(Clearwisdom.net) Incarceration of Falun Dafa practitioners is an arrangement of the old forces. Why is it that after nearly seven years of persecution, innocent Dafa practitioner are still being arrested and incarcerated? This is shocking, and yet many people think of it as "normal." Would the harvest of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners happen if conditions didn't permit the widespread detention of practitioners in labor camps, prisons and brainwashing centers? Perhaps we Dafa practitioners should again rationally examine our understanding of Fa principles.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started harvesting Dafa practitioners' organs and cremating the remains to destroy evidence as early as late 2000. This sinister crime has gone on for six years. According to one estimate, about 10,000 Dafa practitioners have been brutally murdered this way.
One can start practicing Falun Dafa on one's own after reading the book, Zhuan Falun, and learning the five sets of exercises. 100 million people were practicing Falun Gong in Mainland China when the persecution began in 1999. From then until late 2000, countless Falun Gong practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for justice. They overcame numerous difficulties to do so. Many kind and trusting Dafa practitioners never returned home from their trip to appeal. Their families were too afraid to look for the practitioners or to petition for them, because they knew that justice is nowhere to be found for a Falun Gong practitioner in China. Some practitioners thought that they should endure the tribulation after they were arrested. They didn't mind the suffering inside prisons, as they thought they could also tell people in that environment that Dafa is good; they could still save people, but they didn't realize that they had fallen into the claws of the old forces.
Between 2000 and 2003, the peak of the persecution, Jiang Zemin's and Luo Gan's group had control over all the nation's resources. This resulted in Dafa practitioners being held in labor camps, prisons, detention centers, police departments, mental hospitals, police hospitals and other facilities. Many labor camps held around 10,000 practitioners. These places became so crowded that it would be difficult for Westerners to imagine or believe these conditions. The secret concentration camps were quietly established under these circumstances.
With these facilities in place, where Falun Gong practitioners have been held long term, the practitioners detained there are not only subjected to slave labor, brainwashing and deception, but also to isolation. The perpetrators drew practitioners' blood samples and did anything they wanted to the practitioners. Many illegally detained practitioners didn't know about other practitioners' whereabouts, or of the experiences of other practitioners who were held at the same camp. Practitioners who shared the same cell today could be separated tomorrow. The old forces took advantage of the kindness and endurance of many Falun Gong practitioners and regarded them as "easily handled."
Between late 2000 and early 2001, the covert harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners' organs and the quietly carried out cremation of their bodies reached such a bloody extent that it's hard to put into words. The CCP clearly explained it with its policies towards Dafa practitioners: "it's nothing to beat Falun Gong practitioners to death;" and, "annihilate them physically." In other words, they do not regard Falun Gong practitioners as human beings but instead as slaves and commercial commodities to be used for huge profits. This crime has happened at all labor camps, prisons, police hospitals and non-police hospitals throughout China. It is still happening at some places now, where the perpetrators are hastening to harvest the practitioners' organs.
In March 2006, after the exposure of this crime to the international community, the criminal CCP group not only didn't stop the illicit organ harvest, but instead, it accelerated the killings. According to a news report by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) on April 5, many leads and investigations from Mainland China confirmed a hastily-published CCP edict entitled, Interim Regulation for Human Organ Transplant Practice. This was issued after the exposure of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners at the Sujiatun Concentration Camp and other similar places, to the international community. This regulation, however, will not take effect until July 1, 2006, which thus allows the regime time to destroy all evidence of these crimes. All investigations have confirmed that hospitals and transplant centers in Heilongjiang, Hunan, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Anhui, Shan'xi and Xinjiang are operating overtime to perform transplant surgeries. Hospital staff members told undercover investigators that a patient should come in quickly if he or she wants a transplant, as they can find matching organs in as short as one or two days, and it will be difficult after this batch of organs is used up.
Faced with this situation, Dafa practitioners and foreign governments and NGOs continue to expose the fact that the CCP is murdering the practitioners and amassing its last blood money. We are racing against time and against the evil to rescue our fellow practitioners and rescue the world's people!
It was already too late when we learned the news from the hospitals and the operating tables, because the practitioners had already been murdered. As long as the CCP is still able to use the labor camps, prisons and other related facilities to detain Dafa practitioners, live organ harvesting and other forms of cruelty, both exposed and hidden, can occur at any time. We cannot always wait to awaken people at the cost of fellow practitioners' lives; otherwise, wouldn't we be cultivating and rescuing people under the old forces' arrangements?
The old forces arranged the "tribulation of incarceration" for Dafa practitioners, which is a very major part of the old forces' overall arrangements, and also a necessary condition for the various crimes of the persecution to take place and continue to exist. We always say that we don't acknowledge the old forces' arrangements and we must break through the old forces' arrangements, and yet this "tribulation of incarceration" arranged by the old forces has affected countless Dafa practitioners. So many practitioners were not able to study the Fa well due to long-term incarceration. As a result, they were not able to do well the three things required of Fa-rectification Dafa disciples due to lack of freedom, because they were shut away from the sentient beings that are waiting to be rescued by them! Many practitioners tacitly bowed to the evil; many practitioners suffered unimaginable abuse including rape, sexual assault and slave labor; some practitioners were driven to the point of mental collapse, and some were injured or disabled. Many practitioners had their organs removed and sold for profit!
Of course, the practitioners who were incarcerated had omissions and didn't do well in certain aspects, and there are complex historic reasons. However, when fellow practitioners are deprived of their freedom, we Dafa practitioners on the outside should learn from their mistakes and do better ourselves, and at the same time grasp the time to expose the persecution, send forth righteous thoughts, relieve the pressure on fellow practitioners, and rescue fellow practitioners from the demons' claws as soon as possible.
When we calmly think about it, isn't it quite common among Dafa practitioners to unknowingly accept and acknowledge the old forces' arrangements? During the past seven years, for example, how many of us have actually accepted the "tribulation of incarceration" arranged by the old forces? If we condone detention in labor camps and prisons as arranged by the old forces, and at the same time oppose a certain form of the persecution, then how can we completely do away with the old forces' arrangements? We must thoroughly expose and lay bare under the sun all places that the evil can use to abuse and barbarically murder our fellow practitioners!
We cannot always wait to expose the persecution after a certain crime has taken place. We should actively clarify the truth about the persecution that has already taken place, to use it to rescue the world's people; but this is only one way to make up for the loss and to break away from the old forces' arrangements. For all the other crimes that have not yet happened, we must do our best to prevent them from happening and destroy all dens where the evil holds our fellow practitioners.
The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG), started by Dafa practitioners, marks a new beginning where practitioners will take the initiative and proactively do away with the old forces' arrangements. Let all Dafa practitioners in the world strengthen their righteous thoughts, join hands and use our wisdom to overcome difficulties, work with each other and achieve all that is required by the Fa-rectification. Let us change from passively to actively opposing the persecution!
The above opinions are some thoughts at my current stage of cultivation, and I welcome any corrections.
