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May 03, 2000

AP: China Ignoring Jail Torture

Today: May 03, 2000 at 9:41:20 PDT

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING (AP) -- Beatings, forced labor, bad food and poor medical treatment are common in Chinese prisons, indicating the government has failed to honor commitments to curb torture, a human rights group said today.

European and American Practitioners Propose to Proclaim May 13th as "World Falun Dafa Day"

Respected overseas fellow practitioners,

In the month of May eight years ago, our Teacher started imparting Falun Dafa to the general public, and henceforth started a new chapter in the history of the purification of mankind' heart and soul, cleaning-up of the universe, and reconstruction of the entire cosmos.

The Most Precious Gift

Hello! I would like to thank everybody for giving me the opportunity to share my experiences with you today. My name is Alejandro Centurion, I am 29 years old, and it was just about a year ago on April 26 that I first heard about Falun Dafa. That was a day I will never forget. I was then doing my medical internship at Tulane University. I had gone into the library looking for an article before starting my afternoon endocrinology clinic. As I was walking outside, back to clinic, my eyes were drawn towards the cover of the NY times lying on a table. I sat down and started to read the cover story, which talked about a peaceful gathering of 10,000 practitioners of a Qigong group called Falun Dafa at Zhongnanhai in Beijing. The overall tone of the article was fairly negative, as it referred to this group as a cult. This surprised me because I was familiar with Qigong practices, and knew that these ancient health-promoting exercises were very far away from anything that could justify them being labeled as a cult or sect. Also, having grown up in a half/Cuban household I was familiar with Communist media tactics, and knew that if a communist regime was making a big effort to label something as evil, it was probably actually something very good. During the clinic that afternoon clinic I was intrigued by this large Qigong group with over 70 million practitioners. Something inside told me to look more deeply into it, but I was not quite sure how. Then I remembered that the NY times article mentioned this group used the Internet, so after clinic I went back to look for the newspaper to see if I could find the mentioning of a website. Since there wasn’t any, I wrote "Falun Dafa" on a piece of paper, went down to the computer room, and punched this name into the search. I still recall how beautiful the three golden Chinese characters (Zhen, Shan, Ren) (Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance) appeared on the first screen I found. I downloaded one of the books, and as I scrolled down the screen through the Lunyu, an "indescribable" rush of warmth came upon me. The words seemed somehow familiar, they rang so true, and were so profound. At that moment I knew, at a subconscious level, that I had stumbled upon something extraordinary. Falun Dafa however, has turned out to be even more magnificent and wonderful than I could have ever imagined.

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