Nelly Au crouches inside a "small cell." (Evan Mantyk, The Epoch Times)
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(Clearwisdom.net) Based on Article 11 of the Immigration Administrative Law, two Falun Gong practitioners in Korea petitioned the judicial department on August 5, 2004 requesting that the Korean Government refuse entry to 119 individuals responsible for persecuting Falun Gong. These persecutors include Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, and their appointed central and local government officials. Jiang and Luo were charged with genocide on December 26, 2003 at the Seoul Municipal Prosecutor's Office.
According to Article 11 of the Immigration Administrative Law, the head of the judicial department can refuse entry to these persecutors, citing their crimes.
Falun Gong practitioners in Korea will continue to build on their appeal by verifying and adding more persecutors and their crimes, and may submit another appeal letter. The list of the persecutors will be published online, to warn all persecutors that committing crimes directed at Falun Gong will only hurt themselves in the end.
This petition was written in compliance with Article 3, Article 4, Article 6, and Article 7 of the Korean Appeals Law.
Names of Persecutors Listed:
1. Jiang Zemin: born in August 1926, chairman of Central Military Commission, former president of China and general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.
2. Luo Gan: born in July 1935, a member of the Politburo and State Council, and the secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee.
3. Liu Jing: Deputy Minister for the Public Security Department and Chief of the "610 Office." Also the person in charge of the Office for the Prevention and Handling of Cults (OPHC) under the State Council.
4. Zhou Yongkang: born in December 1942, member of the Politburo, Secretary of Central Secretariat, member of State Council, and Minister for the Public Security Department.
5. Li Lanqing: born in March 1932, member of the Politburo and its Standing Committee, vice premier of the State Council, former head of Central "610 Office."
6. Wang Maolin: born in 1934, chief of Central "610 Office," deputy head of Leadership Group of Central Propoganda, Thought and Political Work.
7. Yuan Yin: deputy head of Central "610 Office," (2001-present) former deputy director of No. 4 Secretary Bureau, State Council Office (1997-1998), director of No. 3 Secretary Bureau of State Council Office (1999-2000).
8. Li Zunying: deputy secretary of Shijiazhuang City Committee, Hebei Province.
9. Kang Huihe: head of Anxin County's "610 Office" in Hebei Province.
10. Jia Xiaoguo: head of Boye County's "610 Office" in Hebei Province.
11. Li Lianping: deputy secretary of the Gaoyi County Party Committee and the head of Gaoyi County's "610 Office."
12. Cao Zhixia (female): head of Handan City's "610 Office" in Hebei Province.
13. Niu Yubao: chief and head secretary of Handan City's "610 Office" in Hebei Province.
14. Liu Wenming: head of Hanshan District's Police Department in Handan City, Hebei Province; the former head of the No. 2 Detention Center in Handan City.
15. Cui Shumin: deputy head of the No. 2 Detention Center in Handan City.
16. Li Guiju (female): police officer at the Zhuhe Road Police Precinct in Handan City, Hebei Province.
17. Lu Zhiqiang: head of Jingxing County's "610 Office" in Hebei Province.
18. Song Jianshun: deputy head of Luquan City's "610 Office" in Hebei Province.
19. Kang Peixue: former head of Luquan City's "610 Office" in Hebei Province; has been transferred to the Land Bureau.
20. Wang Long: head of Luquan City's Police Department in Hebei Province.
21. Li Hezhu: head of the Political and Security Division for the Luquan City Police Department in Hebei Province.
22. Xie Meili: deputy head of Luquan City's Detention Center in Hebei Province.
23. Du Bin: deputy head of Luquan City's Detention Center in Hebei Province.
24. Li Ruiying: guard at the Luquan City Detention Center, Hebei Province.
25. Zhang Weige: guard at the Luquan City Detention Center, Hebei Province.
26. Sun Jumin: head of Jin County's "610 Office" in Hebei Province.
27. Li Zhongwen: secretary for the Jin County Party Committee in Hebei Province.
28. Li Ming: head of Zhou City's "610 Office" in Hebei Province.
29. Cai Jingang: head of the Chengde Prison in Hebei Province.
30. Zhang Chunliang: head of the Baoding City and county "610 Office" in Hebei Province.
31. Wang Yajie (female): head of the Female Division at the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province.
32. Li Dayong: head of Division One at the Baoding Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province.
33. Liu Zhenliang: head of Xiaowang Village Credit Union in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province.
34. Li Dong: head of Cangzhou City's "610 Office," Hebei Province.
35. Hui Feng: head of Cangzhou City's "610 Office," Hebei Province.
36. Qiu Jianguo: secretary for the Chicheng County Party Committee in Hebei Province.
37. Yao Xiangbin: secretary for the Chicheng County Political and Judiciary Committee in Hebei Province.
38. Li Ping: Liyu Village in Dingxing County, Hebei Province, person in charge of brainwashing class; has been promoted to secretary for Tiangongsi Township.
39. Hao Guochi: secretary for the Dingxing County Political and Judiciary Committee in Hebei Province.
40. Song Fatang: born in December 1940, secretary for Heilongjiang Province, former governor of Heilongjiang Province.
41. Yang Guanghong: deputy secretary for the Heilongjiang Province's Party Committee and secretary of the Provincial Disciplinary Committee.
42. Wang Donghua: born in June 1950, deputy governor for Heilongjiang Province and member of the "Heilongjiang Province's Deal with the Falun Gong Issue" Leadership Group.
43. Tang Xianqiang: born in October 1947, head of Heilongjiang Province's Standing Committee, Secretary for the Heilongjiang Province Political and Judiciary Committee, and head of comprehensive Social Security Administration Committee from March 1998 to April 2002; currently deputy secretary for Jilin Province's Party Committee and head of the Organization Bureau from May 2002 to present.
44. Xu Youfang: born in December 1939, former secretary for the Heilongjiang Province Party Committee.
45. Wang Yongxiang: deputy head of the Daqing City Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province.
46. Wang Yingzhou: deputy head of Division One, Daqing City Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province.
47. Feng Xi: guard at Division Two, Daqing City Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province.
48. Wang Zhonghe: head of Division Two, Daqing City Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province.
49. Lu Zhenshan: head of the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province.
50. Shi Yingbai: head of the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province.
51. Su Jing (female): chief of the No. 2 Women's Station at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.
52. Wu Hongru: head of the Shibalihe Forced Labor Camp in Zhenzhou City, Henan Province.
53. Zhou Xiaohong (female): deputy head of the Shibalihe Forced Labor Camp in Zhenzhou City, Henan Province.
54. Wang Haizhen: police officer at Yang City's Police Department in Henan Province.
55. Yan Zhenye: head of the No. 3 Forced Labor Camp in Henan Province.
56. Qu Shuangcai: deputy head of the No. 3 Forced Labor Camp in Xuchang City, Henan Province.
57. Jia Zigang: head of Division One, "Falun Gong Division," at the No. 3 Labor Camp in Xuchang City, Henan Province.
58. Shi Baolong: head of the Education Division at the No. 3 Forced Labor Camp in Xuchang City, Henan Province.
59. He Xianglong: instructor at the Baimiao Forced Labor Camp in Zhenzhou City, Henan Province.
60. Zhao Zhifei: head of the Public Security Department of Hubei Province.
61. Wang Yunkun: born in December 1942, secretary for Jilin Province's Party Committee.
62. Lin Yanzhi: born in April 1948, deputy secretary of Jilin Province's Party Committee, former head of Jilin Province's "Deal With the Falun Gong Issue" Leadership Group.
63. Wang Guofa: born in November 1945, deputy secretary of Jilin Province's Party Committee, head of Jilin Province's "Deal with the Falun Gong Issue" Leadership Group, president of Politics Committee.
64. Su Rong: born in October 1948, former deputy secretary of Jilin Province's Party Committee, head of Jilin Province's "Deal with the Falun Gong Issue" Leadership Group, current secretary of Gansu Province's Party Committee.
65. Hong Hu: born in June 1940, governor of Jilin Province.
66. Yang Qingcai: deputy governor of Jilin Province.
67. Lu Quanzhen: born in April 1948, former deputy secretary of Jilin Province's Political and Judiciary Committee, head of the "610 Office", currently chief member of Jilin Province's People's Congress Internal Affairs Judicial Committee.
68. Wang Rulin: secretary of Jilin Province's Political and Judiciary Committee.
69. Wei Minxue: deputy governor of Jilin Province, deputy head of Jilin Province's "Deal with the Falun Gong Issue" Leadership Group.
70. Zhang Xiaosen: guard at Siping City Forced Labor Camp in Jilin Province.
71. Wang Jun: guard at Siping City Forced Labor Camp in Jilin Province.
72. Cui Chunping: guard at Siping City Forced Labor Camp in Jilin Province.
73. Du Xuefang (female): currently secretary of Changchun City's Party Committee (from June 2001 till the present), alternate member of the Sixteenth Central Committee, a member of Changchun City's Party Standing Committee.
74. Chang Xiaoping: deputy secretary of Changchun City's Party Committee, in charge of the "610 Office."
75. Meng Dexi: deputy head of Changchun City's People's Congress, former head of Changchun City's Organization Bureau.
76. Tian Zhonglin: born in July 1950, deputy mayor of Changchun City and head of Changchun City's Police Department.
77. Yin Linong (female): head of Changchun City's Party Standing Committee and Propaganda Department.
78. Liu Yuanjun: deputy mayor of Changchun City, secretary of Changchun City's Political and Judiciary Committee in 2003.
79. An Li (female): deputy mayor of Changchun City.
80. Zhan Yuechang: deputy president of Changchun City's Political Consultation Committee, former deputy secretary of Changchun City's Party Committee.
81. Fan Xinzao: vice-chairman of the Changchun City's Political Consultation Committee, Director of the City's United Front Line Bureau of the CCP, former Secretary of the CCPC in the Chaoyang District, Changchun City (until August 2002).
82. Sun Wan: head of Changchun City's Intermediate People's Court.
83: Mi Fengjun: former secretary of Changchun City's Party Committee until June 2001, head of Changchun City's People's Congress.
84. Wen Shizhen: born in January 1949, secretary of Liaoning Province's Party Committee.
85. Bo Xilai: born in July 1949, governor of Liaoning Province and deputy secretary of Liaoning Province's Party Committee.
86. Zhang Xingxiang: deputy secretary of Liaoning Province's Party Committee, secretary of Shenyang City's Party Committee.
87. Wang Weizhong: deputy secretary of Liaoning Province's Party Committee, secretary of Liaoning Province's Disciplinary Committee and head of Liaoning Province's "Uphold Social Stability" Leadership Group.
88. Ding Shifa: former secretary of Liaoning Province Political and Judiciary Committee, current head of Liaoning Province's High People's Court.
89. Li Feng: current member of Liaoning Province's Standing Committee, secretary of Liaoning Province's Political and Judiciary Committee, former head of Liaoning Province's Public Security Department.
90. Song Shanyun: deputy secretary of Liaoning Province's Political and Judiciary Committee, head of Liaoning Province's "Uphold Social Stability" Leadership Group, former deputy secretary of Dandong City's Party Committee, head of Dandong City's Disciplinary Committee.
91. Zhang Changshun: deputy head of Liaoning Province's "Uphold Social Stability" Leadership Group, also known as Liaoning Province's "Prevent and Deal With Evil Cult" Office, former deputy head of Liaoning Province's Appeals Office.
92. Wu Guanzheng: born in August 1938, secretary of Shandong Province's Party Committee from 1997 to November 2002; from November 2002 until now he was a member of the Politburo and its Standing Committee, secretary of the Central Disciplinary Inspection Committee.
93. Zhang Gaoli: secretary of Shandong Province's Party Committee.
94. Wu Aiying (female): born in December 1951, deputy secretary of Shandong Province's Party Committee, head of Shandong Province's "Uphold Social Stability" Leadership Group.
95. Gao Xinting: secretary of Shandong Province's Political and Judiciary Committee, deputy head of Shandong Province's "Uphold Social Stability" Leadership Group.
96. Yin Zhongxian: born in 1944, head of Shandong Province's High People's Court, deputy head of Shandong Province's "Uphold Social Stability" Leadership Group.
97. Guo Jiasen: head of Shandong Province's People's Prosecutor, deputy head of Shandong Province's "Uphold Social Stability" Leadership Group.
98. Wang Xiuzhi: deputy secretary of Shandong Province's Party Committee.
99. Chen Jianguo: born in July 1945, former deputy secretary of Shandong Province's Party Committee; after March 2002 he was secretary of the Hui Ethnicity Autonomic Region Party Committee.
100. Chen Guanglin: born in 1946, member of Shandong Province's Standing Committee, head of Shandong Province's Propaganda Bureau.
101. Liu Yuxiang: born in September 1959, head of Shandong Province's "610 Office" from 2001 to 2002.
102. Zhou Wencai: head of the Criminal Police Division in the Dayi County Police Department in Sichuan Province.
103. Jia Qinglin: former secretary of Beijing City's Party Committee, currently president of Beijing's Political Consultation Committee.
104. Liu Qi: secretary of Beijing's Party Committee, former Beijing mayor.
105. Qiang Wei: deputy secretary of Beijing's Party Committee, secretary of Beijing's Political and Judiciary Committee, member of Beijing City's "Deal with the Falun Gong Issue" Leadership Group.
106. Long Xinmin: deputy secretary of Beijing's Party Committee.
107. Liu Zhihua: deputy Beijing mayor.
108. Zhang Mao: deputy Beijing mayor.
109. Jilin: member of Beijing City's Standing Committee, secretary of Beijing City's Political and Judiciary Committee.
110. Cai Fuchao: member of Beijing City's Standing Committee, head of Beijing's Propaganda Bureau.
111. Jiang Xiaoyu: former member of Beijing City's Standing Committee and former head of Beijing's Propaganda Bureau.
112. Ma Zhenchuan: head of Beijing's Police Department.
113. Zhou Kaidong: former head of Beijing's Labor Reeducation Bureau.
114. Zheng Zhenyuan: head of Beijing's Labor Reeducation Bureau.
115. Zhang Xingrong: commissar of Beijing's Labor Reeducation Bureau.
116. Liu Wei: head of Beijing's Party Committee "610 Office."
117. Zhou Jihong: deputy head of Beijing's "610 Office."
118. Xu Yongli: deputy head of Beijing's "610 Office."
119. Wang Liming: head of Beijing's "610 Office" Investigation Section.
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Nelly Au crouches inside a "small cell." (Evan Mantyk, The Epoch Times) |
NEW YORK - A battered woman with large gashes in her leg crouches inside a small cage on the corner of 8th Avenue and 42nd Street. The woman's name is Nelly Au, and she is an import manager in Manhattan's fashion district. Nelly is also a practitioner of Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, a meditation practice that was outlawed in China in 1999. She is one of four people in an exhibit demonstrating the tortures used on practitioners of Falun Gong in China.
According to the flyers being handed out at the exhibit, Falun Gong "is best understood as a comprehensive self-cultivation practice with ancient roots." The practice includes meditation and slow-motion movements, as well as books for guidance. It became popular in the early 1990s when a Chinese man named Li Hongzhi started to spread the practice through a series of lectures.
Zhu Weiyong, a clinical researcher from New Jersey who helped coordinate the exhibit, said, "In 1999 the number of Falun Gong practitioners was huge, they outnumbered [registered members of] the Communist Party. In China, they don't allow different beliefs besides communism and they try to control people's minds."
As the four people made up with bloody faces and tattered clothing stood in the hot sun, a flood of tourists and New Yorkers gushed by, some trotting along busily with heads straight. Most couldn't help taking a peek at the gruesome scene.
 Emily Loh demonstrates a typical method of torture in China. (Evan Mantyk, The Epoch Times) |
John Mark of Rhode Island said, "It's nuts. They're killing people who meditate."
James Davis of Manhattan intently read the information boards at the exhibit and said, "We don't value life as much as we should."
During her break, torture victim Ms. Au said that she wasn't paid to be in the exhibit, and wanted to do it since she has benefited so much from Falun Gong. "My work is very stressful. Since I started practicing, my stress level has decreased a lot. My colleagues said my temper changed."
Coordinator Zhu said they have come to Manhattan to reach more people with their message and that in the next several months there will be many more exhibitions.
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-8-9/22795.html
(Clearwisdom.net) The Unity: Journalists of Color 2004 Convention was held on August 4-8, 2004 at the Washington Convention Center in DC, with more than 7,000 journalists attending. On August 7, practitioners demonstrated the exercises on the lawn outside of the conference site. Practitioners also reenacted methods the Jiang faction uses in China to torture Falun Gong practitioners and displayed photo boards explaining the facts about the persecution. Many journalists and passersby stopped to find out more.
The day was fine and cool. The scene of dozens of practitioners' peaceful exercise demonstration on the lawn formed a sharp contrast to tragic and touching live torture exhibit. Huge banners were set up with the words, "Falun Dafa-Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" " All this is happening in China," "Let's work together to end the persecution," and "Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice" in both Chinese and English. Western practitioners' introduction and explanation, accompanied by touching music slowly broadcast to passersby, created a dignified atmosphere.
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The anti-torture exhibit was located at a place where most journalists entered the convention center. Many journalists and passersby were shocked by the torture scenes. They accepted practitioners' flyers and asked about Falun Gong and the persecution of practitioners. Several journalists told practitioners that they had once reported on Falun Gong, but there were also journalists who had never heard about Falun Gong. A journalist said that it was shocking, like massacre during WWII. Why is all this still happening? Several more journalists saw the exhibit and asked practitioners for information about Falun Gong practitioners in their local areas. They also left their name cards for future coverage of Falun Gong. A female journalist couldn't interview practitioners in the morning because of the conference, but she promised to come in the afternoon. She indeed came and took many pictures of each torture method. A host of a program from a certain TV station in Alaska invited practitioners to participate in their one-hour Talk Show program. A cameraman from a Spanish media outlet who was passing by stopped and took photos. Some practitioners went inside the convention center to introduce Falun Dafa and persecution facts to some media outlets' booths. A journalist from a big newspaper on the west coast interviewed practitioners, asked them to demonstrate the exercises and took photos.
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ge, a senior accountant in Washington DC, said that the purpose of holding the anti-torture exhibit is to explain to the western media and passersby the facts of persecution, and at the same time hope the western media show due concern and report the crime of genocide taking place in China.
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang, who reenacted a torture method, once was sent to a labor camp in China for a year. She said that what they could reenact is only the tip of the iceberg compared to what Falun Gong practitioners are suffering in China. During her one-year of forced labor, the painful screams she heard when Falun Gong practitioners were being tortured was enough to make one suffer mental trauma. She was forced to do slave labor-wrapping chopsticks. The conditions were terrible. They were not allowed to have a bath in six months. With no sufficient water for washing, while wrapping chopsticks, their hands were often dirty and toilet water often overflowed in the area where chopsticks were placed. The labor camp still delivered all the chopsticks to big hotels or exported them overseas. Ms. Wang also reenacted the scene of slave labor while she was in labor camp.
Many passersby were deeply shocked at seeing the exhibit. Many people asked, "What can we do for you?" "How can I help Falun Gong practitioners?" Several Americans asked for a badge with the words, "I support Falun Gong," and said they would like to wear this for a day. A local resident learned about the facts of Falun Gong and brought his four children to learn to practice the exercises from practitioners immediately. A student from a journalism school learned about the persecution of children who practice Falun Gong, and his tears welled up in his eyes.
In order to make the exhibit successful, many practitioners silently contributed a lot. A practitioner who designed the torture methods exhibit in Chicago flew to Washington DC the previous evening to help design this exhibit. Many practitioners from North Carolina and Philadelphia drove several hours in the early morning to help out.
The Honorable Lu Yonghua
Chinese Ambassador to Austria
Chinese Embassy
Metternichgasse 4
1030 Vienna
Vienna, July 28th 2004
Re: Mr. Yong Wang's passport extension.
Dear Mr. Ambassador:
We, the Society for Threatened People (GfbV), are a nonprofit Human Rights Organization that promotes the human rights of religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples to draw attention to violations of human rights and release such information to the public. Mr. Yong Wang advised us concerning his Chinese passport extension rejection. We understand that he has not received, as of date, a written clarification concerning the denial of his right and freedom of travel.
We view your actions concerning the revocation of Yong Wang's citizenship without any clarification of due process as a serious violation of human rights, given legal precedence and direct as well as indirect declarations of applicable UN Agreements.
We wish to advise that Mr. Yong Wang's association with Falun Gong may not be the cause to deny his freedom to travel. We further wish to advise that he holds the right to freedom of belief and freedom of expression. We understand that your action is a first in the history of Austria, reflected in the denial for a Chinese citizen, residing in Austria, to travel freely from and to his homeland. Furthermore, we are under the impression that this decision is to be viewed as a precedent for future actions, and that we thus may expect similar or the same actions towards other Chinese citizens.
We sincerely request a written response and clarification concerning Mr. Yong Wang's passport extension denial.
Sincerely,
Dr. Hans Bogenreiter
http://de.clearharmony.net/articles/200408/18414.html
(Clearwisdom.net) On August 7, 2004, Sydney Falun Gong practitioners participated in a parade at the Hunters Hill Moocooboola Festival. Practitioners also demonstrated Falun Gong exercises at a beautiful bay site. This is the third time practitioners have participated in this event. Many VIPs, including state and provincial MPs, Mayor and community commissioners attended the parade.
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It was a very nice day, and people were immersed in the holiday atmosphere. Among the participants of the parade, there were Scottish traditional costume, bagpipe, drum, scout, race car club, and also practitioners' waist drum troupe and Tang attire group. Practitioners also had a float on which children, western practitioners as well as Chinese practitioners demonstrated the 5th Falun Gong exercise.
When practitioners' procession passed by the main stage, the host introduced Falun Gong to the audience, saying that we were a rich and colorful group.
(Clearwisdom.net) In July, 2004, Indonesia Falun Gong practitioners together with practitioners from other countries held a series of activities including a parade, torture exhibition and candlelight vigil to clarify the truth of Falun Dafa and the persecution to local residents and tourists.
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About 100 practitioners first staged a solemn parade at a famous beach on the island, which attracted the attention of many local residents and tourists. The first group was comprised of practitioners holding photos of those who had been persecuted to death; the second group demonstrated how Chinese police torture practitioners. In the evening, practitioners held a candlelight vigil on the beach to commemorate fellow practitioners who had lost their lives during the persecution and to send righteous thoughts.
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A local practitioner said: "We hope all people will come to learn the truth of the persecution and voice their concern."
Falun Dafa was first introduced to Bali by Indonesia practitioners in April, 2001. Now there are several hundred practitioners in Bali. Even some prisoners, teachers and students in a school for blind children have learned Dafa.
(Clearwisdom.net) On July 25 2004, Hungarian, Australian, German and Ukrainian Falun Gong practitioners gathered on Margarethen Island in Budapest to give a presentation on the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Despite the heat, many people stood in front of our booth to view the small photo exhibition and admire the slow flowing exercise movements. Some persons wanted to learn the exercises right away.
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(Clearwisdom.net) On Saturday the 7th of August, a group of practitioners from the Irish Midlands traveled to Newbridge in County Kildare to introduce Falun Gong and let people know the facts about the persecution.
It was a nice sunny day with lots of shoppers around. After erecting a large banner reading "Truth, Benevolence, Forbearance", some practitioners distributed leaflets while others demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and sent righteous thoughts.
A series of posters depicting the torture imposed on Falun Gong practitioners in China became a focus for many passersby. They asked many questions and were visibly shocked by the horrifying scenes and found it hard to understand why such awful events are taking place in China today. After seeing the beauty of the Falun Gong exercises, many of the onlookers were moved and asked why such a peaceful thing could ever be prohibited anywhere in the world.
A woman was seen running towards the group and told a practitioner that she had encountered Falun Gong in the past in Dublin. When passing through Newbridge she spotted the banner and was compelled to stop her car and come to meet the practitioners. She was so happy to have found Falun Gong again and eagerly set about making up for lost time by arranging to go to the home of one of the practitioners the following evening to learn the exercises and start the practice.
Throughout the day the whole group coordinated in a peaceful and harmonized manner. They talked to many people, answering their questions and discussing the persecution, as well as informing the public about the global lawsuits against the perpetrators of the five-year campaign of genocide against Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200408/21296.html
(Clearwisdom.net) The annual Wellness and Spiritual Festival in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada was held from July 30 to August 1, 2004. Eleven Falun Gong practitioners, including two young practitioners, drove for four hours from Halifax to Saint John to support the activity. Among the other practices represented at the festival were Judo, Taichi, and Yoga.
A western practitioner livng in Saint John was already there when we arrived at the festival site. We set up display boards and a laptop computer to play exercise demonstration and truth-clarification videos.
We put forward our best effort in the exercise and meditation demonstrations, distributing flyers and truth clarification. After a few hours, almost all the people at the festival had learned about Falun Gong. Many were interested in learning it. They were shocked to learn of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong by Jiang's regime, and they condemned it. Staff of the festival also came to visit our displays and told us that they liked our soothing exercise music. The main organizer of the festival also visited with us and told others that Falun Dafa is great. He took the initiative to say he would like to practice Falun Gong also.
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Falun Gong practitioners introduce Falun Dafa and teach the exercises at the Wellness and Spiritual Festival.
A western practitioner continuously explained the facts of Falun Gong to the local Chinese people. He was always patient, peaceful and tireless no matter how others treated him. He said, "We should clarify the truth of Falun Gong at any place and any time, just like the forever rotating Falun. Ever since Teacher gave it to us, it doesn't stop. We can't stop either." To help save the precious Chinese people, some of whom have been deceived by Jiang's lies, he has been showing Chinese movies and truth clarification videos to the local Chinese community. To better spread the Fa, he is also learning Chinese from a local Chinese School. We were deeply moved when we saw him watching Chinese movies with the local Chinese people, even though he doesn't understand much Chinese. He embodies the compassion of a Falun Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period.
We cooperated very well together to clarify the truth. Sometimes, one practitioner had to talk to five or six people at the same time. There were some people who had misunderstanding of Dafa. A practitioner said, "We can't be mad at them even if they are mean to us. We can't treat the unkind with unkindness. I would like to leave my compassion with them even if I can't persuade them the first time."
We could tell from people's eager looks that they didn't want to miss any opportunity to learn the truth. One young man learned all five exercises and did the Falun Gong Standing Stance for half an hour. When he learned Falun Gong, he knew this was where he should be.
A little girl of about seven years old became very interested when she saw us meditate. She could cross both legs in the full lotus position the first time she tried it. Her parents were very supportive and exchanged contact information with us. Upon seeing someone sitting in the full lotus position, meditating at another booth, the girl asked her mother what he was doing. Her mother told her they would go find it out in a minute. To our surprise, the girl said, "That's not for me." A Falun Gong practitioner said the girl must be predestined to learn Falun Dafa.
Out of four hundred visitors that stopped by at the festival, more than twenty learned the Falun Gong exercises on the spot. About thirty people left their phone numbers and wanted to learn Falun Gong later. The organizer of the festival said our introduction to Falun Gong was definitely outstanding as to scale and effect. We learned from this activity how much the sentient beings have been looking forward to Dafa. With more and more evil interference being eliminated, more and more people will start to practice Falun Gong and assimilate to the Dafa [the Great Law].
(Clearwisdon.net) I began to practice Falun Gong on June 4, 1995. Before practicing I suffered from a number of illnesses, including high-blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, tuberculosis and neurasthenia. Six months after I began to practice the exercises, all my illnesses miraculously disappeared. Before I practiced Falun Gong I had a very bad temper. After I practiced I became compassionate and kind. Since I became a Falun Gong practitioner, I have had a more harmonious relationship with my husband and relatives. My husband and child said that I have changed into a new person. They all said that Falun Dafa is wonderful.
On July 20, 1999, the persecution on Falun Dafa began. In the morning of July, 20 policemen in Benxi City recklessly arrested practitioners. I was among the 38 who were arrested. On the way back home after practicing the exercises, a plainclothes policeman, Li Yu, of Cuidong Police Station dragged me off to the Pingshan Police Sub-bureau. They interrogated me through the night and then imprisoned me at Laodong Guest House. People from the police bureau, police station, the neighborhood committee and my work unit were present. They threatened and tried with all their might to get me to partake in broadcasting on television slanderous information about our Teacher and Falun Dafa. My determination in steadfastly cultivating Dafa remained unchanged. However, I later succumbed to those who "enlightened" along an evil path. This was because I had not studied the Fa (1) thoroughly and was unable to enlighten to the righteous path.
On October 25, 1999, when the National People's Congress was in session, I went to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa and for our Teacher. However I was unable to get close to the delegates. I was arrested because I recited Lunyu in the Great Hall of the People. About 100 practitioners were arrested. They were forced onto two buses and taken to a detention center at the outskirts of Beijing. We were detained there for 36 hours. Then I was turned over to the policemen from the Benxi City's Beijing Office. Cao Zhongliang and others from the Cuidong Police Station escorted me back to Benxi City.
Weining Forced Labor Camp established the No. 6 Division specifically for the purpose of persecuting women who practice Falun Dafa. During November 19 and 20, a total of 21 female practitioners were sent to No. 6 Division. The head of the division was Li (surname) and the political Instructor was a woman named Chong (surname). The division was divided into two groups. The leader of the No. 1 group was Ai (surname) and the No. 2 group was Liu Yasu. Each was allotted 4 to 5 guards. I was assigned to the No. 1 group.
The next evening they tried to have us recite the "Six Not Allowed" (2), which is designed to enforce the ban on the principles of cultivation. We refused. I raised my hand and asked permission to speak, while group Leader Mao tried to persuade us to quit our cultivation. However he did not give me permission to speak. The head of the division, Li, was pacing back and forth in the classroom. He left the room after a period of silence. Shortly after, he returned with many guards from the Security Section. They handcuffed Ms. Jiang Gaoting, Ms. Xie Xiufeng and I. We were pushed and dragged downstairs and kept separately in the offices where we were tortured. Three or four policemen tortured me by a very cruel method, called tying the ropes. (3) They tied me with a thin rope with one of the guards' riding on my head. They tied the rope really tight. However, they still thought it was not that tight so they used sticks to assure further tightening and until they were all flattened. They loosened the rope after ten minutes. Then they used electric batons to shock my face, neck, head and back. Then they tied me again. They repeated this torture twice.
They used a thicker baton when they shocked me the second time. After that they put the electric baton down my back, underneath my clothes. By that time my heart beat rapidly and I felt insulted. It was hard for me to bear it any more. I thought that I would rather die than live like that. I did not maintain my Xinxing (4) and therefore agreed to recite the "Six Not Allowed." Consequently, they no longer shocked me with the electric baton. The three of us all agreed that we failed to pass this test. When we were taken upstairs we heard the Political Commissar Chen Zhong swearing at Falun Dafa practitioners. They were forced to stand still for a long time and slander Dafa and our Teacher. We all felt terrible.
On the following day, I could not lift my left arm and had difficulty putting on my clothes. Fellow practitioners helped me with my grooming, because all ten finger-tips had become numb and remained so for half a year.
At the beginning of our detainment, we thought that we must act in accordance with the requirements set by our Teacher and be a good person wherever we went. We wanted to show to them that we were good people. We tried to do everything well and they really thought we were doing very well. However we actually had accepted their arrangements. In other words, we went along with the arrangements by the old forces.
We got up at 6 o'clock and groomed ourselves. At half past 6 we did physical exercises, had breakfast and then cleaned our room, corridors, toilets and the office of the Division Head. At half past 8 we went to class. We would first have to recite the rules and regulations of the forced labor camp and then we would have exams. This was the path arranged by the evil. After Teacher hinted repeatedly, we understood that we shouldn't bear all this passively. We should diligently study the Fa and practice the five sets of exercises. In the beginning, whoever had enlightened to this point would practice the exercises. One day when Ms. Sun Dianzhi and Ms. Meng Xiuzhi did the exercises at midnight, team leader Zhang Xue and the Division Chief Zheng saw them. They ordered Ms. Meng Xiuzhi to do physical exercises continuously and locked Sun Dianzhi downstairs. We did not immediately find out what torture they suffered.
One day the Falun Gong practitioners got up at 4 a.m. and started to do the exercises. After political instructor Chong found out, he ordered us to go downstairs, line up in the corridor and do the body-folding (5). We were forced to bend our body to form a 90-degree angle stretching our two arms backward and resting on the back. Those who were unable to hold this position would be shocked with electric batons. Then we were forced to go outdoors where it was piercing cold. That day was the coldest day since the beginning of December 1999. The guards forced us to do physical exercises and run around the drill ground. We were forced to stay in the piercing cold for more than two hours. My nose had blisters from frostbite. Practitioner Ms. Ma Na's ears were swollen and 3 of practitioner Ms. Zhang Guishuan's fingers were frostbitten.
After breakfast they continued to torture us. The guards asked us to line up in two rows in the corridor and bend our body to form a 90-degree angle, with our arms stretching backwards. We were told to change our posture from time to time. The guards asked us to stand in the posture like a motorcycle rider with our upper body straightened up, legs and thighs were in 90 degrees, squat down with the toes on the floor but not the heels, and the arms stretching forward. After a while we trembled, as our weight was on our toes and we had to hold this position for a long time.
We were called downstairs one by one. There were team leaders in each of the offices. There were security guards in some of the offices. In each of the offices there were police ropes and electric batons. I was interrogated many times in these offices. The question was "Will you continue to practice the five sets of exercises." If we answered in the affirmative, we would be made to suffer before going upstairs.
That day all of us were tortured for an entire day and most of us suffered from the cruel torture of tying the ropes and were also shocked with electric batons. Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Ma Na was only 21 and a student of the secondary specialized school. It seemed that everyone liked her. When it was her turn to be tortured, several of the guards' did not have the heart to torture her. But eventually they said everyone would be tortured despite their ages.
When it was lunch-time I noticed that some of the practitioners had just been tortured. They still had tears in their eyes.
When it was getting close to half past three only three or four practitioners were left. I was one of them. Wang Jun from the Security Section and team leader Wei called me to the office and talked to me for about half an hour. They said it was my turn to be tortured now. That day I had no fear. Finally they begged me to promise not to practice the exercises that particular day, so they could report to Political Commissar Chen that they had succeeded in their assignment. I told them I could not make the promise and said as a practitioner I would not lie to them.
Ms. Ren Xiangzhi was the last one remaining. The guard told her to stand in front of the classroom for a while and then let her go back to her seat.
Ms. Ren told me later that day she was determined not to let Falun Dafa and our Teacher down no matter how the police would torture her.
One day a dozen practitioners practiced the exercises. At the time when we were punished, a group leader from the Security Section told us that the head of the Correction Division Wu Gang asked him to relentlessly punish and to utilize all kinds of torture methods, before leaving. Such torture methods would include "rabbit jump", running and so on. However the group leader did not obey the orders. He only asked us to run and bend over for a while, because he did not want to punish good people. After that, we had another group practice, but the guards no longer tortured us. They just asked us to go back to work. Later, a group leader warned us that if we practiced the exercises again he would send us to the male inmates cells.
In the middle of January 2000, twenty more female practitioners arrived at the labor camp and were dispatched to the No. 1 Team or the No. 2 Team. With the increase of the number of Falun Dafa practitioners the treatment by the guards worsened. Male guards would disregard if the cell held males or females. They just entered and searched dormitories. They also ordered us to have our dormitory door open for several days, in an attempt to stop us from practicing the exercises.
One day some of us practiced the exercises. The guards caught us. They forced us to do body-folding (5) in the corridor. After breakfast we were forced to run on the drill ground as a punishment. Ms. Zhou Ying and Ms. Ding Yanying were summoned to the Security Section where they were tortured by the methods "tying the ropes and shocking with electric batons." Then they were locked up in small cells (6) and were ordered to lie on the floor facing down, with four limbs stretching out in the form of a star. The two of them were kept in that position for six days. Two mornings when we prepared to do group exercises at about 5 a.m., team leader Mao would ring the bell for everyone to get up. This guard was very cruel, and determined to make Falun Gong practitioners suffer.
They wanted to make it more convenient for the guards to torture us, so they hung six pairs of handcuffs in each cell. In our cell three pairs of handcuffs hung on my bedside and another three on Ms. Zhang Gui's bedside. The guards handcuffed her from behind the bed head and prepared to handcuff her legs in the same way. However, Ms. Zhang was not very short so they handcuffed her one ankle with one cuff and pulled her leg with force to handcuff the other cuff on to the bed head at the other end. She was handcuffed in that position for the whole night and could not move at all. On the next morning Ms. Zhang Gui's legs were swollen. She was very firm and did not moan at all. In the morning when the guards changed shift they had no choice but to only handcuff her one arm onto the bed head. The punishment lasted for three days.
Ms. Qi Yuyan and Ms. Mou Hengren were also handcuffed in bed for three days and three nights.
Ms. Zhou Ying and Ms. Ding Yanying had been stretched out for four or five days. At this time we could not act as one body. At about 10 p.m., seven practitioners from two cells practiced the exercises. They were seen by Liu Dadui and group leader Ai, who were making the rounds of the cells. They asked us to go to the other side of the corridor and wait outside the on-duty office. They forced us to do the body-bending and wait for more severe punishment. Ms. Wang Guizhi was the first one to receive electrical shocks, followed by Ms. Qiu Guizhi and Ms. Wang Liqing.
The next day Ms. Qui's face was swollen beyond recognition and her legs were also very swollen. Ms Wang Liqing had blisters all over her face.
Generally, we worked during the day and would continue to work after dinner until 9:20 p.m. However during that time, we were forced to work until midnight. They wanted to make sure that we were too tired to get up early in the morning to practice the exercises. Such methods were used to persecute us.
Division Chief Li was in charge of No. 6 Division. She said to us one day that they were unwilling to torture us, however they had to report to the leaders one level up daily.
The Head of the Correction Division Wu Gang was very cruel. Every time we were tortured he would be present and almost every time he would torture us. He was mean and ruthless. He considered Division Head Li to be too soft when dealing with us.
On January 22, 2001, the leaders of the forced labor camp decided to let male and female Falun Dafa practitioners meet in the meeting room of the No. 6 Division. About 60 practitioners sat in two rows and formed a circle. The Head of the Forced Labor Camp Jiang Zili, Political Commissar Chen Zhongwei and the Head of the Correction Division all attended the meeting. Guards from the Security Section who were armed to the teeth also attended. They sat at the two ends and the middle of the practitioners. It could be described as heavily guarded.
After the Head of the Forced Labor Camp made a speech, two male practitioners read out their statements of guarantee. We understood that they acted against their will, because they could no longer bear the torture. When it was the turn of the female practitioners to make a speech the police asked Ms. Wang Guizhi to speak. Although Ms. Wang did not directly talk about Falun Dafa, what she said was in a way glorifying Falun Dafa. The leaders of the forced labor camp flew into a rage, accusing her of spreading Falun Dafa in a roundabout way. Ms. Zhou Ying was smiling beside Ms. Wang Guizhi in support of her speech. Wu Gang ordered the police from the Security Section to take Ms. Zhou Ying to the No. 8 Division, which was the place where they detained male inmates. (Ms. Zhou was locked into the stretching room where the victim had to stand up with two arms stretching upwards. Two pairs of handcuffs cuffed her wrists onto two rings. Two legs were parted. Because she was short, the evil police placed two bricks under her feet and then cuffed her ankles onto two rings which were fix on the floor.) She was punished for a whole day and was released only after Division Chief Li phoned Wu Gang begging for leniency. She was locked onto her bed and stretched out on the bed after she returned to her cell.
The above were the ordeals I had experienced during three months in Benxi City. On February 15, 2000 we were taken to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.
Note:
(1) Fa - Law and principles of Falun Dafa
(2) Six Not Allowed - Not allowed to hold any activities to defend Falun Dafa, such as appeals, sit-ins of any other actions. Falun Gong practitioners cannot gather or do exercises in groups; they are not allowed to hand out any materials that help promote Falun Gong, not allowed to put up or hang banners or messages with Falun Gong symbols or Falun Gong terms, and more.
(3) Tying the ropes - The police tie up the practitioner with a thin rope, circle the rope around her neck, and tie her hands behind her back. Then the police would use all the force they could muster to tighten the rope. The rope becomes tighter and tighter around the body of the practitioner, and makes it more and more difficult for her to breathe. The pain is so intense that the practitioner sometimes loses control of her bladder. There are instances when the rope was tightened enough to break a practitioner's arm.
(4) Xinxing -- heart or mind nature, moral character
(5) Body-folding - This refers to standing with two legs straight and close, and bending the head down as far as it will go toward the feet, in front of the knees. The fingers point to the ground, the head is upside down, making the body form a 90-degree angle. The victim is forced to keep this position for 17 to 18 hours a day except when eating, sleeping and using the toilet.
(6) Locking up in a small cell - The detainee is locked up in a very small cell individually. The guards handcuff practitioners on their back in a fixed position, in which the practitioners can neither move nor lie down. The small cell is very damp and no sunshine comes in. Detainees have to urinate and defecate in the cell. Only half of a regular meal is served to detainees locked up in a small cell during the daytime. During the night the rats are running around. The stench in the small cell is so bad that it is difficult to breathe.
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Dai Dakui, 64, is a retired worker from Sichuan Provincial Petroleum Drilling Team. He lives in Room 3-6, Building 18, 150 Yuping Road, Yongchuan City, Chongqing, China.
Mr. Dai is honest and kind, and is glad to help others. People who know him say he is a good person. In 1965, he changed careers from the army to the Sichuan Provincial Petroleum Drilling Team. In 1966, while extinguishing a very large oil well fire, he became a nationally recognized hero. He was the first out of twenty-seven brave men to plunge into a sea of fire. Mr. Dai did a great job. During the time from 1987 to 1996, he succeeded in developing a new advanced method of sewage treatment. In May 1988, he was awarded the title of "Advanced Individual in Environmental Protection" in the southern Sichuan provincial mining area. In August 1990 and March 1991, he received separate awards for environmental protection. In April 1996, he was evaluated as a high-level technician. He was also honored as an activist in trade union work. Because Mr. Dai made a remarkable contribution to his country and society, the Sichuan Provincial Petroleum Administrative Bureau awarded him the honorable title: "An Elder Petroleum."
As a result of working in oil fields for many years, Mr. Dai had chronic nephritis, bursitis in his shoulders, rheumatism, and his vision had declined greatly. He started practicing Falun Gong and cultivating Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and in a matter of months he recovered from all these ailments that had troubled him for years.
On July 20, 1999, out of jealousy and spite over Falun Gong's popularity and rapid spread in society, Jiang Zemin began to suppress the practice. Mr. Dai and his wife were harassed by local corrupt officials and were illegally arrested various times.
On January 23, 2001, in a focal point interview program, CCTV (Chinese Central Television) broadcast the "Self-Immolation in Tiananmen Square." That incident roused a wave of animosity toward Falun Gong practitioners in China. At around that time, Mr. Dai was illegally arrested and sent to a local brainwashing class where he suffered from hideous physical and spiritual persecution. When he saw on television that the alleged burn victims from Tiananmen Square were completely wrapped up in bandages, he said, "This is fake. When people in our petroleum team were burned, their wounds were exposed to the air and treated with external medicine in order to prevent viral infections. When do you ever see burn victims completely wrapped in bandages?" Mr. Dai's words shocked everyone in the brainwashing class. Many sensible people understood what he said was reasonable. The so-called "Self-Immolation in Tiananmen Square" was truly full of loopholes. After hearing this, the wicked people in the brainwashing class felt extremely flustered, and were beside themselves. They reacted by forcibly and illegally imprisoning Mr. Dai for 15 days for the crime of "disturbing social order."
In September 2002, Mr. Dai and his wife traveled to Tongzi, Guizhou Province. When they returned, both of them were illegally held in a detention center by local officials and police for 15 days. In addition, these scoundrels extorted four months salary (6,329 Yuan) in "fines" from them. The charge against them was "traveling out of town without asking for leave." Does a retired worker traveling under his own expense have to ask for leave?
At the end of 2001, Mr. Dai unfolded a banner with the words "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" written on it in order to express his own true motivation for practicing Falun Gong, and rebutting Jiang's propaganda that Falun Gong was against the government. In June 2003, he was illegally arrested and detained once again. In December 2003, when the court held a public hearing for Mr. Dai, the court withdrew the charges against him because of insufficient legal evidence. However, the corrupt local officials were not willing to release him. In June 2004, these scoundrels created fake evidence, and the local court used it as an excuse to sentence him to five years in prison.
Since Jiang's regime began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Mr. Dai was illegally sent to a brainwashing class five times. There, he was persecuted physically and spiritually. He was illegally arrested and detained three times, and twice put in jail. In total, police and local government officials extorted 14,529 Yuan from him and his wife.
(Clearwidsom.net) On the morning of April 8, a man named Guo Jian from the Public Security Department of Northwest Industry University called Professor Xing Wenzhen to say that someone from the Zhangjiacun branch office wanted to talk to her. Xing Wenzhen, therefore, went to the University, bringing with her documents and awards issued by various departments of the national government. She has not been heard from since.
It has been reported that Xing Wenzhen was sent to the brainwashing center in the guesthouse of the Lintong Power Company, where she has been completely deprived of her freedom, and her human dignity has been severely abused.
The public security department of Northwest Industry University is directly involved in this persecution. Northwest Industry University is developing a series of programs which are founded on humanity, excellence, and acceptance of different viewpoints. However, this university ignored its own employee's personal freedom and dignity by detaining this professor as directed by the "610 Office." This kind of incident should be condemned by all of society. We call upon all people of conscience to spread the word about this persecution and help to rescue Professor Xing Wenzhen.
Secretary of Party Committee in Northwest Industry University: Ye Jinfu, 86-29-88492211
Principal: Jiang Chengyu, 86-29-88492308
Chief of the Public Security Department: 86-29-88492264
Security Section: 86-29-88493236
Crime Prevention Section: 86-29-88492280
At one time Xing Wenzhen was imprisoned in the Shaanxi Province Female Forced Labor Camp because of her strong belief in Falun Gong. After she was released, she wrote letters to the policemen in the labor camp to clarify the truth about the statements slandering Falun Gong found in the letter the labor camp wrote to its detainees. She also wrote frank letters to the People's Representative and the Political Assistance Councilor in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, in which she insisted that the constitution endows every citizen the basic freedom to choose his or her beliefs. However, the authorities imprisoned her in the brainwashing center for further persecution using the excuse of her persistent belief in Falun Gong.
(Clearwisdom.net) Four years ago my passport expired. I followed the instructions and mailed my passport to the Chinese Consulate in Houston with an application for renewal. I have not seen it since.
After a month passed without an answer, I started calling the Consulate. Because the phone line for outside inquiries was open for only a very short period of time each day, there was often a busy signal. I had to patiently call them again and again. Finally someone answered and I told her that my passport renewal application was sent in a month ago but I had not received an answer. She asked for my name and told me to wait. After a long time, I heard something from the other end of the line and then in a tone that sounded like she knew what was going on but didn't want to admit it, she told me that I needed to wait and then she hung up.
Later, I made a few more calls to the Consulate, maybe because each time I called there was a different person on the other end, I received the same message. I felt that there was a problem with my passport, but they wouldn't give me a direct answer.
Several months passed, I felt that it was necessary for me to drive to Houston and get to the bottom of the situation. On the scheduled day, I took a day off from work and left Dallas in the early morning. I drove over four hours to the Chinese Consulate in Houston. After explaining my purpose, I was led to a meeting room.
A Consul named Xu came to see me. After a few questions and answers, I learned that the reason for my passport being held by the Consulate was the fact that I practice Falun Gong. After giving me this answer, Consul Xu started very "kindly" to try to influence me. He said that his parents were also persecuted very badly by the Chinese government during the Great Culture Revolution, he and his siblings were young and had to migrate to foreign places with their parents. However he felt that he didn't hate the government. Then he started on Falun Gong, and said Falun Gong is harmful to people resulting in 1400 deaths; he also said that Falun Gong practitioners' appeals outside China embarrassed local Chinese government officials. Somewhere in the middle he mentioned that he had one encounter with Jiang Zemin and felt Jiang was kind and scholarly, etc.
Seeing that he was trying to show sincerity in his persuasion, I shared my own thoughts quite honestly and frankly with him. First, the so called "1400 death cases" is just a lie from the government who fabricated the cases to attack Falun Gong and use it as propaganda to incite the public against Falun Gong. From my own experience and observation, Falun Gong practitioners are all very peaceful and rational. In the case of the "1400 deaths," if the government dared to let a third party investigate and verify its sources, it would not be difficult to detect its invalidity. Falun Gong practitioners appeal outside of China not because they are against the Chinese government; rather they hope the government will realize that pushing hundreds of millions of its citizens to the opposite side by persecuting them is extremely wrong. What really embarrasses Chinese living abroad is the ridiculous actions of the Chinese government, not the activities that expose this type of wrongdoing by the government.
As for Jiang Zemin himself, I didn't know him personally, so I made little comment. Today several years later, after I have heard and seen more and more antipathy from Chinese people toward his hideous behavior on the international stage including his severe criticism of Hong Kong reporters who didn't report according to his wishes, selling Chinese land to Russia and covering up the sale, his corrupt and excessive life style, his tactics in pursuit of political power, lack of attention to people's hardships and problems, and promoting his personal image among many other things, it is very clear who and what Jiang represents nowadays.
At the time I listed many facts regarding the situation of Falun Gong to this consul who also felt that the government accusations were weak and groundless. Therefore he expressed that he hoped to receive more information and facts sent to him via Email. He also left me his phone number. As for my passport, he said he would talk to the Consul General on my behalf. He then said goodbye.
However I was not able to contact this consul after our initial meeting. He never returned my email or voicemail. When I called the consulate visa office, I experienced the same response as before. As of this time, my passport has been held there without approval for four years.
Luckily, in my case, at the time when my passport was confiscated by the Chinese consulate, I was close to getting my green card with help from my employer, so I can maintain legal status in the USA. On the other hand, I have seen a few Falun Gong practitioners left in very difficult situations and unable to work due to their passports being unreasonably withheld by the consulate.
For the past four years, even though I have legal status in the USA, I still could not go back to China and visit my family and friends, could not go on international business trips or travel outside the US.
In regards to my work, since my employer is a multinational corporation, there have been several occasions when my supervisor wanted me to take business trips overseas. In the end my office had to change their plans because of my passport problems. Every time I was unable to conduct company business overseas, I had to explain my difficult situation to my superiors. They shared their sympathy and disbelief over my situation and expressed how they felt powerless in dealing the repressive tactics of the Chinese government.
With regards to my family, having my passport withheld by the consulate triggered discord and strife. When my family learned that my passport was withheld at the consulate, it created an invisible shock wave of terror and fear for my wife who does not practice Falun Gong and to my parents and my wife's parents living in China who have all experienced the terror of the Cultural Revolution and the fear of being marked by the government.
Even though my parents have endured many hardships in their lives, I can still sense their worry and anxiety. Worse yet, I am their only child.
My parents were very happy with my academic performance at a young age and my being able to study in the US, and later easily finding a job here. They also felt confident in me when they saw me becoming more diligent, having more sense of responsibility, following good living and becoming healthier after practicing Falun Gong. But the persecution against Falun Gong came overnight, and shortly after, the consulate withheld my passport. I could no longer visit them in China, and it is almost certain that I, like thousands of others have been placed on the government blacklist. How could my parents not be feeling worry and dread over the situation?
At the beginning of the persecution against Falun Gong, the only source of information that was made available to foreign governments, media outlets and Chinese people living abroad was the propaganda from the Chinese government. Many of my friends also more or less believed the propaganda; some of them even developed hatred against Falun Gong. In that environment, especially after the consulate withheld my passport, my wife reversed her attitude completely from supporting my practicing Falun Gong to becoming more and more against Falun Gong. Frequent conflicts about this topic replaced our previously harmonious family living.
Attacked from both inside and outside of my home, I, a person with little experience in political movements, was suddenly thrown into a very difficult situation by having to face persecution on a personal level directed by a powerful leader of an authoritarian regime.
Time has passed. Four long years are now behind us. Through the continued efforts of Falun Gong practitioners, more and more governments and people have come to know Falun Dafa practitioner's kindness and forbearance. More and more nations like Canada and the USA that respect human rights have stood up to condemn this massive persecution against 100 million people. Falun Gong has received great support from both government and civil organizations in Taiwan, which share the same ancestry, and same Chinese identity. The persecution in mainland China has caused several hundred thousand Taiwanese residents from all walks of life such as professors, lawyers and senior citizens come to know and practice Falun Gong,.
My family has also returned to its original peaceful harmony after going through an extended period of conflict over the persecution that targeted me for practicing Falun Gong.
However the persecution in mainland China is still ongoing. My passport is still being withheld from me. I cannot return to my place of birth to visit my family and many old friends.
There are many issues I simply don't understand. Why would the government withhold my passport? First of all, by withholding my passport, what message does a government want to deliver? What is its purpose? Is it to deprive me of my citizen's rights? As a human being on earth, don't I have basic rights? As a Chinese citizen, even if I do make mistakes, is it really necessary to adopt this approach to put me in a difficult situation? What if my relatives in China are sick and need me to return home to care for them?
The government of China claims that China is a nation ruled by law and is now at its "best period of human rights". However from the things that occurred to me, where do we find "rule of law" and "respect for human rights"? I remember several times I asked the consulate staff to issue a written statement as to why they were withholding my passport, and each time they tried to sidestep my question. I could feel that they themselves knew that they were doing something wrong. Perhaps the consulate staff also knew that the government handled things wrongfully, of its lack of humanity, as well as its non-compliance to the "rule of law".
After quite some time of no activity, I recently realized that I should not give up the effort to get back my passport. Since the principle of justice exists both for man and in heaven, I shouldn't give up my effort of striving to have my basic rights as a person and as a Chinese citizen be acknowledged.
Evan Mantyk
The Epoch Times
Aug 09, 2004
 Ms. Yao Chongqi talked about her painting, "The Immortals," which depicts 280 faces of Falun Gong practitioners who have died as a result of the suppression. Ms. Yao said she would have painted more of the more than 1,000 practitioners reported to have died, but she only had pictures for 280. Epoch Times photo |
On July 15 and 16, an art exhibition called "Uncompromising Courage" was held at the exhibition hall of the Rayburn House Office Building, the seat of Congress and House Representatives, in Washington, DC. The main focus of the exhibition was the Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin's suppression of the meditation practice, Falun Gong, since 1999.
The artists themselves were all practitioners of Falun Gong, and according to the exhibition coordinator, Ms. Fan, some personally experienced the persecution of Jiang Zemin's regime.
Some of the artists were present to talk about their paintings. Ms. Yao Chongqi talked about her painting, "The Immortals," which portrays the faces of 280 Falun Gong practitioners who have died as a result of the suppression. Yao said that she would have painted more of the 1,000 practitioners who are reported to have died, but she only had pictures for 280 practitioners.
 Ms. Xiao Ping's painting "Cruel Tortures" (The Epoch Times) |
Ms. Xiao Ping talked about her painting "Cruel Tortures," which depicts a pregnant Falun Gong practitioner being tied to a wall as Chinese police officers dunk a Falun Gong practitioner's face in a bucket of excrement and urine. Xiao said that the two forms of torture were based on true stories, and were combined into one picture.
According to Ms. Fan, "The exhibition illustrates a clear contrast between compassion and evil that emerged after Jiang Zemin launched the persecution. In order to safeguard truthfulness, compassion and tolerance and uphold justice, freedom, dignity and mankind's benevolent nature, these Falun Gong practitioners have shown unwavering perseverance. With great compassion and forbearance, they are facing hatred, torture, and even death with courage."
Truthfulness, compassion and tolerance are taken by Falun Gong practitioners to be the three main guiding principles of their practice.
 Rep. Tom Tancredo at the "Uncompromising Courage" exhibit. (The Epoch Times |
Ms. Wang, a New York resident, said, "This exhibition is especially important nowadays. After all, the persecution of Falun Gong is another form of terrorism; it is state-sponsored terrorism. The refusal of Falun Gong practitioners in China to give into the terror that they face is something we can look to for courage in our own lives as we face threats from terrorists. "
Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo also stopped by the exhibition. Tancredo said he was very moved and also had his staff come down to have a look.
One Texan looked at every piece of art and said that the pictures were very powerful, and he could feel a peaceful energy coming from them.
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-8-9/22760.html
(Clearwisdom.net)
Awakened Chinese are Helping Falun Dafa Practitioners
By Jin Sheng, a Falun Dafa practitioner in Jilin Province
One day, officers from a local police station arrested two Falun Dafa practitioners who were caught hanging up Falun Dafa banners. The police chief was pondering how to deal with them when his old friend came to visit. Upon seeing the two practitioners, he asked the chief, "Who are they?"
The police chief answered, "They are Falun Gong. We caught them hanging up banners."
The police chief's old friend said, "I know what Falun Gong is all about, and they've done nothing wrong. They are all good people, so why don't you release them now?" The chief was still hesitating, when his friend continued, "It is said that if one treats Falun Gong practitioners well, one will accumulate boundless virtue! Now is your chance. Hurry up and let them go!" So the chief released the two practitioners.
Understanding Policeman Protects Falun Dafa Practitioners
By Xicheng, a Falun Dafa practitioner in Jilin Province
One evening in July 2004 in Jilin Province, a policeman who had been hiding undercover stopped a mother and daughter, both Falun Dafa practitioners, while they were posting truth-clarifying materials. The mother and daughter kept sending forth righteous thoughts while clarifying the truth to this policeman. They told him how Falun Dafa is widely spreading all over the world, that Jiang is being sued in many foreign countries and that Falun Dafa practitioners are all good people. They said, "What we are doing is letting people know the truth about the persecution, and encouraging an understanding of the heavenly principle that good deeds will be rewarded with good fortune and evil deeds will be met with retribution."
After understanding the truth, the policeman told the ladies, "You may go!" But shortly afterward, he called them back to tell them to go the opposite direction, because more police were hiding farther down the street. He added, "Doing good deeds also requires one to be careful!"
(Clearwisdom.net) My name is Xiaolan and I live in a town near Chongqing, Sichuan Province. The following is the miracle that our three-member family experienced. I hope that all who read this article can remember "Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance are good" and benefit from Dafa like our family did.
In the afternoon of September 15, 2003, my husband, my four-year-old daughter, and I drove a motorcycle to visit my mother. On the way back, a truck suddenly drove toward us. I felt that a great disaster had fallen upon us and it was inevitable. All I thought was that it was the end of our lives. At the moment, before of our motorcycle almost crashed into the truck, a miracle occurred. The truck suddenly turned and narrowly passed us. None of us was hurt.
Before my nervous mind calmed down, I heard the truck driver calling us names. I thus turned and called him names as well. "It is you who almost hit us," I shouted to the driver. "And you turned it all upside down to scold us." My husband, on the other hand, was very calm. He asked me to stop calling names and quickly drove home.
After we got home, my husband asked me, "Do you know how the three of us were saved?" I shook my head and said I didn't know. "At the moment before our motorcycle almost crashed into truck," he said. "The words 'Falun Dafa is good' that Ms. Yao (a Falun Dafa practitioner) told us appeared in my mind; then the truck miraculously turned. Therefore, all our lives were saved. Falun Dafa and Teacher Li saved our lives!"
Since then, we always recite silently, "Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance are good." To thank Dafa for saving our lives, we always tell friends and people with whom we have contact the experience of our lives being saved. We ask them to remember "Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance are good." We hope that they, too, can be rewarded with happiness.
(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa work needs organization and management, albeit loose management. The main difference between everyday people's management and ours is that practitioner participation in Dafa work and activities is voluntary. No one is forced to take part in anything. Nonetheless, Dafa work needs to be coordinated. Also, Falun Dafa practitioners' participation in Dafa work is part of the process of upgrading one's Xinxing (heart or mind nature, moral character). Practitioners need to have strict requirements for themselves that accord with the standards of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Thus, the problems that show up while doing Dafa work reflect the Xinxing issues in practitioners.
I have been in Los Angeles for several months and participated in various local Falun Dafa activities. I'd like to share some of my thoughts about what I saw and heard.
I arrived in LA on February 26, 2004. The next day I was helping to make lotus flowers and attended the Experience-sharing Conference the day after. It was the first time for me to see our Teacher. I participated in the parade the following day. While we were making the lotus flowers, I saw that local practitioners were very busy. The Experience-sharing Conference would be held the next day, yet the preparations were not finished. The lotus flowers were not made yet, nor was the float decorated. I could see one of the problems that caused this situation. The practitioner who was in charge of the job only went out to purchase the materials on the day before and didn't come back until 5 p.m.. Several practitioners could only wait at home, with nothing to do.
Understandably, everyone was very anxious. Under the circumstance that no one had made any lotus flowers before, it was important to listen to different opinions about the best way to construct them. Yet the practitioners emphasized their own ideas so much and displayed some temper when they spoke. They accused each other and quarreled until 10 p.m. One of the practitioners was extremely upset. So some people just left. Only a few practitioners stayed and worked till 2 o'clock in the morning and finished making the lotus flowers.
The Experience-sharing Conference was postponed for 45 minutes in order to finish getting the venue ready. There were several thousand practitioners waiting outside. Each person wasted 45 minutes, which amounted to a very large amount of time. It was indeed a problem. When I was in China, I read in one of Teacher's articles about problems among practitioners. On the second day when I arrived in the U.S., I witnessed such problems. I thought, "Teacher really can see through things. Now that I am in the U.S., I shall pay attention to getting along with the local practitioners."
Several months later, at the Chicago Experience Sharing Conference on May 23, 2004, Teacher pointed out the issue again,
"Have you noticed that a lot of our students can't take criticism from others? As soon as they are criticized they get mad and aren't able to take it. These things stick out pretty badly now. Think about it carefully. You can't even take criticism from me, your master."
During the several months I have been in the U.S., I have felt the real freedom of living here. There is no danger of being arrested or detained. How then can I upgrade my Xinxing?
Teacher said in Lecture Three in Zhuan Falun: "I have stated that one's gong level is as high as one's xinxing level." Practitioners often take part in Dafa work and all sorts of Dafa activities. How can we cultivate ourselves and upgrade our Xinxing during these activities? It is a question that I often thought about after coming to America. The problems in my fellow practitioners are also problems that I need to be aware of. They are also the problems we experience while doing Dafa work. Each and every practitioner should care about Dafa work. Sometimes, I asked myself, if I were assigned the job, or if I were in charge of a certain project, could I do it well? Would I be able to follow Teacher's requirements?
I think an Experience Sharing Conference and parade are very important Dafa events. Normally, everything should be ready on the day before the conference and the parade,
July 4 is Independence Day in the U.S. We planned to take part in a parade. The same thing happened. Two days before the parade, we were anxiously making the banners until late at night. Why couldn't we make the banners earlier? Some practitioner said, "It's always like that with us. We are used to it. "
As to taking part in the anti-torture exhibit, since we didn't apply for space ahead of time, when we went there, we were told to move our things. When the police asked us to leave, some practitioner suggested we send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil. I don't think that was the right way to solve the problem.
On July 20, we gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate for a candlelight vigil to commemorate the 1014 Chinese practitioners who have been tortured to death in the persecution. It was a serious event. During the days around July 20, I was very upset. Sometimes, tears just rolled down my face when I was doing the meditation. In America, most practitioners have to work during the daytime. They are very busy. Some practitioners went to the Chinese Consulate without having dinner. I was deeply touched. At 7:30 p.m., the reporters came to cover the event. However, four or five practitioners were sifting through the unusable candles and paper bags at the front gate of the Chinese Embassy. The waste they picked out filled a big bag. Because of that, the candlelight vigil couldn't be started on time. I thought, "Wouldn't it be better if such a simple job had been done beforehand?"
For some time, I have been involved in delivering truth-clarifying newspapers. I found that the Dafa materials were not put in good order when stored in the garage; banners, SOS T-shirts, and videotapes were everywhere. Upon one practitioner's suggestion, we tidied things up. In my opinion, the Dafa materials, banners, and SOS T-shirts are all purchased with money that practitioners scrimped and saved to get. Every Dafa practitioner should cherish those items. We all know to take good care of the Dafa books. The same holds true for Dafa materials, banners, and videotapes. We should cherish everything related to Dafa.
There is a practitioner in her 70's in our neighborhood. Her son only gives her $20 a month for spending money. This amounts to about $360 a year. Apart from purchasing gifts for her two grandchildren, she takes $200 out for Dafa work. It is not easy for her to do that. Some practitioners purchased fabric for Dafa banners. But after the banners were made, they were not used. While working on the banners I asked the practitioners, "Do we really need to make these? If we are not going to use them, it will be a waste of Dafa practitioners' money." Yet some practitioners didn't seem to care.
In China, I have a friend who is the vice-president in a joint venture. She said to me, "You Falun Gong people seem to have a lot of money. During the week of the Chinese New Year, I received a pile of faxes from you people, all with similar content." I think her words should really make us think. When clarifying the truth, we should think about things from different aspects.
I heard from some practitioners that every time when we take part in a parade, we have to make a lot of new banners. And we lose banners after every parade. Some said, "It doesn't matter if we lose banners. They must have been taken by practitioners and used in other cities. If they are not in our hands, practitioners in other places will use them. It's all the same." I don't think we should look at it in that way. How can Dafa practitioners lose Dafa things? Why do we not take good care of these things? I think it is a Xinxing issue.
What I have described are some problems we have in our Dafa work. If we upgrade our Xinxing, such problems will not occur any more. Whatever problems we have, Teacher will in time point them out. It's then a matter of whether we can follow Master's words.
At the Experience-sharing Conference in Chicago on May 23, 2004, Master said,
" While [Dafa disciples] clarify the facts, [some people] squander the money Dafa disciples have scrimped and saved for making materials. I have always taught you to think of others first in everything you do, but does that even cross your mind when you use Dafa disciples' money or possessions? The evil takes advantage of the slightest gap and glares menacingly at every single word and action of yours. Whatever you're attached to, that's what the evil beings will strengthen, and when your mind is off they will make you irrational."
(Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference)
I would like to make the following suggestions:
1. We should think about whether it's necessary to spend the money on some things and do our best to conserve our resources . On the other hand, we cannot collect money from practitioners to do Dafa work. Otherwise, it will be against the principles of Dafa.
2. As to the used banners, some of them are brand new. We should wash them and put them away for the next time.
3. There should be someone designated to take care of the Dafa materials and keep a record of how much we print and how much we distribute.
4. We shouldn't just leave the SOS T-shirts in the storage room. We can wear them at the anti-torture exhibits or in parades.
5. The extra materials should be taken care of by someone for later use. If we just leave them lying around in a storage room, they will be considered garbage after a while.
(Clearwisdom.net) I am an elementary school teacher. Before reading Teacher's lecture, "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference", I always wanted to clarify the facts about Falun Dafa to my students, but I never did. In early June, I read '"Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference." In his lecture, the Teacher mentioned:
"As Dafa disciples have clarified the facts you have saved many beings who were supposed to be saved, but it's not enough. In fact, so far, what you've accomplished is still limited, and in terms of numbers the proportion is still quite small. The Dafa disciples in Mainland China, in particular, have the greatest responsibility. The main body of Dafa disciples is in China, so the Dafa disciples there should do even better; through lessons learned they should become more rational and more clearheaded, and do things more righteously; they should allow more sentient beings to be saved; and they should have the effect of the main body of Dafa disciples. Everything the Dafa disciples in other regions do revolves around the main body of Dafa in Mainland China, and is restraining the evil's persecution, lessening the pressure for the Dafa disciples in Mainland China, and helping the Dafa disciples in Mainland China to clarify the facts. Overall, looking at the situation of Dafa disciples validating the Fa as a whole, in the Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples have basically played the role of Dafa disciples."
When I read this paragraph, I felt ashamed of my small efforts and was determined to clarify the facts to the students.
Not too long ago, while I was teaching Chinese in the fourth grade class, I took a chance to explain to the students how to be a good person. I said: "As for guiding people to behave properly, 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance' are my favorite words, which are mentioned by teacher Li Hongzhi." I wrote the words "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" and "Li Hongzhi" on the blackboard. Most of the students in the class wrote them down in their book too. Next, I told the students: "Teacher Li Hongzhi is a good person and Falun Dafa teaches people how to be good people. What people say on TV about Falun Gong is false. Some national leaders from the government, who have hidden purposes, persecute Falun Gong. They have created fabricated news shows and utilized the TV to deceive people." Some students said to me: "Those national leaders are bad people." I also told the students: "You must remember that Falun Dafa is good." The students also wrote down "Falun Dafa is good" in their books. Most students wanted to know how to practice Falun Gong, and I told them that I would show them after the class was over. When the class was over, all the students in the class invited me to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises. While I started demonstrating exercise one, some of the students followed me in doing the hand gesture where the hands remain at the lower abdomen, fingers nested together and the thumbs touching. When I started demonstrating exercise two, the whole class joined in with me. Dozens of students' small hands went up in the air in the wheel holding pose, and the atmosphere in the classroom became very peaceful, something I hadn't seen for a long time. After clarifying the facts to the fourth grade, I witnessed Dafa's divine power. All those events gave me more courage and confidence, and I thought that I would make more efforts to share this with the students. I then decided to explain the facts about Falun Gong to the students in my fifth grade class. In the afternoon, during the last ten minutes of the last class of the semester, I clarified the facts about Falun Gong to the fifth grade students. After my speech, several students said: " Jiang Zemin is a bad person, we can't allow these kinds of bad people to do these wrong deeds." One of the students wished me success in my cultivation practice, and after that, I taught them the exercises as well. I was very delighted by the results after explaining the facts to my students.
The school's principal and the teachers all knew that I had explained the facts of Falun Gong in the classes on two occasions, but they didn't say too much about it. Some teachers only tried to persuade me: "Don't talk like this to the students. If the students' parents know that you practice Falun Gong, it will have a bad influence." I told them: "It is a good thing that I let the students know that Falun Dafa is good." They didn't say anything.
I now truly understand that clarifying the facts is saving sentient beings. From now on, I will use every possible opportunity to pay more attention to clarifying the truth about Falun Gong to save the living beings.
(Clearwisdom.net) In the process of clarifying the truth, I met many people who had predestined relationships with Dafa and wanted to learn the practice after they learned the truth. I used to be very excited for them when they wanted to start, so I tried very hard to find Falun Dafa books for them. After some time, I gradually forgot about them. Occasionally I thought of them, so I asked myself whether I should care more about them. Yet a selfish thought came up: "No, I am very busy now doing the three things all Dafa practitioners should do. If I have a little time, I should use it to study the Fa. For those who have read book already, Teacher's law body will help them, and it's up to them to cultivate and help with Fa rectification. Plus, more people are waiting to be saved." I knew that this thought was off track, yet I was not strict with myself and did not realize the seriousness of the issue until two new practitioners came to me for help.
Practitioner A called me soon after I gave him a copy of Zhuan Falun. He told me that he and his wife had a big fight, and they were on the verge of divorce. His marriage of over 10 years had never been a happy one. Thinking about that, he even had the thought of committing suicide. I asked him if he had finished reading the book. He said that whenever he picked up the book he became so sleepy that he could fall asleep even when he was sitting in a chair. I told him to give up the thought of committing suicide. After I put the phone down, I immediately asked my company director for some time off and went to visit him.
When he saw me, he told me all about his sufferings. As I listened quietly, I said to myself, "I should let him know the principle of Dafa." So, while listening, I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the bad elements and beings that interfered with him. After a while, he finished his story and calmed down. I started to introduce him to the principles of Dafa. I told him my understandings of what Teacher said in Zhuan Falun and other Dafa books: the predestined relationships between people from the previous lives are probably the reasons for the sufferings and happiness of this lifetime. His marriage troubles must have a reason. Also because of predestined relationships, his businesses are always doing very well and making a lot of money even though he has not put a lot of effort into it. He nodded his head many times in agreement. I then recited Teacher's poem "To Be a Human" (from Hong Yin). He was very moved by the poem and asked for a pen from someone nearby, requesting that I write the poem down for him. After I did, he read it very carefully and said, "See how good Dafa is? Party members would never be able to write anything like this." I could tell that the knots in his mind had been untied. Before we said goodbye to each other, I told him to make sure to finish reading Zhuan Falun as soon as possible. He agreed. Later on I said to myself, "How regrettable it would have been if the practitioner had not come to me for help, and could not overcome the interference."
Another incident also had a big impact on me. One day while I was waiting by the street for my bike to be fixed, another lady in her 40's was also waiting for her bike to be fixed. She looked very sick: her face was very pale and yellowish, and swollen badly. When I asked her about her health, she started telling a long story. She had been in a car accident over ten years ago. Her legs were broken, and blood accumulated in her pelvic cavity, resulting in serious anemia. Later on, she also suffered from acute nephritis (kidney inflammation) and heart disease. She spent 40,000 to 50,000 yuan (1) on medical expenses while living in a hospital, yet her conditions worsened and new diseases came up despite the medical treatment. Her director at work thought that she was feigning the illness, so whenever she went to get reimbursement for her medical costs, the director taunted her.
After she finished her story, she asked me whether her life could still be saved. I analyzed her condition for her, telling her that modern medicine was not likely to cure her diseases; otherwise she would have been cured already after so many years of treatment. Looking at her disappointed face, I told her that through cultivating Falun Dafa her illnesses would be cured. She got a little excited and told me that she had been reading Falun Gong books for 15 months but her condition had not improved much. This past March, a veteran practitioner came to her home to practice together with her. During the practice, the veteran practitioner saw a person behind her (with her third eye). The veteran practitioner then said to her that if she still believed in other stuff, then she should quit practicing Falun Gong. So, she quit her practice of Falun Gong. I asked her what else she believed in. She told me that for the past ten years she had believed in a religion. After she started to practice Falun Gong, she still did not forget about the religion. She even had the thought that whichever belief could cure her disease is the one she would believe in. Upon hearing this, I told her the seriousness of being constant in a single cultivation system and the principle of gaining without pursuit. As I said the words to her, I could see her face gradually turn red. I encouraged her not to give up her cultivation of Dafa: "You have already obtained the precious Dafa, how can you miss it like that?" She agreed without any hesitation. I then asked for her address and phone number and set a time to visit her. She was filled with joy like a child.
Looking back at the cultivation environment before 1999, when there was no persecution, practitioners looked out for and helped each other and the assistants paid special attention to new practitioners. When they were stuck while going through tribulations or eliminating Karma, the assistants helped the new practitioners to analyze the situation based on their understandings of the principles of Dafa. They studied the Fa and practiced together, helping the new practitioners to mature in their understandings. Under the current situation in China, opportunities to study the Fa and share experiences are rare, and because of the interference from the old forces, new practitioners are having more difficulties. I think our veteran practitioners are responsible for helping the new practitioners so that they take fewer detours in their cultivation and improve more rapidly. The process of helping new practitioners is also the process of cultivating to be selfless.
These are just my own understandings. Please correct me if I said anything wrong.
Notes:
(1) yuan -- The Chinese currency. 500 yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.
(Clearwisdom.net) I recently read a notice issued by the editors of Minghui (1) calling for songs and musical pieces from Dafa practitioners in China. I think it's imperative that we do so. In order to save more people, we, as Dafa practitioners, should spread Dafa and clarify the truth to people in diverse ways, using diverse forms.
Music is an art form that is loved by all people. A good musical work strongly appeals to people. It arouses their sympathy and moves their hearts. A musical work created by a Dafa practitioner is filled with positive factors. Compositions of Dafa practitioners contain strong compassion, which touches people's heart even more than other music. Sometimes we use Dafa songs or music as a starting point to clarify the truth to ordinary people and this method has produced good results.
When we create truth-clarification VCDs for Falun Gong, we can use different songs to fit specific needs. For instance, when we arrange the contents of a truth-clarification VCD, we start with the song, "Coming for You" along with truth-clarification pictures, followed by materials that expose the rumors and lies, the persecution of Falun Gong, an introduction to Falun Gong, the symbolic trial of Jiang and so on, ending with the musical piece, "Sit by My Side." We have distributed these VCDs and have received pretty good responses.
After "The Inaugural Chinese New Year Global Gala" was held this year (2004), we chose some essential programs from the four performances that displayed the beauty and glory of Dafa. We copied them to VCDs and gave them away as Chinese New Year presents. People liked them. Even those who were deeply deceived by the anti Falun Gong propaganda, as well as those who were quite afraid of Falun Gong, gladly accepted the VCDs. This paved the way for practitioners to further clarify the truth to them.
In addition to Teacher's lectures, I recorded to my MP3 player a song entitled, "Wish," composed by Dafa practitioners. Early in the year, I went to a nearby hair salon for a haircut. When the two young barbers saw me listening to my MP3 player, they were curious and asked me what I was listening to, so I let them listen to the song, "Wish." Taking turns, they listened to it several times and told me that it was a very good song. I told them, "This song was written, composed and sung by Falun Dafa practitioners. Falun Dafa practitioners are very good people, and songs composed by good people are surely pleasant to hear. Falun Dafa practitioners have composed many good songs." The female barber told me that she could almost hum the tune of the song. The male barber asked me where he could buy the song because he wanted to buy one for his own listening. I promised him that I would try my best to get him an audiotape of Dafa songs, and that made him very happy. Then I clarified the truth to them in more detail, telling them more about Falun Dafa and answering their questions. It went very well.
Last month, my cousin and her family came from thousands of miles away to visit me. I seized the opportunity to clarify the truth to them. While my family and I were preparing lunch, I played a truth-clarification VCD for them. When the song "Everything is New" was playing, my 20-year-old niece blurted out, "This song is so pleasant!" Since she loved the songs so much, I played the song "Wish" for her on my MP3 player. She listened to it several times and was enthralled. She told me that this song was so pleasant to listen to, especially the line with "Master," and that she could almost sing it by herself already. My cousin's husband was a qigong enthusiast. After I explained the facts about Falun Dafa and the persecution to him, he wanted to learn more about Falun Gong and to read Zhuan Falun. Since my niece loved the Dafa songs, I gave her and her family a CD with Dafa songs and music, the book, Zhuan Falun, [main teachings of Falun Dafa] and a Falun Dafa exercise instruction videotape. My niece thanked me again and again, and said she would definitely treasure my gifts.
The above are my personal experiences of how the Dafa practitioners around me and I used the form of music to assist introducing Falun Dafa and clarifying truth. As long as we truly treat ourselves as cultivators, with righteous thoughts and righteous actions, any form can be used to clarify the truth and to eliminate the evil factors that prevent the public from learning the truth.
Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
Notes:
(Clearwisdom.net) In the past five years, the Chinese central government's "610 Office," which was established on June 10, 1999, has actively carried out and implemented Jiang's genocidal policy against Falun Gong. It has become a Gestapo-like organization dedicated to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. As of July 15, 2004, at least 1,006 Falun Gong practitioners have died as a result of the persecution. The hands of personnel in "610 Offices" are stained with innocent people's blood. They have committed a huge crime. Many of those who are involved in the persecution have died suddenly or died from abnormal causes.
According to statistics from Minghui.net [Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net], Heilongjiang Province is the province with the highest number of cases of deaths of Falun Gong practitioners. As of July 15, 2004, at least 154 practitioners have died as a result of the persecution. Daqing City was one of the regions with the most severe murders of practitioners. At least 23 Falun Gong practitioners were tortured to death there. Staff from the "610 Office" in Daqing City once organized the key members of its root units and from "610 Offices" in the four counties within its jurisdiction to take a sightseeing trip to Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan Province. There were 28 people on the tour bus. During the trip, the bus suddenly "stood up" by itself and turned over into a 30-meter deep mountain ravine. Four people died in this accident, including the person in charge of the "610 Office" who was also the tour group leader. According to a certain news source, it happened in early May 2002. Because the "610 Office" has tightly blocked this information, the details about the time and other particulars of the situation have been kept secret.
In May 2003, two staff members of the "610 Office" in Shandan County, Gansu Province died suddenly and almost at the same time. Wang Xinming, the head of the county's Standing Committee was one of the most active staff members in the "610 Office" in Shandan County. He died in a car accident in May 2003. It was a terrible accident in which his body was injured beyond recognition. Yin Pinwen, Party Secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee of the county, was the head of the local "610 Office." He died suddenly from cardiovascular disease in mid-May 2003. At his memorial service the eulogy stated, "Regarding the Falun Gong issue, this comrade remained consistent with Central Party Committee Comrade Jiang Zemin. His attitudes were clear; his standpoints were firm. He made contributions."
There are many cases of these lawless "610 Office" employees dying suddenly for "making significant contributions" to the persecution of Falun Gong. Reported here is just a small fraction of the total number of incidents. Actually, nothing is accidental and everything has a cause to explain why it happens. Throughout history karmic retribution is evident in many cases. "Good is Rewarded, Evil Provokes Retribution" is not just a saying from folk wisdom, it is a universal law, a heavenly principle. There are many cases in which those who maintain a kind heart toward Dafa and treat Falun Gong practitioners kindly received rewards. In this article I am only focusing on cases where "Evil provokes Retribution." The entire report is divided into eight sections:
Falun Gong teaches practitioners to follow the principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance." These principles are widely embraced and respected by millions of practitioners. However, Chinese dictator Jiang, out of envy and resentment, has chosen to instigate hatred towards Falun Gong. Jiang Zemin put his power above the law and pushed the whole country into a catastrophe by persecuting Falun Gong. He has not only brought tremendous suffering and disaster to Falun Gong practitioners and their families, but he has also put all those hired minions and accomplices who are directly involved in the persecution of Falun Gong into a dreadful situation, nearly beyond redemption.
All those who persecute Falun Gong have discovered the law of karmic retribution, particularly those who are members of Jiang's faction. Jiang's faction, however, tries to keep these incidents a strict secret. It has done so to continue to hoodwink the Chinese people, and to urge and persuade the political cadres, policemen and others who are kept in the dark, so that they will continue doing bad deeds.
The reason we compiled these cases of retribution is not for the purpose of taking pleasure at the misfortune of those who have suffered retribution. Instead, we mean to help people to awaken to the tragic results of their participation in the persecution of Falun Gong, and to help them distinguish right from wrong so that they can choose a correct path for their future.
As a matter of fact, these tragedies shouldn't have happened and could have been avoided. It is Jiang's shameless defamation that incited those who don't have the wisdom to see the truth to hate Falun Gong. He and his followers incited those with little sense of righteousness to knowingly persecute good people. Moreover, Jiang's defamation of Falun Gong has been used as excuse for those who pursue their own self-interests to persecute Falun Gong practitioners unscrupulously so as to gain advancement in their political career. They will not only forfeit their lives eventually, but also bring disaster to their family members. They will end up being accomplices, "to be buried along with Jiang Zemin's corpse."
A. Karmic retribution shows that the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong harms everyone
Through these cases of retribution, we can see that those who received retribution all participated in the persecution of Falun Gong, and they all slandered and hated Falun Gong. Some of them personally persecuted Falun Gong practitioners, some helped the tyrant to do evil, some held hatred towards Falun Gong, some reported Falun Gong practitioners to the police, some destroyed Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials, and some others slandered Falun Gong. The retribution not only punished the evildoers, but also warned others, and it has shown the following characteristics:
Jiang Zemin, the prime culprit in the persecution, and his major accomplices have become panicked and terrified. They have been charged with lawsuits overseas, while in China they are also widely condemned. They are in the agony of receiving retribution, and their fate will be miserable. In no way can they escape karmic retribution.
Some people may feel that the persecution of Falun Gong by Jiang's group has nothing to do with them, so they have adopted a self-protective attitude and have become indifferent to the persecution. We can clearly see from the large number of incidents that those who persecute Falun Gong practitioners will eventually receive karmic retribution. Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong has victimized all Chinese people. The campaign against Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance by Jiang and his gang has caused harm to everyone. Some people may not have realized that Jiang's blatant, defamatory propaganda against Falun Gong has poisoned their minds. Their mindset holds bad attitudes and even hatred toward Dafa, and they may even inadvertently assist the evil and aggravate the persecution.
Since this persecution concerns everyone, understanding the truth about Falun Gong is the same as being responsible to oneself and to one's loved ones. Knowing the truth about the persecution is a blessing. In this article, in order to present an overall picture, we have just cited a small number of cases of karmic retribution, which have been reported on Clearwisdom.net.
B. Lawless officials from the "610 Office" in various places in China have received karmic retribution
Jiang set up the "610 Office" for one purpose only: to persecute Falun Gong. Not obeying the laws or the Chinese Constitution, and committing all kinds of crimes, the "610 Office" is a Gestapo-like, illegal organization that obeys the orders of Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan. Many lawless officials in the "610 Offices" are from the Political and Judiciary System, which Luo heads. Here we singled out instances in the "610 Office" to let people get a better understanding of this secret, criminal organization.
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Luo Yunzhi, a practitioner from Qianjin Experimental Farm in Jiaohe City, was reported to police while distributing truth-clarifying materials. The Xinzhan Town Police arrested her shortly thereafter. Ms. Luo has been held in the Jiaohe Detention Center for over a month.
Relevant phone numbers:
Jiaohe Detention Center, 86-432-7235016, 86-432-7235018
Jiaohe Detention House, 86-432-7235015
Jiaohe Judiciary Bureau, 86-432-7250880, 86-432-7250961, 86-432-7250960,
86-432-7250901, 86-432-7230148,86-432-7224340,86-432-7223003,
86-432-7228586
Zhang Yuhe, head of the "610 Office" in Jiaohe City, 86-432-7222982 (Home)
Sun Zengfa, Director of Jiaohe Public Security Bureau, 86-432-7240702, 86-432-7236000, 86-13943200111 (Mobile)
Feng Jianhua, Assistant Director, 86-432-7240703
Li Fengxin, Assistant Director, 86-432-7240704
Zhou Ruike, Assistant Director,
86-432-7240705
On March 10, 2003, policemen from Pingshan Police Substation in Benxi City
abducted Ms. Liu Junli and unlawfully held her at the police substation. In
the evening, they handcuffed Liu Junli to the wall, with both her arms
stretched out horizontally, until 4:00 a.m. the next morning. They did not
allow her to sleep the entire night. The next day, four criminals were
assigned to continually interrogate her. They kicked her two legs wide apart
and pulled them straight out, which caused unbearable pain to her hips. Zhao
Xinyu, a criminal, began to beat her when the others left the room. He kicked
her and shocked her face with an electric baton. That evening, Liu Junli was
taken to the Pingshan Criminal Police Team, where she was handcuffed to two
iron beds. She decided to take a chance and removed the handcuffs. She then
jumped out of the window in order to escape their evil control. Unfortunately,
she compressed and split her vertebra above the hip, broke her ankle and
fractured her sacrum. She now uses crutches to get around.
Dai Fugui, a practitioner from Daqing, is retired. He lives in the
Qianlonggang Residential Area. At around 7:00 p.m. on July 25, 2004, he phoned
from home, saying that, "People from the Public Security Bureau have contacted
me." He and his son were abducted. His home was ransacked, and all their Falun
Dafa books and Teacher's pictures confiscated. Currently the two are being
detained in the Shaqu Detention Center in Daqing City.
Mr. Yu Ming, in his thirties, owns a business at Wuaijie, Shenyang City. In 2001, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. In March, he was illegally taken to Team Two of the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp in Beijing. Because he did not yield to the evil, the term initially imposed on him was extended by ten months. He was transferred to the Forced Labor Terminal Center, where he was beaten with electric batons. Consequently, his face turned black around the eyes and he also suffered from angina pectoris on several occasions. Because of this, he was taken to the hospital.
In June 2004, Yu Ming was released after completion of the extended terms.
He returned to pick up his personal belongings at the police station and then
go back to Shenyang City. However, he was once again arrested there, and
sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor. He is currently detained at
the Intensified Brainwashing Center in the Xin'an Forced Labor Camp located in
Daxing District of Beijing City. Yu Ming resists the illegal detention and has
been on a hunger strike for over a month. His life is in great danger. Seven
police guards are specifically assigned to torture him.
On the morning of July 27, 2004, practitioner Li Ruixia's third younger
sister, along with another practitioner, was arrested after she left home for
an appointment. Their whereabouts remains unknown.
Ms. Lei Zouying is about 40 years old. Around 6:00 p.m. on July 28, she was
abducted by a group of policemen from the Shuiguohu No.1 Police Substation who
were waiting for her when she returned home from work. She has been sent to
the Yangyuan Brainwashing Class, where she has been subjected to torture.
Ms. Lie Yinzheng, a practitioner from Huainan City, was forced to become
destitute and homeless in order to avoid arrest, because she wrote down the
facts regarding the persecution she had suffered. On July 25, she was
illegally arrested at the place she rented. Her current whereabouts are
unknown.
Ms. Yao Xiuxiang from Shenyang City was unlawfully arrested for distributing truth-clarifying materials in 2002. She was sent to the drug rehabilitation center. Later, due to severe abdominal pain, she was returned to the Guihe Police Substation. Because her husband could not bear the pressure of the persecution, he divorced her. No family member came to pick her up, so she had to stay at the police substation overnight. The next day, her relatives came and picked her up.
At around 10:00 a.m. on July 16, 2004, the director, political instructor and about seven policemen from the Guihe Police Substation broke into her sister's home from the balcony and abducted Yao Xiuxiang. The struggle lasted about an hour. Ms. Yao kept shouting, "Falun Dafa is good!" When she was taken out to the police car, many people gathered around.
Currently, Yao Xiuxiang is being detained in the Longshan Forced Labor
Camp, where she has been on a hunger strike in protest. We are told that she
is going to be taken to the hospital.
At 11:00 a.m. on July 20, 2004, Wang Yawei, director of the Political & Security Section, Ruzhou Public Security Bureau, together with two policemen, went to Chang Qinxin's home. Mr. Chang is a former contact person for the Falun Gong practice site in Ruzhou City. They forcibly arrested Chang's wife, He Wenxia. Then they went to Ruzhou Teacher's College and abducted Chang Qinxin, who was working in his office. The police took the couple back to the police substation. On July 21, his wife was released, while Mr. Chang was sent to the city detention center. In the end, Chang Qinxin was officially detained without due process.
Relevant phone numbers:
Wang Yawei, Director of the Political & Security Section in the Ruzhou Public Security Bureau, 86-13837556058 (Mobile)
Wu Mengduo, Mayor of Ruzhou City, 86-375-6863400 (Home), 86-375-6862850
(Office), 86-13803751198 (Mobile)
Ms. Li Guiping, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Wuhan City, was arrested
while distributing truth-clarifying materials at Zhuodaoquan in the Wuchang
District on June 9, 2004. She was taken to the Women's Forced Labor Camp where
she was illegally detained for fifteen days. Ms. Li has since been transferred
to the brainwashing class.
On July 16, Falun Dafa practitioners went to distribute truth-clarifying materials in nearby towns and townships. They were reported to the police and seven of them were arrested, including Zhang Limin from Qianxi Radio Broadcasting Bureau, Zhang Limin's mother-in-law and Ms. Zhang Junying (her husband Bai Zongxing's mobile phone number: 86-13930585090. He works in Qianxi Arts & Sports Bureau). Others include Wei Chunqi from the Geology Team Five (who had been detained in the Qianxi Detention Center for a long time), Ms. Zhao Yanmin, a teacher from Qianxi No.2 High School, and Ms. Li Cuizheng, a teacher from Qianxi No. 2 High School. As far as we know, there are about 14 practitioners being detained in the Qianxi Detention Center. There already were 17 practitioners being detained in forced labor camps in the area.
Relevant phone numbers:
Qianxi No. 2 High School, 86-315-5611525
Qianxi Radio Broadcasting Bureau, 86-315-5611471
Director's office of Qianxi Radio Broadcasting Bureau, 86-315-5612423
Office of the Politics & Law Committee in Qianxi County, 86-315-5612334
Office of People's Congress in Qianxi County, 86-315-5611371
Director's office of Qianxi Educational Bureau, 86-315-5611297
Assistant Director's office of Qianxi Educational Bureau, 86-315-5612539
Qianxi Arts & Sports Bureau, 86-315-5611603
Director's office of Qianxi Arts & Sports Bureau, 86-315-5611053
On July 26, Ms. He Naigui, a 65-year-old practitioner from Hongtoushan, Fushun City, was forcibly taken from her home and taken directly to the Luotaishan Brainwashing Class. About eight policemen and policewomen and the director of the local police substation were involved in the abduction. When the police dragged her to the police car, He Naigui shouted loudly, "Falun Dafa is good!" Her neighbors came out and witnessed the whole event.
Relevant phone numbers:
Chen Yan, one of the policewomen involved, 86-13591532028 (Mobile)
Entrance guard of the Luotaishan Brainwashing Class, 86-413-4460688
Ms. Wang Changfeng is a 65-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner. On the morning of June 16, 2004, a policeman by the surname Jin, in charge of household registration, together with other policemen from the Yongqingjie Police Substation located in the Jiang'an District of Wuhan City, broke into Ms. Wang's home. They illegally searched her home and took her away. Wang Changfeng is currently being processed into the brainwashing class located at Shengjiaji.
Relevant phone numbers:
Yongqingjie Police Substation, 86-27-85395516
Renyi Community on Yongqing Street, 86-27-82718731
(Clearwisdom.net)
Facts of the Persecution
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Di Yuhua is a teacher. She has been sentenced a second time to the No.7 Ward of Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp, beginning in December 2003. Another round of violent measures against Falun Dafa practitioners at the camp began in March 2004, including standing still for long periods of time, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, brutal beatings, etc. In order to resist further torture, Ms. Di refused to join the slave labor program beginning in April 2004. Because of this, the police have forced her to sit absolutely still, facing the wall without regular meals or sleep, which has resulted in severe emaciation.
On September 27, 2002, five Falun Dafa practitioners detained in the Education (brainwashing) Ward of the Tieling City Labor Camp in Liaoning Province escaped with the power of righteous thoughts. Several days later, Mr. Wang Jun was arrested beaten up and put in ankle shackles. Ward Director Li Jie shocked Cui Junxue with an electric baton all over his body, including his genitals, because he and others never reported the escape. Li Jie put lit cigarettes into Cui's mouth, burning his mouth and gagging him with smoke and ashes. Policeman Wang Dongqing kicked Mr. Wang Xuanhua and yanked on his tongue. He also shocked many other practitioners, causing them to scream in pain. In May 2003, police brutally tortured practitioners, Mr. Wang Weixin, Mr. Guan Yunzhi, Mr. Zhu Zhanhua, Mr. Yi Guanghui, etc., with electric shocks on their backs, necks, and chests, leaving blisters and scars.
Falun Dafa practitioners in Fushou City, Fujian Province sued policeman Ye Zhaosen, because of his crimes in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Zhaomei. Ms. Chen has been abducted and detained, her was home ransacked, her personal belongings were confiscated, and her house door was welded shut. In addition, she was harassed, insulted, humiliated, beaten, interrogated with torture multiple times and tortured for 80 hours continuously. She was also harassed after appealing, dismissed from her job and sentenced to the No.2 Fuzhou City Detention Center, where she is still detained.
On July 22, 2004, Xingguan Neighborhood "610 Office" Head Mu Wang from Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, together with Xingguan Police Substation Vice Director Yin Shuanghong and 5 policemen arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zuo Yingfen. She was sent to the Lannigou Brainwashing Center. While there, she was locked in the small cell. They also assigned an assistant to force her to watch VCDs that slandered Falun Dafa and Master Li, in an attempt to brainwash her.