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The Chinese Communist Party Turned the "April 25 Appeal" into the Beginning of Its Own Destruction
By Shu Zhen
(Clearwisdom.net) Seven years ago on April 25, 10,000 Falun Gong
practitioners went to appeal at the State Bureau of Letters and Calls, not
Zhongnanhai. The direct reason for their appeal was the arrest of 45 Falun Gong
practitioners in Tianjin City who had clarified the truth to the
media. The actual background is more far-reaching: since 1996, the CCP regime's
agencies had banned the publication of Falun Gong books and had organized
various local media to slander Falun Gong in a well-coordinated manner. The
police constantly harassed Falun Gong practitioners. Even without the aforementioned hidden persecution that had started long
before the 1999 nationwide persecution, the 10,000-person appeal on April 25,
1999 was absolutely not the trigger that led to the persecution of Falun Gong;
it was a convenient pretext for the CCP to publicly persecute Falun Gong, while
this excuse itself reveals the CCP's sinister nature. A responsible government would think about how to address the grievances of
appellants when large scale appeals took place, regardless of the location.
Moreover, Falun Gong practitioners' request was fundamentally different from the
requests of other people throughout history. The practitioners did not appeal
because their material interests were infringed upon; they simply hoped the
government would stop interfering with their conducting themselves according to
Truth-Compassion-Forbearance and obtaining good health. Such pursuits are quite
precious for rulers in today's times in any country around the world, regardless
of the social system. Society would become safer every time one more person
decided to live by Truth-Compassion-Forbearance; if more people wanted to follow
Truth- Compassion-Forbearance, corruption, theft, robbery, murder and arson
would be naturally restrained. An appeal, even on a large-scale, is permitted according to the CCP's own
laws and regulations. The intent of the appeal system is to provide the public
with a channel to express their opinion. Falun Gong practitioners pointed out to
the central government the misleading actions of the Propaganda Department and
the Judicial Department towards tens and thousands of people. The practitioners
followed the law to the letter, abiding by the law exactly! If these mistakes
were corrected, the appeals would naturally stop. It wouldn't have taken much
for the CCP to correct the mistakes, by stopping the interference and slander
and living up to its own promise of "no intervention" policy towards
qigong activities. During the entire appeal, Falun Gong practitioners remained calm and kind and
acted in line with the principles of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. They totally
followed the instructions from the police, which didn't give the CCP any excuse
to launch a violent persecution. We can imagine that, to justify the
persecution, if even one person among the 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners had
acted in an extreme manner, the CCP would have seized upon the opportunity to
launch an armed attack and vociferously repeated it throughout the subsequent
persecution. Examples of this are numerous throughout the Chinese Communist
regime's history. The CCP falsely accused Falun Gong practitioners of "group attacking
Zhongnanhai" and used this as a pretext to persecute Falun Gong. There is
in fact a reason behind the CCP's seemingly tragic decision. Because of several decades of ruthless CCP rule, many people have come to
think without a doubt, "I'll simply do whatever the CCP tells me to do and
steer clear of whatever it forbids me to do; otherwise I'll get in trouble, and
I'll be blamed for whatever happens to me." The CCP is well aware of the Chinese people's warped mentality; therefore it
dared to openly use "group attacking Zhongnanhai" as justification to
start the persecution. Through this incident, the CCP is clearly telling people,
"You cannot come to Zhongnanhai. If you stand here, you are 'surrounding
and attacking,' and a large-scale civil appeal is a violation of the law!" The CCP has actually always fabricated some kind of pretext during its past
political movements, such as the massacre of landowners, intellectuals and
students. After experiencing so much terror and persecution, many Chinese people
lost their instinct to resist persecution; instead, they do everything possible
to avoid being persecuted and sometimes even take part in the persecution for
their own protection. Under these circumstances, people would naturally accept
whatever excuses the CCP dishes out for a persecution. History has progressed to
this day. Many people now know that all persecutions are the inevitable outcome
of the CCP's nature. No matter how well the victims behave themselves, the CCP
is capable of any evil if it wishes to do so. Unlike past victims, followers of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance not only
conduct themselves by high moral standards; they also treat with compassion all
people who have been deceived by the CCP's lies about Falun Gong, as they don't
want to see anyone buying into the CCP's lies and as a result bring disaster on
others and themselves. That is why the Falun Gong practitioners started
clarifying the truth to people in a peaceful and rational manner right from the
beginning of the persecution. They dispelled lies and slander to oppose the
persecution. Because they had faith in Truth-Compassion- Forbearance, Falun Gong
practitioners had the courage to walk to the Bureau of Letters and Calls on
April 25. They have persistently spread the truth and the beauty of Falun Dafa
throughout China and the whole world during the seven years of persecution. Different from the results of past persecutions, the CCP not only failed in
its persecution of Falun Gong, it is now facing disintegration and complete
destruction. The mirror of Truth- Compassion-Forbearance accurately reflects all
of the CCP's evil nature. In particular, since the publication of the Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party, more than 10 million Chinese
people have withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Now that we look back, it is not difficult for us to see that, if after
"April 25 Appeal" the CCP had the slightest consideration for the
future of the Chinese nation, or even if it truly thought about the impact of
the persecution on its own political power, it would not have launched and
maintained this inhumane persecution for seven years. Nevertheless, the CCP
regime's evil nature does not permit it to coexist with
Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, just as the head perpetrator Jiang Zemin blustered
when he initiated the persecution, "I just don't believe the CCP can't
defeat Falun Gong." The truth now is that the CCP could never be able to
defeat Falun Gong. Falun Gong is being disseminated ever more widely around the
world while the CCP is approaching total destruction. From this perspective, the
"April 25 Appeal" was not "the match that lit the fuse" to
start the persecution, but was in fact the last opportunity for the CCP to avoid
its destruction. Still, the CCP turned it into the starting point towards its
destruction. Seven years have now passed. Countless Falun Gong practitioners have died,
become disabled, or were forced into exile because of the persecution; many
practitioners even had their organs removed while still alive, and their bodies
were subsequently cremated to destroy evidence. However, the spirit of the great
compassion, the great forbearance and perseverance in righteous belief that the
Falun Gong practitioners manifested during the "April 25 Appeal" has
remained and continued. Falun Gong practitioners in China and abroad are calmly
and peacefully clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa, exposing the CCP regime's
evil lies and the facts of the persecution; they are opposing the persecution
and calling for conscience and justice. Enduring tremendous tribulation and
making great sacrifices, they are creating precious opportunities for each
person to enter a bright future. |