The Falun Dafa Associations in Australia call upon the Australian Government to
offer immediate asylum to Chinese officials Mr Chen Yonglin and Mr. Hao Fengjun
and to fully examine allegations of Chinese spies operating in Australia.
For
six years Falun Dafa practitioners in Australia have been subject to a wide range
of interference and harassment orchestrated by the Chinese Embassy and consulates
in this country. These incidents include physical threats, harassing phone calls,
damage to property, salacious misinformation about the practice of Falun Dafa,
practitioners being on a travel black list, having their phones monitored, homes
broken into and attempts to adversely influence local councils and events organisers
to exclude us from community functions.
Over the years we have encountered
a number of suspicious characters masquerading as Falun Dafa practitioners and
some members of the Chinese community have actively assisted the Embassy and consulates
in their anti-Falun Gong campaign. We therefore have no doubt that statements
by Mr Chen and Mr Hao about Chinese Communist Party (CCP) infiltrators in Australian
society are absolutely true.
Such infiltrators are not necessarily like
typical spies from the Cold War era. They could be highly skilled technicians
or scientists working for a big corporation, they could be running a Chinese language
news paper, a doctor or university professor. They may not stand out as they appear
to live perfectly normal lives, yet their public response to Falun Dafa will mirror
the CCP propaganda as they do Beijing’s bidding here in Australia.
Recently
the Chinese Ambassador to Australia made a speech in which she poured scorn on
Mr. Chen’s claims stating: “This is not the 1970’s, we have moved on…”
Certainly this is what China wants the world to believe and they have worked tirelessly
in recent years to present a benign face to the world. At the same time the treatment
of Falun Gong practitioners has become even more ruthless with the current recorded
death toll reaching 2,336.
The Ambassador also commented that she saw no
reason why Mr Chen would face jail in China “because there is no civil crime
in his behaviour”. However, Falun Gong practitioners in China have not committed
any crime either – yet they face torture and death simply because of their peaceful
beliefs. And when exposing the atrocities committed against Falun Gong practitioners
is labelled as “leaking state secrets”, how can we really expect Mr
Chen or Mr Hao to escape retribution for exposing the secrets of the Chinese Communist
Party in Australia?
To expose the reality behind the ambassador’s rhetoric
we need look no further than a report in the Hong Kong Standard on 1 March 2005
regarding an article in the Chinese Communist Party’s Qiushi Magazine by top security
official Luo Gan. Luo Gan stated that: “The disturbance and destruction from
hostile forces in China and abroad constitutes a serious threat to social stability
in a strategically important period in our country.”
Luo Gan further
stated that intelligence work must be stepped up to “smash their activities”.
He also said: “We must insist on actively attacking them, as soon as they
emerge, to take early action to keep the enemies under control.” Luo called
once again for renewed efforts to eradicate Falun Gong. In addition, CCP ideologues
have reprimanded the Foreign Ministry for being rife with “political corruption”
and called for more political education in the diplomatic corps.
We request
that the Australian Government uphold the principles of liberty, compassion and
“a fair go”, which constitute the foundations of our democracy, and
immediately grant Mr Chen and Mr Hao asylum.
Mr. Hao’s information sheds
light on the reasons why the Chinese government has put all its resources into
vilifying Falun Gong and blocking any visits by United Nations representatives
to jails and labour camps.
According to Mr. Hao (interview with The Epoch Times
newspaper) there are seven labour camps in Tianjin. While it is not certain as
to how many Falun Gong practitioners are incarcerated there, it shocking to find
out even the number of labour camps itself.
We remain hopeful that just
as with the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners
and what they have been subjected to in these labour camps will not remain a secret
for much longer.
We call on all people and the media to investigate in
more depth and to their full ability the persecution of Falun Gong.
The
text “Zhuan Falun” is the main text of Falun Gong and is the most direct
way to find out about the nature of the practise. All Falun Gong books are free
to download from http://www.falunau.org/books.htm
