By Li Zhiqing
(Clearwisdom.net) In late May 2006, European Parliament Vice President
Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott conducted an investigation in Beijing. He met with
many European diplomats, representatives of NGOs in China, and two Falun Gong
practitioners. Falun Gong practitioner Cao Dong disappeared after that meeting.
It has been reported that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents have arrested
him. The regime is closely monitoring another Falun Gong practitioner, Niu
Jinping, right now. Mr. McMillan-Scott had no choice but to call an emergency
meeting with the CCP ambassador to the European Parliament. Incredulously, American businessman Steven Gigliotti was abducted mafia-style
soon after McMillan-Scott's meeting with the Falun Gong practitioners ended,
because he helped arrange the meeting. He was detained and interrogated for 24
hours and then deported. After Steven Gigliotti sent a message "I'm
arrested" to a friend in the U.S.A. on his cell phone, a related CCP agency
told the U.S. ambassador in Beijing that the CCP regime was not aware of the
abduction, that they knew nothing of this incident or such a person as Steven
Gigliotti. Why did the CCP dare to face world condemnation for arresting a Falun Gong
practitioner simply because of a brief meeting, and then abducting and deporting
a U.S. citizen? What is the CCP afraid of? It has been reported that Mr. McMillan-Scott listened to Falun Gong
practitioners' testimonies. The CCP had once detained both Falun Gong practitioners. 36-year-old Cao Gong
was detained for four years, while his wife Yang Xiaojing is still incarcerated.
He and other Falun Gong practitioners were brutally tortured in prison. Another Falun Gong practitioner who met with Mr. McMillan had been detained
for two years and learned during detention that more than thirty Falun Gong
practitioners had been beaten to death. His wife, Zhang Lianying, previously
worked as a registered accountant and a division head for the China Everbright
Group. She is being held at a custody center in Beijing. Her face is deformed
from the persecution. She is barely recognizable due to the torture to which she
is subjected, and her mind is muddled at times. Her life is in danger. In the past seven years, the Minghui/Clearwisdom website has verified nearly
3,000 torture deaths of Falun Gong practitioners. The CCP has always boasted to
the public of "education" policies toward Falun Gong practitioners
that resemble "a gentle spring breeze and a sprinkling of rain" and
vehemently denies that the persecution exists. The CCP also denies Falun Gong
practitioners' accusations against the CCP's Jiang regime and their accomplices.
All of these were achieved through an extreme information blockade and direct
slanderous attacks on the victims. The facts about the persecution of Falun Gong are the CCP's biggest secrets.
As vice-president of the European Parliament, Mr. McMillan-Scott listened
firsthand to the victims' testimonies. His words as a witness will help reveal
the facts regarding the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. When the facts emerge,
all lies will instantly disintegrate, no matter how flawlessly they have been
contrived or complex they may be on the surface. Perhaps this is the reason why
the CCP became flustered after Mr. McMillan-Scott met with Falun Gong
practitioners, and thus retaliated by arresting the Falun Gong practitioners,
even though the world already has considerable understanding of the persecution.
Of course, it's also a natural behavior for the CCP as it faces its end. During an interview with reporters, Mr. McMillan-Scott said that the CCP is a
system of "atrocities, despotism and bigotry." Indeed, for anyone who
knows about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, this conclusion
is not hard to deduce. This might help us explain why the CCP is so scared of
the Chinese people learning the truth about Falun Gong, and of the international
community investigating the truth. The truth about Falun Gong is the gallows
rope around the CCP's neck. During the past seven years, the CCP has spared no resources in blocking and
covering up the truth and through the most brutal means has been consistently
arresting and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners who clarify the
truth to the Chinese society and expose the truth to the world. In March 2002, after Falun Gong truth clarification videos, including "Falun
Dafa Around the World" and "Self-Immolation or Staged Act?" were
broadcast on eight cable channels in Changchun City of Jilin Province, Jiang
Zemin, who launched the persecution, immediately issued a secret order to
"kill with no exceptions" regarding the Falun Gong practitioners who
tapped into the cable system. Soon, Jilin Province police illegally arrested
more than 5,000 Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun City, and the police
issued orders to open fire on Falun Gong practitioners who were seen
disseminating the truth about Falun Gong in the streets. During the large-scale
arrest, at least six practitioners were beaten to death, and another fifteen
practitioners were illegally sentenced to prison terms from between
four and twenty years. This included Liu Chengjun, the leader of the project,
Lei Ming and Liang Zhenxing. It's difficult to imagine such brutal persecution
against an act designed to uphold people's right to information through peaceful
means. Among the nearly 3,000 torture deaths of Falun Gong practitioners verified by
the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, many were murdered for clarifying the truth.
Such brutality can only be explained by the perpetrators' fear of the exposure
of the facts. After the CCP's crimes of mass harvesting living Falun Gong practitioners'
organs came to light, the CCP denied all charges while speeding up its organ
transplant program to destroy evidence. The regime also refused to issue visas
to members of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, an
international organization. If harvesting organs from living Falun Gong
practitioners really didn't exist, why wouldn't the CCP be open to international
investigations to prove its innocence? What is it really afraid of? Denying and covering up the persecution, refusing investigations and
continuously denigrating Falun Gong's truth clarification efforts while
launching brutal retaliation has become the typical strategy of the CCP in
dealing with Falun Gong. By these methods, the CCP barely clings to life. The
CCP probably knows very well that one day the truth will be laid bare before the
world, no matter how it denies, covers up, rejects and denigrates. As for now,
the CCP counts its remaining days and tries to maintain its lies for as long as
it can. In the past seven years, Falun Gong practitioners' persistent truth
clarification poked holes in the CCP's most highly guarded red zone, and the
truth about the persecution against Falun Gong is widely known in the world.
From a certain perspective, this recent meeting between the European Parliament
VP Mr. McMillan-Scott and Falun Gong practitioners shows the just attention and
support toward Falun Gong around the world. Not too long ago, some political
dignitaries and renowned lawyers in Canada formed an independent investigation
group regarding the live organ harvesting and have started to collect evidence. Truly frightening things for the CCP lie ahead. We hope that those who
participate in the persecution can see through the CCP's façade from their
reactions and make the right choice for themselves. There is a world of
difference between a good thought and an evil thought. Those with evil thoughts
should "Throw away your knife" and cooperate with international
investigations. It will mark the beginning of self-redemption.
Cao Dong and his wife Yang Xiaojing
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/3/129501.html