(Clearwisdon.net)

1. Chinese Government Want to Severely Persecute Falun Gong (http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2000/2/13/2143.html)

(Clearwisdom.net, report on February 13, 2000) According to sources, the Chinese government will start a severe persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in February 2000, and has built a facility in the Northwest. Their main targets are practitioners who are continuously appealing. The government believes detaining 20,000 to 30,000 practitioners would not affect anything.

2. There Is a Concentration Camp in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Especially Built for Detained Falun Dafa Practitioners (http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2000/4/6/2085.html)

According to the Central News Agency report from Paris on June 3^rd, 2000, a Chinese democracy activist was interviewed by the French News Observer Weekly, and criticized the French government for sustaining their relationship with Beijing by pushing "constructive" dialog. He pointed out that the reality shows the French foreign policy is a failure as Beijing has utilized this policy and caused the human rights situation in China to worsen in the past two years. The Chinese government mainly uses the French for their support. In order to liberate mainland Chinese from human rights persecution, France should vote at the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations to condemn Beijing’s persecution.

Speaking about the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners, this democracy activist said the biggest fear Beijing has is losing control, and that people would form free unions, environmental organizations, or religious groups. Beijing is encouraged by the weak reaction from the western countries. It is persecuting all religious groups including Tibetan Buddhists and Christians. The Falun Gong group developed unexpectedly fast and openly disobeyed Beijing which is why they are being persecuted so severely.[Here, the author is not referring to Falun Gong practitioners breaking any laws or rebelling against the government; rather, this statement refers to practitioners' unwillingness to give up their constitutionally protected freedom of belief when irrationally ordered by the Jiang regime to do so.-ed] He revealed that he knew that the Beijing government had built a concentration camp in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region especially for detained (with 30,000 capacity) Falun Dafa practitioners.

3. Practitioners Appeal on Tiananmen Square

(http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2000/10/6/1238.html)

On Oct 4, 2000 the Ministry of Public Security’s internal information said there would be about 10,000 Falun Dafa practitioners going to appeal on Tiananmen Square, and asked each department to be prepared. All those arrested practitioners on October 5, 2000 were locked in a drug rehabilitation center in Beijing. Internal sources revealed these practitioners would be sent to a newly built concentration camp in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region that was mainly constructed for detained Falun Dafa practitioners.

Recently, most veteran practitioners in Beijing have suddenly awakened and are actively involved in validating Falun Dafa, and their thinking has greatly changed. They used to waver in their belief but now they are very clear minded.

On October 5, 2000, the Beijing streets were strictly guarded. Policemen, armed police, and riot prevention troops were seen everywhere. Policemen patrolled on motorcycles, wearing helmets and carrying machine guns. There were plainclothes agents at each major intersection and bus station. There were many police vehicles parked at each train station and subway station. Policemen interrogated each person who passed by, and as soon as they found a Falun Gong practitioner, they would force that practitioner into a locked vehicle. They filled vehicle after vehicle full of practitioners.

Large amounts of armed policemen were crowded around Tiananmen Square with helmets on, carrying machine guns and tear gas.

Policemen in each district in Beijing went to Falun Gong practitioners’ homes at night and in the morning, telling them not leave their homes in the next two days. A group of policemen climbed the wall to arrest a practitioner last night, as they were checking to see if practitioners were staying in their houses, but he was not home. His wife was crying due to being threatened suddenly. Many other practitioners are missing or have been arrested. There are also secret agents who are impersonating practitioners. We want to remind all fellow practitioners to be careful to see if you are being followed when going out.

4. More Than Twenty Falun Dafa Practitioners in Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province Sent to a Labor Camp in the Northwest (http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2000/10/31/540.html)

During the "October 1" (National Day Holiday) period, the number of Falun Dafa practitioners in Jiaozhou City who went to Beijing to appeal was the largest in the Qingdao region. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Qingdao Committee strongly criticized the Jiaozhou City CCP Committee. The evil in Jiaozhou City has further accelerated the persecution by sending more than 20 practitioners to labor camps in the Northwest, and detaining more than 70 practitioners locally. The Jiaozhou City CCP Political and Judiciary Committee is still torturing Falun Dafa practitioners in mental hospitals. Former Jiaozhou City Falun Dafa Volunteer Assistant Center coordinator Ms. Zhou Caixia and two other practitioners have escaped from mental hospitals, but are now homeless to avoid being arrested.

5. Policemen in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Department Collected Practitioners’ Fingerprints and Hair (http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2000/11/29/2493.html)

Policemen in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Department did a survey ahead of time and collected Falun Dafa practitioners’ fingerprints and hair, and conducted a large scale arrest on November 25, 2000. Exactly how many practitioners have been arrested is not clear.