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Number of Resignations from the CCP Soars as the People Clearly Recognize the True Nature of the Communist Evil Spirit
Comprehensive report from a Minghui correspondent: The Chinese Communist evil spirit has chosen to go against Falun Dafa, and it is doomed to be thoroughly eliminated before the Fa-rectification reaches the human world. In order to avoid bringing disaster upon themselves when the Party's end arrives, it is imperative for people who once joined the CCP or other organizations affiliated with the Party, and were thus branded with the mark of the beast, to take advantage of this opportunity to declare their withdrawal from the Party or the Youth League.
Number of people who have resigned from the Party accumulated monthly by the Epoch Times Tuidang [Withdraw from the Party] website (As of March 7, 2005)
In November 2004, the Epoch Times published the editorial series, "Nine Commentaries on the CCP," enabling the Chinese people who have been living under the CCP's lies and deceptions for a long period of time to clearly see the Communist Party's true nature. With the wide circulation of Jiuping or "Nine Commentaries" and people's gradual and deeper understanding of the Communist evil spirit, there has occurred an upsurge of resignation announcements. The resignations from the Party or the Youth League transferred through Minghui net have doubled recently. The announcements received on the morning of March 7, 2005 reached 2,000, including a group resignation from the Party or the Youth League with 199 signers. Another group declaration included 583 people. The announcements transferred through Minghui included Falun Dafa practitioners who have clearly recognized the evil nature of the Communist evil spirit, but it also included ordinary people who have gradually seen the CCP's brutal and evil nature through the atrocities it has committed in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners who truly cultivate themselves to be kind people. Especially after reading the "Nine Commentaries on the CCP," these people felt that they could no longer be associated with the Party, and therefore they submitted their resignations from the Party, Youth League and Youth Vanguard League.
It has been reported that the CCP recently continued to apply strong measures to block all communication networks in a bid to prevent the "Nine Commentaries" from getting into China. The domestic media have all remained silent about the "Nine Commentaries." In January 2005, the CCP launched a "Maintain Advancement" correction movement inside the Party. Great pressure has been applied to people to join the party, while Party members have been gathered together to study the Party's constitution and history, retake the "oath" and so on. But it seems that it is becoming more and more difficult to stem the tide of the wave of resignations. Upon hearing that the Party's consolidation movement was caused by the "Nine Commentaries," the public has been more anxious to read the original treatise. It has been hard to ban the "Nine Commentaries" both publicly and inside the Party, and it has circulated rapidly. Many people have asked travel agencies to have "Nine Commentaries" brought back with tourists, and they have asked overseas family members or friends to resign from the Party for them.
As of March 7, 2005, the number of resignations from the Party or the Youth League announced on the Epoch Times Tuidang website has exceeded 160,000, and it has rapidly increased at the rate of 10,000 daily. Most resignations from the Party or Youth League are from Mainland China, covering almost all of the provinces, cities and areas in China, and including people from all professions and all walks of life: civil servants, engineering technicians, government officials, scholars and literati, teachers, professors, workers, farmers, police officers, soldiers, and so on.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/8/96895.html
Epoch Times: "The Killing of So Many Falun Gong Practitioners Must be Investigated" -- Open Letter by Shandong University Professor to Political Consultative Conference
By Sun Wenguang
Mar 08, 2005
| Sun Wenguang, a professor of Shandong University. (The Epoch Times) |
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Sun Wenguang is a professor from Shandong University. This is a letter that he wrote to The Epoch Times.
There are pamphlets about Falun Gong practitioners having been persecuted to death in plenty of prisons throughout Mainland China in recent years. There are also reports that more than one thousand people have been persecuted to death. Most of them have been identified by name, address and photos.
I am not a Falun Gong practitioner, but I believe that these practitioners do have basic human rights. The right to live is one of the most basic human rights. There is an old saying, "Human life should be treated with the utmost care." If indeed more than one thousand people have died in prison, and that too without being brought to trial first, then this issue should be seriously investigated.
In a few days, the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference will be held. I suggest that they discuss these allegations at the conference.
Some people have said that "persecuting Falun Gong practitioners to death" is a rumor. If it is indeed a rumor, the authorities should investigate it using the names and addresses reported in overseas media. If these allegations are verified, they should report it to the public. If it is a rumor, the rumormongers should be held responsible for their actions.
The Chinese Communist Party authorities treat Falun Gong practitioners who appeal for justice as "enemies." They say that practitioners "fabricate rumors." If the authorities can prove this with truthful evidence - that there are no "people being persecuted to death" - doesn't it show that the CCP is really "great, honorable, and correct?" If the judiciary doesn't investigate such a serious "rumor," isn't it negligent? If the Central Propaganda Department, which controls the CCP's media, does not report on it or refute the rumor, isn't it also negligent?
The Deputies to the National People's Congress and the committeemen of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference should not ignore such serious allegations and pretend to have been uninformed for such a long time.
I am awaiting a reply on whether the aforementioned suggestion is appropriate.
My address is: 250100 Management College, Shandong University
Telephone number: 0531-8365021
Sun Wenguang in Shandong University
February 28, 2005
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-3-8/26854.html
Elderly Lady in Slovakia: "Can I bring you some tea?"
On Saturday March 5, 2005, practitioners of Falun Gong visited Hlohovec, a medium-sized city in western Slovakia, to let people know about the continuing persecution against the practice in China. Even though the weather was freezing, the sun came out and warmed everyone up as the practitioners spent the day handing out leaflets and chatting to local people. They told people about the benefits they have received from practicing Falun Gong, as well as the brutal persecution that is happening in China and has already taken the lives of over 1,400 people.
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People greeted the practitioners with a warm and friendly welcome. An elderly lady came over from a nearby bakery and said, "I saw you sitting on the ground. You must be cold. Can I bring you some tea?" She soon came back with hot tea and warm pastries, for which she refused to take any payment. The practitioners thanked her profusely for her kindness.
Another man said, "If you had not come here today, I would never have known that something like this is happening in China. It is really horrific." Many people stopped to sign the petition and show their disdain and disapproval of the persecution.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/7/96800.html
German Newspaper Rhein-Neckar Zeitung Reports on Musician Who Composes Songs about the Persecution of Falun Gong
By Martin Weis
The following article was featured in the German newspaper Rhein-Neckar Zeitung on Thursday February 24, 2005.
Although his professional training is that of a machinist and gardener, many of his fans remember Michael Hackmayer as a rock musician. He is the former lead singer and keyboard player of the band "Wild Frontier" who played gigs during the eighties throughout the Kraichgau area.
But that is in the past, and now Hackmayer plays to a different audience. He has a different repertoire and a different agenda: he is fighting against human rights violations. He appeared with his friend, pianist and music teacher Jacek Wohlers in a recent concert at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of a Gala event for Chinese New Year. The organizers of the event, a liberal TV station run by Chinese people residing abroad, are not the only ones to hold a despairing view of the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China. Hackmayer and Wohlers presented songs and ballads dealing with the fates of victims of persecution in China.
Hackmayer is employed by the Demeter's Nursery in Gondelsheim, a former member of the Hilsbach church choir and musically quite talented. His musical focus has shifted and his songs have a fresh content. He has become interested in the repertoire of romantic period composers Schubert and Schumann and is receiving voice training from an opera singer in Karlsruhe.
For the past three years, Hackmayer has used music to fight against torture and the persecution of religious, political and ethnic minorities at the hands of the politically powerful in the People's Republic of China. He has already cut two CDs. "Der friedliche Weg" ("A Peaceful Journey") appeared in 2002. It was followed in 2003 by "Freiheit für Xiong Wei" ("Freedom for Xiong Wei"), whom the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) was trying to help escape imprisonment through petition campaigns.
Hackmayer considers songs the ideal medium to "explain to people what is happening in China." He has a personal relationship with China, although he only speaks a few words of Mandarin and has never been to the People's Republic. He met his girlfriend and future wife Zhou, an engineer from Hangzhou who used to work in Walldorf, when he started to learn a meditative Qigong practice in Mannheim. The exercises freed him from his constant back pain, which neither chiropractors nor conventional or homeopathic medicine had been able to relieve previously.
This particular meditative practice had been promoted with the support of the government in 1992 in China. However, everything changed in 1999, when this meditative practice, which is based on Buddhist principles and on the harmonious integration of mind and body and does not have a formal organization or structure, had attracted 100 million followers. To this date, they are being arrested, persecuted, tortured and taken to forced labor camps.
Hackmayer and his friends, fellow Falun Gong practitioners who meet for group practice in the Baden area, thought it was only natural to take steps to raise awareness about the human rights violations in China. He thought it would make sense for him to use his talents: ballads, songs and communally produced CDs.
The song collection "Freedom for Xiong Wei" drew the attention of the IGFM and they issued an invitation. This led to the IGFM gala event in November 2003 which was held at the "Rotes Rathaus" (Red City Hall) on Berlin's Alexander Square, which demanded improved human rights in China. Hackmayer and Wohlers appeared at additional gala events: January 2004 in Paris and March 2004 in Geneva, which also coincided with the UN Human Rights Day. The evangelical Christian is not a fanatic and he uses simple words to describe his activism: "I am taking a stand for human rights. If there is anything I can do, I am happy to do it." Currently, he is celebrating his next CD with some of his fellow musicians. It is scheduled to appear in the summer. In addition, he is looking forward to his wedding. The couple will be married in St. Anne's chapel in Steinberg.
Chinese version available at http://de.clearharmony.net/articles/200503/22509.html
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