(Clearwisdom.net) Xiao Yan is a Mainland Chinese woman from Shandong Province who moved to Taiwan 10 years ago to be married. Now, she has a daughter and a son. She began to practice Falun Gong in May 1998. On May 27, 2006, she traveled for the first time overseas. She traveled to Toronto, Canada for an experience sharing conference.

Before Xiao Yan began to travel on her cultivation path, she could not adapt to life in Taiwan. It was a totally different environment for her. Culture, life style and even food were not the same in Taiwan. Xiao Yan had a hard time adjusting to it all. When she first arrived in Taiwan, she was terribly homesick and cried every few days. She felt life was too difficult and her husband felt so helpless. He held onto the hope that she would adjust with time.

The birth of Xiao Yan's first baby brought great blood loss and the second baby died in her womb. She weighed only 40 kilograms (89 lbs) at that time. She suffered greatly from lower back pain after the birth of her children, and no Chinese or western medicine could cure it. At that time, she went back to Shandong to see her family. Her mother introduced her to Falun Gong during that visit. After listening to Teacher Li's lecture tapes, she was certain that this cultivation would help her gain salvation. She finally found the reason for her life, and her values changed for the better.

After studying the Fa and doing the exercises, her strength came back quickly. She finally could deal with everything with a calm heart, and she could understand others. She believed that she was gaining weight, and great physical and mental improvement because she was at ease now and her mind was calm. But, in her mind, the most important change in her life was her newly found optimistic and cheerful outlook. During the 8 years of her cultivation, Xiao Yan never had to see a doctor, except for the birth of her second child. After her husband and mother-in-law saw the great changes in her, they became very supportive of her cultivation.

She knew in her mind that this trip to Canada was made possible with the support of her husband and mother-in-law. They agreed to take care of the kids. Before her departure, her husband told her: "I hope you enjoy yourself." Her daughter, who is in fourth grade, also told her with great understanding: "Mom, I support you. I will take care of my brother."

Xiao Yan felt that people overseas were so fortunate when she took part in the 14th anniversary of the introduction of Falun Gong to the public celebration, as well as the Canada Experience Sharing Conference. She noted that people in Canada are truly free and independent. As long as their actions are not against existing laws, they can do whatever they wish to do. However, people in Mainland China do not have freedom of speech or freedom of belief. People do not have the freedom to exercise a system that brings them physical and mental well-being or find a place where their heart and soul can be at peace.

She saw the great support by overseas people for Falun Gong, and it saddened her that nowhere in Mainland China can you see the enthusiasm and genuine friendship they displayed. Xiao Yan said that in the present day Mainland China, people live by the motto, "If a person is not after self-interest, heaven and earth will kill him/her." When there's a problem, people's first thought is to protect themselves. They are certain that this is perfectly justified!

Xiao Yan said with enthusiasm, "Canada is a beautiful place. I think this is because people here have high moral standards and they are all very kind. It would be a great place to live!"

Xiao Yan suffered the persecution in Mainland China. She went twice to appeal, and the memory of it is still vividly in her mind. She said in 1999, she took her daughter to Mainland China. She saw local practitioners being arrested, jailed, beaten, and mistreated in various ways. A group of good people who live by the principles "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance" were being mercilessly persecuted. Therefore, she wanted to appeal. However, she was concerned about her child in Taiwan. She thought about it and came to the conclusion that appealing is the right given to all the Chinese under the Chinese constitution. She also reasoned that the persecution was a mistake by the ruling government, and not a reflection on practitioners. Thus, her daughter and she, as well as three practitioners decided to go to the Beijing Appeal's Bureau and deliver an appeal letter. Her husband was very worried, because he believed that Chinese politics is corrupted. He told her that her decision to go and appeal is "a no win situation."

Unexpectedly, plain-clothes policemen on the train did not present any identification or give any reason for arresting her. They simply looked at her identification, noticed that she was from Shandong Province and said "take her." That time, Xiao Yan was detained in a police station in a small county in Henan Province. They separated everyone and put each person alone into a cell. At midnight, when all practitioners were tired, the police came to the cell. They used fly-swatters to slap practitioners' faces and told them to "honestly answer the questions." Some practitioners were beaten cruelly or thrown to the ground and stepped on.

The police did not give Xiao Yan and her daughter a hard time because of their Taiwan passports. Her first appeal resulted in a one month detention. She said: "Police's interrogations are without reasons. When they tell you to go, you have to go, and they will not tell you where they are taking you. You don't have any basic rights, and their attitude was very unpleasant."

Xiao Yan returned to her hometown a year later, but did not think about appealing again. She knew that her husband and mother-in-law would be very worried. However, when she heard the news that a local practitioner was illegally detained in a mental hospital and was persecuted to death due to an injection of nerve-damaging drugs, her heart was moved again. Another practitioner and she went to visit practitioners detained in the mental hospital. Although they could only talk from a great distance and through a window, she could not control tears from rolling down her face.

The detained practitioner told her that anyone not "transformed" would suffer torture from electric batons, injections of nerve-damaging drugs, and what other torture methods came to the torturers mind. Good people are not only being detained in detention centers, labor camps, but even mental hospitals, a place that is meant for psychologically troubled people. Xiao Yan thought to herself that no matter what, she will go and appeal again. She thought that she must reveal the horror of these places. But she also knew that [China] was covered in darkness, no matter where she would go.

After experiencing the persecution in person, Xiao Yan realized that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) government is unapproachable. Even prisoners should have basic rights, let alone kind-hearted people. She said that she overheard policemen discussing how to beat a person without causing surface injuries, so they could not be reported. That is why some of them hit people's stomach and some placed a barrier in between certain places they did not wish to hit. They are vicious!

Since childhood, Xiao Yan was taught to "love the Party," and the propaganda also claimed that "the police are the protectors of the people." When she was exposed to the persecution in person, she said, "In reality, the police that I saw are completely depraved."

The reporter asked Xiao Yan if she had read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. She replied that the first time she read the Nine Commentaries she was shocked. It was then that she realized that the CCP had been lying all along.

According to the section two of Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party: On the Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party, "The CCP fabricated such obvious lies about marching north to fight the Japanese to cover its failures. From October 1933 to January 1934, the Communist Party suffered complete defeat. In the fifth operation by the KMT, which aimed to encircle and annihilate the CCP, the CCP lost its rural strongholds one after another. With its base areas continually shrinking, the main Red Army had to flee. This is the true origin of the 'Long March.'"

Xiao Yan had originally read that the CCP army selflessly sacrificed its lives and suffered to fight the Japanese. After reading the Nine Commentaries, she realized that the CCP never even opposed the Japanese. "The CCP labeled the 'Long March' as a northbound anti-Japanese operation. It trumpeted the 'Long March' as a Chinese revolutionary fairytale." (Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, Part Two: On the Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party)

Xiao Yan said she had heard her elders talk about the big famine during the "Three Years of Natural Disaster." After reading the Nine Commentaries Part Seven "On the Chinese Communist Party's History of Killing," she discovered that, in fact, no natural disaster occurred and that it was a "man-made disaster." Another important reason was that the CCP mobilized people to mine steel and iron resources. It resulted in the depletion of precious minerals, excessive felling of trees and misuse of farmers. This resulted in the death of 40 million people.

Xiao Yan said that the CCP has already murdered 80 million people. The brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, including the live organ harvesting at the Sujiatun Concentration Camp and other secret concentration camps is a clear indication that the CCP's nature has not changed in all the years of holding on to power. Thus Xiao Yan categorically stated that, "Only quitting the evil party is true patriotism." Otherwise, there will be more victims, including the surgeons and police officers who are responsible for killing witnesses. If one is not awakened soon, they may become scapegoats!

The CCP has never had any respect for human life. Chinese people are naturally intelligent and hardworking. Being brainwashed since childhood, they are transformed to this state today. Fully understanding the evil nature of the CCP, Xiao Yan also withdrew from the CCP. In fact there are almost 11 million people who have withdrawn from the Party and its affiliated organizations. She believes that "evil will never triumph over righteousness." She truly believes that China will soon have a glorious rebirth.