(Clearwisdom.net) Clearwisdom.net correspondent Wang Ying reports from San
Francisco -- On the afternoon of June 29, Falun Gong practitioners from the
Northern California Bay Area held a press conference outside the Chinese
Consulate in San Francisco condemning Jiang's political group for hiring gunmen
overseas to shoot practitioners and extending Jiang's policy of state terror
overseas to other countries. Practitioners exposed Jiang's group's violent
persecution of Falun Gong practitioners outside China. They requested that the
criminals who hired the gunman to shoot practitioners in South Africa be
severely punished. At the press conference, Coordinator Ms. Zhao Chen said in her statement that
on June 28, during Chinese Deputy National Chairman Zeng Qinghong's visit to
South Africa, a Falun Gong practitioner was shot by hired gunmen in
Johannesburg. At 6 pm on June 28, nine Falun Gong practitioners from Australia
arrived at Johannesburg, South Africa. On their way to the Presidential Guest
House, they were shot. Among them, an Australian citizen Mr. David Liang was
shot in both feet and injured. According to one of the nine practitioners, they
were going to file a lawsuit against the Deputy Chinese National Chairman, Zeng
Qinghong, who was visiting South Africa on official business. Zeng Qinghong is
suspected of hiring the gunmen to shoot practitioners. Ms. Zhao Chen pointed out that this incident reminded people of the long list
of incidents organized by Jiang's group against Falun Gong practitioners outside
China. In Chicago, a practitioner's vehicle was burned in front of the Chinese
Consulate. In New York, Falun Gong practitioners were beaten by pro- Communist
business association members. When Falun Gong practitioners went to Iceland to
protest Jiang Zemin's persecution of Falun Gong, the Chinese government provided
a blacklist to the Iceland airline to bar Falun Gong practitioners from boarding
the flights to Iceland. The South Africa incident is not an isolated one.
Jiang's group feared having their criminal acts exposed and therefore, each
time, when Falun Gong practitioners were to reveal their atrocities, some kind
of incident would occur. Ms. Zhang from San Francisco said that in 2000, Jiang's group hired some
thugs to attack Falun Gong practitioners in the Garden Corner Park in San
Francisco. When I heard about the South Africa incident, I did not feel that was
an accident. Today, I specially came to the Chinese Consulate in hope that more
people would learn about the facts. Jiang's group has attacked and harassed
Falun Gong practitioners outside China. In the U.S., for example, such incidents
have taken place in New York, San Francisco and Chicago. Ms. Zhang said that Falun Gong practitioners are all good people who follow
the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. However, Jiang's group
applies such brutal means to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. When the South
Africa incident occurred, only one practitioner wore a jacket imprinted with the
words "Falun Dafa". The gunmen shot him several time, shattering the bones in
one of his feet. The reason for Zeng Qinghong to do such a thing is to attempt
to prevent people from practicing Falun Gong. Fundamentally speaking, that is to
prevent people from choosing to live their lives as good people with a high
moral standard. He fears that all people will want to learn to live according to
the principle of Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. It is reported that Zeng Qinghong who led the delegation to visit South
Africa is Jiang Zemin's major accomplice in the suppression of Falun Gong. He
was nicknamed the "black-faced killer" by fellow ruling party members. His means
to make others suffer was well known to be extremely ferocious. In the South
Africa shooting incident, Zeng Qinghong is suspected to be responsible for
hiring gunmen to shoot practitioners. Mr. Zhang, a computer engineer said that he felt shocked upon hearing about
the shooting incident. He said that this incident was the first time such a
shooting had taken place outside of China. In the world outside China, many
people are clear that Falun Gong practitioners are the most peaceful people. In
Mainland China, it has been a common occurrence that the Jiang's group abused
their power to wantonly shoot Falun Gong practitioners. In fact, this incident
indicates that Jiang's group has already extended its policies of state
terrorism to other countries, and extended its policy to shootFalun Gong
practitioners to overseas. As a Falun Gong practitioner outside China, I have my
responsibility to stand up and tell more people about the facts of this incident
and call for an end to this persecution. It was reported that on March 5, 2002, because Falun Gong practitioners
successfully tapped into Changchun cable TV network to broadcast
truth-clarifying video programs, Jiang Zemin issued the order to "kill Falun
Gong practitioners without mercy". The "610 Office" (1) from the Central
government played an important role in implementing Jiang's secret orders of
"completely eradicating (Falun Gong)" and "shooting and killing (Falun Gong
practitioners) is allowed". Subsequently, police officers of many provinces and
cities received the secret order that they were allowed to shoot Falun Gong
practitioners and kill them. Matt Gnaizda, a student majoring computer science in at Harvey Mudd
University said that people throughout the world know that Falun Dafa is good.
All incidents of violence against Falun Gong practitioners were found out later
to be related with local Chinese Embassies or Consulates. Therefore, it is not
hard to surmise that the shooting incident must have something to do with the
Chinese government officials visiting South Africa. When asking about his purpose of coming to the Chinese Consulate, Matt said
that as a person believing in the principle of "Truth, Compassion, Tolerance",
he has the responsibility to expose the genocide taking place in China to the
public. He said that we have the responsibility to expose the fact that the
Chinese government has extended its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners to
other countries. People will eventually see it clearly that the suppression of
Falun Gong is not only an issue of China, but the persecution has affected the
entire world. Falun Gong practitioners called upon governments of all countries, media and
people to pay attention to this incident aiming at suppressing Falun Gong
practitioners and to condemn China's spreading of state-sanctioned terrorism.
Coordinator addressing at the press conference
Calling for punishing the guilty ones
Hiring gunman to shoot people exposes Jiang's group's crimes against
humanity
Posting date: 7/1/2004
Original article date: 7/1/2004
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/6/30/78333.html