Open Discussion
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An Inmate's Testimony: I Witnessed the Benevolence of Falun Gong Practitioners in the Dalian Forced Labour Camp, Liaoning Province
2004-03-14"I was a criminal imprisoned in the Dalian Forced Labour Camp. I have finished my term and been released. While there, I witnessed the persecution inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners. I sympathise with them from depths of my heart....Due to slander from the television programmes I felt that all Falun Gong practitioners were bad people. However, once I had personal contact with them, I gradually realised that they all were very kind people."
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Speech from the International Conference on "Genocide in the New Era" by Former Prisoner of Conscience Zhang Cuiying
2004-03-12"After Jiang Zemin launched the persecution against Falun Gong, I went back to China again and again to call for justice, inform the Chinese people about the persecution and urge them to help end the persecution. What I got in return was eight months of torture in four prisons. I had to experience a lot of torture just because I wanted to say one sentence: "Falun Gong is good." I was beaten to the extent that my whole body was swollen; my body was black and blue. The pain kept me from sleeping."
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Speech from the International Conference on "Genocide in the New Era": Brightening the World, One Petal at a Time
2004-03-08"I stand before you today to give the most difficult speech I’ve ever had to give. Because at this moment, even as we speak, millions of children in China are suffering. They are suffering because they and their parents are upholding one of the very basic human rights, the freedom of belief. Their freedom came under attack more than four years ago in 1999, when the former Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin, banned Falun Gong."
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Speech from the International Conference on "Genocide in the New Era": Rule of Law vs. Rule by Law in China
2004-03-07"If one truly exercises a Constitutional right such as the freedom of press, the freedom of conscience, the freedom of expression, and the freedom of association, this person will end up in jail, if not dead. The cases of Falun Gong practitioners we have heard here are typical examples. They don’t cheat, they don’t steal, they don’t commit any criminal wrongdoing; instead they have been trying to follow their ancient teachings of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance to be good people. But in today’s China, it becomes wrong to be right, and it is right to be wrong."
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I will continue Exhibiting my Paintings and bringing Goodness to Different Places around the World
2004-03-06"Falun Dafa practitioners in China are losing their jobs, families, and even lives in order to protect their righteous belief in the best human qualities. Hereby I sincerely ask once more for all kind-hearted people, governments and media to reach out a helping hand and stop Jiang Zemin from persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Let’s end this tragedy now. Let the Chinese people enjoy the same freedom of belief as people in the rest of the world and enjoy their belief in Truth, Compassion, Forbearance."
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Using Goodness to End Hate and Evil in the World
2004-03-06"This ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China has destroyed countless families that were happy and harmonious; a lot of children have lost their mother or father. In China, thousands and thousands of children are still suffering just like my daughter. They have no human rights, no voice and nowhere to ask for help."
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Upholding the Most Precious Spiritual Values
2004-03-06Due to firmly believing in the principle of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance”, Zhao Ming and thousands upon thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in China maintain their peaceful protest under enormous pressure without resentment or hate. In a lawless country, under a campaign of nationwide propaganda launched by Jiang’s regime through the state-controlled media, they are constantly in danger of losing their jobs, education, homes families, freedom and lives.
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Flemish Magazine Publishes Interview with Falun Gong Practitioner and Famous Musician Sterling Campbell
2004-02-26'Truthfulness, compassion and forbearance are the three virtues Sterling Campbell, the drummer of David Bowie, strives for. He is a practitioner of the old Chinese meditation system Falun Dafa. ‘Falun Dafa keeps me on the rails. It made me into a better person,’ he says, when we meet him in a hotel in Brussels.'
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Solemn Warning to Jiang's Followers: Atone for Your Crimes with Good Deeds and Redeem Your Futures
2004-02-23Jiang's group has been persecuting Falun Gong for more than four years, during which time countless Falun Gong practitioners, their families, friends and colleagues were targeted and suffered various losses. As Jiang's group tries to destroy the evidence in trying to escape punishment, can they also undo the anguish and torment they caused Falun Gong practitioners and their families and friends?
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Speech at International Conference on 'Genocide in the New Era': "Justice against the Crime of Genocide"
2004-02-23The International Conference on “Genocide in the New Era”, organised by “Friends of Falun Gong Europe” and “International Advocates for Justice”, took place in Sweden’s capital, Stockholm from January 26th to January 28th 2004. This is one of the conference speeches by New York Bar attorney Theresa Chu entitled "Justice against the Crime of Genocide", which was given on the morning of Tuesday January 27th.
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The Legal Systems of Western Countries Will Bring Those Who Have Persecuted Falun Gong to Justice
2004-02-03Ever since October 2002, when Jiang was sued in the United States for crimes against humanity, genocide, and torture, Jiang and his regime's brutal persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners who believe in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance, has been exposed to the world, causing wide-spread concern. Each country's government and various organizations are condemning the persecution and calling for an end to it through diplomatic or legal channels.
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Impressions After Watching New Tang Dynasty TV (NTDTV) Exclusive Interview with Falun Gong Founder
2004-02-02NTDTV attracted the attention of many overseas Chinese people for having hosted the Inaugural Chinese New Year Global Gala in New York's Manhattan Center. Then it broadcast an exclusive interview with Falun Gong founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi. This was the first time since 1999 that the Falun Gong founder has accepted a media interview. Addressing people who are not practitioners, the Falun Gong founder spoke on a few topics of interest to many people. Clearwisdom reporters interviewed some NTDTV viewers and asked them to talk about their impressions after having watched the interview.
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Chinese Government Media Silent on NTD TV Interview With Mr. Li Hongzhi
2004-02-02Jiang Zemin's group never passes up a chance to attack Falun Gong, but it's remaining silent when the media around the world are reporting Mr. Li's interview. It seems that the contents of the interview struck at the Jiang regime's biggest weakness: he ordered the persecution of millions of innocent people out of jealousy and paranoia. Jiang Zemin's own statement that "I just don't believe I can't fix Falun Gong" is a transparent show of his resentment.
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Jiang's Group Wreaks Havoc in France, Tramples on Freedom, Equality and Fellowship
2004-01-31The latest incident in France is a replay of the Jiang regime's reprehensible behaviour in Germany and Iceland. They are using economic interests to entice and threaten democratic governments. Of course, the relevant members of the Chinese government delegation must also bear responsibility for this act that sold out conscience for personal gain. Their actions are helping Jiang's dictatorship to persecute good people. France is a democratic country, and the actions on the part of a few French officials are going against the trust placed in them by the French people
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Commentary: On Freedom of Belief and Freedom of Speech; Unjust Laws Cannot Be Considered to Be Laws
2004-01-23Liu Chengjun was one of the Falun Gong practitioners who tapped into the Changchun City cable TV system. During this incident, Liu Chengjun and other Falun Gong practitioners successfully tapped into eight channels and broadcast [documentaries about Falun Gong] for an uninterrupted 40-50 minutes to an audience estimated to be more than one million. This heroic incident brought strong reactions from not only within China but also around the world.