(Clearwisdom.net) To this day, some people continue to believe that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to suppress Falun Gong because its practitioners "besieged" Zhongnanhai, the Chinese Government compound. Those people don't know the truth of the matter. In fact, both the CCP and Jiang Zemin knew clearly what Falun Gong was at the time. They knew well that people who practice Falun Gong are good people. However, the nature of the CCP is "deceit, wickedness, and violence," which is the opposite of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." That's why the CCP is determined to eliminate Falun Gong. This is a battle between good and evil. In fact, the suppression of Falun Gong had been systematically schemed by the CCP over several years.
About four years before the "April 25" appeal, Jiang's regime attempted to outlaw Falun Gong by launching anti-Falun Gong campaigns one after another. Thereafter, they planned the "Tianjin Incident" and then secretly directed the "Zhongnanhai Incident." Although, Premier Zhu Rongji at the time handled the peaceful appeal of ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners properly, Jiang's regime kept playing their schemes and eventually instigated the frenzied and open suppression on July 20, 1999. Therefore, the "April 25" appeal is definitely not the real reason the CCP wanted to eradicate Falun Gong, and not the beginning of the suppression. It is only an important part of the whole conspiracy that had been in progress for a long time.
My husband and I experienced the entire process of this historic event. We are witnesses to history.
I. Suppression and Anti-Suppression Efforts before the "April 25" Appeal
1. The CCP Attempted to Outlaw Falun Gong in 1995
Mr. Ye Hao, a Falun Gong practitioner and a former bureau level official at the Ministry of Public Security, confirmed that some departments in the CCP central government prepared to outlaw Falun Gong around the time of the 1995 Chinese Lunar New Year. "[The] China Falun Gong Research Association wrote three reports in detail to the Chinese Qigong Scientific Research Association that introduced the state and character of Falun Gong since it was introduced to the public, which facilitated the withdrawal of the order to outlaw the practice."
2. The Start of the Cultural Attack against Falun Gong, a Violation of the CCP Propaganda Department's "Three No's" Policy
The "Three No's" policy (no attacking, no disputing, no reporting) was issued by the CCP Propaganda Department in 1982. However, in 1996, under the order of the Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Public Security, the Guangming Daily, mouthpiece of the CCP, published for the first time an article with the author's name defaming Falun Gong. The article was entitled "A Loud and Long Alarm Must Be Sounded against Pseudo-Science." It labeled Falun Gong as "superstitious" and a "spurious science." It started the violation of the "Three No's" policy and led to the "Guangming Daily Incident." Falun Gong practitioners appealed and wrote to the press in time to clarify the truth.
Falun Gong spread very fast. In early 1996, Zhuan Falun, its main text, became the bestseller in Beijing. Jiang Zemin ordered an investigation to find fault with the book, but it did not find any politically sensitive issues in it. Therefore, in the name of "having the elements of superstition," the General Administration of Press and Publication under the Propaganda Department issued an order to confiscate, destroy and prohibit the publication of Falun Dafa literature on July 24, 1996.
3. Failure of the Ministry of Public Security's 1997 Anti-Falun Gong Campaign
In January, and again in July 1997, the Ministry of Public Security carried out a national investigation into the so-called "illegal religious activities" of Falun Gong. They went so far as to plant agents in Falun Gong activities in order to discover any "criminal evidence." As a result, after a thorough investigation, all reports from the public security system in the country indicated that they hadn't found any problems yet. The first round of attack ended in failure.
4. The Ministry of Public Security Prepared Another Anti-Falun Gong Campaign that Ended in Vain
The facts of the 1997 investigation were very clear. However, the CCP, led by Jiang's gang, was jealous and felt threatened. They wouldn't give up, and plotted another major snare. In July 1998, the First Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security once again issued secret orders to investigate Falun Gong. It even internally labeled Falun Gong as an "evil cult" and then collected evidence on a national scale. Surprisingly, they did not find any criminal evidence in the entire country to charge Falun Gong because Falun Gong practitioners strictly follow the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." Led by the head of the National People's Congress, Qiao Shi, a group of retired veteran officials also carried out a thorough investigation of Falun Gong. They came to the conclusion that Falun Gong has "a hundred advantages and not a single disadvantage" for the country and its citizens. At the end of 1998, they submitted an official report to the CCP Central Committee Political Bureau. In the report they wrote that "Win the world if they win the popular sentiment. Lose the world if they lose the popular sentiment." As a result, this ominous snare ultimately failed.
5. Fully Use Media to Create Rumors and Calumny
The evil forces mobilized the media to fabricate rumors and slander Falun Gong when they could not find anything wrong with the practice. In 1998, newspapers such as Nanfang Weekend, The Qilu Evening News, China Youth Daily, The Healthy Newspaper and others unceasingly published articles attacking Falun Gong. The China Buddhist Association publicly slandered Falun Gong as an "evil cult" in its publications. In June 1998, a religious culture publishing house distributed Mr. Chen's first book slandering Falun Gong and its founder.
6. The Cause of the Beijing TV Station Incident
In May 1998, Luo Gan's brother-in-law, He Zuoxiu, an academician of the China Academy of Science (CAS), fabricated a story to slander Falun Gong on a Beijing TV Station. He claimed that a graduate student named Wang, from the CAS, became mentally ill due to practicing Falun Gong. He used this contrived story to attack Falun Gong on numerous occasions. Wang's roommates and classmates clarified the facts in detail to He Zuoxiu many times, telling him that Wang was not a Falun Gong practitioner at all. However, He Zuoxiu intentionally continued to spread this fabricated story to frame Falun Gong by planting rumors at the TV station, even though he knew the facts. He planted the seeds that fueled the Beijing TV Station to slander Falun Gong in its programming. This was obviously another plot set up by Jiang and Luo's hoodlum gang.
7. Falun Gong Practitioners' Righteousness Suppressed the Evil, Causing the Crackdown Plots to Fail Again and Again
(1) All the attacks against Falun Gong directly violated the policy of the "Three No's" established by the State Council, and all those attacks against Falun Gong were generated systematically from the State Machinery in a highly organized form by CCP's Jiang regime. Out of great compassion and tolerance, Falun Gong practitioners telephoned, mailed letters, delivered materials, and clarified the truth to various levels of government agencies. It was said that the letters received by each agency could not fit into large mail sacks. Large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners also went to appeal and clarify the truth in person at the Appeals Office of the State Council, Propaganda Department, the General Administration of Press and Publication, State Sport General Administration, and news agencies, and helped many people and organizations learn about Falun Gong from a positive perspective.
For example, when my husband and I went to appeal at the Propaganda Department, a female official listened carefully to our personal experience about the miraculous healing effect of Falun Gong, and told us that if the practice improved our health, "you could continue to practice Falun Gong." In fact, the public was amicable towards Falun Gong at that time, and did not condemn Falun Gong at all. Persecuting Falun Gong was against the will of the people.
(2) Faced with various incidents and unreasonable provocations, practitioners wanted to get the attention of the leadership in the Chinese Government to help them distinguish good from bad. Twenty-one high-profile people, including the famous singer Guan Guimin, wrote letters to the leaders of the government in May or June 1998. In August and September of that same year, 160 intellectuals with high-ranking titles, and senior officials from the fields of science and technology, education, cultural studies, and law, co-signed a letter to the State Council and the CCP Central Committee of about the "Announcement" issued by the Ministry of Public Security. The letter was copied to related departments of the State Council. Professor Wang from the Department of Law, Beijing University, wrote the first draft of the letter. All the co-signers gathered in the Museum of Architecture at Qinghua University to discuss, revise, and sign the letter. (My husband and I also participated in the discussion. My husband, Li Baoqing, was the contact person from the field of science and technology). "The Appeal Letter" set forth that the "Announcement" issued by the Ministry of Public Security was in violation of the Constitution and Law of China, stated that this was unfair treatment of Falun Gong, and demanded an open environment for cultivating Falun Gong.
Until the incident of April 25, 1999, we did not realize that Premier Zhu had responded to the letter by criticizing officials at the Ministry of Public Security for not taking care of other key cases that damaged the interests of the nation, instead of making a fuss over a group of cultivators. During the past few years, Falun Gong had saved large sums of government medical payments for the country, the government agencies should have paid attention to the public security instead of making trouble for Falun Gong. However the orders from the premier across such a large country were withheld from the public by Jiang's regime. Falun Gong practitioners never knew anything about his positive support.
(3) After the incident of the Beijing TV Station, over a thousand practitioners went to the TV station to clarify the real situation to them. Eight Falun Gong representatives stated the facts with their own personal experience. They pointed out that Falun Gong has hundreds of beneficial effects without any harmful attributes, and they exposed the lies fabricated by He Zuoxiu. Their stories were genuine, vivid, touching, peaceful, and compassionate, which shocked the conscience of the authorities and the concerned staff members of the Beijing TV Station. They admitted that the TV program was the most severe mistake since the founding of the People's Republic of China. To correct their mistake, they broadcast programs that positively reported on Falun Gong. Furthermore, the persons involved in the incident at the TV station were suspended from work as a penalty.
(4) In December 1998, Falun Gong practitioners wrote a letter to Li Ruihuan, the Chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference "regarding the public attacks against Falun Gong by the China Buddhist Association." The letter demanded that the perpetrators of the attacks be identified, held responsible for their actions, and punished accordingly. My husband and I participated in those efforts.
(5) During the same year, the State Sport General Administration requested the re-registration of Qigong organizations. Many practitioners went to the State Sport General Administration to present the real situation and clarify the truth. The Falun Dafa Assistance Center of Beijing and the practitioners from the CAS specifically invited professor Zhang from the Institute of Psychology in CAS, and a member of the qigong evaluation committee, to a meeting. They provided a large number of detailed cases showing the miraculous effects of Falun Gong. In October 1998, the State Sport General Administration assembled the special teams to investigate Falun Gong in Shenyang and Harbin. They videotaped many actual cases. The investigation team leaders said that the investigation confirmed the miraculous effects of Falun Gong, and that they were all very good in that the practice significantly benefited social stability and the development of culture and civility in China. These points must be fully emphasized. The investigation videotape was widely distributed among the general public. The miraculous stories of Falun Gong's health benefits and its development of moral values were very refreshing and exciting, and caused more people to cultivate Falun Gong. Falun Gong subsequently gained popularity.
(6) To assist the government in better understanding Falun Gong, practitioners from Beijing conducted a detailed and verifiable health survey of 10,000 practitioners. The report was sent to various agencies. The report established that "Falun Dafa is good!" with detailed and verifiable data and personal cultivation experiences.
(7) Evil Persecution Launched
After the failure of the Jiang regime's plots, they would not admit defeat. Instead, they launched an evil persecution. In 1999, the incidents of harassment of Falun Gong by public security agencies occurred more frequently. In Beijing, some Falun Gong practice sites were covered with dirt, sprayed with water, and some practitioners were driven away. In Xinjiang, Liaoning, Shandong, etc., Falun Gong practitioners were driven away unjustly, or subjected to harassment, including ransacking of their homes, detention, and extorting of money. The harassment became increasingly violent.
II. Truthful Depiction of the "April 25" Incident
1. Pre-planned Tianjin Incident - Police Violence
In April 1999, He Zuoxiu wrote an article in Youth Science Expo magazine circulated in Tianjin City. In this article he quoted cases that had been included in a previously broadcast Beijing TV program that had already been found to be false. Practitioners in Tianjin City went to Tianjin Teacher's College, the publisher. They clarified the truth to the editors and asked that a correction of the article be published. Practitioners in Beijing and in other parts of the country were also paying attention to the issue.
He Zuoxiu was an academician of CAS. Practitioners who then worked and studied at CAS telephoned him and asked to meet and speak with him. He rudely refused. On April 22, practitioners at CAS wrote a joint letter to the head of CAS to report He Zuoxiu's slanderous report of Falun Gong based on false evidence, which is against the truthful spirit of science.
On April 24, we learned that the publishers had planned to correct their mistake after practitioners had gone to the editors for many days and clarified the truth. Nevertheless, the publishing agency later suddenly changed their attitude and refused to write a correction.
On April 23, the Tianjin Public Security Bureau dispatched 300 SWAT police officers and arrested 45 Falun Gong practitioners. They beat the practitioners and injured many of them in the process. Other practitioners went to the Tianjin City government asking for release of the detained practitioners, but the city government officials told them that the Ministry of Public Security was involved, and only Beijing could authorize the release of the detained practitioners. The Tianjin police unexpectedly suggested that the practitioners go to Beijing to solve the problem!
The city government officials committed a major leak of a state secret by revealing the involvement of the Ministry of Public Security. It is also highly unusual for them to encourage the practitioners to go to Beijing to appeal to the central government. The city government officials would never have done any of this without orders from the central government.
The article He Zuoxiu wrote, the violence of the Tianjin police, and their suggestion for the practitioners to go to Beijing would not have happened without orders from higher up. When we look at the bigger picture, including the events that followed, they demonstrate that Jiang's regime meticulously planned to frame Falun Gong.
2. Falun Gong Practitioners Appeal in Beijing after Running out of Options
Practitioners in other parts of the country learned on April 24 about the sudden change of the Tianjin incident and thought, "We must rescue the detained practitioners in Tianjin, because if we don't do anything, the same thing will happen in Beijing, and all over China, and the safety of each one of us will be threatened."
The Tianjin incident took place because He Zuoxiu and Tianjin Teacher's College violated the government policy of the "Three No's" towards Qigong. The Tianjin police beat unarmed and peaceful practitioners, and illegally detained them, and the Tianjin government turned a deaf ear to the practitioners' appeals. We thought that the central government did not know the facts about Falun Gong very well, and that only some departments and local governments violated the "Three No's" policy. Who can override the Tianjin City government and police department? Naturally, we thought to appeal to the central government, the only entity that can solve this problem. We went to appeal at the Appeals Office, out of trust in the CCP Central Committee and the government.
We could not wait to rescue our fellow practitioners. After we learned about the arrest on April 24, on the next day, April 25, my husband and I took a bus and went to Xianmen Street, where the State Council Appeals Office is located. As we were getting close, we thought it might be too early and the office was not yet open. When we arrived, however, we were surprised to see both sides of the street filled with practitioners. Some practitioners from outside of Beijing had come the night before. We had never met these practitioners but we all came for the same reason.
With no other options, we resorted to exercise our right to appeal, a right endowed by the constitution of China, and we hoped that the government would give us a fair resolution. We had a simple goal and were not aware that the political villains group had set up a trap for us.
3. Practitioners were led into the trap
Many practitioners from other provinces had arrived in Beijing on the evening of April 24. Most of them took busses that went through many outposts and inspection stops, but police officers at those posts didn't try to stop them. With so many practitioners going to Beijing to appeal, some of them even asked the police where the Appeals Office was located. Some were near Xianmen Street and Zhongnanhai, yet the police didn't even disperse or report them. This is usually impossible in Beijing, a city under around-the-clock monitoring and control. An article later said, "The Ministry of Public Security knew everything that the practitioners did prior to their appeal in Beijing, contrary to the media reports in China that claimed they knew nothing." A CCTV video tape that was [later] used to attack Falun Gong shows where the practitioners would be entering Beijing, when and where they would get off the train, and what route they would take to get to the Appeals Office. Obviously, the police purposely let the practitioners into Beijing unhindered.
4. The police led the practitioners to Fuyou Street, creating the impression that practitioners were surrounding Zhongnanhai
 "April 25" appeal distribution photo [the character l shows the location of the crowd] |
When I arrived in the morning I saw many practitioners standing on the edge of the sidewalk of East-West Xianmen Street. The line of practitioners stretched westward to Xisi Dingzi Street, then it stretched southward and then eastward reaching Beihai where the State Council Appeals Office is located. The northwest gate and southwest gate (the front entrance) are located on Fuyou Street. Fuyou Street runs in south-north direction and is connected with Xianmen Street. There weren't any practitioners on Fuyou Street at that time. We wanted to petition at the Appeals Office, not surround Zhongnanhai.
When I looked up, I saw police officers leading practitioners at the east end of Xianmen Street walking southbound toward Fuyou Street. I was somewhat surprised and thought it strange, but I didn't think too much of it then. Falun Gong has no organization and there is no one to give orders. The practitioners all listened to the police. They went wherever the police wanted them to go and stood wherever the police wanted them to stand. I followed the group and walked southward toward Fuyou Street. By then I saw another group of police leading practitioners walking northbound from Changan Street toward Fuyou Street. After the two groups converged, the police told us to stand on the sidewalk west of Fuyou Street. We voluntarily stood in three rows to avoid blocking the walkway, the sidewalk and the grass. The wall and gate of Zhongnanhai were on the east side of the street where there were no practitioners. I stood right across the street from the southwest gate of Zhongnanhai. Because there were 10,000 practitioners, Changan Street, Xisi, Xidan, Beihai and the alleyways were all filled with practitioners. The police led us to form the appearance of surrounding Zhongnanhai. The practitioners were too unsuspecting and didn't realize that they were led into a trap set by the political villains group.
5. Martial Law Declared and Traffic was Blocked, Attempting to Frame Falun Gong
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Police officers on duty chatting among themselves (notice the wall behind the crowd is not the unique Red Wall of the Forbidden City - Zhongnanhai)
The west gate of Zhongnanhai right across the street from the practitioners (here the Red Wall of the Forbidden City is clearly visible)
It was the peak morning hour in Beijing, and many people and cars were passing by. Because the practitioners stood on the edge of the street, the traffic was flowing freely and was in no way obstructed. And yet, after leading the practitioners to Fuyou Street, the police declared martial law at around 8:00 a.m. and didn't allow cars or bikes to enter the street. They let the pedestrians leave but not enter the street. Traffic was cut off as a result. It was not because of the practitioners' peaceful appeal as claimed by the Chinese government.
6. The Righteous and the Evil
We stayed away from entrances to shops, government offices and residential buildings. We didn't have any slogans or banners. We didn't make any noise or cause any disturbance. We didn't get excited and we didn't complain. We quietly read the book Zhuan Falun, hoping to tell the truth to the central government. We hoped for a just solution and the release of detained Tianjin practitioners.
Among the practitioners were elderly people, young children, and pregnant women near their term. They held each other and waited quietly. We were very orderly because of the power of Dafa. The Jiang group later claimed that the practitioners disrupted the life of government offices and of Beijing citizens, which was a complete fabrication.
After martial law was declared, many police cars parked on the east side of Fuyou Street, and a group of armed police gathered on the west side of the street. They stood face-to-face with the practitioners. A van kept driving back and forth. Inside the van a person carrying a video recorder poked his head out and recorded all of us, not missing a single person. We all knew this tape was going to be used to retaliate against us. On the street, there were no other people, only uniformed police officers and police cars, as well as un-identified plainclothes police officers. No one was allowed to enter the street without a permit, and no outside media were present. The atmosphere was intense and filled with terror. It was suffocating, and it seemed that the situation would explode at any minute.
7. The Former Premier, Zhu Rongji, Received Falun Gong Practitioners
After premier Zhu Rongji went to work at 8:00 a.m., he came out from Zhongnanhai through the main entrance (the southwest gate) and went across the street to receive the practitioners. After he learned what the practitioners were appealing for, he asked them to send representatives to Zhongnanhai to appeal. The practitioners there didn't know each other. They had neither an organization nor a representative. Three practitioners volunteered to go into Zhongnanhai with Zhu. One of the practitioners, Shi Caidong, was a doctoral student in the Physics Department at CAS. These practitioners went in with Zhu and related to the person in charge of the Appeals Office what they wanted the central government to know. The main points were: to release the arrested practitioners in Tianjin City, to allow open publication of the book Zhuan Falun, and to give Falun Gong practitioners a just and legal environment in which to practice. The person in charge of the Appeals Office didn't think they were representatives and asked Shi Caidong to go and get the practitioner who was in charge. Shi didn't know what else to do, so he asked a veteran practitioner to go in. I met Shi after he left Zhongnanhai. He told me what happened, and especially that Premier Zhu had previously given orders that resolved practitioners' appeals. However, some CCP officials withheld the orders, and hence the practitioner never knew that the orders had already been given. Because the practitioners' requests were not resolved yet and the practitioners in Tianjin were still not released at the time, we could not leave and kept on waiting quietly.
In the afternoon, an official from the State Council asked the practitioners who organized Falun Gong practice sites in Beijing to go into Zhongnanhai to appeal. Thus, Li Chang, Wang Zhiwen, Yu Changxin, Hao Jiafeng, and one other practitioner went in. Per practitioners' request, besides the person in charge of the Appeals Office, officials in charge of what happened in Tianjin and Beijing were also there. We continued waiting outside quietly.
8. "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance" Dissolved a Confrontation with Armed Police
Initially the armed police were serious and nervous, like they were facing an enemy. They were straight-faced and stood still in front of the practitioners, staring at them. The practitioners were kind and nice to them. Practitioners instinctively stayed in order. Whoever stepped out of the area designated by the police for the practitioners would step back immediately. Some practitioners volunteered to collect garbage among practitioners. The practitioners in the front just stood there and seldom took turns sitting or resting from morning to night. My husband was in his 60s and he stood there from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. without eating, drinking or using the restroom, and he was still very energetic. That was unbelievable. The armed police quickly realized that they didn't have to do anything because the practitioners were harmless. The police started to look around and talk. They were all youngsters but they quickly got tired and had to change shifts constantly, unlike the old Falun Gong practitioners who stood there all day long. The police walked back and forth and eventually they went to the east side and sat down to drink water and chat. Later they started conversations with practitioners and had smiles on their faces. The confrontation was dissolved. At night, some uniformed and plainclothes officers came among the practitioners to talk and asked why we were there and why we practiced Falun Gong. Regardless of their identity and purpose, we told them the truth. Some of them understood and admired us.
9. The Undercurrent
Among the peaceful, quiet line of practitioners, there was an undercurrent of something wrong. Every now and then there would be some messages passed down the line. The line was so long that no one knew who passed down the message or why. We could only judge based on the Fa whether to pass the message on or not. Some people with bad intentions tried to stir up practitioners' emotions and affect the tidiness of the line. They passed things like "Don't wear the Falun emblem, pass it down!" "Don't read Zhuan Falun, pass it down!" "The practitioners who are lawyers should leave the line now and gather in the east side, pass it down!" I felt there was something fishy in these statements. Sometimes there were deceptive messages intending to stir up trouble. Some suspicious people with cell phones in their hands were moving among the practitioners. However, Falun Gong had no organization and did not just listen to anyone. Falun Gong practitioners viewed the Fa as their Teacher. So it was hard to agitate practitioners' emotions and mess up the line.
10. He Zuoxiu and Sima Nan Appeared at Zhongnanhai
Around noon that day, I saw He Zuoxiu, the person who stirred up the "April 25" incident, in front of Zhongnanhai. He Zuoxiu stayed at the front gate for over 20 minutes. Sima Nan was also allowed to appear at the scene that day. Everyone knew that He Zuoxiu and Sima Nan had attacked Falun Gong. The scheme was meant to provoke practitioners' anger and cause chaos so the police could suppress the "violent group." But Falun gong practitioners didn't get angry or fight. An eye for an eye is not a practitioner's nature. No one moved upon seeing He Zuoxiu and Sima Nan. Thus this scheme failed.
11. The Ill Intention in the Announcement
At around 2:00 p.m., the police were giving out printed flyers to practitioners. Some practitioners wouldn't take them and some returned them to the police after reading them. The announcement on the flyer said that Falun Gong practitioners were not allowed to gather at Zhongnanhai and should immediately disperse, otherwise the practitioners would be responsible for the consequences. The threat was out. At that time, the five practitioner-representatives were still in the Appeals Office and the arrested Tianjin practitioners had not been released, so we didn't leave. The practitioners didn't move. The officers looked nervous. Cars and people on the streets were being transferred around and the garrison was relieved. We all felt something was going to happen.
In the afternoon, there were plainclothes officers at the Beijing Train Station. They pretended to be Falun Gong practitioners and were picking up those who arrived at the train station to bring them to the Appeals Office. A group of practitioners from outside Beijing was about to get into the police car. Someone sensed something was wrong and refused to get in. The police started to beat the practitioners, arrested a large number of them, and locked them up. One of the practitioners escaped and that was when we learned that the CCP had started arresting practitioners.
One practitioner had a family member who worked at the Zhongnanhai Guarding Troop. That evening this practitioner received an emergency phone call from home saying that he should go home right away. Otherwise his life would be at risk! The Jiang regime was ready to kill. At that moment, any disturbance or excuse would start a bloody suppression. Later we learned that Jiang Zemin hid in a bulletproof car during the day and visited the scene.
The Falun Gong practitioners were rational and peaceful from the beginning to the end no matter what happened. "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" prevented the killing and Jiang's regime didn't have an excuse to take action at that time.
12. The April 25 Incident Was Resolved with Benevolence
Under former Premier Zhu Rongji's handling, that afternoon we heard that some practitioners in Tianjin were released. By evening, all of the practitioners were released. The five practitioners were still in Zhongnanhai. No one knew whether they were safe, and we were worried that they would be detained. We didn't move because we needed to see them come out.
After 9:00 p.m., the five practitioners came out of Zhongnanhai and asked the practitioners to leave. It was dark and the line was very long. Some practitioners wouldn't leave because they didn't know whether the message passed down was true or not. After this unusual day, so many things happened. Practitioners would not listen to just any message, as they didn't want to be misled. Li Chang went to the crowd in person and told the practitioners to leave. Many people knew Li and hence they knew that the appeal had gone to the central government, the practitioners in Tianjin were released, and the five practitioners in the Appeals Office had left. The incident was resolved benevolently, and those people in charge even agreed to send representatives to the Yongdingmen Appeals Office to solve any unsettled issues. Falun Gong practitioners were reasonable and left immediately. Fuyou Street is not a big street but over 10,000 people left in a short time. That was unbelievable. There was no noise, no crash, and no traffic jam. Not even a piece of paper was left on the ground. A female officer pointed at the place where the practitioners had gathered, and said to other police officers, "See, this is virtue!"
III. The "April 25" Incident Shocked the World
Over ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners peacefully appealed based on their civil rights, and received a peaceful solution. This shocked the world and won international admiration. This incident showed the beauty of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" to the world and Falun Gong went global.
The "April 25" incident was resolved, but the acts of the Falun Gong practitioners made Jiang Zemin extremely jealous and afraid. Jiang's regime defamed the peaceful appeal as "beleaguering Zhongnanhai," "anti-government," "destroying social stability," and "political ill-intention." These were all tricks to eliminate Falun Gong and spread propaganda against Dafa. The evil CCP and Jiang Zemin used each other and declared they must "defeat Falun Gong." Jiang's regime started to openly suppress Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. The CCP put its nine evil elements (evilness, deception, instigation, fighting, robbery, brazenness, spying, eliminating, and control) into full play. The CCP committed a crime that the universe cannot forgive and it is destined to be eliminated by gods. Benevolent people should quickly awaken and not listen to the CCP's lies.
