Help End the Persecution of Falun Gong in China
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While Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline for mind and body, is practiced openly in the 70-plus countries where it is found, today in its homeland of China it is subject to well-documented egregious human rights violations.
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Help End the Persecution of Falun Gong in China
While Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline for mind and body, is practiced openly in the 70-plus countries where it is found, today in its homeland of China it is subject to well-documented egregious human rights violations.
To date over 3,200 deaths have been documented, as well as over 63,000 accounts of torture. An estimate of the real figure puts the actual death toll in the tens of thousands.
In addition to the deaths, hundreds of thousands have been sentenced to forced labor camps. Many thousand mentally-healthy practitioners have been locked up in psychiatric hospitals, brutally beaten, and drugged into submission with anti-psychotic drugs. Huge numbers have been forced into brainwashing sessions organized to coerce them to renounce their beliefs. Tens of thousands have been detained, jailed and/or imprisoned.
Torture is widespread and systematic, ordered by top Chinese Communist Party officials to help wipe out the practice. Popular torture techniques include shocking with electric batons, burning with irons, tying the body in painful positions for days, force-feeding saline solutions through a plastic tube inserted up the nose, and prying out fingernails with bamboo shoots, to name a few; rape and sexual torture of the Falun Gong in detention are prevalent as well.
Recent and mounting evidence also reveal that Falun Gong practitioners are being killed for their organs, bones, and tissues, which are sold and transplanted at enormous profit.
An independent report prepared by two prominent Canadians (David Kilgour, Canada's longest serving Member of Parliament and former Secretary of State for Asia Pacific, and David Matas, a human rights lawyer well known for his work related to the Holocaust) came to the shocking conclusion that mass organ-harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners has taken place over the last several years. It appears that tens of thousands of practitioners have been killed for their organs. The perpetrators are officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), acting in collaboration with surgeons, police, prison authorities and military officials. The illicitly harvested hearts, livers, lungs, corneas and more were sold at huge profits to unwitting transplant patients, many from outside China. Meanwhile, the practitioners' murdered bodies were quietly and quickly cremated to destroy the evidence.
For more information about the organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners:
http://organharvestinvestigation.net/
The persecution of Falun Gong has now been going on for 9 long years and reaches every corner of the country, with deaths confirmed in virtually every one of China's provinces, autonomous regions and province-level municipalities. Countless lives have been lost, thousands of families broken apart, unspeakable tragedies and crimes have been and are continuously being committed by the Chinese communist regime. This must be brought to an end. Please give us your support.
How You Can Help:
Speak to your friends, family, colleagues, and elected officials. Speak to media and ask them to cover this story. Invite your friends to join this group.
Sign an online petition at:
http://petition.fofg.org.uk/organharvesting
For more information on how you can help:
http://www.fofg.org/act/act_help.php
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A brief introduction to Falun Gong
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline rooted in ancient Chinese culture. Its principles are based on Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance, and the practice involves slow, gentle movements and meditation. Persons who practice it regularly find it brings them better health, reduced stress and inner peace. The practice was introduced to the public in China in 1992, and is today practiced by tens of million people in more than 70 countries. The main works of Falun Gong are available in over 30 languages.
For more information: www.falundafa.org
Why is the Chinese Communist Party persecuting Falun Gong?
The Chinese government initially touted the Falun Gong meditation for its health benefits and moral elements after its introduction in 1992, and the government issued numerous proclamations and awards to the founder, Mr Li Hongzhi. However, in 1999 the Chinese communist regime reversed its seven-year endorsement of Falun Gong, and launched a brutal campaign of persecution to eradicate this group. The complex rationale behind the campaign can be broken into four elements: Falun Gong’s popularity, the role of Jiang Zemin, conflicting ideology, and the nature of the Chinese Communist Party’s system.
While a common misconception is that the gathering of 10,000 adherents in Beijing on April 25, 1999 is what led to the persecution of Falun Gong, oppression of the practice actually began at least three years earlier. The more popular Falun Gong became, the more resistance it encountered. Party leaders fear any large, independent group, and Falun Gong was probably the largest. When Falun Gong books became bestsellers in 1996 they were banned; when state-run media estimated that over 70 million people practiced Falun Gong - more than the Party’s membership - media began attacking Falun Gong and state security began spying on and harassing adherents. It was in response to these early abuses that adherents gathered in Beijing.
Fearing Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity was overshadowing his own legacy, then-Party leader Jiang Zemin ordered the practice “eradicated.” According to a 1999 Washington Post article, “Jiang alone decided that Falun Gong must be eliminated” Journalists and inside sources have described Jiang as “jealous” of Falun Gong and “obsessed” with eliminating the group. As China analyst Willy Lam has argued, by creating a national campaign Jiang sought to both align power to himself and eradicate a group he saw as a threat to his power.
The ideological differences between the atheist Communist Party and the spiritual Falun Gong also played a role. While religion is again becoming increasingly popular in China, and the Party does allow some religious affiliations, religious groups must submit to the state and their leaders must be Party approved. Other groups who, like Falun Gong, have chosen to preserve their belief system and refused to tender to the Party have also met persecution, including Tibetan Buddhists and house church members.
For more information: www.faluninfo.net
While Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline for mind and body, is practiced openly in the 70-plus countries where it is found, today in its homeland of China it is subject to well-documented egregious human rights violations.
To date over 3,200 deaths have been documented, as well as over 63,000 accounts of torture. An estimate of the real figure puts the actual death toll in the tens of thousands.
In addition to the deaths, hundreds of thousands have been sentenced to forced labor camps. Many thousand mentally-healthy practitioners have been locked up in psychiatric hospitals, brutally beaten, and drugged into submission with anti-psychotic drugs. Huge numbers have been forced into brainwashing sessions organized to coerce them to renounce their beliefs. Tens of thousands have been detained, jailed and/or imprisoned.
Torture is widespread and systematic, ordered by top Chinese Communist Party officials to help wipe out the practice. Popular torture techniques include shocking with electric batons, burning with irons, tying the body in painful positions for days, force-feeding saline solutions through a plastic tube inserted up the nose, and prying out fingernails with bamboo shoots, to name a few; rape and sexual torture of the Falun Gong in detention are prevalent as well.
Recent and mounting evidence also reveal that Falun Gong practitioners are being killed for their organs, bones, and tissues, which are sold and transplanted at enormous profit.
An independent report prepared by two prominent Canadians (David Kilgour, Canada's longest serving Member of Parliament and former Secretary of State for Asia Pacific, and David Matas, a human rights lawyer well known for his work related to the Holocaust) came to the shocking conclusion that mass organ-harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners has taken place over the last several years. It appears that tens of thousands of practitioners have been killed for their organs. The perpetrators are officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), acting in collaboration with surgeons, police, prison authorities and military officials. The illicitly harvested hearts, livers, lungs, corneas and more were sold at huge profits to unwitting transplant patients, many from outside China. Meanwhile, the practitioners' murdered bodies were quietly and quickly cremated to destroy the evidence.
For more information about the organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners:
http://organharvestinvestigation.net/
The persecution of Falun Gong has now been going on for 9 long years and reaches every corner of the country, with deaths confirmed in virtually every one of China's provinces, autonomous regions and province-level municipalities. Countless lives have been lost, thousands of families broken apart, unspeakable tragedies and crimes have been and are continuously being committed by the Chinese communist regime. This must be brought to an end. Please give us your support.
How You Can Help:
Speak to your friends, family, colleagues, and elected officials. Speak to media and ask them to cover this story. Invite your friends to join this group.
Sign an online petition at:
http://petition.fofg.org.uk/organharvesting
For more information on how you can help:
http://www.fofg.org/act/act_help.php
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A brief introduction to Falun Gong
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline rooted in ancient Chinese culture. Its principles are based on Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance, and the practice involves slow, gentle movements and meditation. Persons who practice it regularly find it brings them better health, reduced stress and inner peace. The practice was introduced to the public in China in 1992, and is today practiced by tens of million people in more than 70 countries. The main works of Falun Gong are available in over 30 languages.
For more information: www.falundafa.org
Why is the Chinese Communist Party persecuting Falun Gong?
The Chinese government initially touted the Falun Gong meditation for its health benefits and moral elements after its introduction in 1992, and the government issued numerous proclamations and awards to the founder, Mr Li Hongzhi. However, in 1999 the Chinese communist regime reversed its seven-year endorsement of Falun Gong, and launched a brutal campaign of persecution to eradicate this group. The complex rationale behind the campaign can be broken into four elements: Falun Gong’s popularity, the role of Jiang Zemin, conflicting ideology, and the nature of the Chinese Communist Party’s system.
While a common misconception is that the gathering of 10,000 adherents in Beijing on April 25, 1999 is what led to the persecution of Falun Gong, oppression of the practice actually began at least three years earlier. The more popular Falun Gong became, the more resistance it encountered. Party leaders fear any large, independent group, and Falun Gong was probably the largest. When Falun Gong books became bestsellers in 1996 they were banned; when state-run media estimated that over 70 million people practiced Falun Gong - more than the Party’s membership - media began attacking Falun Gong and state security began spying on and harassing adherents. It was in response to these early abuses that adherents gathered in Beijing.
Fearing Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity was overshadowing his own legacy, then-Party leader Jiang Zemin ordered the practice “eradicated.” According to a 1999 Washington Post article, “Jiang alone decided that Falun Gong must be eliminated” Journalists and inside sources have described Jiang as “jealous” of Falun Gong and “obsessed” with eliminating the group. As China analyst Willy Lam has argued, by creating a national campaign Jiang sought to both align power to himself and eradicate a group he saw as a threat to his power.
The ideological differences between the atheist Communist Party and the spiritual Falun Gong also played a role. While religion is again becoming increasingly popular in China, and the Party does allow some religious affiliations, religious groups must submit to the state and their leaders must be Party approved. Other groups who, like Falun Gong, have chosen to preserve their belief system and refused to tender to the Party have also met persecution, including Tibetan Buddhists and house church members.
For more information: www.faluninfo.net
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Comment by Eyal on January 2, 2009 at 8:40pm
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What is the goal of practicing Falun Gong?
Different people take up the practice with different goals in mind, some of which might be health, stress relief, emotional balance, more energy, relaxation, and spiritual fulfillment. The highest ends of Falun Gong, as taught in the book Zhuan Falun, are of the latter (religious) variety, and include enlightenment, spiritual perfection, returning to one’s “original, true self,” and “attaining the Dao.”
What are the benefits of it?
These are similar to the above, and include thing such as relaxation, better health, stress relief, a sense of emotional balance, greater energy, deeper awareness, spiritual insight, and various forms of religious achievement.
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Comment by Erping Zhang on December 31, 2008 at 7:35am
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I wish to answer the question: why Taichi is not banned while Falun Gong or other major six Qi Gong (meditation) systems are banned.
If one does physical exercises only, the Communist regime would not tend to bother you much as the case of Taichi, but once you advocate or follow an exercise regime that comes along with moral or spiritual codes, you would be in conflict with the Communist Party because 1) you are challenging the atheist Communist regime; 2) you are following a cultural belief that differs from this foreign import: Communism, which has been rigorously eradicating Chinese traditions and values since 1949. Beijing to this day still hesitates to promote Confucianism because a revival of it would undermine the Communist ideology which is already shaky in this day of commercialism.
In other word, once you are perceived to undermine the Communist regime, you will be deemed a threat, hence "illegal" in China.
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Comment by Pia Maria Norris on December 31, 2008 at 6:29am
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Ramsey, here is the website that Tatiana is referring to:
http://organharvestinvestigation.net/
Read especially section 19) A perceived threat
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Dear Ramsey and Alasdaire, I realize that I should have included more information above.... Will answer more in detail when I get back to my computer later. A website that gives very detailed information about the persecution is www.faluninfo.net and especially the following page that has a complete time line of events leading up to the persecution:
http://www.faluninfo.net/topic/4/
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Comment by Ramsey on December 30, 2008 at 9:49pm
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A call for clarification
Could someone please help to resolve the confusion surrounding Falun Gong, particularly what is the original cause for the persecution?
The extent of confusion is clear from the following page on the New Statesman web site:
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-faith-column/2008/08/falun-gong-party-chinese
My questions are:
1.If Tai Chi and Qi Gong are practised openly in public places in China, then why is Falun Gong opposed by the Chinese Government?
2. Do Falun Gong practitioners in China do anything more than practice the five basic execrcises and follow the main principles, so that they could be perceived as a political threat?
Please pardon my ignorance. I have come here to seek the truth.
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Comment by AnjaRa on December 30, 2008 at 8:10pm
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Tatiana:) It is done!
Thank you, love :)
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I'm in sister! This is ....... well.I have no words to tell the feelings i have. Thank you for enlightening me and inviting me.
Love & Peace,
AnjaRa :)
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Comment by papaed on December 30, 2008 at 3:52pm
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I abhor the idea that the government can prevent the legal system from defending the Falun Gong, the news from giving true accounts, and can simply disappear people who speak out against human rights violations.
My understanding is that this is not a “religion” as such. It seems that the perceived threat to the communist 'Peoples' Government does not come from the five sets of meditation exercises, or the concentration on moral character, but from the personal empowerment those exercises give and the resultant activities.
Maybe the strongest way to support this movement is to incorporate these exercises into our own lives. The Falun Gong, as well as the whole Peace movement may be aided by this.
How about someone presenting an easy to understand and follow method to personally incorporate these principles and disciplines into our own daily meditations? This would not feel so far away to those of us in the U.S. if we all joined in.
papaed
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Comment by Willem Amendt on December 30, 2008 at 3:32pm
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This is the last interview with Gao, the Chinese Gandhi, before he got abducted.
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Dear Pia, for years already i'm covering the Human Rights violations in China. The persecution of Falun Gong, as you can see on my Dutch website, is part of it. A few month ago i finished reading top lawyer Gao Zhisheng's 'A China More Just' in which he writes about his thorough investigation of Falun Gong persecution. In this message i include the interview with the co-editor of his amazingly courages human document. On the 22 of September Gao was abducted and disappeared. We believe that is imprisoned near Beijing. Be well, Willem
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