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Overcoming Hardship: Thoughts after Following the Progress of the Divine Performing Arts
2007-05-10
I live in Berlin. I have had the opportunity to meet people that suffered under the former East German Communist regime. Since the fall of the Berlin wall 18 years ago, they have been battling to keep people from forgetting the crimes committed by the Communist Party, as well as forgetting the suffering of the victims. They are still striving for their rights. They are striving for the opportunity to speak. Their efforts continue to remind people who live in the free society that, just as in the past, there people today who don't live in the freedom that som many of us take for granted. -
Who is Really Undermining the Law in China Today?
2007-05-09The persecution of Falun Gong has been going on for nearly eight years, yet it has spread from ten to more than 80 countries. Is this the issue that the Communist regime can't handle? The act of defining a belief as "evil religion" is itself a violation of human rights, and that, in fact is what is "undermining the implementation of the law . -
Ottawa Citizen: Organ Harvesting Is Happening
2007-05-05The letter states that China abides by World Health Organisation standards on transplants. Yet Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have decried the harvesting of organs in China from prisoners without consent in violation of international standards, harvesting Chinese officials have themselves admitted. -
Human Rights Attorney: Will China Continue to Violate Chinese law, International Law, and the Moral Constituents of Our Humanity?
2007-05-04The lessons of history have unfortunately been ignored by the ruling elite in China today. The peaceful appeals staged by participants in the civil rights movement in the United States effectively taught Americans to judge people not by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character. -
Falun Gong is Really Magnificent
2007-05-04This story happened on the road facing the Jiangnan Wholesale Market on Jilin Street in Jilin City, China. On March 4th, 2007, which was the Lantern Festival, the whole Jilin City area had a severe snow storm, which was historically rare. Two days after the snow, the road was still covered with a slippery layer of ice and snow. It was really hard for people to walk on the road because it was very slippery. The road conditions were very dangerous. -
Everlasting "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" - A Look Back at the April 25th Appeal Eight Years Ago
2007-05-02The "April 25th", 1999 Appeal was a magnificent feat by Falun Dafa practitioners, as they exposed the barbaric nature of the persecution to the government peacefully and rationally. It was a magnificent manifestation of Falun Dafa practitioners' broadmindedness, and of Truthfulness, Benevolence and Forbearance. -
Remembering April 25th, 1999
2007-05-01Ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners appealed at Zhongnanhai (China's central government building) on April 25th, 1999 and peacefully requested premier Zhu Rongji to resolve the illegal arrest of Falun Gong practitioners in Tianjin City. It was the 88th anniversary of Tsinghua University's founding; it is more than mere coincidence--there is a reason for everything. Each year, as a Tsinghua University alumnus, I always have a lot of feelings during this special time. -
Article Submitted by a Tourist from Mainland China in Hong Kong
2007-05-01Last year, on January 15th--the Lantern Festival on the lunar calendar--her boyfriend's nephew, who was riding on a motorcycle, crashed onto a moving concrete mixer truck. His front teeth were knocked out, and his nose was torn up. Blood sprayed out of his nose and mouth. He was sent to a hospital for emergency treatment, where it was discovered that he had a serious intra-cranial hemorrhage. His blood pressure was only 24, and his pulse was 196. The hospital notified his family: Be prepared for his death! -
Forbearance Manifests Through Truthfulness and Benevolence--On the Eighth Anniversary of the "April 25th Appeal"
2007-04-30Beginning with the ten thousand practitioners who appealed on April 25th, 1999, Falun Gong has gone through eight years of peacefully resisting the persecution in China. We have endured so many turbulent storms, and it is hard for people to imagine the miserable hardships that practitioners have suffered in the past eight years. Nonetheless, Falun Gong practitioners have made it through. -
Truth-Compassion-Tolerance Forges the Milestone of Moral Nobility - Part II
2007-04-29But on July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members, under the influence of Jiang and Luo, began the genocide of Falun Gong practitioners, people who believe in Truth, Compassion and Tolerance. The peaceful appeal of April 25th was misrepresented and characterised as "a political scheme" and "an attack on Zhongnanhai." This peaceful appeal became the main "excuse" for the persecution. -
How I Became a Falun Dafa Practitioner
2007-04-29I always thought that the Party was right in every respect. I even believed that in the past prisoners of war had been humanely treated in their "transformation" and even more so the peaceful Falun Dafa practitioners, who believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance." But I tell you that I really did witness these things in the prison. I saw the horrible torture with my own eyes and heard the screams with my own ears. -
Looking Back on the Significance of the Peaceful Appeal in China on April 25th, 1999
2007-04-28On July 20th, 1999, Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist regime suddenly unleashed their brutal persecution of Falun Gong. Fabrications from all of the Communist Party-controlled media covered the newspapers and the airwaves. Huge lies filled China and the whole world. Many people, misled by the Communist regime's propaganda, believed that April 25th appeal was the igniting fuse that caused this persecution. -
Truth-Compassion-Tolerance Forges the Milestone of Moral Nobility - Part 1
2007-04-26However, the Chinese Communist regime's Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan group launched a genocide-style persecution targeting Falun Gong practitioners on July 20th, 1999. The Communist Party slanderously called the April 25th Appeal "besieging Zhongnanhai with political motives," and used it as the chief excuse to carry out the persecution. -
My Opinion of Chinese Communist Party's “Political Evaluations”
2007-04-22Several days ago, a colleague of mine “advised” me, “If you want your children to go abroad to study, you should stop practising (Falun Gong) and stop writing articles that expose the persecution. You should not let your child fail her political evaluation and thus hurt her future.” I frankly smiled to him, thinking, “You have just proposed my next topic for writing an article. Thus, let me explain how the Chinese Communist Party has always been using “political evaluations” as a way of inciting their warped views to harm more people!” -
Three Examples of People's Reactions in China to Falun Gong
2007-04-21A few days later, Zheng returned the book to the practitioner and said, “This book is very well written. Do you have any more?” This is how Zheng was introduced to Falun Gong. After reading the book, he found that the book was tremendous. He told the practitioner that he could not understand why the Chinese government would ban the Falun Gong practice, as it was nothing like any of the bad things said on the TV. Zheng said that he would like to learn and the practitioner taught him the five exercises.
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