By Guofeng
On
December 25, 2005, more than four thousand Falun
Gong practitioners from across Taiwan gathered in front of Chungcheng Memorial
Hall square to form a Falun–the emblem of Falun Gong. This is the first time
Falun Gong practitioners formed the grand and magnificent “Falun Emblem” over
the past six years since the Chinese Communist regime initiated its persecution
campaign against Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. Many local media outlets came to
conduct interviews and cover the event, and many local people were attracted to
watch.
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On December 25, 2005, more than four thousand
Falun Gong practitioners form a Falun Emblem in front of Chungcheng Memorial Hall
Square in Taipei
When Falun Gong was introduced to the public in 1992, it
was very well received by the general public in mainland China because of its
tremendous effects on healing illnesses and keeping fit. According to an official
investigation conducted in 1998, the number of Falun Gong practitioners had reached
70 million to 100 million. These practitioners regained their health, upgraded
their moral standards, and saved a large amount of medical expenses for the country.
Everywhere across China, thousands of people could be seen doing the exercises
in large groups every the morning. In 1997, in Wuhan City and in Guangzhou City
in 1998, nearly 5,000 practitioners participated in the formation of the “Falun
Emblem,” displaying Falun Gong's widespread flourishing situation in China
at the time.
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On May 24, 1996, practitioners in Wuhan
City held a large-scale group practice and formed a Falun Emblem at No. 4 Middle
School
  In 1996, Falun Gong practitioners in Guizhou Province held a Falun Gong Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference |
 In 1996, Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun City held a large-scale group practice |
In July 1999, out of jealousy of the large
number of people practicing Falun Gong, Jiang Zemin colluded with the Chinese
Communist Party to initiate a persecution campaign. They controlled the state
media to constantly fabricate false news or lies to incite people's hatred
toward Falun Gong. They concocted many lies, such as the self-immolation incident
at Tiananmen Square, charges of killing others, accumulating wealth by unfair
means and so on. Jiang's regime adopted a lot of methods to brutally persecute
Falun Gong practitioners, including ransacking homes, fines, threats, abduction,
detention, implication, brainwashing, torture and forced administration of psychiatric
drugs that led to mental breakdowns. As of today, 2799 Falun Gong practitioners
have died as a result of persecution. Hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners
across China have been sent to forced labor without trial, tortured to disability,
expelled from schools, fired from jobs, driven to homelessness and had their families
broken up.
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Schoolteachers' study camps, Minghui
School children's summer camps are often held in counties and cities of Taiwan.
They have won wide appreciation from students, teachers and parents.
Taiwan
and mainland China have inherited the same culture, although Taiwan currently
has a completely different situation. It has been ten years since Falun Gong was
introduced to Taiwan in 1995. Because Falun Gong benefits people both physically
and mentally, it has gained widespread support and recognition from administrative
departments of the government, legislative yuan, local legislature, and lawyers.
President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu have publicly showed their
support for Falun Gong. Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou also came in person to a Falun
Gong rally and denounced the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun
Gong. Falun Gong practitioners in Taiwan are from all walks of life–including
university professors, doctors, lawyers, teachers, civil servants, students, police
officers and homemakers. At Taiwan University, several dozen professors and other
faculty and graduate students are practicing Falun Gong. At present, there are
more than 400,000 Falun Dafa practitioners in Taiwan, and nearly 1,000 practice
sites, which shows flourishing development.
But the situation of Falun Gong
in mainland China forms a stark contrast with the situation in Taiwan:
Over
the past 13 years since Falun Gong was introduced to the public in 1992, Falun
Gong has been widely spread to 78 countries and regions, and has brought physical
and mental wellbeing to 100 million people around the world. But in its country
of origin, China, people have been deprived of the freedom to learn and practice
Falun Gong because of the senseless suppression imposed by Jiang's regime
and the Chinese Communist Party. Over the past six years, Falun Gong practitioners
in mainland China have been risking their lives to peacefully resist, to speak
their words of justice and true concern on Tiananmen Square. Practitioners outside
of China have also been making truth clarification efforts, such as making phone
calls and sending faxes to the mainland. As a result, many people who have been
affected by the lies and propaganda and were unable to have a clear understanding
of the situation, have gradually become clear-headed and learned about truth,
and have learned that Falun Gong has been wronged and framed.
| Falun Gong subjected to | Falun Gong is widespread in Taiwan |
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 University teacher Ms. Zhao Xin was tortured to paralysis and death in China |
 More than 300 primary school students practice Falun Gong in Pingdong, Taiwan |
 Practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhong persisted in his belief, and was unlawfully detained and brutally tortured to become only skin and bones. |
 Prisoners in a prison in Taiwan also have an opportunity to learn Falun Gong |
 The labor camp guards in China disfigured practitioner Ms. Gao Rongrong's face with electric baton shocks because she refused to renounce her cultivation practice. Later, she was tortured to death. |
 Taiwan university students do the exercises at a beautiful tourist site |
It was really touching and amazing to see more than four thousand practitioners
form the Falun Emblem. in light of the Guangzhou City practitioners' formation
of the Falun Emblem in 1998. Before the Chinese Communist Party's persecution
of Falun Gong, groups of practitioners all over China had also created such grand
and splendid scenes. While the CCP is still brutally persecuting Falun Gong, Taiwan
practitioners' formation of the symbol of Falun Gong, “Falun Emblem,” creates
a grand occasion of free learning and practicing outside of China, and also gives
active spiritual support to Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China.
Posting
date: 1/Jan/2006
Original article date: 28/Dec/2005
Category:
World News
