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March 20, 2003, Ottawa — On March 20, the World
Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (“WOIPFG”) issued
a statement, “Jiang Zemin’s Regime Draws Upon Massive National Financial
Resources In Its Persecution of Falun Gong,” in the Canadian Parliament
to disclose to the Canadian government and media how the regime has expended
one quarter of the country’s financial resources to persecute Falun
Gong.
“Jiang Zemin carries out a policy of ‘defaming
their reputation, bankrupting them financially, destroying them physically’
in an attempt to eradicate Falun Gong and has so far drawn upon an enormous
amount of manpower and financial resources nationwide. A great deal of
funding has been taken out of the state treasury and other sources to
support this persecution. Therefore, Chinese people’s money that
was earned with sweat and blood through hard labor was instead used to
persecute these people themselves. This has caused tremendous pressure
on the livelihoods of people throughout China and brought grave consequences
to the nation’s economic development,” said the statement.
The statement listed the following evidence:
- The regime has expended one quarter of China’s
financial resources to persecute Falun Gong, which is one of the main
reasons why the persecution is able to last.
This funding comes from diverting foreign investments
and Chinese citizens’ earnings, as well as the illegal fines forcibly
imposed upon Falun Gong practitioners and their family members and work
units. A great deal of funding has been allocated to public security,
national security, the criminal “610 Office” across the nation, and
the foreign affairs department. For example:
- In December 2001, Jiang Zemin allocated a
lump sum of 4.2 billion Yuan to build brainwashing centers aimed at
“transforming” Falun Gong practitioners.
- On July 4, 2001, the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation reported that “close to half” of those held in China’s
labor camps were Falun Gong practitioners. In order to contain the
ever-increasing number of practitioners who went to appeal, large
amounts of funding were used to expand the labor camp facilities.
For instance, the total cost of relocating the Quanyang labor camp
in Shangxi province was over 19 million Yuan.
- Monetary incentives were used to drive more
individuals to participate in the persecution. For example, a lump
sum of 50,000 Yuan was awarded to Su Jing, Director of the notorious
Masanjia labor camp, while Shao Li, Deputy Director of the same labor
camp, was awarded a lump sum of 30,000 Yuan. In many areas, rewards
for catching one practitioner range from thousands to tens of thousands
of Yuan.
- In 2001, internal sources at the Ministry
of Public Security revealed that in Tiananmen Square alone, the daily
expenses associated with searching for and arresting Falun Gong practitioners
ran as high as 1.7 to 2.5 million Yuan, which is equivalent to an
annual expenses of 620 to 910 million Yuan.
- From the cities to the remote countryside,
officials at the local police and public security departments, as
well as the “610 Office”, search for and arrest Falun Gong practitioners
everywhere. It is estimated that Jiang has employed at least several
million individuals to participate in his persecution of Falun Gong.
The wages and salaries, bonuses, overtime pay, and allowance could
add up to well over hundreds of billions of Yuan annually.
- The sustained defamation campaign and information
blockade have consumed a great deal of the country’s financial
resources.
According to a report from outside China, on
February 27, 2001, Jiang allocated a lump sum of four billion Yuan to
install large-scale, ubiquitous surveillance devices to monitor Falun
Gong practitioners.
Large amounts of hate literatures slandering
Falun Gong — such as books, booklets, VCDs, and posters — have been
produced by dozens of publishers; at least two movies defaming Falun
Gong have been produced and played nationwide; one 20-episode TV series
vilifying Falun Gong is currently in production.
- Enormous amounts of investment have been made
to attack Falun Gong overseas.
Large numbers of agents were sent out around
the globe to monitor, interfere with, and slander overseas Falun Gong
practitioners, and to collect information to maintain a “blacklist”.
Each Chinese Embassy and Consulate around the
world not only posts pages of libelous slander on their web pages, but
also provides dozens of propaganda publications that are used to defame
Falun Gong and incite hatred within Chinese communities. Poster exhibits
slandering Falun Gong have been held in the Chinese Embassies and Consulates
in at least 15 countries, including Canada.
Jiang Zemin has been handing over people’s
money, earned with their sweat and blood, as free economic aid to developing
countries, in exchange for gaining allies and votes against the criticisms
of its human rights record in the annual United Nations Commission on
Human Rights and other venues.
There is also heavy investment in controlling
overseas Chinese media. In one of its 2001 publications, the Jamestown
Foundation reported that all the major Chinese-language media in the
USA are directly or indirectly controlled by the Chinese government.
Four main tactics characterize the Chinese government’s effort
to influence Chinese media in America. They are: 1) direct control,
2) use of economic ties to influence independent media who have business
relations with China, 3) purchasing of broadcast time and advertising
space, and 4) deployment of government personnel to work in independent
media.
- China’s so-called economic prospects are
an illusion.
According to reports from Hong Kong’s Open
and Contend magazines, Mainland China now ranks fourth after
Venezuela, Mexico, and Argentina in capital loss from large numbers
of high-ranking officials fleeing with the country’s financial
resources. As an illustration, in the year 2000, China suffered a loss
of US$48 billion, but overseas investment was only US$40.7 billion.
Working class citizens’ hard-earned money
and all sorts of foreign investments have been continuously thrown into
this vicious persecution in various ways; however, Jiang Zemin’s
regime has tried hard to conceal this information from the rest of the
world.
WOIPFG particularly urges the governments of
each nation to pay attention to this fact: In this unprecedented, money-exhausting
persecution of Falun Gong, investing your money in China is the same
as supporting the persecution.
For more information, please check:
http://www.upholdjustice.org/Eng/
or contact Shawn Li at (613) 852-7494, (613) 599-7494
Contact information:
E-mail: contacts@upholdjustice.org (general), jubao@upholdjustice.org
(case-related)
Telephone: +1-617-325-3481
Fax: +1-617-325-8729
Mailing Address: PO BOX 365326, Hyde Park, MA 02136, USA
Web site: http://www.upholdjustice.org
World Organization to Investigate the Persecution
of Falun Gong
To investigate the criminal conduct of all institutions,
organizations, and individuals involved in the persecution of Falun Gong;
to bring such investigation, no matter how long it takes, no matter how
far and deep we have to search, to full closure; to exercise fundamental
principles of humanity; and to restore and uphold justice in society.
Posting date: 27/March/2003
Original article date: 25/March/2003
Category: World News
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