Who Are the People that Persecute Falun Gong?

Niu Yufeng, a party committee secretary, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

As the party committee secretary of Yingbin Road Community Office in the Yuhong District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, Niu Yufeng was a committed follower of the "Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan group" in persecuting Falun Gong. In January of 2005, he was charged with corruption, accepting bribes, and dereliction of duty and sentenced to twelve years in prison.

While in office, Niu Yufeng monitored, harassed, and fined Falun Gong practitioners in his jurisdiction. With the local political and legal committee, the 6-10 Office (an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems), and local police, Niu Yufeng hosted four brainwashing sessions in the welfare institution in Yuhong District. These sessions ran from October 1999 to May 2000; July 5th, 2000 to August 11th, 2000; during the 2001 Lunar Chinese New Year; and around May in 2001. He is responsible for the persecution of 30 or so practitioners. He forced practitioners to sign Guarantee Statements promising not to practice Falun Gong , as well as to answer questions slanderous to Falun Gong.

While in office, Niu Yufeng used new construction receipts as a way to embezzle 80,000 yuan (Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China) from taxpayers. He took the opportunity during contracting the projects and accepted bribes of 100,000 yuan. His dereliction of duty directly caused 330,000 yuan in financial losses. Because of these charges of corruption, accepting bribes and dereliction of duty, Niu Yufeng has been sentenced to 12 years in jail.

Community office director Guo Chunjie from Shenyang City has been brought to justice

Guo Chunjie was the Shengli Street Community Office Director in Heping District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. He actively participated in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners from 2000 to 2004. In January 2005, Guo Chunjie received karmic retribution for his wrongdoing. He was arrested and delivered to judicial officials as a suspect for taking bribes and embezzlement.

In 2000, Guo Chunjie went to Beijing and brought back the practitioners in his jurisdiction who had gone there to appeal for Falun Gong. He fined the practitioners, and during these years he frequently intruded into practitioners' homes and forced them to sign statements renouncing Falun Gong. His attitudes are barbaric and unreasonable. Guo Chunjie also joined with the district political and legal committee, the local police station, as well as other departments to further persecute practitioners.

While in duty, Guo Chunjie embezzled over 150,000 yuan of public funds, and more than 90 square meters of housing lots. He also demanded 100,000 yuan in cash from real estate developers, and under the name of prize money, he distributed 200,000 yuan of unrecorded, public funds to the leadership members of his organization; 20,000 yuan went to himself. Guo Chunjie was delivered to judicial officials as a suspect for accepting bribes, and crimes of corruption.

A national security brigade instructor dies in car accident

National Security Brigade instructor Kuang Shan of Dunhua City, Jilin Province, actively persecuted Falun Gong practitioners and accumulated much karma. On January 6th, 2005, while traveling on business, the minivan he was driving hit a large tree, bringing him a violent death. There were a total of three people in the car; the other two only sustained injuries.

Jilin provincial sports and athletics bureau party committee secretary dies in car accident

Party committee secretary Dong Tianyan of the Jilin Provincial Sports and Athletics Bureau closely followed Jiang's regime and persecuted Falun Gong practitioners in his workplace since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999. He forced practitioners to sign the Five Statements (similar to the Three Statements) renouncing Falun Gong, and stopped the issue of pensions for retired practitioners. He has also been directly involved with practitioners being forced to leave their homes. On January 5th, 2005, on his way to a meeting in Changbai Mountain, he had an accident while riding a snowmobile and died at the scene.

Editors' Note: In both Western and Chinese culture, the principle of karmic retribution, that is, being held ultimately accountable for one's own actions, is widely accepted. The fundamental teaching of Falun Gong is the characteristic of the universe, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The universe will reward actions that are in harmony with this principle, while actions such as beating, torturing and murdering people will incur karmic retribution. Stated another way, good deeds will be rewarded with good, while evildoings will meet due retribution. Articles such as this one are meant as a compassionate reminder of this principle to those who would commit wrongdoing. While many of those who persecute Falun Gong are merely "following orders," the universal law requires that they, too, be held responsible for their actions, and that only by reversing their course of wrongdoing may they escape retribution.