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Being Kind to Fellow Chinese People
By Xin Sheng, a Falun Gong practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) It has been more than seven years since Jiang Zemin and
his accomplices in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun
Gong practitioners. The day of the beginning of the persecution was July 20,
1999. Many kindhearted people are sympathetic towards Falun Gong practitioners
who are cruelly persecuted. But, they cannot understand or relate to the fact
that Falun Gong practitioners continue to brave danger and risk their personal
freedom and even life in order to clarify the truth about Falun
Gong, and expose the CCP's lies and hate propaganda against Falun Gong. Some
people think it is a lost cause, that it is unnecessary and is looking for
trouble. The truth is that we Falun Gong practitioners do not clarify the truth to
fellow Chinese people in order to vent our grief and anger. We are by no means
trying to be heroes. This does not mean we have nothing to lose or that we don't
know the value of freedom and life. We are willing to risk our personal freedom,
welfare and life to persevere in clarifying the truth to the Chinese people for
one purpose and one purpose only: to be kind to our fellow Chinese people. Since day one, our revered Teacher Mr. Li Hongzhi taught us to be pure and
kind. We are required to attain "selflessness and altruism" in our
cultivation. This is the very reason why we value other people's future and
welfare above ours. Out of our kindness for fellow Chinese people and the rest of the world, we
find it impossible for us to sit comfortably at home and watch millions of
fellow Falun Gong practitioners suffer from the evil CCP's brutalities. Since July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin and his accomplices in the CCP have applied
the most brutal physical and mental tortures ever seen in history on kindhearted
Falun Gong practitioners in order to make them renounce their belief. At present
in China, more than 100 different kinds of torture methods are used on Falun
Gong practitioners, including long-term sleep deprivation and shocking
practitioners simultaneously with several high-voltage stun batons for a long
time in sensitive places, including the mouth, chest, armpits, breasts and
private parts. They use all kinds of handcuffs and shackles, such as "smoke
pipe cuff," "wolf fang handcuff" and "back cuff." They
use rubber clubs, wolf fang clubs, the dungeon, the water dungeon, the
"dead person's bed" and sitting planks to torture the practitioners.
They use leather whips, copper wires, steel bars, thorny plants, spiked bamboo
sticks and "tying the rope" to torture the practitioners. They hammer
metal nails under the practitioners' fingernails, they pinch the practitioners'
bodies with pliers; they pull out the practitioners' nails with pliers and lock
them up in solitary confinement; they force practitioners to sit on metal
chairs, they force-feed the practitioners (using non-medical plastic tubes) with
pepper sauce, concentrated saline solution, human urine and feces. They inject
and force-feed Falun Gong practitioners drugs, which are damaging to their
central nervous system. There are many other forms of torture. Since July 2000, Falun Gong practitioners have continuously been tortured,
injured, disabled and killed in China. Despite the CCP's information blockade,
we have managed to verify that, as of August 25, 2006, at least 2,943 Falun Gong
practitioners had been tortured to death. 54.47% of them were female and 56.96%
of them were senior citizens. On the average, 34 Falun Gong practitioners are
verified as being tortured to death every month. The deaths occur across China
in over 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. According to The Falun Gong Report 2002, "In the persecution of
Falun Gong, the PRC government's violence against women has reached an extreme,
both in terms of its prevalence and of cruelty to the victims. Police brutality
against women is so rampant that very few of the hundreds of thousands of
detained female Falun Gong practitioners have been spared form some form of
violations, such as the humiliation of being stripped naked (sometimes for
extended periods), the denial of sanitary napkins, sexual humiliation and rape
threats, or beating and kicking to breasts and genitals. In more severe cases,
female practitioners were raped or gang raped by police, shocked by electric
batons inserted into the vagina, tortured by forceful scraping with hard brushes
inserted into the vagina, or were stripped naked and thrown into the male
criminal jail cells. One woman who has survived these grotesque tortures said,
'One cannot imagine the sinister nature of the the police.'" As of today, the ruthless persecution against Falun Gong practitioners still
goes on. Additional brutalities continue to befall fellow Falun Gong
practitioners in China. How could we possibly turn a blind eye and ignore such
atrocities? We are risking our personal safety and persevering in our
truth-clarification work because we must awaken the Chinese people's conscience
to stop the cold-blooded persecution together. From another perspective, clarifying the truth about the CCP's persecution
against Falun Gong practitioners is more than stopping the persecution. By doing
so, we are also trying to spare more kindhearted people from the CCP's
persecution. Since the CCP took power in China in 1949, it has been persecuting the
Chinese people. The persecution continues to escalate over time because of the
CCP's brutal nature and because of the Chinese people's tacit approval and
acceptance. For over four decades of the CCP's rule, each time the CCP swings
its baton or blade at an innocent group of Chinese people, no victim dared to
step out and put a stop to it or reveal the CCP's crimes. The victims always
tacitly accepted and endured the persecution. Such tacit approval only
encourages the CCP in its crimes. As a result, the CCP grows all the more
unscrupulous and rampant in its persecution. Looking back at history, that the
CCP is capable of persecuting over 100 million Falun Gong practitioners in China
has something to do with the Chinese people's tacit acceptance and approval over
the past four decades. Tacit approval will only fuel the CCP's evil. With that
in mind, if we fail to reveal and stop the CCP's persecution against Falun Gong
practitioners, tomorrow the CCP might persecute more Chinese people. We cannot
bear to see other people suffering the same persecution we have suffered. Out of our kindness for the Chinese people and the rest of the world, we
cannot sit idly and watch Jiang Zemin and his accomplices in the CCP ruin the
Chinese people's future by continuing their persecution against Falun Gong
practitioners. On the surface, the victims of the persecution are Falun Gong practitioners.
In fact, that's not true. All people share the feeling that the moral standards
of society are going downhill; and many people are going down with it. The
practitioners are reversing that trend by being good people. As a result, moral
standards are improving, which helps stabilize society. If the persecution does
not allow these people to believe in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, who
would want to be kind? Who would even want to be a good person? How could
society maintain moral standards and social conscience? If people only care
about themselves, and do not feel guilty about doing bad things, how can we feel
safe? What will happen to happiness? Therefore, Falun Gong practitioners are not
the only victims; all Chinese people, including the perpetrators of the
persecution and the rest of humanity, are victims. As people who believe in
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, how can the practitioners do nothing about
such a situation? Out of our kindness for fellow Chinese people and the rest of the world, we
cannot bear to watch people condemned to Hell because they fall prey to the
CCP's lies or succumb to participating in its persecution against good people
who believe in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Many people believe that it is an eternal truth that good will be ultimately
rewarded with good and evil will meet with due retribution. Nowadays, no matter
how people look at Falun Gong, most people embrace
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, which are the essence of traditional
Chinese culture and the essence of humanity. On the other hand, what does it
mean to be against Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance? Isn't that embracing
lies, evil, and violence? If you believe what Jiang's regime says, and dislike Falun Gong and its
practitioners, are you doing a good thing or a bad thing? Since good will be met
with good, evil with retribution, what will await you in the future? Even if you
don't agree with Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, doesn't our constitution
give people the right to believe in it? When you are trampling people's freedom
and rights, is that good or bad? What will await you? How can Falun Gong
practitioners, with their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, witness
people being deceived and used and hurting themselves and their families,
without clarifying the truth to them? Rulers of the Roman Empire repeatedly persecuted the kindhearted Christians.
By doing so, they brought terrible plagues upon the Roman Empire, which
ultimately destroyed the empire. According to history, the Roman tyrant Nero persecuted Christians between
54-68 A.D. Nero started a fire in Rome and pointed the finger at Christians. To
further incite people's hatred towards Christians, Nero had Roman theoreticians
fabricate vicious rumors against Christians, such as Christians killing babies,
drinking their blood and eating their flesh when they worshiped God. They also
spread the rumor that Christians were addicted to alcohol and committed incest.
They projected all the Roman society's sins and vices onto the Christians. Nero
even had a large number of living Christians thrown into ancient Rome stadium
and fed to hungry lions. Ancient Roman moguls laughed heartily as they watched
Christians being torn and eaten alive by the lions. The subsequent rulers of
Rome, such as Marcus Aurelius, Decius and Diocletian continued to persecute the
Christians. The persecution was followed by severe plagues. In the final plague,
all the persecutors and their accomplices suffered karmic retribution and died.
The final plague spread to the rest of Europe. The severe toll on the lives of
Roman people finally caused the Roman Empire to collapse. Those kindhearted
people who did not persecute the Christians were spared from the deadly plagues. History often repeats itself. Since July 1999, when Jiang Zemin started the
persecution of Falun Gong, natural disasters have been continuously occurring in
China. Think about it. Isn't it reminiscent of the plague of the Roman Empire?
Isn't Heaven warning the villains about their brutalities against Falun Gong
practitioners? In fact, since July 1999, many Chinese people involved in the
persecution and their accomplices have received karmic retribution. Media
outside of China have reported their cases. People within China do not know
about this because the CCP regime blocks the flow of information within and into
the country. Falun Gong practitioners do not want more people to be punished,
and therefore, they step forward and risk their lives to awaken people's
consciences and righteous thoughts. Like everybody else, Falun Gong practitioners have families, know the
preciousness of freedom, and look forward to a happy life. Falun Gong
practitioners know the price they have to pay for appealing to the government
and telling people the truth. With our suffering, if we can awaken our fellow
countrymen so they can have a bright future, we think it's worth our efforts. A Falun gong practitioner once wrote in an open letter, "Dear Country,
we wish that in our motherland, moral standards could be restored and people
would treat each other with kindness. Only this can bring hope to the country.
For the future of the country, please give Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance
the position it deserves. We don't wish to emphasize the injustice and
brutalities we have suffered, but we will have no regrets if we can awaken more
Chinese people's righteous thoughts and conscience with our sacrifice." May all the Chinese people and the rest of the world have a bright future.
This is the wish that comes from the hearts of Falun Gong practitioners. |