News and Events from around the World -- August 18, 2005


Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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  • Canada: Former Chinese Official Han Guangsheng Exposes the Chinese Communist Party's Persecution of Falun Gong

  • France: Report on Paris Event Exposing the Truth - Place Felix Eboue

  • Durban, South Africa: Truth of Falun Dafa Awakens Durban University



  • Canada: Former Chinese Official Han Guangsheng Exposes the Chinese Communist Party's Persecution of Falun Gong

    On August 5, 2005, an English Workshop on the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was held at the Bahen Center, University of Toronto. Former Canadian Member of Parliament Mr. Sheila Copps and other government leaders spoke at the workshop. Mr. Han Guangsheng, former Director of Shenyang Judicial Bureau, Liaoning Province, China made his first public appearance and said, "Since 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been persecuting Falun Gong. It is another catastrophe. Many practitioners have been tortured to death and many families torn apart as a result."


    Mr. Han Guangsheng, former Director of Shenyang Judicial Bureau

    According to a Sound of Hope radio report on August 11, Mr. Han left the CCP and quit all his posts in September 2001. He recently renounced the CCP in public and stood up to expose the CCP's evil nature.

    Mr. Han said in his speech, "The CCP claims that the people's interests are above all others. Actually, the CCP's policy is that CCP's interests are above all others, not to mention the Cultural Revolution, and the CCP crushing the democracy movement on June 4, 1989 and killing many unarmed students and others. In 1999, the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong, leading to another catastrophe."

    Mr. Han said, "The CCP set up the Gestapo-like 610 Office at each level, from the central committee to each city committee. It was called 610 because the office was established on June 10, 1999. The head of the 610 Office is Luo Gan, Secretary of the CCP Political and Judiciary Committee. In Shenyang where I lived, the 610 Office was headed by a deputy secretary of the city's CCP committee. The Department of Public Security, Procuratorate, Court, Judiciary Bureau and Security Bureau are all under its control. Each district, county and bureau also follow the 610 Office's orders. In other words, government agencies at each level are under the direction of the CCP's 610 Office. Thus the CCP gets around the constitution and law to persecute Falun Gong. Additionally, all related orders are conveyed by word of mouth without written documents. Tens of thousands of practitioners were sent to labor camps without due process and deprived of freedom. They were subjected to forced brainwashing and abuse. Many people were tortured to death and many families were torn apart."

    Mr. Han said, "I took charge of four labor camps housing approximately 1000 male inmates. After the persecution of Falun Gong was initiated, three of them imprisoned practitioners too, up to 500. The torture methods used in labor camps that I know of include shocking with electric baton with as high as 15,000 volts. A 15-year-old girl was not spared. There were tortures of forced brainwashing, sleep deprivation for as long as three days, and piercing the thighs with needles to force practitioners to give up their belief. Those giving up under pressure were forced to persecute those who persisted in their belief. Practitioners were tortured both physically and mentally. They were forced to do slave labor. Some of the products they made were Christmas trees, small Christmas gifts, and tiny art products, which are mainly for export. Though I tried to protect the practitioners, I could do little."

    Mr. Han said, "The persecution of Falun Gong is economically devastating. The cost for the four labor camps I was in charge of was generally 10 million yuan (approximately 1.5 million Canadian dollars). After the detention of practitioners, construction of new prisons, purchase of broadcasting equipment and TV for brainwashing practitioners and allowances for wards caused the costs to increase about seven to eight million yuan--a 70 to 80% increase. These costs do not include those of the Masanjia Labor Camp, which I was not in charge of. The cost of the police system in the persecution of Falun Gong is the highest, about two times the expense of the judiciary system. This is just the expense of two departments in one city in one year. In the past six years, the total expense of the persecution throughout the country is estimated at dozens of billions to hundreds of billions of yuan (tens of billions of Canadian dollars), or even more."

    Mr. Han said at the end, "A few months ago, The Epoch Times published the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, which exposed the CCP's evil nature in depth and led to large scale renunciations of the CCP. The CCP is on the verge of collapse. It is against both man and heaven and will be eliminated."



    France: Report on Paris Event Exposing the Truth - Place Felix Eboue

    Erected in 1867, Fontaine aux Lions (Fountain of the Lions) in Place Félix Eboué is situated in the center of the 12th District of southern Paris, a tranquil and peaceful area with lots of shady greenery. This is also a common place for citizens of the 12th District to take walks. French practitioners planned and held an activity here to introduce Falun Dafa on July 30, 2005.


    People learn the true facts about Falun Dafa from practitioners

    Throughout the activity we gave out a large quantity of leaflets to people passing by and also met many citizens who support Falun Gong. Some felt infuriated by the evil persecution, some signed a petition to oppose it, while others asked for more leaflets for their friends and families.


    People sign their names to the petition condemning the persecution

    After finishing reading some French material a lady wanted to know more detailed information. She pointed at a large pile of Chinese Falun Gong leaflets and said, "It's such a shame that I don't understand Chinese!" Then she signed the petition for her entire family.

    After signing the petition an elderly lady asked, "Apart from signing the petition to oppose the persecution, what else can I do for you?" Practitioners told her that she could also write to the media, MPs, and the president, and tell more people about the cruel persecution happening in China. She nodded and said "Continue with your work! Keep it up!"

    There was also a mother and her son at a university who passed by. When they learned about the evil CCP's persecution of kind Falun Gong practitioners, she desperately said, "I will sign your petition right now!" Afterwards she demanded her son to sign as well and said to him, "This is your obligation!"

    Co-incidentally, we also ran into two world-famous top models. Their familiar faces were immediately recognized by westerner practitioners. They were astonished by the persecution. One of them said: "Nowhere else in the world can such a persecution happen." Afterwards, they solemnly signed their names on the petition.



    Durban, South Africa: Truth of Falun Dafa Awakens Durban University

    From August 1 to August 12, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioners held a two-week-long "Peaceful Journey of Falun Dafa" photo exhibition. To clarify the truth in depth, they also held a seminar entitled, "The Brutal Tortures the Chinese Communist Party Applies on Falun Dafa Practitioners."

    The "Peaceful Journey of Falun Dafa" exhibition consisted of six sections including "Peaceful Journey of Falun Dafa," "Falun Dafa Practitioners Being Forced to do Slave Labor in Manufacturing Export Products," "Falun Dafa in South Africa," "Communist Party Extends Persecution to South Africa," "How the Chinese Communist Party Tortures Falun Dafa Practitioners," and "Global Coalition to Bring Jiang Zemin and his Accomplices to Justice."


    "Peaceful Journey of Falun Dafa" Picture Exhibition in Durban University Library

    After viewing the photo exhibition, many students said that they learned for the first time that China has committed such severe human rights violations under the cover of a prosperous economy. They couldn't understand how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could torture such a group of people who simply persist in practicing "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Some students were in tears when they talked about the persecution of Falun Dafa. Some students weren't able to attend the truth-clarification seminar but they visited the photo exhibition and learned about the persecution in China. Some asked when the next seminar would be. The staff members in the library spoke very highly of the exhibition and look forward to seeing our "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" art show next year.

    Earlier this year, a similar seminar was held in Durban University. This seminar clarified the truth in more depth about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong and Falun Gong's peaceful anti-persecution endeavors. After playing the video, "The Real Story of Falun Gong," one Durban University student from China, who is also a Falun Gong practitioner, talked about her own experiences of being jailed in a forced labor camp for one and a half years. She also talked about her new life in South Africa. Another Western practitioner introduced the wide spread of Falun Dafa all over the world, how the CCP persecutes Falun Gong and its cruel torture methods, as well as Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful appeals both in China and overseas in face of this inhuman persecution.

    The audience was shocked to hear of the CCP's cruel tortures. Some students thanked the Falun Gong practitioners for hosting this very meaningful seminar and wanted to try the Falun Gong exercises.

    There are several Chinese students at Durban University. Due to the poison from the CCP propaganda, most of them don't know the truth about the persecution and many refuse to listen to the truth even while living in a free country. Through the photo exhibition, these students had the chance to learn the truth of the persecution, and their mindsets are changing. Two Chinese students attended the seminar. After the seminar, one student who used to have some doubts about the Tiananmen self-immolation incident said that the Falun Gong practitioners' truth clarification was helpful and was awakening more and more people.

    The new semester started on August 1 at Durban University. Students can see the now-familiar Falun Gong practitioners once again doing the exercises in Jubilee Garden.