(Minghui.org) The news that the former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin had died on November 30 sparked celebration among the Chinese public and shed light on the horrific crimes Jiang has committed against humanity.
Below are two letters from two Falun Gong practitioners about people’s response to Jiang’s death.
A Falun Gong practitioner said that when she came across an elderly man the other day and told him about the health benefits of Falun Gong, the man said to her, “Jiang Zemin is finally dead. The persecution of Falun Gong that he started has caused so many deaths. Everyone should condemn him.”
The man went on to say, “When Jiang started the persecution more than twenty years ago, he ordered every business and school to hold meetings to slander Falun Gong. But I knew Falun Gong practitioners are all good people and many are accomplished professionals with advanced degrees. When my workplace held the required meeting, I refuted the slanderous propaganda against Falun Gong. Other people didn’t dare to stand up for Falun Gong, but I did.”
The practitioner praised him for his courage and gave him a booklet about Jiang’s major crimes against Falun Gong and the country. He said he’d read it carefully.
The same practitioner met another elderly man a day later. He had quit the Chinese Communist Party and was happy to receive the same booklet about Jiang’s major crimes. He saluted the practitioner and left.
Like the two elderly men, many other Chinese were also happy to receive the booklet exposing Jiang’s major crimes.
On the late afternoon of November 30, my son came to my room with great excitement and said to her, “Mom, guess who has died?”
I was at a loss, and my son showed me the news about Jiang’s death on his cellphone.
“You should buy some fireworks to celebrate,” my son said. “Jiang became the emperor by stepping on the bodies of those college students (Jiang gave the order to kill the students protesting at Tiananmen Square in 1989).”
I added that Jiang’s other unpardonable crime was to order the persecution of Falun Gong, which has claimed the lives of countless practitioners. His death is a good news for China.
There is a saying that “When good people die, others all mourn; when mass murderers die, others celebrate.”
Jiang’s persecution of Falun Gong has led to at least 4,000 documented deaths of practitioners. In 2015, over 200,000 Falun Gong practitioners and their families filed criminal complaints against Jiang for his role in the persecution. Several million people have also signed the petition worldwide to bring him to justice.
Despite Jiang’s death, the persecution of Falun Gong still continues and Falun Gong practitioners still suffer every day at the hands of the authoritarian communist regime. Jiang’s death does not wipe out the crimes he committed. But it does provide another opportunity for more people to see what he has done and denounce his heinous crimes.