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The Central News Agency reported from Geneva on April 10 that during the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the European Union and Canada expressed their serious concerns about human rights in China.
The warning bell is echoing. Famous writer Zheng Yi recently published his book The Vanishing of China, which revealed the ecological and social crisis in China, and predicted the painful destiny of the country's collapse. The author sadly felt that because the ecology has been destroyed thoroughly in the past fifty years, "Any kind of rescue effort might already be too late." "The splendid culture that went through thousands of years of storms is doomed."
Comments on Current Affairs
Who deprived her of her rightful studentship? Wang Bo used to be a student at the Central Music College. She revealed the truth about Falun Dafa in her school after July 20, 1999. The school administrators were afraid of losing their jobs because of her, so she withdrew from the college. In December 2000, 19-year-old Wang Bo went to Beijing to make a peaceful, legal appeal, and she was arrested and sent to a forced labor camp. She was forcibly brainwashed for six days. After the brainwashing, Wang Bo brought police to hide in her home in order to trap her father (also a Falun Dafa practitioner), who had visited her in the brainwashing class in order to get her re-admitted to college. She used to be such a kind young lady, who would have rather sacrificed her schooling than let her school administrators get stuck in a dilemma. However, the brainwashing class turned her into a daughter that would betray her own father!
Practitioners in Singapore wrote an article in response to Guan Yuqian's article published earlier on the Lianhe Zaobao April 10th issue. In the article, they wrote, "The expenses involved in the making of all Falun Gong flyers and newspapers were paid for by practitioners' own money. Because every practitioner has a job and salary, and since he or she directly benefited from Dafa, when Dafa suffers injustice, they would voluntarily stand up for Dafa. As for the so-called claim, 'they [practitioners] were hired to do the sit-in,' the opposite is true. When people are hired to frame and defame Falun Gong, it is very obvious who would be behind it."
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Munich Branch of the International Human Rights Organization, specially designed and printed a flyer entitled, "Jiang is visiting Germany; can we ask him a question that makes him uneasy?" They exposed the crimes Jiang has committed in this flyer and they distributed it everywhere in Munich.
Practitioners' Experience Sharing
1) For a long time, I didn't clarify the truth to the old lady who is my neighbor. I thought she is uneducated so she might not be able to understand, and neither would she be able to read the flyer. After Fa study and reading articles on Clearwisdom Net, I realized that I could not put it off any longer. One day, I asked her if she had watched the TV news about Falun Gong. She said, "They must be lying! If it [Falun Gong] is really as they describe it, nobody would have practiced it in the first place." I then clarified the truth to her, and she became even more clear-headed. I realized that before, my notion was a degenerate notion arranged by the evil beings, with the fundamental purpose of interfering with Fa-rectification and destroying all people.
2) My brother-in-law and I are both Falun Gong practitioners. He was illegally sentenced to 3 years in a forced labor camp, where he endured brutal tortures. On February 7, 2002, he went on hunger strike, which has lasted for 60 days to date. His health is in critical condition. I wanted to publish my brother's story on the web last year, but did not because of obstacles from my human heart. Recently I wrote down the whole story and I felt that that my righteous thoughts were very strong. I realized that exposing the evil is one aspect of validating Dafa.
3) Making phone calls to Mainland China is also part of improving Xinxing [heart and mind nature; moral character]. During the Fa-rectification cultivation, if we do not consider what we do in the Fa-rectification as part of our cultivation, we would be just "doing a job" and hence lose the opportunity to improve our Xinxing. If we could use every chance to rectify the Fa, whether clarifying the truth to ordinary people, exchanging views and experiences with fellow practitioners, or facing every thought of our own, and consider all of them as part of cultivation, we would benefit a lot.
4) Clarifying the truth at a school reunion party
While attending a school reunion, I told everyone that I cultivate Falun Dafa. All of my schoolmates were astonished for a while. When they were convinced that I was telling the truth, they became excited. They asked me many questions, among which the incident of "self-immolation" is what they wanted to know about the most. The people who were deceived by the propaganda want to know the truth. One classmate who is now a Secretary of the Party Committee of his workplace said that he treats Dafa practitioners very nicely. I realized that if one clarifies the truth with a pure heart that is completely for the good of others, the effect would be very good.
People's hearts emerge after learning the truth
A neighborhood office at Shijiazhuang City sent someone to a disciple's home and requested her to fill out a form. The disciple tore the form apart, but the disciple's husband, who did not cultivate, had fears. The disciple told the neighborhood officer that if her aged husband had something unexpected happen to him, it is the office's responsibility. Later, the disciple's husband said, "If they ever come again, you can just leave it there and I will take care of it." Later, when the disciple was reading Teacher's articles aloud, her husband also listened to it.
Summary of news from China
130 people published Solemn Declarations today, voiding all statements and actions inconsistent with Dafa's criteria that were made during forced brainwashing and high pressure from the evil. They will put forth more efforts to make up the loss, clarify the truth to people and stay with Teacher's Fa-rectification course.
Chen Yuqing, a disciple in Handan, Hebei Province, was tortured to death in the No. 1 Detention Center in Handan. Zhai Liansheng was brutally beaten by the vicious police in the detention center. Zhai was tortured to the point of being very ill, and died soon after being released to his home. Zhou Zhenjie was severely tortured after being arrested. Zhou was forced to pay 2,000 Yuan to be released, and died soon after his release.
Cultivation Stories
Practicing Falun Dafa gave me a healthy mind and body. In April 1997, my relatives gave me a copy of Zhuan Falun. I learned the five sets of exercises in three days, and I felt a light and energetic feeling in my whole body. I later realized that I was so busy learning the exercises those days that I had forgotten to take medication. However, my illnesses had vanished, and I felt energized throughout my entire body.
