Falun Dafa Practitioners Continue to Courageously Clarify the Truth Despite Fabricated Stories from the Government-controlled Chinese Media
By Tao Ran
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, the Chinese Communist Party's newspaper, The
People's Daily, fabricated yet another story, as follows: "The Liao
Yuanhua Case -- A few stubborn Falun Gong adherents, cooperating with the
overseas anti-Chinese movement, tried very hard to send photos of the torture
equipment they endured inside Chinese Communist jails to the Falun Gong website
Minghui.net. Chinese detectives discovered this activity, and those involved
admitted that they had committed this crime. Under the re-education of the
police department, they realized that they were deceived by Falun Gong and
appeared in the media to tell the people not to listen to Falun Gong
propaganda." One of the practitioners mentioned in the story, Liao Yuanhua, a former
government inspection official, was thrown into a labor camp and severely
tortured for steadfastly believing in "Truthfulness, Compassion and
Forbearance" and for upholding a citizen's basic human rights. In the article above, the writer inadvertently exposes the fact that the
Communist officials tried to cover up their crimes, when he states that the
practitioners "tried very hard to send photos of the torture equipment they
endured inside Chinese Communist jails to the Falun Gong website Minghui.net."
The article does not deny the fact that Falun Gong practitioners were tortured,
and goes on to say that "detectives discovered this activity, and those
involved admitted that they had committed this crime." According to the
Chinese Constitution, it is illegal for police to torture people detained in
jail. Torture by police is also against the United Nations Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, which was signed by the Chinese government. The Chinese Constitution also states that citizens have freedom of speech,
and can speak out and appeal when they encounter injustice. It is therefore
illegal for the police to stop Falun Gong practitioners from exposing the unjust
tortures they received at the hands of the authorities. The story does not question the authenticity of the photos of the torture
equipment, and doesn't deny that the practitioner was tortured, yet somehow the
author feels quite proud to relate that the "crime" of sending these
photos overseas was solved by the police, and that through
"re-education," the practitioners are now saying negative things about
Falun Gong. Regarding any statements made by the practitioners while in police
custody, one cannot help but wonder if those very same torture devices shown in
the photos were used in their "re-education." Ever since Jiang's inhumane persecution began, Falun Gong books have been
burned, the practice slandered, stories fabricated in the press, and
practitioners have been incarcerated, tortured, and even killed. The authorities
have never given Falun Gong practitioners a chance to tell their side of the
story. Still, for the past five years, practitioners have used every means at
their disposal to help people realize the truth, expose this cruel persecution,
and stop the killing. The countless stories of practitioners in China protecting
their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance" under such
immense pressure and vicious persecution show how exceptional and admirable
these practitioners are. In order to describe Falun Gong practitioners as "stubborn
adherents," the reporters for the People's Daily are forced to
reveal that practitioners continue in their belief despite the terror of the
cruel persecution they are subjected to, and that practitioners put their lives
in danger to reveal the truth to the people. Perhaps these reporters themselves don't understand why Falun Gong
practitioners risk their lives to clarify the truth instead of staying home and
practicing in secret. Actually, the reason practitioners are standing up against the persecution is
due to their kindheartedness. They already know Falun Gong is good, so there's
no need for them to debate it with anyone. It's those who don't know the truth
about Falun Gong, however, who will lose the most valuable opportunity of their
lives because of the severe slander and cruel attacks by the
government-controlled media. Many Chinese people living abroad, who have learned the truth of Falun Gong
and the persecution, admire the sacrifices that Falun Gong practitioners are
making in order to clarify the truth, and they say that these actions make them
clearly see the goodness of practitioners. December 31, 2004
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/1/2/92573.html
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