Letter to the Editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer: Most Horrific Legacy of Jiang Zemin

(Minghui.org) The Philadelphia Inquirer, the largest newspaper in Pennsylvania, published a short piece titled “Legacy of Jiang Zemin” in its Letters to the Editor section on December 14. Mr. Kui Huang, a Pennsylvania resident, shared in the letter how he was jailed and tortured for five years in China for practicing Falun Gong and abiding by its principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. 

Mr. Huang said Jiang, former leader of the Chinese Communist Party, launched the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, which resulted in the arrests and imprisonment of him and many other practitioners in China. Below is the letter:

“Former Chinese Communist Party head Jiang Zemin’s most horrific legacy is ordering a genocide campaign in July 1999 to eradicate Falun Gong, a traditional Buddhist-based practice that espouses truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Between 70 million to 100 million people have been assaulted, imprisoned, tortured, and even killed through forced organ harvesting in the past 23 years. I am one of the victims. 

“I was arrested in December 2000 while studying at Tsinghua University (also called China’s MIT) in Beijing as a doctoral student and jailed in prison for the next five years simply because I practice Falun Gong. I was subjected to 16-hour-a-day slave labor and tortured with high-voltage electric shock batons, sleep deprived for 30 straight days, and forced to squat for three whole days. I almost mentally collapsed. Jiang’s death brings some hope for the people in China to follow their conscience and stop participating in this vicious annihilation campaign.”