PureInsight | June 27, 2005
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Torture
P1 Witness to torture
Wang Xia lives in Inner Mongolia Province, Mainland China. She was once a vibrant and beautiful woman. She was arrested and tortured by the Chinese Communist regime for refusing to give up practicing Falun Gong. She held a long-term hunger strike in protest and was repeatedly force-fed by the Chinese police. The photograph of an emaciated Wang Xia was published on the Minghui website in August of 2004 and attracted wide attention.
P2 Witness to torture
Gao Rongrong was a Falun Gong practitioner and a resident of Shenyang City. On May 7, 2004, prison guards Tang Yubao, Jiang Zhaohua and others at the Longshan Forced Labor Camp shocked her face with electric batons for six or seven hours. Her face was totally disfigured and her hair was covered with blood and glued to the scorched skin on her face.
P3 Witness to torture
In order to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their practice, the Chinese Communist regime has used at least 100 kinds of unimaginably horrible tortures on practitioners. Practitioners have also been abused in mental hospitals and deprived of most of their human rights. The evidence of torture suffered by practitioners in Mainland China is only the tip of the iceberg of the nightmarish suffering that practitioners in Mainland China are forced to go through.
P4 Group picture of torture victims
Since July 20, 1999, it has been verified that more than 2,543 Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death in Mainland China. The death toll continues to rise, as do the number of broken families as a result of the persecution.
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Tiananmen
T1 Righteous Act of 36 Westerner practitioners
On November 20, 2001, 36 Westerner practitioners from twelve countries unfurled a banner in Tiananmen that reads "Truth Compassion Tolerance." The purpose of their peaceful demonstration was to tell the Chinese people, "Falun Dafa is good, don't listen to the evil lies."
T2 Validating Dafa on Tiananmen Square
After the Chinese Communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, many practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Some were intercepted by police, sent back to their hometowns and detained there. Others successfully arrived in Beijing. But when they tried to make their peaceful appeals, they were brutally beaten by the police and arrested.
T6 Validating Dafa on Tiananmen Square
In the months following July 20, 1999, the number of practitioners from Beijing City who went to appeal for Dafa peaked at over 300,000 per day. More than 700,000 practitioners stayed in the suburbs of Beijing over a long period of time. Many peasant women who had never left their villages before set off on journeys of thousands of miles to appeal for Falun Gong in Beijing.
T7 Validating Dafa on Tiananmen Square
After the Chinese Communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, countless Falun Gong practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and many of them made long journeys on foot or by bicycle, climbing over many mountains. They unfurled banners or quietly did the exercises on Tiananmen Square to peacefully appeal for Falun Gong. Over 10,000 practitioners who went to appeal were arrested and detained in stadiums in the Fengtai and Shijingshan districts of Beijing.
T7 Validating Dafa on Tiananmen Square
After the Chinese Communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, countless Falun Gong practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. The Chinese Communist regime installed martial law around key locations in Beijing, including the Zhongnanhai compound where the regime leaders live and Tiananmen Square, and arrested tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners.
T15 Validating Dafa on Tiananmen Square
After the Chinese Communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist regime set up a special organization called "The 6-10 Office" to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The 6-10 Office ordered the local Chinese governments to stop practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong at all cost. Blockades were set up on all major highways and the Chinese military was put on the highest alert.
T18 Validating Dafa on Tiananmen Square
Many practitioners went through a lot of tribulations before they arrived in Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. A practitioner from Jilin Province was intercepted by police near her hometown. The police took all of her money and belongings and detained her at the local jail. She escaped from jail and walked thousands of miles to Beijing on foot in the height of the winter, begging for food along the way. When a farmer from Sichuan Province was interrogated by police in Beijing, he opened his bag and showed the police nine pairs of worn-out home-made clothes shoes. He said, "I walked a long way to get here, just to say a few heartfelt words. Falun Gong is good! The government is wrong [for persecuting Falun Gong]!"
Culture
W5 NTDTV New Year Gala – Thunderbolt and Heavenly Power
On February 4, 2005, the New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) Network held its Chinese New Year Gala at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Chinese drum performance "Thunderbolts and Heavenly Power" opened the gala amidst waves of applause.
W8 Dance Performance – Dragon Dance in the Street
W10 Dance Performance – Fairy Ballet
W11 NTDTV New Year Gala – Eight Immortals Cross the Ocean
On February 4, 2005, the New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) Network held its Chinese New Year Gala at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The large song and dance performance of "Eight Immortals Cross the Ocean" demonstrates the essence of cultivation within traditional Chinese culture and brought ancient folklore to life on stage.
W12 NTDTV New Year Gala – Pure Lotus Flower in a Corrupt World
On February 4, 2005, the New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) Network held its Chinese New Year Gala at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Tianjiao Performing Arts Group performed a large-scale dance, "The Pure Lotus Flower in a Corrupt World," which represent the beauty, purity and elegance of the lotus flower.
W14 Dance – Tang Dynasty-Style Dance
W15 Dance – Colored Ribbon Dance
The Hong Kong Falun Dafa Association held two evening performances titled "An Old Friend Is Coming with Beautiful Music and Graceful Dances" on October 24 and October 25, 2002 in Tunmen Hall and Quan Bay Hall. Nearly 800 people attended the event.
Translated from part 3 of:
http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2005/6/15/32752.html
