A Businessman in China's Anhui Province Calls for an End to the Persecution of Falun Gong

On November 3rd, one week after Mr. Wang Zhaojun, standing member of the Anhui Province Political Consultative Commission, wrote an open letter to Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, Jurist and Board Chairman Zheng Cunzhu of Jiahe Food Co. Ltd. in Anhui Province also published an open letter to Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. In the letter he requested immediate political reforms at the city and county levels and an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. He called for more people to stand up and speak out.

Chinese People Need to Tell the Truth

Zhen Cunzhu said that Wang Zhaojun's open letter in The Epoch Times deeply moved and encouraged him, in particular because Wang Zhaojun was also from Anhui Province. Mr. Zhen spent several nights composing his own letter: "I was inspired by the fact that Wang Zhaojun could bravely write down his true thoughts. I also want to express what I really think."

He said that the main purpose of his letter was to tell the truth: "I had many thoughts buried in my heart over these past ten years. In mainland China, the June 4th Incident and Falun Gong are forbidden topics, and Chinese people kept silent on these issues. I feel that I need to re-investigate some problems and find the truth. That's the main purpose of my letter."

The Persecution of Falun Gong Must Be Stopped Immediately

Zhen Cunzhu completely agreed with Wang Zhaojun and believed that what is needed most in China right now is to stop the persecution of Falun Gong and bring the head criminal to justice. "He must be tried in the court of human justice. Events like the June 4th Incident and the persecution of democracy activists have passed, and for these events, it is only a matter of how to handle the aftermath and how to console and compensate the victims' family members. However, the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong, including harvesting organs from living practitioners, is a crime, and the criminals will certainly be punished and brought to justice."

Zhen Cunzhu pointed out that in 1999 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) framed Falun Gong with a fabricated event, inciting hatred that's been hard to undo. Zhen Cunzhu talked in his open letter about two of his friends who were Falun Gong practitioners and the persecution they suffered, "...from them I see that Falun Gong is good for cultivators and society."

He said when he was a graduate student at Shanghai Normal University, his roommate, Guo Shenghuan, was a talented student in the Mathematics Department who participated in an Olympic Mathematic Models Contest and won first prize. Later he was nominated to go to graduate school without an admittance exam. After Mr. Guo graduated, he was employed as an instructor. He was well known because he enjoyed helping others. Despite his outstanding record, he was forced to undergo brainwashing and resign from the university just because he practised Falun Gong.

Zhen Cunzhu also mentioned that Guo Shenghuan's wife was employed at Huadong Normal University. Because she refused to give up Falun Dafa, she was arrested and sent to prison. She also lost her job. At that time, she was still nursing her baby.

Another friend of his was Wu Liang, a maritime professional who was highly esteemed among businessmen because he never drank alcohol or indulged in frivolous entertainment. Such an upright person was later sentenced to several years of imprisonment just because he contacted international Falun Gong websites through emails.

Zhen Cunzhu said: "I have not studied Falun Gong deeply, but I have read some of Mr. Li Hongzhi's books. Falun Gong became popular during a difficult period in China when many people in the cities were laid off and employees had lost their health insurance benefits. Falun Gong attracted many to practice and improve their health. At the same time, their cultivation in 'Truthfulness Compassion Tolerance' played an active role in helping to stabilise public order.

"The persecution of Falun Gong has not followed legal procedures from the beginning, and it was a very bad decision on the part of certain persons at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party."

He stressed that the persecution, which has already lasted for eight years, has not only had a negative effect on China but is also deterring the development and progress of the Chinese nation. "Freedom of belief for Falun Gong, freedom of assembly for the Democratic Party, and freedom of speech regarding the June 4th Incident are all fundamental rights guaranteed by the Chinese Constitution. However the Chinese Communist Party has fabricated one mistrial after another, and it obstinately stands in the way of China's progress. The Party is reluctant to reform. It not only persecutes Falun Gong practitioners, but also obstructs the development of the Chinese nation."