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Today, 215 people solemnly declared that what they said and did that was unfit for a Falun Dafa practitioner while being persecuted to be invalid. They are determined to redouble their efforts and make up for what was lost, completely oppose all the arrangements of the old evil forces, clarify the truth, eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts, offer people salvation, and steadfastly safeguard Falun Dafa.
A practitioner from Gongxia County, Sichuan Province talked about his experiences. One day in 1999, some practitioners were promoting Dafa in front of my house. For some unknown reason, tears began to flow from my eyes. Thus I obtained Dafa after this amazing experience. Two months later, the persecution started on July 20, 1999. One year after that, I went to Beijing to validate Dafa, where I was arrested and tortured. I was later forced to leave home to avoid further persecution, suffering many hardships in the process.
A young undercover policeman from the Public Security Bureau of Liaoning Province is a college graduate. After he went to the male section of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp as an undercover agent, he was shocked by the practitioners' firm belief in "Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance" and the amazing power of Dafa. He revealed his identity in public and resolutely started to cultivate Dafa. He has maintained righteous beliefs and righteous thoughts since then, shocking the evil forces.
An elderly Dafa practitioner talked about his experiences while being illegally detained. He was arrested for reading Dafa materials and sentenced to two years in forced labor camp for saying that he would persist in cultivation. The practitioner was sent to Jiutai Forced Labor Camp and then to Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province.
My experience of being tortured: I began practicing Falun Gong in March 1999, and on November 17 of the same year, I went to Tiananmen Square and unfurled a Dafa banner. I was illegally detained at Tiananmen Police Station, later at Beijing Dongcheng District Detention Center, Tuanhe Prison and Sichuan Female Prison. I was brutally tortured countless times.
The heartfelt words of a peasant woman: "I used to be weak and was often afflicted with illnesses. In the spring of 1993, my son died. In 1996, my husband fell gravely ill. When I was at the most desperate moment in my life, I read Zhuan Falun. After practicing Dafa, were my illnesses cured and I didn't need to take medication anymore, I had great energy and also understood some principles of life. I practiced Dafa for four years and Teacher has never asked one cent from me."
Three elderly practitioners at the Anti-Explosion Equipment Corporation in Nanyang City, Henan Province, were forcibly arrested by the police. Their homes were ransacked and they were illegally fined. Recently, some confiscated fireworks stored in the Nanyang Train Station Police Department suddenly exploded, resulting in the death of a policeman and a security guard. The fire lasted for almost an hour.
Falun Dafa Overseas
On January 14, while a radio program in the San Francisco Bay Area was interviewing practitioner Joel Chipkar from Toronto, Canada, Joel sang a song entitled, "Falun Dafa is Good" in Chinese. An audience member of the radio program responded in a letter, "This program was great, I sang 'Falun Dafa is Good' along with you."
On the evening of January 17, several practitioners from Wisconsin and Minnesota gathered at Bolman Park in Wisconsin Dells for the global candle light vigil activity. The only local newspaper, "Wisconsin Dells Events," interviewed the practitioners at the vigil.
Cultivation Stories in Fa Rectification
In December 2000, I shouted in Tiananmen Square, "Falun Dafa is Good, Falun Dafa is a righteous cultivation way, restore the reputation of my Teacher." Since I did not understand the Fa well enough, I was arrested. In September 2001, I went to Tiananmen Square again. With righteous thoughts, I unfurled a banner three times. I also posted many truth-clarifying fliers around the square and inside the gateway. This time I returned safely.
The True Records of a Couple's Cultivation in Fa-Rectification: In 1999, both husband and wife were illegally imprisoned. The husband persisted in practicing. He was beaten by the prison guards, punished by repeatedly performing frog jumps and touching opposite feet repeatedly. After he was jailed in a labor camp for one year, he was sentenced to forced labor reeducation again. On July 6 of last year, the wife was illegally kidnapped and detained on the way to do the family shopping. After being denied care from his parents, their three-year-old child, had to receive care from a family relative.
The story of a previous cancer patient: I am 59 years old and I once had a cancer. It is Dafa and Master that gave me a new life. After July 20, 1999, because I went to Beijing to appeal and practice, I was illegally detained many times. In July of last year, the evil police from 110-patrol team seized my hair and fiercely kicked my body and my head. There was no unbeaten place anywhere on my whole body. I was sent to Tiebei Detention Center. I firmly kept righteous thoughts, so I left the jail in a dignified way.
The story of a peasant Dafa practitioner: Deng Yunlu, 49 years old, only went to school three years. However, his rock solid determination subdued the evil. Whenever the evil approached him, they either got a headache and felt upset, or obeyed him submissively. He said that he wanted to find "X" leader to talk to him alone. That leader actually visited him alone. He warned "X" leader not to slander Dafa. This leader respectfully obeyed. Deng Yunlu left the brainwashing class and did not return because of his pure heart.