Jiang Zemin's Criminal Regime's "Implication" Policy: Three Generations in a Falun Gong Practitioner's Family Cannot Join the Army

On November 4, 2001, at a conscription meeting, the director of the town's military department declared publicly that the so-called "instruction from top-level government" state that family members within three generations of Falun Gong practitioners cannot enroll in the army. This was the third year he announced the same policy. The regulation for military enrollment also applied in the years 1999 and 2000, when the same rule was in effect. This regulation actually violates the "Law of Military Service" and citizens' basic civil rights. Many colleagues in the town considered the policy an "implication policy." However out of fear of the high-handed policy, people dare not say anything. This situation is very common in China.

Editor's note: In China, due to the discriminatory "residence policy," farmers only have two ways to change their agricultural residency status - by either attending a university or enrolling in the army. Only in these two ways could they obtain legal city residency status and therefore make a living in a city. Since the number of universities in China is very limited and the competition is very tough, enrolling in the army almost becomes the only way open for a farmer to change his agriculture residency to city residency status.

Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/19/15905.html