China Uncensored: What is Falun Gong?

[Big Nasty Edison]

You've been talking to yourself for half of this thread.

 

[Warlord1991]

You've been talking to yourself for half of this thread.

Or really? I have not realized until now...

 

[Warlord1991]

Falun Gong involves doing gentle, meditative exercises and living according to the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Introduced in China in 1992 it spread rapidly. By 1999 100 million people had taken up the practice, according to media reports. In July of that year, the-then head of the Chinese Communist Party, Jiang Zemin, ordered a campaign to “eradicate” the practice.

 

[Wariowokecancel]

Falun Gong involves doing gentle, meditative exercises and living according to the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Introduced in China in 1992 it spread rapidly. By 1999 100 million people had taken up the practice, according to media reports. In July of that year, the-then head of the Chinese Communist Party, Jiang Zemin, ordered a campaign to

 

[Warlord1991]

Tolerance towards gays? I don't think so.

Falun Gong surely tolerates homosexuality.

 

[ShogunTBone]

Wu

 

[Warlord1991]

OTTAWA—Fifteen years ago on July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party launched a genocidal campaign against some 70 to 100 million adherents of the Falun Gong spiritual faith in China—a campaign that continues unabated today.

To mark this tragic anniversary, practitioners of Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, and their supporters gathered in front of the Chinese embassy in Ottawa on July 17.

A similar event occurred on the same day in Montreal, and other gatherings will occur over the next few days across Canada and around the globe.

 

[Warlord1991]

 

[Warlord1991]

Quitting the Party
Independent filmmaker Jeremy Taylor gave a spirited account of how the Chinese regime violates “everything,” listing people, human rights, the environment, other countries, borders, treaties, and contracts.

Taylor professed his love for the Chinese people, but said, “The Chinese Communist Party makes me nauseated.”

 

[Warlord1991]

The publisher of the New York, English-language edition of Epoch Times, Stephen Gregory, related in his remarks how eagerly the people of Hong Kong had snatched up the Epoch Times editorial series Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party when it was first published in 2004. The Nine Commentaries provides an uncensored account of the Chinese Communist Party.

 

[Warlord1991]

How did the persecution start?

For three years prior to the official launch of the nationwide persecution in July 1999, practitioners were under increasingly intense government oppression. As early as 1996, Falun Gong books were banned from publication, and the first article criticizing Falun Gong was published in a major state-run newspaper. By 1998 and 1999, the police were disrupting group exercise sessions in parks. Propaganda attacks smearing Falun Gong in the state-run media increased. Following a series of events in April 1999 in which the police wrongly arrested and beat practitioners in Tianjin (please refer to Timeline for details), approximately 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Beijing to peacefully petition the State Council Appeals office on April 25, 1999, asking for the release of the arrested practitioners, a redress of the ban on Falun Gong books and an end to government harassment of the practice. Although the gathering was exceptionally peaceful, and then-Premier Zhu Rongji met with practitioners and agreed to honor their requests, the official oppression accelerated soon after this event.

 

[Michaelangelo]

Respect for the dedication to this thread.

 

[templewarrior]

Respect for the dedication to this thread.

I agree! Although no fan of Falun Gong I do like the practice and the teachings of Buddha and Taoists. Always check in to see if Warlord has any new posts.

 

[Warlord1991]

Soon afterward, a movement to renounce all association with the Chinese Communist Party began. To date 178 million Chinese people have done so, according to the website for the Global Service Center for the Quitting Chinese Communist Party.

 

[Warlord1991]

The publisher of the New York, English-language edition of Epoch Times, Stephen Gregory, related in his remarks how eagerly the people of Hong Kong had snatched up the Epoch Times editorial series Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party when it was first published in 2004. The Nine Commentaries provides an uncensored account of the Chinese Communist Party.

 

[Warlord1991]

“Zhang was responsible for genocide, torture, and crimes against humanity in carrying out the persecution of Falun Gong,” said Tompkins. Saturday’s rally, Tompkins said, was to call for an end to the persecution being carried out in China by officials like Zhang.

 

[Warlord1991]

Independent filmmaker Jeremy Taylor gave a spirited account of how the Chinese regime violates “everything,” listing people, human rights, the environment, other countries, borders, treaties, and contracts.

 

[Warlord1991]

The Chinese regime’s persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual group continues. Minghui.org, a U.S.-based Falun Gong information website, which collects information directly from practitioners and their family members, released their report for 2014, confirming 91 deaths due to torture, 6,415 detentions without trial, and 983 adherents tried and sentenced for their beliefs last year.

 

[Warlord1991]

One explanation for the persecution is that the Communist Party perceived the spiritual group—which follows the tenets of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance—as a threat to its atheistic ideology. According to Chinese state statistics in 1999, the number of Falun Gong practitioners exceeded that of Party members (numbering 65 million). Those who had taken up the practice included members of the security forces and the military and high-level CCP leaders.

 

[Warlord1991]

The illegality of the trials stems in part from an extra-constitutional move by former Chinese Communist Party head Jiang Zemin. On June 10, 1999, Jiang Zemin gave a mandate to eradicate Falun Gong to a newly established Party organ, dubbed the 610 Office, that was given authority over all levels of police, the state bureaucracy, and the courts.