Foreword
Ms. Zhang Fuzhen, about 38 years old, was an employee of Xianhe Park, Pingdu City, Shandong Province, China. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in November 2000 and was later abducted by the authorities.These startling tragedies occurred in modern-day China. They happened to Falun Gong practitioners, who are being brutally persecuted, and they are just a few of the countless torture cases that have taken place over the past five years of continuous persecution. [Note: When this was published, Falun Gong had been persecuted in China for five years; it has now been persecuted for more than 11 years.]
Since China began economic reforms in the late 1970s, the CCP has endeavored to build a positive, liberal image in the international community. However, the persecution of Falun Gong over the last [11 plus] years, which has been bloody, irrational, widespread, vehement, and brutal, has enabled the international community to once again witness the true face of the CCP and the biggest disgrace on the CCP's human rights record.
The general public in China, under the delusion that the CCP has been improving and progressing, has become used to blaming the low morality of the police for the atrocities committed by the Chinese legal system and law enforcement. However, the brutal, systematic persecution of Falun Gong is ubiquitous throughout every level of Chinese society and has completely burst the illusion of improved human rights.
Many people are now pondering how such a bloody and outrageous persecution could have happened in China. The social order was stabilized after the chaos of the Cultural Revolution 20 years ago. Why has China entered another similar cycle of nightmarish events?
Why is Falun Gong, which upholds the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance and has been promulgated in over 60 countries worldwide, being persecuted only in China, not anywhere else in the world? In this persecution, what is the relationship between Jiang Zemin and the CCP?
Jiang Zemin lacks both ability and moral integrity. Without a finely-tuned machine of violence like the CCP, which is based on slaughter and lies, he would never have been capable of launching this genocide, a genocide that is widespread throughout China and that even penetrates outside China.
Similarly, the CCP would not have easily gone against the current of the historic trends and the environment created by the CCP's recent economic reforms and attempts to connect to the world; only a self-willed dictator like Jiang Zemin who was determined to have his way could make this happen.
I. Similar Backgrounds Generate the Same Sense of Crisis
Jiang Zemin was born in the restless year of 1926. Just as the CCP conceals its bloody history, Jiang Zemin, in front of the Party and the Chinese people, has also covered up his history of being a traitor to China.In the year when Jiang Zemin was 17, the worldwide anti-fascist war was in full swing. While patriotic youths went one after another to the frontline to fight Japan and save China, Jiang Zemin chose to pursue higher education. In 1942, he attended the Central University in Nanjing established by the puppet regime of Wang Jingwei under the control of the Japanese.
Investigations from various sources suggest the true reason was that Jiang Zemin's biological father, Jiang Shijun, was once a high-ranking officer in the anti-China propaganda department of the Japanese army after Japan occupied Jiangsu Province during its invasion of China. Jiang Shijun was truly a traitor to China.
In terms of betrayal and treachery, Jiang Zemin and the CCP are the same: They are so devoid of feelings and affection for the Chinese people that they recklessly dare to kill innocent people.
In order to infiltrate the CCP to raise his own wealth and rank after the CCP won the civil war, Jiang Zemin fabricated the lie that he was adopted and raised by his uncle Jiang Shangqing, who had joined the CCP at an early age and was later shot dead by bandits.
Because of his fabricated family history, he could be promoted from a low-ranking official to deputy minister of the Electronics Industry in only a few years' time. Jiang's promotion was not due to his ability but to personal connections and favors.
In his tenure as the CCP Secretary of the City of Shanghai, Jiang Zemin spared no effort in currying favor with CCP magnates like Li Xiannian and Chen Yun,[3] who came to Shanghai every year for the Spring Festival. Even as the party secretary of the City of Shanghai, he once stood and waited in the deep snow for several hours in order to deliver personally a birthday cake to Li Xiannian.
The Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, 1989, was another turning point in Jiang Zemin's life. He became the general secretary of the CCP through suppressing a liberal newspaper, the World Economic Herald, putting the leader of the People's Congress, Wan Li, under house arrest, and supporting the massacre.
Even before the massacre took place, Jiang Zemin had delivered a secret letter to Deng Xiaoping, requesting that "resolute measures" be taken against the students. Otherwise "both the nation and the Party would be subjugated."
Over the past 15 years, Jiang has conducted wanton suppression and killing of all dissidents and groups who hold independent beliefs, under the pretense of taking "stability as the overriding priority."
Since both Russia and China started to survey their common border in 1991, Jiang Zemin has fully acknowledged the results of the invasions of China by the Tsar and the former Soviet Union, and completely accepted all the unequal treaties between Russia and China since the Aigun Treaty. Chinese lands covering over 1 million square kilometers have thus been permanently forfeited by him.
With Jiang Zemin's personal history, pretending to be the orphan of a CCP martyr while in fact he was the eldest son of a Chinese traitor, he personally followed the CCP's example of deceit. With his support of the June 4 massacre and suppression of democratic movements and religious beliefs, he has personally adopted the CCP's practice of killing.
Just as the CCP used to be under the Soviet Union's command as a Far East branch of the Communist International, so Jiang Zemin now gives out land for free. He is practiced in the betrayal so characteristic of the CCP.
II. Both Jiang Zemin and the CCP Fear Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance
The history of the international communist movement was written with the blood of hundreds of millions of people. Nearly every communist country went through a process similar to the counter-revolutionary suppression by Stalin in the former Soviet Union. Millions or even tens of millions of innocent people were slaughtered.In the 1990s, the former Soviet Union dissolved, and Eastern Europe went through drastic changes. The communist bloc lost more than half of its territory overnight. The CCP learned from this lesson and realized that stopping suppression and allowing the right to free speech was the equivalent to seeking its own doom.
If people were allowed to express themselves freely, how could the CCP cover up its bloody atrocities? How could it justify its deceptive ideology? If suppression was stopped and people were free of threats and fears, wouldn't they dare to choose a lifestyle and a belief other than communism? Then, how would the Communist Party maintain the social basis essential to its survival?
The CCP remains essentially the same regardless of any surface changes it might have made. After the June 4 massacre, Jiang Zemin cried out to "eliminate any unstable factors in their embryonic stage." Extremely afraid, he concluded that he would never give up lying to the public, and he would continue to suppress the people until they were completely immobilized.
CCP Brews 'Falsehood, Hatred, and Struggle'
Falun Gong promotes truthfulness, including telling the truth and doing truthful things. The CCP relies on lies to brainwash people. If everyone began telling the truth, the public would learn that the CCP grew by ingratiating itself with the Soviet Union, murdering, kidnapping, taking flight when convenient, planting opium, usurping the cause of fighting against the Japanese invasion, and so on.The CCP once claimed, "Nothing significant can be accomplished without lying." After the CCP seized power, it initiated successive political movements and incurred countless bloody debts. Promoting truthfulness would thus spell certain doom to the CCP.
Falun Gong promotes compassion, including considering others first and being kind to others in all circumstances. The CCP has always advocated "brutal struggle and merciless crackdown." The CCP's model hero, Lei Feng, once said, "We should treat our enemies mercilessly, being as cold as the severe winter."
Actually, the CCP treated not only its enemies like that; it has not treated its own members any better. The founders of the Communist Party, the supreme commanders and marshals, and even a chairman of the country were all mercilessly interrogated, brutally beaten, and miserably tortured by their own Party.
After 1989, the CCP exchanged corruption for Party members' loyalty.
"The Communist Manifesto" states, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle." This represents the Communist Party's concept of history and the world.Falun Gong promotes searching inside oneself for one's own shortcomings in the face of conflict. This introspective and self-restrained outlook is the complete opposite of the CCP's philosophy of struggle and attack.
Struggle has been the major means for the Communist Party to gain political power and survive. The Communist Party periodically initiated political movements to suppress certain groups of people in order to recharge itself and revive its revolutionary fighting spirit. The process was repeated with violence and lies in order to strengthen and renew people's fear so as to maintain its power.
People With Righteous Beliefs Are Fearless
People who understand the truth are fearless. Christianity was persecuted for nearly 300 years. Numerous Christians were beheaded, burned to death, drowned, or even fed to lions, but the Christians did not give up their belief. When Buddhism experienced the Dharma tribulation in history, Buddhists also behaved faithfully in a similar manner.The atheists' propaganda aims to make people believe there is no heaven or hell and no karmic retribution, so that people would no longer be restrained by their conscience. Instead, they would focus on wealth and comfort as being the reality of this world. The weaknesses in human nature can then be manipulated, and intimidation and temptation can be used to fully control people.
However, those with strong beliefs are able to see through life and death. The illusions of the secular world do not move them. They take the temptations of the earthly world and the threats to their lives lightly, thus rendering the Communist Party feeble in any efforts to manipulate them.
[3] Li Xiannian (1902–1992) was a former president of the PRC and president of the People's Political Consultative Conference. Chen Yun (1905–1995) was one of the most influential leaders of Communist China. Chen was a Politburo Standing Committee member for decades and was chairman of the Central Advisory Committee from 1987 to 1992.
[4] "Qigong" is a generic name in Chinese for energy exercises. There are many schools of qigong, most of which are rooted in traditional spiritual beliefs. Falun Gong is a form of qigong.
High Moral Standards of Falun Gong
After the June 4 massacre in 1989,[5] the ideology of the CCP has gone completely bankrupt.In August 1991, the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union collapsed, followed by drastic changes in Eastern Europe. This brought enormous fear and pressure to the CCP. The legitimacy of its rule and the prospect of its survival faced unprecedented challenges as it encountered great crises both at home and abroad.
At that time, the CCP was no longer able to unite its members with its original doctrines of Marxism, Leninism, and Maoism. Instead, it turned to total corruption in exchange for Party members' loyalty. In other words, whoever followed the Party would be allowed to gain personal benefits through corruption and embezzlement, an advantage impossible to non-Party members.
Especially after Deng Xiaoping's tour of southern China in 1992,[6] the regime officials' profiteering and corruption in real estate and the stock market have run wild in China. Illegal second wives and smuggling are everywhere. Pornography, gambling, and drugs have become rampant all over China.
Although it may not be fair to say that there was not a single good person in the Communist Party, the general public long ago lost confidence in the Party's anti-corruption efforts and holds that more than half of the middle- or high-ranking government officials are involved in corruption.
The CCP Was Extremely Jealous
The unique way Falun Gong propagates is person to person and heart to heart. Falun Gong has a loose management structure, and anyone can come and go freely, as one wishes.This differs greatly from the strict organization of the CCP. Despite its strict organization, the political study and group activities conducted weekly or more frequently in CCP branches existed only in form.
Few Party members agreed with the Party ideology. By contrast, Falun Gong practitioners conscientiously followed the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
Because of the powerful effect of Falun Gong in improving people's mental and physical health, the number of people who practiced Falun Gong grew exponentially. Practitioners voluntarily studied Mr. Li Hongzhi's series of books and promoted Falun Gong at their own expense.
In a short seven years' time, the number of Falun Gong practitioners grew from none to 100 million. When they practiced the exercises in the morning, Falun Gong exercise music could be heard in almost every park in China.
The Communist Party said that Falun Gong competes with the CCP for the masses and that it was a religion. In fact, Falun Gong brings to people a culture and a way of life.
It is an ancestral culture and the root of Chinese traditions, which the Chinese people had lost long ago. Jiang Zemin and the Communist Party feared Falun Gong because once this traditional morality was accepted by the public, nothing could prevent it from spreading rapidly.
The Chinese traditional beliefs have been forcibly proscribed and tampered with by the Communist Party for decades. It would be the choice of history to return to tradition. It would be the path of return chosen by the vast majority of people after tribulations and misery.
If given such a choice, people would certainly distinguish between right and wrong and would likely leave wickedness behind. Such a choice would certainly be a fundamental denial and abandonment of what the Communist Party has promoted. It would strike at the mortal weakness of the CCP.
When the number of people who practiced Falun Gong exceeded that of the Communist Party members, one could imagine the deep fear and jealousy of the CCP.
In China, the CCP exerts total control over every part of society. In the countryside, there are Communist Party branches in every village. In urban areas, branch offices of the CCP are found in every administrative office in the neighborhoods. In the army, government, and enterprises, the Party branches reach to the very roots.
Absolute monopoly and exclusive manipulation are essential measures that the CCP takes to maintain its regime. The Chinese Constitution euphemistically termed this phenomenon as "persisting in the leadership of the Party."
Threat to the Legitimacy of the Communist Regime
A true theistic belief is bound to be a significant challenge to the Communist Party.Because the legitimacy of the communist regime was based upon the so-called dialectical materialism and the wish to build a heaven on earth, it could only rely on the leadership of the vanguard in this world, namely, the Communist Party.
The Communist Party feared that traditional morality would be accepted by the people.
Meanwhile, the practice of atheism enabled the Communist Party to interpret freely what is virtuous and what is good or bad. The result has been virtually no morality or distinction between good or bad to speak of. All that people have to remember is that the Party is always "great, glorious, and correct."
Theism gives people an unchanging standard of good and bad. Falun Gong practitioners evaluate right or wrong based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. This obviously hinders the CCP's perpetual efforts to "unify" people's thinking.
Continuing with this analysis, there are still many other reasons why the CCP attempts to eradicate Falun Gong. However, any one of the above five reasons is fatal to the CCP.
Actually, Jiang Zemin suppressed Falun Gong for the same reasons. Jiang Zemin started his career by lying about his past, so of course he is afraid of the truth. Through suppressing people, he quickly became successful and powerful, so of course he dislikes compassion. He maintained his power through political struggles inside the Party, so of course he dislikes tolerance.Jiang Zemin fears Falun Gong's moral authority.
From a small incident, we can tell how extremely petty and jealous Jiang Zemin is. The Museum of Hemudu Cultural Ruins[7] in Yuyao County (now reclassified as a city), Zhejiang Province, is a major historical and cultural site under state conservation.
Originally, it was Qiao Shi[8] who wrote the signature inscription for the Museum of Hemudu Cultural Ruins. In September 1992, Jiang Zemin saw Qiao Shi's inscription when he visited the museum, and his face turned dark and gloomy.
The accompanying personnel were very nervous, as they knew that Jiang could not stand Qiao Shi and that Jiang liked to show off so much that he would write an inscription wherever he went, even when he went to visit the traffic police division of the Public Security Bureau in Jinan City and the Zhengzhou City's Retired Engineers Association.
The museum staff dared not slight the petty Jiang Zemin. Consequently, in May 1993, under the excuse of renovation, the museum replaced Qiao Shi's inscription with one of Jiang's before the re-opening.
Mao Zedong is said to have "four volumes of profound and powerful writing," whereas the "Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping" has a "cat theory"[9] with a flavor of practicality. Jiang Zemin exhausted his brain but could only come up with three sentences, yet he claimed to have come up with the doctrine of the Three Represents.
It was published into a book and promoted by the CCP through level after level of government organizations, yet it only sold because people were forced to buy it. Nevertheless, the Party members still didn't respect Jiang Zemin even a little.
They spread gossip about his affair with a singer, the embarrassing episodes of his singing "O Sole Mio" when he traveled abroad and combing his hair in front of the King of Spain.
When the founder of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi, who was born an ordinary civilian, gave a lecture, the lecture hall would be filled with professors, experts, and Chinese students studying abroad. Many people with doctorates or masters degrees flew thousands of miles to listen to his lectures.
When Mr. Li lectured eloquently on the stage for several hours, he did it without using any notes. Afterward, the lecture could be transcribed on paper and made into a book to be published. All these things were unbearable to Jiang Zemin, who is vain, jealous, and petty.
Jiang Zemin lives an extremely lavish, lustful, and corrupt life. He spent 900 million yuan (over $U.S. 110 million) to buy a luxurious plane for his own use. Jiang often drew money from public funds, by the tens of billions, for his son to do business.
He used nepotism to promote his relatives and minions to high-ranking posts above the ministerial level, and he resorted to desperate and extreme measures in covering up for his cronies' corruption and crimes.
For all these reasons, Jiang is afraid of Falun Gong's moral authority and even more afraid that the topics of heaven, hell, and the principle of good and bad being rewarded accordingly, as addressed by Falun Gong, are indeed real.
Although Jiang held the greatest power in the CCP in his hands, since he lacked political achievement and talent, he often worried that he would be forced out of power amid the CCP's ruthless power struggles. He is very sensitive about his status as the core of power.
In order to eliminate dissension, he plotted underhanded schemes to get rid of his political enemies Yang Shangkun and Yang's brother Yang Baibing. At the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party Committee (CPC) in 1997 and the 16th National Congress of the CPC in 2002, Jiang forced his opponents to leave their posts.
He, on the other hand, ignored the relevant regulations and clung dearly to his post.
In 1989, the new secretary general of the CCP, Jiang Zemin, held a press conference for both domestic and foreign reporters. A French reporter asked about the story of a female college student who, because of her involvement in the June 4 student movement in Tiananmen Square, was transferred to a farm in Sichuan Province to carry bricks from one place to another and was raped repeatedly by the local peasants.
Jiang replied, "I don't know if what you said is true or not, but that woman is a violent rioter. Even if it were true, she deserved it."
During the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Zhixin[10] was subjected to gang rape, and when she was detained in prison, her trachea was cut (so that at her execution she could not shout out the truth). Jiang Zemin would probably also think that she deserved it. We can easily see Jiang Zemin's unscrupulous and deviant mentality and cruelty.
III. Jiang Zemin and the CCP Colluded
Jiang Zemin is known for showing off and employing political trickery. His incompetence and ignorance are well-known. Although he wholeheartedly intended to exterminate Falun Gong out of personal spite, he was incapable of doing much, as Falun Gong is rooted in traditional Chinese culture and has become so popular as to gain a broad social basis.However, the mechanisms of tyranny employed by the CCP, perfected through numerous movements, were in full operation, and the CCP intended to uproot Falun Gong.
Jiang Zemin took advantage of his position as the general secretary of the CCP and personally launched the persecution of Falun Gong. The effect of collusion and resonance between Jiang Zemin and the CCP was like an avalanche caused by the shouts of a mountain climber.
Before Jiang officially issued orders for the persecution of Falun Gong, the CCP had already begun suppressing, monitoring, and investigating Falun Gong. It also began fabricating incidents to be used for framing accusations against Falun Gong.
The evil specter of the CCP instinctively felt threatened by truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, not to mention by the unprecedented rapid growth of the practice. Undercover public security personnel in the CCP infiltrated Falun Gong as early as 1994, but they failed to discover any faults, and some even began to practice Falun Gong in earnest.
In 1996, Guangming Daily violated the Three Restrictions (a state policy regarding qigong that rules that the state does not advocate, intervene in, or condemn qigong activities) by publishing an article denouncing Falun Gong's tenets. After that, politicians with backgrounds in public security or with the title of "scientists" continually harassed Falun Gong.
At the beginning of 1997, Luo Gan, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee of the Central Committee of the CCP, took advantage of his power and ordered the Public Security Bureau to carry out a nationwide investigation of Falun Gong for the purpose of finding charges to justify a ban on Falun Gong.
After it was reported from around the country that no evidence had been found, Luo Gan issued a circular—No. 555: "Notification Regarding Starting an Investigation of Falun Gong"—through the First Bureau of the Public Security Ministry (also called the Political Security Bureau).
He first charged Falun Gong with being an "evil cult" and then ordered the police departments across the country to investigate Falun Gong systematically, using undercover personnel to collect evidence. The investigation found no evidence to support his accusation.
Before the CCP, the embodiment of an evil specter, could begin to crack down on Falun Gong, it needed the right person to initiate the mechanisms for suppression. How the head of CCP handled the issue was crucial.
As an individual, the CCP's head could possess both goodness and evil—two opposite aspects of human nature. If he chose to follow his good side, then he could temporarily restrain an eruption of the vile Party nature; otherwise, the evil nature of the CCP would manifest fully.
During the pro-democracy student movement in 1989, Zhao Ziyang, then general secretary of the CCP Central Committee, had no intention of suppressing the students. It was the eight party elders controlling the CCP who insisted on suppressing the students.
Deng Xiaoping said at that time, "[We would] kill 200,000 people in exchange for 20 years of stability." The "20 years of stability" actually meant 20 years of rule by the CCP. This idea conformed to the CCP's fundamental goal of being a dictatorship, so it was accepted by the CCP.
Regarding the Falun Gong issue, out of the seven members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP Central Committee, Jiang Zemin was the only one who insisted on the suppression. The excuse Jiang provided was that it was related to "the survival of the Party and the country."
This touched the most sensitive nerve of the CCP and provoked the CCP's tendency toward struggle. Jiang Zemin's attempt to maintain his personal power and the CCP's attempt to maintain dictatorship by a single party were highly unified on this point.
On the evening of July 19, 1999, Jiang Zemin chaired a conference of the CCP's highest-ranking officials. He overrode the law with his political power, personally "unified" the understanding of all members present, and personally decided to launch a massive crackdown on Falun Gong.
He banned Falun Gong in the name of the Chinese regime and deceived the public. The CCP, China's regime, and the violent mechanisms employed by the CCP were used to their full extent in an overwhelming persecution of millions of innocent Falun Gong practitioners.
If the general secretary of the CCP at that time had been someone other than Jiang Zemin, the persecution of Falun Gong would not have taken place. In that respect, we can say that the CCP used Jiang Zemin.
On the other hand, if the CCP had not incurred so many bloody debts with its unscrupulous, immoral, and savage nature, it would not have considered Falun Gong to be a threat.
Without the CCP's complete and pervasive control over every part of society, Jiang Zemin's intention to suppress Falun Gong would not have gained organization, financing, and propaganda; or the support of diplomats, personnel, and equipment; or the support of prisons, police, the National Security Department, and army; or the so-called support from the circles of religion, science and technology, democratic parties, workers' unions, youth corps committees, women's associations, and so on. In this respect, we can say that Jiang Zemin used the CCP.
[5] On June 4, 1989, the People's Liberation Army attacked unarmed students who were protesting for democracy in Tiananmen Square. The PLA killed hundreds and possibly thousands, an event now known as the Tiananmen Square massacre.
[6] In 1992, Deng Xiaoping came out of semi-retirement, toured Shenzhen in southern China near Hong Kong, and gave speeches to promote a socialist market economy in China. Deng's tour is largely considered to have rekindled China's economic reform after a lull beginning with the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
[7] Hemudu Cultural Ruins is an important village ruin of the Chinese New Stone Age. It was discovered in 1973 and is 7,000 years old.
[8] Qiao Shi was a former chairman of the Chinese National People's Congress.
[9] Deng once said, "Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat as long as it catches mice," meaning that the goal of the economic reforms was to bring prosperity to the people, regardless of the form being socialist or capitalist.
[10] Zhang Zhixin was a female intellectual who was tortured to death by the CCP during the Cultural Revolution for being outspoken in telling the truth.
IV. How Jiang Zemin Uses the CCP to Persecute Falun Gong
By taking advantage of the CCP's organizational principle that the entire membership of the Party must be subordinated to the Central Committee, Jiang Zemin exploited the state machinery controlled by the CCP to serve the objective of persecuting Falun Gong.The CCP-controlled apparatus includes the army, the media, public security personnel, the police, paramilitary police, state security forces, the judicial system, the National People's Congress, diplomatic personnel, as well as sham religious groups.
The army and para-military police, all of whom are controlled by the CCP, have directly taken part in the abduction and arrest of Falun Gong practitioners. The news media in China have assisted Jiang's regime in spreading lies and smearing Falun Gong. The state security system has been exploited by Jiang Zemin personally in gathering and submitting information, fabricating lies, and falsifying intelligence.
The National People's Congress and the judicial system have put on the "legal" appearance and the garb of "rule of law" to justify crimes committed by Jiang Zemin and the CCP, effectively deceiving people from all walks of life. They have turned themselves into an instrument for the service and protection of Jiang Zemin.
At the same time, the diplomatic system has spread lies in the international community and enticed foreign governments, senior officials and international media with political and economic incentives so that they will remain silent regarding the issue of the persecution of Falun Gong.
Exploiting the Media to Block the Flow of Information
The policy of "ruining [Falun Gong practitioners'] reputations" has been carried out by the media, which are under the absolute control of the CCP. Starting on July 22, 1999, the third day into the campaign of arresting Falun Gong practitioners across the country, the CCP-controlled news media launched a full-scale anti-Falun Gong propaganda blitz.Take the Beijing-based China Central Television (CCTV) as an example. In the remaining months of 1999, CCTV spent seven hours a day broadcasting preprogrammed footage to spread lies about Falun Gong. Producers of these programs started by distorting and falsifying speeches by Mr. Li Hongzhi, founder of Falun Gong, then threw in cases of so-called suicide, murder, and death due to refusal of medical treatment. They did everything they could to smear and frame Falun Gong and its founder.
The most publicized case was removing the word "not" from what Mr. Li Hongzhi once said at a public event, that "The incident of the so-called explosion of the earth does not exist." The CCTV program turned this statement into "The explosion of the earth does exist," thereby claiming that Falun Gong spreads doomsday theories.
Subterfuge is also employed in order to mislead the public, for example transferring the offences of ordinary criminals to Falun Gong practitioners. A murder committed by the mentally deranged Fu Yibin in Beijing and a fatal poisoning by a beggar in Zhejiang Province were both blamed on Falun Gong.
The CCP then uses the media to instigate hatred among the deceived public, justifying and seeking support for the unpopular, bloody persecution.
Over 2,000 newspapers, over 1,000 magazines, and hundreds of local TV and radio stations under the absolute control of the CCP became overloaded in their all-out propaganda smear campaign of Falun Gong.
These propaganda programs were further spread to every other country outside of China via the official Xinhua News Agency, China News Services, Hong Kong China News Agency, and other CCP-controlled overseas media organizations.
Based on incomplete statistics, within only six months, over 300,000 news articles and programs smearing and targeting Falun Gong were published or broadcast, poisoning the minds of countless deceived people.
At overseas Chinese embassies and consulates, a large number of albums, CDs, and publications criticizing and pretending to "expose" Falun Gong were on display. Special columns were set up on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' website to criticize and "expose" Falun Gong.
In addition, at the end of 1999 during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit held in New Zealand, Jiang Zemin completely dispensed with any pretence and handed out a pamphlet defaming Falun Gong to every one of the heads of state of more than ten countries attending the conference.
In France, Jiang Zemin, in violation of the Chinese constitution, labeled Falun Gong an "evil cult" in front of foreign media in order to ruin Falun Gong practitioners' reputations.
The black cloud of oppression choking the country signaled that something as drastic as the Cultural Revolution was about to start all over again.
The incident has since been criticized by numerous international organizations, including the NGO International Education and Development Agency at the United Nations in Geneva, as a regime-staged action meant to deceive people.
During questioning, a member of the TV crew admitted that some of the footage shown on CCTV was in fact shot afterward. The unscrupulous nature of the oppressors is obvious. One can't help but wonder how these "Falun Gong disciples facing death unflinchingly" (referring to the "self-immolators") could be so cooperative with the CCP authorities as to let them shoot the footage of self-immolation again.
No lies can survive the light of day. While spinning out rumors and fabricating lies, the CCP also has done everything in its power to block the flow of information. It has relentlessly suppressed any overseas reports on Falun Gong activities as well as any reasonable defense by Falun Gong practitioners.
All Falun Gong books and other documents have been destroyed without exception. Extreme measures have been taken to guard against any foreign media attempts to interview Falun Gong practitioners in China, including expelling journalists from China, pressuring foreign news media, or forcing them to be silent by threatening to ban them from China.
As for the Falun Gong practitioners in China who have tried to transmit overseas the facts about Falun Gong and materials documenting inhumane persecution by the authorities, the CCP has also adopted extreme and brutal measures in suppressing them.
Li Yanhua, a woman about 60 years old, was from Dashiqian City, Lianning Province. She was kidnapped by the police when handing out materials with information about the persecution of Falun Gong on Feb. 1, 2001, and was beaten to death by the police. To cover up their crimes, the police said that she died from being "entranced by Falun Gong."
Imposing Fines and Ransacking Homes
The entire state apparatus of the CCP has carried out a policy of "bankrupting [Falun Gong practitioners] financially." In the first five-plus years since the start of the persecution in 1999, hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners were fined amounts ranging from thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan in efforts to intimidate them and cause them severe financial loss.With no justification whatsoever, local governments, work units, police stations, and public security departments arbitrarily imposed these fines and continue to do so. Those who are forced to pay the fines are not issued any receipts or referred to any articles of law for explanation. There is no due process.
Ransacking homes is another form of robbery and intimidation inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners. Those who have held firm in their belief have had to face unwarranted searches, with the police ransacking their residence at any moment. Their cash and other valuables have been confiscated without justification.
In the countryside, even stored grain and other food products have not been spared. Likewise, none of the items taken away from Falun Gong practitioners have been documented nor any receipts ever issued. Usually those who confiscate practitioners' property keep it for themselves.
At the same time, Falun Gong practitioners have also faced the penalty of being laid off. In the countryside, the authorities have threatened to confiscate practitioners' land.
The CCP has not overlooked the elderly who are retired. Their pension plans have been terminated, and the government has evicted them from their residences. Some Falun Dafa practitioners in business have had their properties confiscated and bank accounts frozen.
In carrying out these policies, the CCP took the approach of guilt by association. That is, if there were Falun Gong practitioners found in any particular work unit or state enterprise, the leaders and the employees of these units would not receive bonuses, nor would they get promoted. The goal is to instigate hatred toward Falun Gong practitioners in society.
Brutal Acts of Torture and Wanton Killing
The gruesome policy of "destroying [Falun Gong practitioners] physically" has been primarily carried out by the police, procuratorate,[11] and the court system in China. Based on statistics gathered by the Clearwisdom Web site, [as of Dec. 19, 2004] at least 1,143 Falun Gong practitioners have died from persecution in the previous five years.The deaths have occurred in over 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities under the direct leadership of the central government. By Oct. 1, 2004, the province recording the greatest number of deaths was Heilongjiang, followed by Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Sichuan, and Hubei. The youngest to die was only 10 months old; the oldest was 82 years old; 38.8 percent were over 50 years of age; 51.3 percent of deaths were women.
CCP officials have admitted privately that the actual number of Falun Gong practitioners who have died from the persecution is much higher.
The brutal tortures used on Falun Gong practitioners are many and varied. Beating, whipping, electric shock torture, freezing, tying with ropes, handcuffing and shackling for extended periods, burning with open flames, lit cigarettes or hot irons, being cuffed and hung up, being forced to stand or kneel down for a long time, being jabbed with bamboo sticks or metal wires, sexual abuse, and rape are just a handful of examples.
In October 2000, guards at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province stripped the clothes completely off 18 female Falun Gong practitioners and threw them into the prison cells for male inmates to rape and abuse at will. All these crimes have been documented in full and are too numerous to list.
Another common form, among many, of inhumane torture is the abusive use of "psychiatric treatment." Normal, rational, and healthy Falun Gong practitioners have been unlawfully locked up in psychiatric facilities and injected with unknown drugs capable of destroying a person's central nervous system.
As a result, some practitioners have suffered partial or complete paralysis. Some have lost the sight in both eyes or lost hearing in both ears. Some have experienced the destruction of muscles or internal organs. Some have lost part or all of their memory and become mentally retarded. The internal organs of some practitioners have been severely injured. Some have suffered complete mental collapse. Some even died shortly after being injected with the drugs.
Statistics indicate that cases of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted with "psychiatric treatment" have spread to 23 out of 33 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities under the direct leadership of the central authorities in China. At least 100 psychiatric facilities at the provincial, city, county or district level have engaged in the persecution.
Based on the number and distribution of these cases, it is clear that the abuse of Falun Gong practitioners with psychiatric drugs has been a well-planned, systematically carried out, top-down policy. At least 1,000 mentally healthy Falun Gong practitioners were sent to psychiatric facilities or drug rehabilitation centers against their will.
Many of them were forcibly injected or force-fed numerous drugs capable of destroying the nervous system. These Falun Gong practitioners were also tied with ropes and tortured with electric shocks. At least 15 of them died from abuse.
610 Office Extends Its Tentacles
On June 7, 1999, Jiang Zemin slandered Falun Gong without any basis at a Politburo meeting of the CCP. He classified the issue of Falun Gong as a "class struggle," labeled Falun Gong practitioners as the CCP's political enemy, provoked the CCP's reflex for struggle, and passed orders to set up the "Office for Dealing with the Falun Gong Issue" in the Central Committee.Since this office was established on June 10, it was called the "610 Office." After that, 610 offices were set up across the country at all levels of government, from the highest to the lowest, to be specifically in charge of all affairs relating to the suppression of Falun Gong. The Political and Judiciary Committee, the media, public security organizations, the procuratorate, people's courts, and national security organizations subordinate to the leadership of the CCP Committee serve as the thugs and hitmen for the 610 Office.
The 610 Office technically reports to the State Council, but in fact, is a Party organization that is allowed to exist outside of the established framework of the state and the Chinese government, free from any legal restriction, regulation, or national policies. It is an all-powerful organization very similar to Nazi Germany's Gestapo, with powers far beyond the legal and judiciary systems, employing the resources of the country as it sees fit.
On July 22, 1999, after Jiang Zemin issued the order to suppress Falun Gong, the Xinhua News Agency released the speeches by people in charge of the CCP Central Organizational Ministry and the CCP Central Propaganda Ministry that gave open support to the persecution of Falun Gong. All of these entities cooperated under the CCP's strict organization to carry out Jiang Zemin's vicious scheme.
So many cases have proven that neither the public security departments, nor the procuratorate, nor the people's courts have the power to make their own decisions on cases related to Falun Gong. They have to take orders from the 610 Office. When the family members of many Falun Gong practitioners who were arrested, detained, and tortured to death inquired and complained to public security, procuratorial bodies, and people's courts, they were told that all decisions would be made by the 610 Office.
However, the existence of the 610 Office has no legal basis. When it issued orders to all organizations under the system of the CCP, there were usually no written commands or notifications, only oral communication. Moreover, it stipulated that all those who receive the orders were forbidden from making sound or video recordings or even written notes.
Using this type of temporary arm of the dictatorship is a tactic the Party has often repeated, without any regard for the law. During all previous political purge movements, the Party always utilized irregular tactics and set up irregular temporary organizations, such as the Central Cultural Revolution Team, to lead and spread the Chinese Communist Party's tyranny to the whole country.
During its long-term reign of tyranny and heavy-handed rule, the Party has created the strongest and most evil system of state terror with violence, lies, and the blocking of information. While the CCP's degree of inhumanity is extreme, its practice of deceit is highly sophisticated. The scale and extent of this evil system are unprecedented.
In all previous political movements, the Party was accumulating systematic and effective methods and experience to punish, harm, and kill people in the cruelest, craftiest, and most duplicitous ways imaginable.
Using the Military and National Financial Resources
The Party controls all state military forces, which allows it to do as it wants, without fear, when it suppresses people. In the suppression of Falun Gong, Jiang Zemin not only employed police and paramilitary police, but also directly employed armed military forces during July and August 1999, when hundreds of thousands and even millions of common people from all over the country intended to go to Beijing peacefully to appeal for Falun Gong.Soldiers were assigned to places inside the city of Beijing. All main thoroughfares to Beijing were lined with soldiers carrying loaded guns. They cooperated with police to intercept and arrest Falun Gong practitioners who went to appeal. Jiang Zemin's direct allocation of the CCP's armed forces paved the way for the bloody persecution.
The Party controls the state finances, which provides financial backing for Jiang Zemin to persecute Falun Gong. A high-ranking officer of the Justice Department of Liaoning Province once said in a conference at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp of Liaoning Province, "The financial resources used to deal with Falun Gong have exceeded the outlay for a war."
It is not clear yet how much of the state's economic resources and the earnings from people's sweat and toil the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has employed to persecute Falun Gong. However, it is not hard to see that it would be an enormous figure.
In 2001, information from inside the Party's Public Security Department showed that, at Tiananmen Square alone, the expense of arresting Falun Gong practitioners was 1.7 to 2.5 million yuan per day (approximately US$249,000 to US$366,000 at current exchange rates), which amounts to 620 to 910 million yuan per year (approximately US$90 million to US$133 million).
In the whole country, from cities to remote rural areas, from the police in police stations and public security departments to the personnel at all branches of the 610 Office, Jiang Zemin employed at least a few million people to persecute Falun Gong. The cost in wages alone may exceed 100 billion yuan per year (approximately US$14 billion).
Moreover, Jiang Zemin spent huge amounts to expand forced labor camps to detain Falun Gong practitioners and build brainwashing centers and bases. For example, in December 2001, Jiang Zemin expended 4.2 billion yuan (approximately US$615 million) to build brainwashing centers and bases to "transform" Falun Gong practitioners.
Jiang Zemin also used monetary incentives to stimulate and encourage greater numbers of people to participate in persecuting Falun Gong. In many areas, the prize for arresting a Falun Gong practitioner was several thousand or even 10,000 yuan.
The Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province is one of the most evil places in the persecution of Falun Gong. The Party once awarded Camp Director Su 50,000 yuan and Deputy Director Shao 30,000 yuan.
Jiang Zemin, the former general secretary of the CCP, is not only the person who launched the persecution of Falun Gong but also the person who plotted and commanded it. He utilized the mechanisms of the CCP to launch the persecution of Falun Gong. He bears inescapable responsibility for this historic crime.
However, if there were no CCP with its mechanism of violence formed through many political movements, Jiang Zemin would have had no way to launch and carry out the evil persecution.
V. Bringing Down the CCP From the Inside
Motivated by his personal interests, Jiang Zemin utilized the inherent evil of the CCP to launch the immense persecution aimed at innocent people who follow truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. He launched a punitive movement against a social force most beneficial and least harmful to the nation and society. This persecution not only drags the nation and people down into crime and disaster, but also defeats the Party at its very foundation.Jiang Zemin utilized the Party to employ relentlessly all manner of evil means all over the world to eradicate Falun Gong. Law, morality, and humanity all suffered great harm, which destroys at the root the regime's legitimacy.
Jiang's regime employed all available financial, material, and human resources to persecute Falun Gong, which has caused an enormous burden for the nation and society and huge pressure on the financial system. The Party has no way to sustain the doomed persecution for an extended period of time. It can only use ordinary people's savings, issue national bonds, and entice foreign investment to keep the persecution going.
During the persecution, the Party and Jiang Zemin have devised all kinds of devious, brutal and deceitful tactics, employing the Party's entire repertoire of treachery and evildoing in order to persecute Falun Gong.
The Party and Jiang Zemin employed every known propaganda tool to fabricate rumors, denigrate Falun Gong, and make excuses for the suppression and persecution. However, no lie can last forever. Once the lies are finally exposed, and when all the evil is revealed by the failure of the persecution and becomes known to all, their propaganda methods will no longer be able to deceive. The Party will lose its credibility and its hold on people's hearts completely.
At the beginning of the suppression of Falun Gong in 1999, Jiang Zemin intended to solve the issue of Falun Gong in three months. However, the Party underestimated the power of Falun Gong and the power of tradition and belief.
Since ancient times, evil has never been able to eliminate the righteous. It cannot eradicate kindness from people's hearts. Five years have passed [editor's note: The Nine Commentaries were first published in November, 2004. Over nine years have now passed since the persecution began in July, 1999.]. Falun Gong is still Falun Gong.
Moreover, Falun Gong has spread widely all over the world. Jiang Zemin and the Party have suffered a severe defeat in this combat between good and evil, and their devious, cruel, and evil nature is fully exposed. The notorious Jiang Zemin is now beset with troubles both at home and abroad and is facing many lawsuits and appeals seeking to bring him to justice.
Conclusion
The former general secretary of the CCP Jiang Zemin is the one who launched, plotted and commanded the evil persecution. Jiang Zemin fully utilized the CCP's power, position, disciplinary methods, and mechanisms for political movements to start this persecution against Falun Gong. He bears unavoidable responsibility for this historic crime. On the other hand, if there were no CCP, Jiang Zemin would have been unable to launch and conduct this evil persecution.From the day it came into being, the CCP has turned against righteousness and goodness. With suppression as its tool of choice and persecution as its expertise, the CCP based its reign on strict mind control that follows a single, central party. By its very nature, the CCP dreads Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance and regards Falun Gong as the enemy. Therefore, its suppression and persecution of Falun Gong was inevitable.
While attacking Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance, Jiang Zemin and the CCP gave the opportunity for falsehood, evil, violence, poison, wickedness, and corruption to propagate. What followed was a widespread moral decline in the land of China, which affected everyone.
The collusion between the CCP and Jiang Zemin has tied their fates together. Falun Gong is now suing Jiang Zemin. The day Jiang is brought to justice, the fate of the CCP will be self-evident.
Heavenly principles will not tolerate those who conduct inhumane persecution against a group of good people that follow Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. The evil actions of Jiang Zemin and the CCP will also become a perpetual and profound lesson for humankind.
