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April 24, 2002

(Clearwisdom.net)

Knowing the Truth and Seeing People's Hearts

Xu is an 85-year-old Christian from Lei Village in Suning County, Hebei Province. In January 2000, he lost consciousness and entered a life-threatening coma. His daughters and sons began to prepare for his funeral. On the seventh day of the coma, he woke up during the middle of the night and said, "Master Li came to offer salvation to people. Anyone who opposes Falun Gong will not have a good future." Then he began to ask the attitude of his relatives about Falun Gong one by one. Later on, he magically recovered from his illness.

More Falun Gong practitioners went to Beijing to appeal from Duolun County than any other county in Inner Mongolia. Consequently, Duolun County is also the most persecuted by Jiang and Luo's regime. Twenty-six practitioners have been sentenced to labor camps and prisons. Many practitioners were injured and became disabled from brutal police beatings. The authorities also sent several hundred practitioners into brainwashing classes and detained more than 1,000. Countless practitioners have had money extorted from them. In April 2001, the only son of a Director at the local Police Department and an evil police officer received their retribution. They never came back up after jumping into a river in an attempt to grab a fish.

Chinese Faluninfo.net reported on April 20 that Zhou Qidong was charged with murder and corruption. He brutally persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. Zhou was the former Secretary of the Wuhu City Political Legal Committee and a former member of the Wuhu City Standing Committee. Many people who persecuted Falun Gong practitioners are people who tend to accept bribes and bend laws. Some of them have been detained and sentenced.

Latest News From America

The Friends of Falun Gong Association in Boston will be holding a "Wonderful Future Concert" on April 27, 2002, to display the serenity and beauty of Chinese culture, and the outstanding appeal of Falun Gong. Friends of Falun Gong Association is a non-profit organization founded by American individuals who firmly support freedom of belief and human rights.

For the past three years, two professors at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point have been inviting Dafa practitioners almost every semester to introduce Dafa to their students. This semester, one professor even incorporated knowledge about Falun Gong into his class lecture(s) and in-class test(s).

The Falun Dafa Information Center reported on April 20 that a University of California student, Falun Gong practitioner Andrew Ellsmore, was released from China and returned to the U.S on April 16. Andrew said he chose to take a just stand to help those people who are deprived of freedom of speech and longing for justice, and he tried to protect people's right to cultivate "Truth, Compassion, Tolerance."

Latest News from China

Today 77 practitioners made solemn declarations that what they have said and done under the vicious force's brainwashing and the high-pressure persecution that is not consistent with Dafa standards is null and void. From now on they will make up for the losses they caused by redoubling their efforts in clarifying the truth about Falun Gong to people and following Teacher in the Fa-Rectification process.

Media Reports

(World News, April 20) Lee Sicen, Dean of studies of Taiwan University, professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, on April 20 at the First International General Medicine Symposium, pointed out that finger-reading (using fingers to read) is a supernatural ability that is quite common and one can be trained in it. Lee has been holding "finger-reading training classes" since 1996. Among 138 students from 7 to 13 years old, 21 demonstrate the supernatural ability of using fingers to read.

(Boxun News Net, April 21) The Majia Field of Gaokan Village, Huangtian Dam, Qingyang Borough of Chendu City, Sichuan Province suffered a plague of toads. On April 19th at around 6a.m., the streets were thickly dotted with tens of thousands of thumb-sized toads. In only half an hour, the toads "occupied" half of the village. At around 11:00am the toads started to slowly return to area brooks and streams.

Mingbao reported on April 20 that China's Central Weather Bureau forecast that areas including northern Shaanxi Province might have dust clouds or sand clouds between April 22 and 24. It is the fifth time this year that the province has come under the attack of sand clouds.

Boxun reported on April 21 that the Chinese government's reaction speed in blocking the western media websites is getting faster and faster. Since mid 2000, Jiang's regime has enacted a series of regulations blocking sensitive information on the web, such as requiring internet cafes to install monitoring software on their computers, and gathering data from internet subscribers including telephone numbers, websites they visit, and their web activities.

Free Asia Radio Station reported on April 20 that the Chinese Post Office issued a notice on March 6 requesting that all domestic and foreign express delivery services sign contracts and working agreements with local Chinese post offices within 60 days. This is believed to have an impact on more than half of the foreign companies' business in China. Express delivery companies are currently petitioning their cases with the Chinese government.