A Crime of Evil in China
By Susan Steffen-Kraft
Falun Gong; what is it? With 70 million followers all over the world you would think that in China the practice would not be banned; but it is! Physical and spiritual beliefs are a combination that includes meditation, moral precepts, breathing and qigong movements. It gained huge popularity in China, claiming between 70 and 100 million adherents in the late 1990s before a sudden and sweeping political persecution was launched to eradicate it. Taoism and Buddhism affected the physical and spiritual beliefs. but the main belief consists of three tenants. They are truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance! Seems like a wonderful thing to practice and certainly nothing threatening that would cause a government to ban it.
At first the Chinese government approved of this because it saved money on health costs which is a wonderful thing. But then, Falun Gong grew so rapidly that the Communist Government felt threatened as has happened so often with Communist regimes when they feel someone other then they are gaining group popularity and or a mass movement arises. In answer to this, the government brought about sudden and sweeping persecution which was launched to eradicate this practice of Falun Gong that meant so much to so many that they would brave the punishments, persecutions and other punishments.
The punishments for practicing this were reeducation which means they are sent to labor camps and or killed! The President of China. Mr. Jinug, in 1999 launched this persecution which has caused many Chinese citizens to view this Falun Gong with a jaundiced eye! No doubt most of that negative outlook was due to the propaganda promoted by the Chinese government who have a lot of expertise at manipulating the facts to an overall populace who in general, are still quite ignorant about change!
At first the Chinese government approved of this because it saved money on health costs which is a wonderful thing. But then, Falun Gong grew so rapidly that the Communist Government felt threatened as has happened so often with Communist regimes when they feel someone other then they are gaining group popularity and or a mass movement arises. In answer to this, the government brought about sudden and sweeping persecution which was launched to eradicate this practice of Falun Gong that meant so much to so many that they would brave the punishments, persecutions and other punishments.
The punishments for practicing this were reeducation which means they are sent to labor camps and or killed! The President of China. Mr. Jinug, in 1999 launched this persecution which has caused many Chinese citizens to view this Falun Gong with a jaundiced eye! No doubt most of that negative outlook was due to the propaganda promoted by the Chinese government who have a lot of expertise at manipulating the facts to an overall populace who in general, are still quite ignorant about change!
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According to a little paper entitled Your Signature Can Save Live I received when I signed a petition on H. Res.281 in downtown Boise, Idaho in the summer of 2014, it said and I quote, "Hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience have been held in prison and labor camps as a living donor bank and systematically killed on demand to fuel China's lucrative transplant industry for the past decade." Dave Matas, Esp. renowned human rights attorney has stated that "It's a new form of evil on this planet."
The value of a human life is as follows at the time I was given this paper....
Cornea: $30,000
Heart: $130,000-160,000
Liver: $98,000-130,000
Lung: $150,000-170,000
Kidney: $62,000
Kidney-Pancreas: $150,000
Thousands of transplants occur each year in China and the wait is small according to Epoch Times; a couple of weeks compared to waiting several years in other countries. Many from other countries travel to China to receive these organs little knowing or caring that a murder is being committed in order to give them their bloody reward for the big dollars they paid out.
Many Falun Gong practitioners that become prisoners are given blood tests which are possibly a preparation for harvesting the organs and some are extorted; but worst of all the organs are removed from the person while they are in shock but still alive.
The value of a human life is as follows at the time I was given this paper....
Cornea: $30,000
Heart: $130,000-160,000
Liver: $98,000-130,000
Lung: $150,000-170,000
Kidney: $62,000
Kidney-Pancreas: $150,000
Thousands of transplants occur each year in China and the wait is small according to Epoch Times; a couple of weeks compared to waiting several years in other countries. Many from other countries travel to China to receive these organs little knowing or caring that a murder is being committed in order to give them their bloody reward for the big dollars they paid out.
Many Falun Gong practitioners that become prisoners are given blood tests which are possibly a preparation for harvesting the organs and some are extorted; but worst of all the organs are removed from the person while they are in shock but still alive.
In 2002 one young lady who was a prisoner and a practitioner of Falun Gong had her organs taken out of her and she knew what was happening. She yelled, "Ah you killed me one individual!" They carved out her heart and then her kidneys and next cut her cardiac veins. There is more description of this but I can barely stand writing about it and to top it off, before this happened, she was tortured and raped for about a week. The witness a police officer said the surgery took 3 hours at the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region! This particular eyewitness account was created Dec. 14th 2009 and updated June 3, 2012. It took from 2002 to 2009 to locate this particular witness.
“There has been sexual torture, including stripping 18 women of their clothes and forcing them into the jail cells of male criminal offenders to be gang-raped. Some women have been subjected to forced, late-term abortions. Many so-called “policemen” in China have exhibited the most base and inexcusable behaviour. One said: “Don’t you say you practice tolerance? I will see if you can tolerate it when I rape you!” They have ripped off our clothes in public and shocked us with electric batons. Iron wire has been used to pierce our nipples. They have sexually violated our bodies using eggplants, toothbrushes, and plastic water bottles. In one Female Labour Camp located in Jilin Province, the police inserted hot pepper powder into women’s vaginas in order to force them to give up their belief and practice of Falun Dafa. They have forced electric stun batons into female practitioners’ vaginas to torture and shock them...”
– Excerpt from a letter from female practitioners in China
“There has been sexual torture, including stripping 18 women of their clothes and forcing them into the jail cells of male criminal offenders to be gang-raped. Some women have been subjected to forced, late-term abortions. Many so-called “policemen” in China have exhibited the most base and inexcusable behaviour. One said: “Don’t you say you practice tolerance? I will see if you can tolerate it when I rape you!” They have ripped off our clothes in public and shocked us with electric batons. Iron wire has been used to pierce our nipples. They have sexually violated our bodies using eggplants, toothbrushes, and plastic water bottles. In one Female Labour Camp located in Jilin Province, the police inserted hot pepper powder into women’s vaginas in order to force them to give up their belief and practice of Falun Dafa. They have forced electric stun batons into female practitioners’ vaginas to torture and shock them...”
– Excerpt from a letter from female practitioners in China
All practitioners of Falun Gong are subject to random indiscriminate arrests! Minghui.org an American based Falun Gong group collects information from the families and practitioners of Falun Gong and then they give a report. The report for 2014 is not very pretty but then again any persecution, torture and death of a group is not pretty.
When 91 people are killed from torture, 6415 were kept in prison without a trial, and 938 believers of this forbidden practice were tried and given a sentence for their beliefs then we can pretty much rest assured that China has not really changed. Beneath the surface control of everything still reigns supreme.
Many practitioners of Falun Gong are subjected to brainwashing and the older Chinese woman I met in downtown Boise, Idaho who was asking for passersby to sign the petition against this had been through this brainwashing. It was very sad and I was so glad to have met her and be able to tell her Ni hen mei Nai Nai! A friend of mine who had been to China helped me to say that.
The smile that lit up her face was simply awesome.
I have no clue how she made her long journey to this country and survived or what she went through over there! But I do know she did get here and along with her husband, and her daughter in law was one of those asking people to sign the petitions. Still bravely fighting against the wrongs perpetrated against the people who practice Falun Gong!
Because China sensors so much of the information that comes out of their country the number of cases stated above are probably much higher then what is shown. As for the 2013 report it rose 29.8 percent more for 2014 in the cases of detaining people. China tries to put out the case that they are becoming more and more civilized but behind closed doors we truly do not see many of the real facts.
Even Chinese rights lawyers get persecuted for defending the followers of the practice of Falun Gong. At one point eight lawyers braved possible beatings to get into the courthouse to defend the practitioners of this art. This came nine months after four other lawyers for attempting the same thing. The article was by Luo Ya and appeared in the Epoch Times on Dec. 18. 2014. Lawyers no less being treated this way because they wished to defend clients. Does it get any worse then that?
When 91 people are killed from torture, 6415 were kept in prison without a trial, and 938 believers of this forbidden practice were tried and given a sentence for their beliefs then we can pretty much rest assured that China has not really changed. Beneath the surface control of everything still reigns supreme.
Many practitioners of Falun Gong are subjected to brainwashing and the older Chinese woman I met in downtown Boise, Idaho who was asking for passersby to sign the petition against this had been through this brainwashing. It was very sad and I was so glad to have met her and be able to tell her Ni hen mei Nai Nai! A friend of mine who had been to China helped me to say that.
The smile that lit up her face was simply awesome.
I have no clue how she made her long journey to this country and survived or what she went through over there! But I do know she did get here and along with her husband, and her daughter in law was one of those asking people to sign the petitions. Still bravely fighting against the wrongs perpetrated against the people who practice Falun Gong!
Because China sensors so much of the information that comes out of their country the number of cases stated above are probably much higher then what is shown. As for the 2013 report it rose 29.8 percent more for 2014 in the cases of detaining people. China tries to put out the case that they are becoming more and more civilized but behind closed doors we truly do not see many of the real facts.
Even Chinese rights lawyers get persecuted for defending the followers of the practice of Falun Gong. At one point eight lawyers braved possible beatings to get into the courthouse to defend the practitioners of this art. This came nine months after four other lawyers for attempting the same thing. The article was by Luo Ya and appeared in the Epoch Times on Dec. 18. 2014. Lawyers no less being treated this way because they wished to defend clients. Does it get any worse then that?
In other countries the Chinese government has, through its embassies and consulates brought pressure to bear on foreign governments by trying to force them to comply with its suppression of Falun Gong. Both Australian and New Zealand ministers of the parliamentary have denounced in public the Chinese government for interfering with both the press and police departments.
In the states of California and Nevada we have governors and mayors who are being pressured by the Chinese embassy staff to stop them from proclaiming Falun Dafa Week” in their cities, while university deans have been told not to allow Falun Gong clubs on campus". We must owe China a lot, or are terribly afraid of them to allow them to come here in this country and put pressure on our governors and mayors. What is going on that we do not as a country stand up and condemn this type of persecution. And we must ask the question; what hold does China have over the U.S. of America.
The videos below add more information to what I have written. If you have any House of Representatives who can co-sponsor H.Res.281 ask them to. Perhaps you can saves lives in China by demanding Live Organ Harvesting in China!
In the states of California and Nevada we have governors and mayors who are being pressured by the Chinese embassy staff to stop them from proclaiming Falun Dafa Week” in their cities, while university deans have been told not to allow Falun Gong clubs on campus". We must owe China a lot, or are terribly afraid of them to allow them to come here in this country and put pressure on our governors and mayors. What is going on that we do not as a country stand up and condemn this type of persecution. And we must ask the question; what hold does China have over the U.S. of America.
The videos below add more information to what I have written. If you have any House of Representatives who can co-sponsor H.Res.281 ask them to. Perhaps you can saves lives in China by demanding Live Organ Harvesting in China!
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Sources are www.epprochtheepictimes.com/n3/1193439-report-persecution-of-falun-gong-continues-in-china/, wikipedia the persecution of falun gong, what is falun gong, H. Res. 281 information and Your Signature Can Save Lives pamphlet, yahooanswers, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong, http://falundafa-ohio.org/Persecution/persecution_china.htm, History of Falun Gong from wikipedia , Answers Yahoo.com on Falun Gong, chineseculture.about.com, theepochtimes.com/n3/1193439-report-persecution-of-falun-gong-continues-in-china/, http://www.falungong.de/imdetail_foltermethoden/foltermethoden/1151916750.html,http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2009/12/31/113486.html, http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/eyewitness-recounts-forced-organ-removal-china-26417.html
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