Some previous Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials Mr. Zhong Guichun currently resides in New Zealand. Moved by the other Recently, the Clearwisdom Finding the Righteous Fa after Many Years of Searching Reporter: Hello Mr. Zhong. Can I ask how you started practicing Mr. Zhong: I'd always been very interested in qigong. Reporter: What was Mr. What impressed me the most was Teacher's compassion. He Long-Term Work Reporter: Had you always worked in the Public Mr. Zhong: I was born into a military family. I went Reporter: Did you need to contact Mr. Zhong: I myself had been very The CCP doesn't Fired Reporter: Did you get fired in Mr. Zhong: The Beijing Public Security Bureau fired Reporter: What is the background situation Mr. Zhong: It was before Teacher's They were trying to show Ticket Refunding Showed that Falun Gong practitioners had High The Shijingshan Police To their surprise, Falun Gong practitioners took the high Starting in 1993, the Public Security Bureau and the Political Protection Reporter: Mr. Zhong: The CCP's official investigation The Political Protection Department didn't have After I was transferred out of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, Reporter: Do you know how many spies the CCP sent Mr. Zhong: I don't (To
Zhong
Guichun
now living in Australia and Canada have publicly exposed the CCP's persecution
of Falun Gong taking place both inside and outside of China. Now Mr. Zhong Guichun,
previously an official in the Chinese Public Security Bureau, has also stepped
forward to reveal more facts of the persecution. Mr. Zhong's experience indicates
that the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong actually started before July 20,
1999.
individuals' brave actions publicly exposing the CCP's persecution of
Falun Gong both inside and outside of China, he also stood up to share with the
public and the governments around the world what he knows about the persecution
and how the persecution has been carried out in China and abroad. Mr. Zhong is
fifty years old. He was previously the head of the Political Protection Department
at the Fengtai Branch of the Beijing Public Security Bureau. His title was Secondary
Rank Police Officer. He was responsible for monitoring minority groups, different
religions, people who held different opinions from the CCP's propaganda,
and various qigong groups for a long time. He spent a lot of time doing research
on Falun Gong, and discovered that Falun Gong was beneficial to people and to
society. He was attracted to its profound teachings and started to practice himself.
In November 1993, the Beijing Public Security Bureau fired Mr. Zhong because he
supported and cultivated Falun Gong. His personal experience shows that the CCP's
persecution actually started before July 20, 1999.
website interviewed Mr. Zhong Guichun. The following are excerpts from the interview
notes.
Falun Gong?
I practiced quite a few kinds of qigong and Wushu. I also knew many masters of
different qigong schools. However, they disappointed me. I believed I would never
find a good qigong until a friend introduced me to a Buddha School cultivation
way. He said the master of that cultivation way was magnificent and very kind.
I met with Mr. Li (the founder of Falun Gong) in 1990. What he taught us was amazing.
I felt it was the cultivation way that I had been searching for. I started practicing
Falun Gong. Since then, my health has improved and I view the world and life differently.
Mr. Li's words and actions are totally different from those of the other
qigong masters that I knew of. Mr. Li is very kind, considerate and humble. What
he taught was so new — I'd never heard it before. Therefore I started practicing
Falun Gong and started to help Teacher spread Dafa.
it that impressed you the most after you started practicing Falun Gong?
Zhong: There were so many things that I can't list them all. I'll just
give a few examples: I remember at the 1992 and 1993 Eastern Health Expos, Mr.
Li adjusted people's bodies and health problems. One person came and said
he had illnesses all over his body. He tried both Chinese and western medicine
and all kinds of prescriptions but failed to have his illnesses cured. Teacher
Li spent a few seconds adjusting his body and that person felt all his illnesses
disappear. He immediately felt very comfortable. Many people saluted or even kowtowed
to Teacher Li for his wonderful help. Teacher Li gave a few of us veteran practitioners
some gong and gong potency and asked us to adjust people's bodies as well.
We achieved the same effects. We spent a few minutes adjusting people's bodies
and their illnesses disappeared. We didn't know how it worked, but I was
impressed.
was always among us during his daily life. He was always so benevolent and easygoing,
yet Teacher's words have profound meanings. Everyone who came into contact
with him felt he was so kind and powerful. We all wanted to stay with Teacher
and didn't want to leave. So many years have passed but Teacher's words,
actions and images are still clearly in my mind.
in the Political Protection Department Included Monitoring Different Qigong and
Religions Groups
Security Bureau?
into the army when I was fifteen years old. After I finished my military duties,
I started working for the Beijing Public Security Bureau. I was a policeman, a
detective, a military policeman, and a department head. I worked there for twenty-four
years, so many people at the Beijing Public Security Bureau knew me. The Political
Protection Department where I worked was responsible for monitoring minority groups,
religions, people who hold different opinions from the CCP's propaganda,
and various qigong groups. In November 1993, the Beijing Public Security Bureau
fired me because I supported and cultivated Falun Gong. After that, I worked at
the Beijing Economic and Trade Bureau.
those qigong groups? Also, why would the CCP spend so much money and go to such
efforts to monitor those groups?
interested in qigong. However, I couldn't find a good cultivation way for
myself until I found Falun Gong. I was the head of the Political Protection Department
at the Fengtai Branch. Our job was to monitor and investigate minority groups,
religions, qigong groups, and people who advocated democracy.
allow any groups or religions that it can't control to exist. Why do we say
it is a dictatorship? That's why. It ordered us to monitor all kinds of religions
and qigong groups, including Buddhism and Taoism, to help maintain its authority.
Our job was to do political investigations of those groups. It's wasn't
criminal investigation, since we were just supposed to collect information, send
in spies, and monitor their members and activities to decide whether they were
“anti-CCP” or whether they were willing to subject themselves to the CCP's
leadership. If they would not accept the CCP's leadership, they would be
eliminated. The CCP's strategy on religion is to eliminate all the religions
some day in the future. It claims to uphold freedom of belief, yet it would like
to ultimately eradicate all religions so people can only believe in the CCP doctrines.
Our job was to help maintain the CCP's authority.
in 1993 for supporting Falun Dafa
1993 because you practice Falun Gong? Didn't the persecution of Falun Gong
start in July 1999?
me on November 8, 1993. Their reason was that I, as an employee of the Public
Security Bureau and a CCP member, was a Falun Gong practitioner. They said I was
promoting superstition. They ordered me to give up practicing Falun Gong and cut
all ties with the teacher of Falun Gong. I refused. Then they notified the HR
Department of the Beijing Public Security Bureau and requested that I be transferred
out of my position within a certain period of time. They were actually trying
to fire me, but they were such gangsters that they ordered me to quit my job so
it would look like I chose to leave my position. They told me I had to do that.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to keep my title and I wouldn't be allowed
to transfer to other departments.
regarding their firing you?
fourteenth lecture series in Beijing. They fired me claiming I was promoting superstition.
The real reason is that I supported Falun Gong. The CCP no longer trusted me to
do police work, as I supported something other than the CCP. They forced me to
quit my job, refusing to pay my salary if I didn't. This way, they could
claim I quit my job and it had nothing to do with them. It is the typical gangster
approach that they have been using all along.
their loyalty to the Jiang gang. Jiang said he wanted “stability” while they thought
there were already too many people practicing Falun Gong. Teacher had held thirteen
lecture series in Beijing. I was responsible for coordinating the fourteenth one.
Originally, we planned to hold the class in the Shijingshan District. The Shijingshan
Police Substation decided to use this as an opportunity to make money. They said
they would need to assign one hundred to two hundred policemen to “guard” the
class. Each one of them would cost fifty yuan every night. It was a large amount
of money. The venue officials also said they would send some service people to
help out, and each of them would cost several dozen yuan every night. The fee
Teacher set for his lecture series was the lowest in the country. Still, veteran
practitioners were only required to pay half price. The fees that we would collect
would not amount to much at all, so we didn't agree to the Shijingshan Police
Substation's request. We decided to hold the class in Fengtai District instead.
Moral Standards. However, the Police Took it as a Proof That it Would be Easy
to Take Advantage of Falun Gong Practitioners.
Substation found out we would hold the class somewhere else. They wrote a report
to Zhang Liangji, then Head of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, claiming that
over three thousand Falun Gong practitioners would hold a protest at Tiananmen
Square because the Shijingshan Police Substation refused to give them permission
to hold a qigong class. The Beijing Public Security Bureau thought it was a serious
issue, since Jiang wanted “stability.” Therefore they talked to the Fengtai Police
Substation and ordered them to decline our application. When they found out I
was the coordinator for the class, they took me away from my job and started to
“educate” me. It was the night of November 8, 1993. After that, they sent over
one hundred plainclothes policemen to see if anyone complained about the class
cancellation.
road. The ticket refunding went very smoothly. When practitioners learned that
the police substation didn't allow us to hold the class, they said they would
attend the next class then. The police didn't find any evidence of a so-called
“protest on Tiananmen Square.” They discovered Falun Gong practitioners were very
well disciplined. No practitioners cursed anyone else during the ticket refunding.
They all maintained a positive attitude. The plainclothes policemen were impressed
and moved. They complained against the head of the bureau for sending so many
policemen for nothing. They found that although Falun Gong is not an organization,
the practitioners are very well disciplined individuals. This is because our xinxing
level improved after we learned the Fa. However, the leaders at the police substation
didn't think so. They decided it would be easy to take advantage of Falun
Gong, and started to secretly investigate Falun Gong and write false reports to
the City Standing Committee of the Party and the Public Security Bureau claiming
that Falun Gong was very well organized. Their aim was to use Falun Gong.
Department Launched a Secret Investigation of Falun Gong. They Fabricated Lies
saying Falun Gong had become a Threat to the Nation's Authority.
When did the CCP start sending plainclothes policemen to Falun Gong to collect
information?
of Falun Gong started after the fourteenth lecture series in Beijing was cancelled
in 1993. The CCP took note of Falun Gong and began investigating it. They fabricated
lies and stories to defame Falun Gong when they wrote their reports. For example,
they said Falun Gong was very well organized and was a tight-knit organization.
They claimed Falun Gong had a “background” as a threat to the country and to the
leaders of the country. They secretly sent those reports to their bosses in order
to get recognition.
a lot of work to do. There was a plan to cut this department and merge it with
the Security Bureau. The Political Protection Department tried to stir up some
things in qigong, minority groups, and religions so they would have more work
and improve their job security. They decided they could easily take advantage
of Falun Gong. They knew Falun Gong was good, yet they thought they could do whatever
they'd like to people who follow the principles of Truth, Compassion, and
Tolerance. They tried to use and persecute Falun Gong simply because Falun Gong
is good.
they didn't stop monitoring me. They often sent people to talk to me and
see if I still practiced Falun Gong and whether I assumed any positions in Falun
Gong. After the end of 1993, the Public Security Bureau and the Political Protection
Department started to investigate Falun Gong and collect and fabricate materials
to report to Jiang and Luo Gan. They claimed that Falun Gong was a tightly organized
group and had established a threat to the CCP. They were praised for what they
did since they provided “evidence” to persecute Falun Gong. Since the start of
the persecution, the Political Protection Department was renamed the National
Protection Section. They got more manpower and more resources. By getting actively
involved in persecuting Falun Gong, this department avoided being cut. Instead,
it expanded. During the persecution, the Public Security Bureau and the Political
Protection Department have been acting as evil accomplices. They have been actively
involved in carrying out the persecution, while Jiang and Luo Gan were the leaders
in the persecution.
to Falun Gong to collect information back then?
have a specific number. Based on my experience from my job monitoring other qigong
groups at the Political Protection Department, they must have sent many spies
into Falun Gong. They spent much more manpower and resources on Falun Gong. After
1999, the Political Protection Department used almost all of its manpower and
resources to monitor and persecute Falun Gong. Before, the Political Protection
Department was responsible for monitoring those people who held different opinions
from the CCP's propaganda, along with other religions, and college student
organizations. In 1999, the Political Protection Department was renamed the National
Protection Section and promoted by one level. It used to have about a dozen people.
Later, they recruited more people and increased their staff to more than fifty.
They bought a fleet of over twenty luxury cars. They had more funding. Together
with the 610
Office, they used all their power to persecute Falun Gong. Meanwhile, they
sent many spies overseas to monitor Falun Gong practitioners living abroad.
be continued)
Posting date: 11/Aug/2005
Original
article date: 9/Aug/2005
Category: World
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