(Clearwisdom.net)
Falun Dafa practitioners from Huangshi City, Hubei Province sent their sincere congratulations to the establishment of "Falun Dafa Day" in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. They have initiated further action to clarify the truth and stop the persecution of Falun Gong.
New Happenings and New Phenomena
Misled by the TV propaganda, my nephew's classmate destroyed posted Dafa signs. My nephew clarified the truth to him, explaining that good would be rewarded with good, and evil would be met with evil, and that harming Dafa is the same as committing a crime. His classmate felt frightened upon hearing this. Without thinking, my nephew replied, "It will be alright if you pick up one hundred fallen signs and post them back up." From then on when his classmate saw there were truth-clarifying materials on the ground, he would pick them up and post them. So far, he has picked up about sixty. This classmate was not studious in the past, but recently he has received 95% and 97% on his class exams.
The saying goes, "There are spiritual beings three feet above one's head." My husband felt frightened by the persecution, so he often kept me from my cultivation. However, he often felt the Gods' warning and Teacher's tremendous benevolence. At one time, while I was reading truth-clarifying materials, he roared with rage and punched me with his fist. Afterwards his whole body hurt. He felt pain all over and could not eat or sleep. Once he had a toothache for half a month and had a lot of difficulty eating. Although after handing his colleagues the truth-clarifying materials I gave him, his toothache immediately went away. By noontime, he could eat very comfortably.
A student broadcasting station at a Melbourne college recently made a program to "clarify the truth about Falun Gong." They interviewed three Dafa practitioners in front of the Chinese Consulate. A practitioner clarified and analyzed the doubts held by ordinary people. The other practitioner narrated his personal experience of being severely persecuted in China. A Western practitioner who joined the peaceful protest in Tiananmen Square talked about his experience of being beaten and injured by Chinese policemen. After the interviews, the students present at the interview noted down the Dafa web site addresses and expressed that they would definitely read the original Dafa books.
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Today, 136 people published their solemn announcements, claiming all they have said and done under this high-pressure persecution that doesn't conform to Dafa are completely void. They also affirmed that they are forever Dafa disciples and will cultivate Dafa until the end. From now on, they will double their efforts to make up for the loss they caused to Dafa and keep up with Teacher's Fa rectification, fulfill their prehistoric vows and will not let down Teacher's arduous and benevolent salvation promise.
Facts about the persecution at Yanbian City Forced Labor Camp in Jilin Province.
On November 30, 2001, practitioners including Wang Tiesong were brutally beaten by vicious police, shocked by electric batons, stripped of their coats and confined in solitary compartments, even locked into iron cages outside, in the freezing cold. In the afternoon on December 4, vicious police brutally beat Wang Tiesong, and hastily carried him out after the beating. Wang Tiesong was never seen again.
Enforcers from Wolitun Police Station in Longfeng District, Daqing City brutally tortured Dafa practitioners. On January 15, 2002, officers from the police station illegally arrested four practitioners and held an illegal interrogation. Wang Kemin was hung in the air and severely beaten for a whole night, while Piao Yingsu was beaten until her whole body convulsed. The abusers beat Cui Hongyi's wife (an elder couple) until she passed out. These vicious police abusers threatened Cui Hongyi who is an old, white-haired man, "If you dare to hold a hunger strike, I'll force-feed you by inserting a tube into your stomach and stab you to death [with the tube]!"
The police at Shiyan City, Hubei province, have recently arrested Falun Dafa practitioners, placed them into brainwashing classes, and even sent practitioners whose physical condition do not meet the standards into forced labor camps through backdoor connections. Five practitioners have been able to escape. The police instigated criminals to capture them with a reward of at least 500 Yuan per person. They even bargained back and forth on the price after capturing a practitioner. Seven practitioners were unlawfully sent to Shayang Forced Labor Camp, where they are enduring various forms of torture.
Wu Xiaohua, female, an associate professor at the Anhui Architecture and Industry Institute (Anhui province), was placed under house arrest by the Hefei police in mid-October 2001. She was later sent to a forced labor camp. Recently she was transferred from the forced labor camp to a mental hospital to endure further torture. Labor camp officials claimed that she could be released from the hospital as long as she promises to give up practicing Falun Gong. Wu Xiaohua protested by going on hunger strike. In response, the officials force-fed her, and her current situation is extremely dangerous.
The persecution of "Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance" is the persecution of the Chinese people. 610 Officials from Hainan Province violently beat practitioners on hunger strike. Following the Jiang regime to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, they have brought disasters to Hainan Province. On the evening of January 21, 2002, a tourist bus from Sanya City was hit by a train. At least three people were seriously injured, and many suffered minor injuries.
News from Overseas
Some of the overseas practitioners who originally came from Wuhan or some other cities in Hubei Province, celebrated "Falun Dafa Day in Wuhan." They hope that in the near future when the Fa rectifies the cosmos, they can meet their mainland fellow practitioners in Wuhan, and study the Fa and practice the exercises together.
During the world economic forum, practitioners from around the world stood on street corners in New York City for six and seven hours in the piercing cold wind and handed out Falun Gong truth-clarifying material to everyday people. They hope that the universal Dafa can be spread in more people's hearts. One Taiwanese auntie said: "It is very cold here, but 'hardship suffering treated as joy' (Tempering One's Mind and Heart)!"
Cultivation Story
On November 3rd of the last year, I arrived in Tiananmen Square and unfurled a banner. I shouted loudly from deep within my heart: "Falun Dafa is good!" "Falun Dafa rescues my whole family!" I heard the sounds of footsteps approaching. I did not run. My heart was extraordinarily tranquil and extremely confident. I did not have a single fear. I walked with steady footsteps and continued to walk in a dignified way.
