innocent, that we did not kill people, that we are
slandered, that Falun Dafa is a righteous way, that Teacher Li is innocent. Is
this anti-government?" He smiled and said, "What you said makes a lot of sense. I now understand."
Finally I told him the truth of the staged self-immolation incident. We talked
for three hours in total. In the end he said, "It's getting dark. Let's meet
again tomorrow." The visit hours started at 8:00 A.M. the next morning. The regulation only
allows thirty minutes, but I spoke with my son for two hours. Every word that my
son and I talked about was about Dafa. The supervisor standing behind us
listened. He sometimes smiled at us. When I left he walked me to the outside of
the door and said, "I welcome you to come again." I smiled and said to him, "I
hope you have a wonderful future." |