(Clearwisdom.net)
June 16, 2003
Chief Consular Hu,
Our Georgia State Government representatives have forwarded your letter to us Falun Dafa practitioners in Georgia on May 10, 2003. I am writing this open letter to you in the hopes that you will see the situation clearly and stay on the side of justice, and that you will not continue to propagate lies even if you are instructed to do so [by Jiang's regime]. Please do not play such a terrible role on the stage of history; think of your own future and dissociate from the criminal Jiang and his regime. Please join the efforts of kind-hearted people worldwide to bring Jiang to justice. Help us expose Jiang's evil crimes and send him to court to be tried under the laws of human decency and virtue.
In your letter, you mentioned many lies that Jiang has fabricated to deceive the world. I would like to clarify the following facts.
1. Falun Dafa Practitioners detained in China have never committed any crimes, nor have they violated the law. They are being persecuted by Jiang only because they firmly hold to their belief in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance.My wife Zhou Xuefei was illegally arrested and detained for 31 months because of handing out flyers on the street to tell people the facts about Falun Dafa, and expose the crimes of Jiang's persecution of Falun Dafa. Ms. Li Huagui, a teacher who was detained together with my wife was able come to the U.S. after she got out of detention. She revealed to the media what she witnessed of the inhuman tortures my wife Zhou Xuefei went through in the labor camp. The movie, A Letter Home, http://asp.fgmtv.org/TextVersion/ProgramDetail.asp?NewsID=1196, tells the true story of what has happened to my wife and me.
There is no freedom of speech or right of appeal in China for the common folks. All of the state-sanctioned television programs are broadcasting terrible lies about Falun Gong. For example, Ms. Zou Ling, who worked in the Radiology Department of Guangzhou Cancer Hospital committed suicide on the morning of May 13, 1999, because of family problems. The Guangzhou TV Station attributed her death to Falun Dafa on their City Topic program. In fact, Ms. Zou Ling was not a Falun Dafa practitioner at all, and her parents and her husband (a doctor who works in the same hospital as she) all know this. Her colleagues never saw her practice Falun Dafa, and never heard her talking about Falun Dafa. The Guangzhou Cancer Hospital's phone number is 86-20-83595032; you are welcome to check the facts for yourself. Through this fabricated story, you will further understand where those "1,400 cases" of deaths attributed to Falun Dafa come from.
You said in your letter to the Georgia State Government representatives that "Zhou Xuefei was arrested because she violated the law." I know for a fact that Chinese law protects citizens' right to speak. Falun Dafa practitioners make flyers telling the true stories that are happening around them, and pass these flyers to people to help them learn the truth. I do not know which item in the law ever said that speaking the truth carries a sentence of three years in a forced labor camp.
The story of the persecution of my wife Zhou Xuefei has been reported by many Georgia newspapers and TV stations. The kind-hearted people in Georgia were shocked by Jiang's evil deeds against human rights. They feel sad for Falun Dafa practitioners in China who are being cruelly persecuted. Many people have signed the petition to call for the U.S. government to actively help rescue Zhou Xuefei, and to make Chinese officials stop persecuting Falun Dafa.
2. We have ironclad proof that Jiang and his regime are brutally persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners; no lies can cover-up the bloody debt Jiang owes.In your letter you mentioned that my wife Zhou Xuefei enjoys excellent health in the labor camp, according to reports from relevant offices. This is a shameful and intentional cover-up of the truth that Falun Dafa practitioners are being brutally persecuted in China.
Since the persecution started in July 1999, between two and three thousand female Falun Dafa practitioners have been detained in the Sanshui Women's Labor Camp in Guangdong Province. In order to force Falun Dafa practitioners to give up their beliefs, and to meet the upper level government quotas for "reforming" practitioners, the police use all manner of torture methods against Falun Dafa practitioners who remain steadfast. Torture methods include the following inhumane treatment:
Shocking with electric batons;
Handcuffing practitioners for extended periods of time (sometimes weeks or more);
Solitary confinement;
Sexual assault, including rape and forceful insertion of objects into women's genitalia;
Prolonged sleep deprivation;
Starvation;
Brainwashing by forcing practitioners to watch anti-Falun Gong TV programs;
Deprivation of bathroom use if the reformed practitioners do not recite slogans slandering Falun Dafa and its founder;
Forced labor for extremely long hours;
Illegal extension of forced labor sentences;
Using common prison inmates such as drug addicts and other criminal offenders to monitor Dafa practitioners 24 hours per day, even during shower or bathroom time.
Falun Dafa practitioner Lai Zhijun, the former Vice Fenggang Town Chief, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, was tortured to death in the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp; Falun Dafa practitioner Hong Haoyuan was tortured there until at the point of death, and then died at home shortly after being released. My wife almost lost her eyesight there because of the torture. Yet they dare to lie openly, saying that my wife is healthy.
Ms. Zhao Meiyu was illegally detained in the Guangdong Provincial Sanshui Women's Labor Camp from April 2001 to May 2002. When she tried to sue former Chairman Jiang overseas, exposing the facts of the cruel torture she endured in the labor camp, her action was inadvertently exposed and she was illegally arrested by the Huizhou City police in May, 2003.
We hope that in the condition that the plaintiffs can be protected, you may read the testimonies of several female Falun Dafa practitioners, telling of the brutal tortures they personally experienced in the Guangdong Provincial Sanshui Labor Camp.
3. The truth of how Falun Dafa practitioners are being brainwashed in detention -- mental tortures by Jiang and his gang of political scoundrels.You mentioned in your letter that some practitioners give up practicing Falun Dafa, which exactly underscores the proof of Jiang's crimes. Under the high pressure of the campaign to "ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them physically," some practitioners have expressed that they have given up practicing Falun Dafa against their wills. However, many of them awaken quickly afterwards, and they have declared on www.Clearwisdom.net or in other ways that what they did was forced upon them against their wills and under cruel torture and high brainwashing pressures.
If you were to contact a student living in Ireland, Falun Dafa practitioner Zhao Ming, who was rescued by the Irish government, he would tell you how he was forced to write a "Guarantee Statement" [a statement to declare that he or she is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners] only after being tortured by tens of thousands of volts from electric batons. This kind of "transformation" was largely exaggerated by the Chinese government-controlled media to deceive the general public.
I was a tax officer in the Shenzhen government. Simply because I wrote an appeal letter to the Central Appeal Office, I was illegally detained for almost two months. Under the extreme mistreatment of extended detention and under threat of being sent to a forced labor camp, I wrote a "Guarantee Statement" against my will. You can still find the media's play up on this event in three major newspapers in Shenzhen around that time.
Those practitioners who were "reformed" against their wills in the Guangdong Provincial Sanshui Women's Labor Camp went back to clarifying the truth and exposing the evil persecution one by one. This is why there are so many testimonials available from those who personally experienced cruel torture there.
In fact, the torture of Falun Dafa practitioners is not only happening in the Sanshui Labor Camp -- it is happening all over China in countless labor camps, detention centers, and prisons. Thousands and thousands of innocent practitioners are being tortured mentally and physically.
4. Falun Dafa is warmly welcomed and supported by all other countries' governments and their people.During this unprecedented persecution, Falun Dafa practitioners continually hold to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance, and in doing so they have won the support from governments and people all over the world.
I believe you must remember that one year ago, the United States Congress passed Resolution 188 to condemn the persecution of Falun Gong, with a vote of 420 to 0. The Chinese government-controlled media, the Xinhua News Agency, reported that this was an act by an extremely small number of Americans with ulterior motives. While it may be true that 420 congressmen is an extremely small number as compared with a population of 0.2 billion people, please remember that each congressman represents 500 thousand voters.
Take Georgia as an example. Falun Dafa has received numerous awards and recognition throughout the State of Georgia. The Governor of Georgia has declared May 13, 2003 as "State Falun Dafa Day," to correspond with "World Falun Dafa Day." The City of Smyrna where I live declared January 2003 as "Falun Dafa Month," and praised our voluntary teaching for the past four years in City Hall. Many congressmen are very proud to support the human rights of Falun Dafa practitioners.
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The Chinese people's right to know the truth is severely violated under Jiang and his regime. Take the SARS epidemic as an example. When SARS attacked Beijing, the former Health Minister, Zhang Wenkang, declared to the world on April 3 that, "Beijing is a safe place, the epidemic is under control. There were only 12 cases, with 3 deaths." The medical professionals who know the truth are extremely angry at his open lies. A 72-year-old retired medical doctor, Jiang Yanyong, told the New York Times the truth, and revealed the government's lies. Although he was forbidden to be interviewed by the foreign media, his personal request to visit his daughter in the U.S. was refused by the Chinese government; however in people's hearts Dr. Jiang Yanyong represents dignity, social conscience, and virtue.
During the past four years since the persecution began on July 20, 1999, there have been 722 confirmed deaths of Falun Dafa practitioners due to the persecution, information of which has been leaked through civil channels. At least 6,000 Falun Dafa practitioners have been sentenced to prison terms and more than 100,000 Falun Dafa practitioners have been illegally sent to forced labor camps. Several thousand practitioners have been sent to mental hospitals where they are being tortured with nerve damaging drugs. There are more than 40 methods of torture, many of which are used on women and senior citizens; these facts make people bristle with indignation and anger.
In its human rights report about China in 2002, the U.S. Department of State said, "The Government strictly regulated the establishment and management of publications, controlled the broadcast media, censored foreign television broadcasts, and at times jammed radio signals from abroad."
American citizen Mr. Charles Li recently traveled to China in order to break through this information blockade to help Chinese people learn the truth of Falun Dafa and to reveal Jiang's crimes. However, upon arrival in China, Mr. Li was illegally detained by the Chinese government, which caused a strong reaction in the international community. Recently, Mr. Li went on a hunger strike to demand the release of more than 90 pages of truth-clarifying materials he had written to the American officials, recording the mental and physical tortures he received during detention.
This righteous action of Mr. Li shook innumerable kind hearts throughout the world. The people have extended their helping hands, and are condemning Jiang and his regime's crimes of genocide against Falun Dafa practitioners. There is a worldwide call to rescue Charles Li, and to stop the violence against Falun Dafa practitioners from expanding and spilling over international borders.
6. The lawsuit against Jiang and Georgia State Resolution 624 are both just actions to protect the common wellbeing between the people of China and the United States.You mentioned in your letter that the Georgia State Resolution affected the relationship between the State of Georgia and the Chinese Government. I also remember Ambassador Yang Jiechi saying that the lawsuit against Jiang affected the relationship between China and America.
I want to remind you here that the friendship between the people of China and America is based on a mutual respect of basic human rights and on the protection of basic human morality. By cruelly persecuting human rights, Jiang has violated Chinese law and is trampling on the United Nations' Human Rights Resolution. Jiang is a disgrace to the Chinese nation, a public hazard within the international community, and he has been cast aside by the world's people.
Over the past 4 years, Jiang has used people's hard-earned money to persecute Falun Dafa through the "610 Office," an organization similar to Nazi Germany's Gestapo [the "610 Office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems]. Under the auspices of the "610 Office" he persecutes, tortures, and even murders kind Chinese citizens who believe in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. Jiang has committed unforgivable sins. Following the likes of Hitler, Milosovich, and Saddam Hussein, Jiang is quickly approaching his shameful end.
You must certainly be aware of a court hearing concluded at the U.S. Federal District Court in the Northern District of Illinois. The court accepted a brief of Amicus Curiae signed by several dozen members of the U.S. Congress on June 11 requesting the court to proceed with the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin. In their brief to the District Court of Illinois, these congresspersons, as "Friends of the Court," urged the court to proceed with the lawsuit against the former Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin, for genocide and crimes against humanity.
People of justice are standing together worldwide to bring Jiang to the court of morality, to the court of conscience, and to the court of law. I truly hope you will ask your heart in the middle of the night, whether you will think of your own future and will not miss this historic chance to choose correctly between following evil orders or joining the righteous force.
Please remove the "police uniform" Jiang gave you, and walk with your kin - those Falun Dafa practitioners who are sitting in front of the Houston Consulate day and night. When you listen to the truth of Falun Dafa and hear the universal truth with your conscience, you will understand why Falun Dafa has never fallen in the past four years of brutal persecution, and why, on the contrary, it has grown even more and more splendid.
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