(Clearwisdom.net) My name is Chen Muhan, and I am a permanent resident of Australia. I have a Master's degree in Chinese medicine. My mother, Zheng Aihua, is a resident of Hong Kong. She was detained in the Pudong New District of Shanghai in May 2006 for printing and distributing Falun Gong materials. She was arrested at the end of June.
I was fortunate to receive support from many members of the Australian parliament and government. I went to Hong Kong on July 9 and received support from many members of the Hong Kong legislative council. From July 12 to 13, I went on a hunger strike in front of the Mainland China Central Liaison Office and then meditated for many days. I asked others to help rescue my mother. Beginning on July 13, I wrote a letter to my mother every day. On August 23, the case against my mother, Ms. Zheng Aihua, was moved from the public security bureau to the procuratorate. On October 18, the case was sent back to the public security bureau for lack of sufficient evidence. Ms. Zheng Aihua is still illegally detained.
The following is one of the letters I wrote to my mother:
Dear Mom,
How are you? I am especially happy today because Steven finally quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its related organizations.
It has been about two years since the publication of the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party". However, Steven's attitude has mirrored that of the Chinese outside of China.
At the beginning, he said that the CCP was not all that bad and even the children from poor families had an opportunity to go to college because of it. He also said that no other organization had the ability to govern a huge country like China, and without the CCP, China would be in chaos. It was the Chinese people, eventually, who would suffer the most. He thought that the Nine Commentaries and the movement to quit the Party were political maneuvers on the part of Dafa practitioners.
Since your arrest, he has experienced the dark side of the CCP. He received no response to his letter to the members of the National People's Congress, and his phone calls to the detention center and public security bureau were met with excuses or rude responses. He became so agitated that he could barely control himself. When he called his relatives, he said, "This is a dog eat dog world." He now realizes that the CCP will collapse very soon. He can see that if good people like you are arrested and sent to prison, then the CCP is not any different than a gang of hoodlums.
He no longer thinks that Falun Gong practitioners are engaging in politics or are anti-China. What we disclose is only the brutality of the CCP, because the persecution is truly happening. Compared with the suffering of practitioners in China, our efforts are really nothing. What we have done to expose the crimes of the CCP is only a drop in the bucket. If not for the Minghui/Clearwisdom website and the Dajiyuan newspaper [Chinese language version of The Epoch Times], who would help us expose such atrocities?
He often thinks that if we were still working in China, the public security bureau would threaten him to make him remain silent or dismiss him if he dared to ask for help. He knows that he would not have dared to say a word. The same would also apply to relatives of other practitioners. Without the assistance of practitioners outside of China, what could they do? Falun Gong is not the only group being persecuted—other religious groups are being persecuted as well. Nowadays, when rampant corruption penetrates all of China and the officials bully citizens, the root of all evil is the CCP, and the sooner it collapses the better. After he wrote the letter to the National People's Congress, your case went from the security bureau to the procuratorate. He then told me, "What I need to send next is the Nine Commentaries."
However, Steven still did not want to withdraw from the CCP, because he thought that he was no longer a Party member. He believed that to openly quit would be no more than a formality.
When I was in Hong Kong, the book Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang had just been published. I bought a copy and took it back to Australia. Most people from this generation know that the history of our nation as told by the CCP is false, but no one knows what our true history is. We don't have the basic knowledge of our own history, so I didn't know much about the facts written in the Nine Commentaries. Mao's life ran parallel to the events told in the Nine Commentaries, so I use Jung Chang's book as a reference when I read the Nine Commentaries.
When Steven first read the Nine Commentaries, he thought that it was so comprehensive and intriguing that he could not put it down. His understanding was quite deep and he wanted to send it to some of his relatives and friends.
I copied the editorial commentary by The Epoch Times entitled the "Disintegration of Party Culture" and read it with Steven. What impresses me the most is its in-depth analyses of the issues of human rights and social stability that leave no rooms for sophistry. I knew that Steven was changing. I could see it because he became very fond of reading The Epoch Times and more and more concerned about Gao Zhisheng and Hu Jia.
I had not talked to him for a while about quitting the Party. When I mentioned casually a few days ago that one percent of the entire population has withdrawn, he suddenly said, "One of these days, maybe I will quit too." I could hardly believe my ears.
The notion that Heaven wants to eliminate the CCP is quite a peculiar idea to Steven. I told him that we can understand it from another angle. For example, if one more person quits the Party, then the CCP will collapse one day sooner. Many people quit because we distribute the Nine Commentaries and persuade them to quit the Party. Dafa practitioners, however, have carried out these activities with the sole intention of saving sentient beings. Whether other people understand this or not is not our concern.
I sent Steven's statement of withdrawal from the Youth League to The Epoch Times today, and when I read it to him, he said, "Don't forget, I need to quit the Young Pioneers, too."
