(Clearwisdom.net)

Comments on Current Affairs

The following is an excerpt from the article "Zhongxin Net Fabricates Cause of Killings. Beggars and Scraps Collectors Be on Your Guard"

On the Chinese Communist Party's birthday (July 1), Zhongxin Net reported that "Falun Dafa practitioners" poisoned sixteen beggars and scrap collectors. Has this website ever thought about what its future will be like after the lies are exposed? Zhongxin Net came up with the statement, "Beggars and scrap collectors are the highest level people." Hence, why would killing the highest-level people be beneficial to cultivation? Only Zhongxin Net would make such ridiculous statements. I want to warn all beggars and scrap collector in China: since Zhongxin Net was able to come up with this on its own, who conducted the killings, it is possible that police and "610 Office"* employees might try something like this again and still accuse Falun Dafa practitioners.

The following is an excerpt from the article "Villains Take New York's Chinatown as Tiananmen Square"

Around 10 p.m. on June 23, 2003, a shocking incident took place, in which villains attacked Falun Dafa practitioners in front of Yidong restaurant ("Palace 88"). We cannot help but recall last October when Jiang visited the U.S. When he saw Falun Dafa practitioners wearing yellow, he said to the police, "Arrest them!" Surprisingly, American police answered him, "This is the United States, and they have the right to do what they want!" The United States is a law-abiding country. Only China's scoundrel government could act so wantonly in other countries. Now Jiang has been sued in many countries. Is it worthwhile to side with Jiang and his regime for such pitiful gains?

Facts about the Persecution

Falun Dafa practitioner Zhu Yuling from Guangshui City, Hubei Province went to Beijing to appeal in July 2001, and was illegally detained for three months by Guangshui police. She was abducted and brought to the Guangshui City No.1 Detention Center in September 2002, and currently her whereabouts are unknown. An Excellent Teacher (an honorary title) in Guangshui City, Hubei Province named Peng Xinghua went to Beijing to appeal according to the lawful rights granted by the Constitution, but was illegally sentenced to eighteen months in labor camp by the police from Guangshui City. Today she continues to be illegally detained in the Guangshui City No.1 Detention Center. Falun Dafa practitioners Zhu Min and Peng Guohong were abducted individually on June 16 and 18, 2003. They are now detained in the Guangshui City No. 1 Detention Center, and are on hunger strike to protest the persecution.

Illegally detained Henan Province Falun Dafa practitioners in the Nanyang City No. 2 Detention Center are protesting the persecution by holding a group hunger strike, which started on April 26, 2002. They were tortured by brutal force-feedings. Some of these practitioners' lives are in danger. In order to escape their responsibilities, lawless police sent some illegally sentenced practitioners to Xinxiang Labor Camp on May 20, 2003. Practitioner Kui Yujuan, Ding Jianying, Yang Guifan and Lin Yan, as well as others were rejected by the labor camp because of their critical physical conditions. Police from Nanyang City tried to bribe the labor camp, and sent these Dafa practitioners to the labor camp a second time, but they were rejected again for health reasons.

On December 28, 2001, Nanyang Oil Field Police from Henan Province stormed into Falun Dafa practitioner Shi Xiaoyong's book rental store, and took away all his books, personal belongings, and 4,960 Yuan** in cash. They detained him in the Oil Field Station that night. Shi Xiaoyong went on a hunger strike without water to protest, and was sent to the Nanyang City No. 2 Detention Center on December 29, 2001. He continued his hunger strike, and was brutally tortured. He has been illegally detained for eighteen months, and illegally sentenced to seven years in prison. He started his second hunger strike on April 26, 2003 in the Detention Center and continues to carry it out today (June 15). He has been tortured with force-feeding. He was forced to do labor in the detention center for sixteen to seventeen hours per day. He has been severely injured both mentally and physically.

Article 23 Condemned by Hong Kong's People

The Central News Agency reported on July 2, 2003, Twenty-two Hong Kong Legislative Council Members wrote a letter together requesting a meeting with Tung Chee-hwa (Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region), demanding him to respond to the parade of a half-a-million citizens held yesterday, and requesting that the session for discussing the National Security (Legislative Provisions) Bill be delayed and that the government examine its policy-making systems as soon as possible. Speaker of this letter, Democratic Party Chairman Yang Sen said, "Half a million people paraded, showing that Article 23 is condemned by the people. If the government persists with its mistake, it will cause an even bigger reaction from citizens." Meanwhile this suggestion for delay has been rejected by the president of the Legislative Council Rita Fan.

News from China

The following is an excerpt from the article "Stories of Leilei and Lingling."

My granddaughter Lingling is 5 years old, and my grandson Leilei is 8 years old. They have both studied the Fa and practiced the exercises since they were very young. Lingling saw many Faluns in the Falun Dafa books when she was 3 years old. She has recited the Fa, read the books, sent forth righteous thoughts, and clarified the truth with me everyday since the persecution began. Every time when we praise her, she says, "It is not me, it is Falun Dafa's greatness." Leilei can recite all of Hongyin and could sit in meditation for half an hour when he was only 5 years old. He can often see Faluns with his third eye. One day, a car hit him, and ran over his leg with the rear wheel. I picked him up, and said, "You are fine." He also said while crying, "I am fine." I asked him to walk a few steps. He was very slow, but then began getting quicker, and eventually he started running. I couldn't help but cry because of Master's benevolence. Leilei cried as well.

"610 Office"*: an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

Yuan**: the Chinese currency. 500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban Chinese worker.

Category: April 25 Events