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Falun Dafa Associations in Australia Issue Statement Calling Upon Australian Government to Offer Asylum to Chinese Diplomat Chen Yonglin (clearwisdom.net) June 8, 2005 The Falun Dafa Associations in Australia call upon the Australian Government
to offer immediate asylum to Chinese diplomat Mr Chen Yonglin and to fully
examine his allegations of Chinese spies operating in Australia. For six years Falun Dafa practitioners in Australia have been subject to a
wide range of interference and harassment orchestrated by the Chinese
Embassy and consulates in this country. These incidents include physical
threats, harassing phone calls, damage to property, salacious misinformation
about the practice of Falun Dafa and attempts to adversely influence local
councils and events organisers to exclude us from community functions. Over the years we have encountered a number of suspicious characters
masquerading as Falun Dafa practitioners and some members of the Chinese
community have actively assisted the Embassy and consulates in their
anti-Falun Gong campaign. We therefore have no doubt that Mr Chen's
statements about Chinese Communist Party infiltrators in Australian society
are absolutely true. Such infiltrators are not like "spies" from the Cold War era. They could be
highly skilled technicians or scientists working for a big corporation, they
could be running a Chinese language newspaper, they could own your favourite
restaurant or they could be your family doctor. They are hard to spot
because they appear to be living perfectly normal lives, but when they come
across some information that will be useful for the Party they diligently
report back to Beijing. The effect of this network has led to many Falun
Dafa practitioners being on a travel black list, having their phones
monitored, homes broken into and such serious incidents as Mr David Liang
being shot in South Africa. Yesterday the Chinese Ambassador to Australia made a speech in which she
poured scorn on Mr. Chen's claims stating that: "This is not the 1970s. We
have moved on." Certainly this is what China wants the world to believe and
they have worked tirelessly in recent years to present a benign face to the
world. At the same time the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners has become
even more ruthless with the current recorded death toll reaching 2,336. The Ambassador also commented that she saw no reason why Mr Chen would face
jail in China "because there is no civil crime in his behaviour". However,
Falun Gong practitioners in China have not committed any crime either - yet
they face torture and death simply because of their peaceful beliefs. And
when exposing the atrocities committed against Falun Gong practitioners is
labelled as "leaking state secrets", how can we really expect Mr Chen to
escape retribution for exposing the secrets of the Chinese Communist Party
in Australia? To expose the reality behind the ambassador's rhetoric we need look no
further than a report in the Hong Kong Standard on 1 March 2005 regarding an
article in the Chinese Communist Party's Qiushi Magazine by top security
official Luo Gan. Luo Gan stated that: "The disturbance and destruction
from hostile forces in China and abroad constitutes a serious threat to
social stability in a strategically important period in our country." Luo Gan further stated that intelligence work must be stepped up to "smash
their activities". He also said: "We must insist on actively attacking them,
as soon as they emerge, to take early action to keep the enemies under
control." Luo called once again for renewed efforts to eradicate Falun Gong.
In addition, CCP ideologues have reprimanded the Foreign Ministry for being
rife with "political corruption" and called for more political education in
the diplomatic corps. Journalist Catherine Armitage suggested in Monday's Australian that: "If he
is ever repatriated, Mr Chen will probably be whisked from the airport
direct to jail." We know of no reason to disagree with that statement and
would therefore request that the Australian Government uphold the principles
of liberty, compassion and "a fair go", which constitute the foundations of
our democracy, and immediately grant Mr Chen asylum. Yours sincerely
Falun Dafa Association of New South Wales Posting date: 6/10/2005 |