(Clearwisdom.net)
To Lessening the Pressure on Practitioners in China
The United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office has published its Human Rights Annual Report for the Year 2001. The report says, "The overall human rights situation in China continues to be a matter of serious concern... There are credible reports of many thousands of adherents detained without trial for 're-education'."
Two U.S. senators from Massachusetts, Edward Kennedy and John Kerry, jointly wrote a letter to Falun Gong practitioners and said the SOS walk would raise awareness about the plight of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
U.S. Congressman Peter Hoekstra wrote a letter to Falun Gong practitioners on October 4 and said he supported the SOS global walk.
A newspaper in the City of Motala, Sweden published a Falun Gong practitioner's article, which pointed out that the mistreatment and persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is escalating.
A large photo exposition "Journey of Falun Dafa" in YanKao Township, Nakano County, Japan, successfully concluded on October 22. A Japanese visitor said they witnessed police officers beating Falun Gong practitioners in Tiananmen Square.
The Borough of Park Ridge, New Jersey, passed a resolution proclaiming Falun Gong and condemning the Chinese government's persecution.
Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, officials praised the Falun Gong practitioners who participated in the "Global Rescue Walk."
The Township of Nairn and Hyman and the Township of the North Shore in Canada wrote letters to the Canadian Prime Minister on October 11 and 15, respectively, calling for stopping the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. The City of Thessalon and Township of Sables-Spanish Rivers officials wrote letters to Falun Gong practitioners on October 17 supporting the "SOS! Global RescueWalk."
Breaking Through the Chinese Government's information Blockade
On August 18, New York area practitioners held a large photo exhibition and truth-clarifying activity in the local China Town's Confucius Plaza.
On October 28, 2001, practitioners in Australia broadcast a Dafa radio station program to tourist groups from China, to clarify the truth of the "self-immolation incident" in Tiananmen Square. On October 28, two years ago, dozens of Falun Gong practitioners held a "China Falun Dafa Press Conference" in Beijing. That was the first time the truth of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners was clarified to the overseas media. This information astounded the world.
On October 24, "United Nations Day," Falun Gong practitioners in Sweden saluted practitioners in China and promised to continue spreading their courageous feats to people all over the world.
Powerful Righteous Thoughts
Key point to share, No. 1: Do not forget to use your initiative when eliminating the evil while clarifying the truth. When we clarify the truth, we send forth the righteous thoughts to prevent the evil from seeing us. This way we are aware of the strength of the evil forces and know their presence, but we did not take the initiative to eliminate it. Actually it is the evil that should be worrying, "Do not let me encounter Falun Gong practitioners."
Key point to share, No. 2: Send forth righteous thoughts at all times. We had better sit with a clear mind, send forth righteous thoughts and eliminate the evil to exhibit the mighty and divine power of Dafa when we hear of the evil force torturing practitioners, damaging Dafa or practitioners having trouble in clarifying the truth.
On October 7, two practitioners from Southern China went to Tiananmen Square. In Tiananmen Square, together with all other practitioners coming from different areas and regions, they unfurled banners and spoke loudly, "Falun Dafa is Good. Falun Dafa is the Righteous Fa. Reclaim the Reputation of Our Teacher," which effectively suffocated the evil.
On October 12, over 20 practitioners went to Tiananmen Square. They held up the banners reading, "Falun Dafa is Good," and spoke loudly, "Falun Dafa is Good. Falun Dafa is a Righteous Fa. Restore Dafa's Reputation. Restore the Reputation to Master Li." The great scene awakened the people.
Falun Gong in Japan. The understandings of 5 practitioners who are participating in the SOS walk: Clarify the truth to the deceived people with compassion. But for the evils in other dimensions, we should resolvedly eliminate them.
With determined righteous thoughts, a Chinese practitioner walked out of a brainwashing class twice.
During an interrogation, the "inquisitor" dares not turn his back, to look into the practitioner's eyes. In the light of Truth illumination the practitioner emanates with righteous thoughts, the evil is frightened and eliminated.
Latest News from China
Shuanghe Women Labor Camp of Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang Province, imposed cruel tortures on Falun Gong practitioners. Some practitioners were tortured to death in 'small cells'. They handcuffed two practitioners for 21 days. During this period of time, they never allowed them to eat enough food, wash or bathe, and also forbade them to sleep. The skin of their wrists had been rubbed raw and lacerated by the handcuffs many times.
The '6-10' Office of Fengyun County of Tangshan City, Hebei Province recently took a series of new despicable means to persecute practitioners. They cut down practitioners' financial sources by forcibly taking away their salaries and deposit books and used that seized money as the 'operation funds' of '6-10' Office.
A practitioner went shopping in a store and found that the storekeeper suffered from severe asthma. After talking with her about Falun Gong, the storekeeper immediately expressed her interest in learning Falun Gong.
'The 6-10' Office of Jining, Shandong Province, recently held a citywide brainwashing class. They violently kidnapped many practitioners from about 20 counties and cities. A 3 year-old kid was even forced to attend this class as well
The information about the murderers who beat to death practitioner Liu Lianyi in Jing County, Hebei Province, are listed as follows: The head of Lianzhen Township Police Station died from a illness last August. The head of Liang Township Police Station and another officer suffered in a car accident last year and were sent to a hospital. The officer suffered two broken ribs as a result.
On October 26, 2001, practitioners living in a city of northeastern China took action to validate Dafa with wisdom. They posted lots of banners in the entire city during the night and almost every family received literatureclarifying the truth. More than 20 ten-kilometer long banners, carried by huge helium balloons, were hung up in the air in front of the provincial governmental office building, department stores and highway bridges.
A practitioner in Anhui Province posted a "Falun Dafa is Good!" banner on a display case that contained items slandering Dafa. He also attached a piece of advice on it saying that "Please immediately change the displayed contents otherwise you will be rewarded with retribution!" A few days later, it was found that the slanderous contents inside the showcase have been replaced.
The Public Security Bureau of Fuyuan County set up road checkpoints since last spring. They forced each passenger to curse Falun Dafa and as a result, complaints were heard everywhere. The telephone number of this Public Security Bureau is 86-454-2132538. We hereby appeal all people with sense of justice to condemn such despicable behavior.
On October 26, 2001, two practitioners were blocked by two plainclothes policemen in a hallway when they were distributing truth-clarifying literature. Practitioners started sending forth righteous thoughts. Seeing a blinding flash of golden light, the two policemen who were throwing themselves at those practitioners attempting to catch them, both lost the sight of their eyes immediately. It was heard that afterwards the doctor who examined the two policemenwas was unable to find any problems with their eyes.
Many practitioners from Northeastern China had been kidnapped by the police when they were validating Dafa in Tiananmen Square in October this year.
Fifty-five people solemnly stated that what they have been forced to write down in brainwashing classes are invalid and they will redouble their efforts to speak out the truth and disclose the persecutors' viciousness to the public. Many primary school students also declared that those anti-Falun Gong signatures and articles they have been forced to sign under high pressure from their schools are completely invalid.
Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp in Zizhong, Sichuan Province, forced and instigated criminal inmates to brutally beat Falun Gong practitioners. They treated those practitioners who never gave in to their persecutions with various physical punishments at all times. They forced practitioners to raise both hands and to stand facing the wall. They also separated them from the outside world by forbidding visits from practitioners' relatives.
It was heard that Zhou Kaidong, the head of the Beijing Labor Camp Bureau died suddenly. Zhou was notorious for his performance in cruelly persecuting Falun Gong. In may, 2001, he was arrested due to his own corruption case. It proved again that the evil will meet with evil.
The public security departments of Chongxing City continued searching for and arresting Falun Gong practitioners. They attempted to find out every practitioner by checking each family one by one. Hundreds of thousands of practitioners have been forcibly sent to brainwashing classes and many of practitioners suffered illegal sentencing.
Xishanping Labor Camp of Chongqing City brutally beat practitioners and locked them up in water dungeons. Even 70 year-old people and the level-four disabled have suffered those tortures. On May 30, 2001, twenty-two year old practitioner Li Zetao was beaten to death.
Practitioner Yang Yining, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and his fiancée were arrested again. Yang had been sent to Hehui Mental Disorder Hospital before and had been tortured by forcibly administered high dose medication for about three months.
Clarifying the Truth Overseas
Falun Gong practitioners in Russia were invited to an elementary school to introduce Falun Dafa to all the teachers and students.
Shenhu News, Nippon News Today, Kyoto News in Japan gave favorable reports on the activities of Falun Gong practitioners on their " SOS! RescueWalk."
Before the dialogue on human rights between Australia and China, Falun Gong practitioners submitted a letter on October 25 to the Australian Foreign Ministry, urging the Australian government to pay attention to the human rights of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Zhongshi Electronic News in Taiwan reported on October 24 that over 10 Falun Gong practitioners arrived at Macao to introduce Falun Dafa to local families and friends. Reuters reported that Hong Kong practitioners conducted a demonstration on October 26 to commemorate practitioners in China who have lost their lives or have been deprived of their freedom to practice.
The Tennessean in the United States reported on October 26 that a Falun Gong practitioner, David Lee Jerke walked across the continental U.S to show the world the spirit of Falun Dafa and to urge everyone to pay attention to the plight of practitioners in China.
The Summit in California reported on October 18 that 10 Chinese and their supporters walked from Los Angeles to San Francisco to bring public attention to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in their homeland.
Cultivation Stories
A seventy-year old woman who had been gravely ill became entirely well after practicing Falun Dafa. She has not had a single illness in six years and has not spent a penny on medication.
A woman talked about her almost indescribable and wonderful experiences after practicing Falun Dafa.
Falun Gong practitioners talked about their September experiences of going to the Australian conference via Hong Kong, spreading Falun Dafa and clarifying the truth.
A practitioner in Mainland China witnessed with his own supernormal abilities that Falun Dafa is broad and profound, and that it is an intricate and supernormal science.
