【九评之五】评江泽民与中共相互利用迫害法轮功
Falun Dafa is Good!
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Candies Wrapped in the Bitterness of Chinese Forced Labor
By Chao Yu
A Facebook friend of mine who currently lives in Taiwan posted on her page that she went back to Beijing and purchased “Big Shrimp Crunchy Candy”, or da zia su (a type of crunchy sweet). She called it “flavors of home.” I took a look and found it to be quite similar to the kind of candies I wrapped while in prison. It was wrapped quite sloppily, too.
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The prison got work consignments from candy companies, and then forced the prisoners to wrap candies. Those candies were really dirty. We wrapped them right in the cells. The amount of candies we had to wrap each day was extreme. Many people had their entire fingernails fall off while trying to meet the quota, because when you press on the candies tens of thousands of times, the nails would separate from the fingernail bed, turn black, then fall off. The pain was excruciating.
Holding great resentment inside, the prisoners hated the police, hated the candy factories, and hated the end-customers. They would smear dirt, body fluids, and even semen onto the candies. The name of the candies we wrapped was Lao Bu Te, a famous Beijing brand respected for being an “organic product.”
Cakes often come with paper baking cups that are ruffled, with cakes inside. This type of baking cup is also produced in prisons, and is made using toxic glue. My former classmate Wang Weiyu, also unjustly incarcerated for his peaceful beliefs, was forced to make these baking cups for many years.
There is a well-known mooncake brand in China, the name of which I forget (their package often has the image of a pair of fish on it). The hard paper bags of the brand are also made in jail. The hard paper needs to be molded into shapes. In order for the shapes to stay in place, the paper bags were stacked up by the dozen, and the prisoners then had to bounce up and down on top of them. They bounced like this late into the night. Sleep was permitted only after finishing the quota. My wife, Zhu Tong, made paper bags for this well-known mooncake brand when she was incarcerated.
The air-dried chopped onions inside the vegetable bag that comes with instant noodles are made of onions that are selected to be slightly bigger than your thumb, and that cannot be sold in stores. I graduated from the prestigious Tsinghua University, and at least four other Tsinghua alumni were in the same prison as me. My former classmate Meng Jun and I, together with near-70-year-old Li Chang and a few dozen other people, were forced to stand in a row in the biting cold wind and peel off the rotten and stinky skins of the onions. The remainder of the onions were then manufactured and swallowed by customers as “vegetables.”
For many years, the Chinese authorities paid prison guards practically no salary. If they wanted to provide for their families, purchase clothes for their wives, support their kids through school, or buy their children some extra milk as they grow up, all these expenses were paid for by enslaving the prison inmates. The guards’ wages have increased in recent years, though. But can you ever have too much money? They therefore still use prisoners as slaves.
I spoke to one prisoner who had been incarcerated many times. He told me that in Xinjiang Province, prisoners smashed their own legs with rocks to escape the labor. They also had to make it appear like they got injured while working, since “faking illness to evade work” was severely punished.
There was one time when an inmate was isolated after contracting hepatitis. Other prisoners would pass their requests to him through people they knew, wishing to obtain some of his urine with the hope that they too could be infected with hepatitis. The prisoner with hepatitis would only choose his best buddy to offer him the urine, as the person who wanted to get sick, as well as the sick prisoner himself, would be severely punished if the deed was discovered.
You can’t give the urine to someone in a lunch box, since it is sure to be inspected by experienced prison guards. Therefore, you need to get a towel to soak up the precious, highly infectious urine from the hepatitis carrier. The towel was passed to his friend, who sucked on this towel with all his strength in the freezing cold.
The cruelty of slave labor was such that prisoners would break their own legs or drink another person’s infected urine to escape it.
In this cruel and unjust world, you can’t expect to simply live a leisurely life, eating well and worrying about nothing. By getting rid of the Communist Party, we will no longer have to fear that we or later generations are eating crunchy candies smeared with the bodily fluids of prisoners.
Chao Yu is a graduate of China’s prestigious Tsinghua University. In 1999, after the communist regime began its campaign against the Falun Gong spiritual practice, he assisted foreign correspondents to develop secure communication channels, evade the authorities, and conduct interviews with Falun Gong adherents who had suffered persecution. Because of his activities, Yu, his family, and friends have been given long sentences and spent years in jail.
Translated by Cora Yu. Edited by James Poulter and Leo Timm.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Epoch Times.
Source – http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2246378-candies-wrapped-in-the-bitterness-of-chinese-forced-labor/
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新加坡学员庆祝世界法轮大法日
文: 新加坡法轮功学员
图1：二零一七年五月二日，新加坡法轮功学员在芳邻公园庆祝即将来临的世界法轮大法日。图为学员们集体合影，虔敬合十，恭祝师尊生日快乐。
【明慧网二零一七年五月六日】法轮大法（又称法轮功）自一九九二年五月十三日由李洪志先生传出后，二十五年间，传遍世界一百多个国家和地区，使上亿人身心受益。李洪志先生因此受到全球修炼者的爱戴与敬仰，后来人们把每年的这一天定为“世界法轮大法日”，五月也因此成为感恩的季节，世界各国的法轮功学员都会在五月怀着深切的喜悦，载歌载舞，欢庆这一节日。
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 图2～3：二零一七年五月二日，新加坡法轮功学员在芳邻公园庆祝即将来临的世界法轮大法日。图为学员们正在集体炼功。 |
 图4：新加坡法轮功学员以歌唱、诗歌朗诵等演出庆祝世界法轮大法日。 |
二零一七年五月二日，世界法轮大法日前夕，新加坡法轮功学员在芳邻公园举办庆祝活动，恭贺李洪志师父六十六华诞，庆祝即将来临的世界法轮大法日，暨法轮大法弘传世界二十五周年，与民众分享大法带给生命的福祉，及修炼的美好。
重生与感恩
 图5：值此世界法轮大法日来临之际，新加坡人白德成先生表示：“得法的每一天都在感恩，每天必做三件事，师父救命之恩无以为报，一定听师父的话，精進实修，讲真相，引导有缘人，全力以赴。” |
迎面走来的白德成先生，满面红光，脚步轻快。他今年六十岁了，是一位德士（出租车）司机，修炼大法已有五年多的时间。谁会想到这样一位慈祥快乐，连走路都要飘起来的人，竟有着痛不欲生的过往。
儿时家境极度贫困，母亲独自一人挑起全家九口的生计，在焦躁不安中，白先生走过了自己的少年时代。随后的人生中，除了短暂的富裕时光外，即是在贫穷中误入赌博的漩涡，越陷越深，不能自拔。随之而来的是逃债逃命的日子，精神压力无比沉重。十一次搬家，两度入狱，毁了自己，也毁了妻子儿女。
白先生说：“修炼前，我害怕照镜子，每天做的事都是鬼鬼祟祟见不得光，走的路都是偷偷摸摸见不得人。”
几度想结束生命的他，有缘捧起《转法轮》时，因精神濒临崩溃，却难以读下去。他说：“那时，我众叛亲离，没有一个人相信我、敢接近我。心力交瘁的我微微有种感觉，只有《转法轮》这本天书可以救我。读不下去，我只能把书带在身边。”
断断续续中读着《转法轮》，“在伸手不见五指般的黑暗中隐隐约约看到了一丝丝曙光。”他说，“也不知道读了多少遍，神奇美妙的力量在身上展现，整个人感觉轻飘飘的、轻松自在。身处走投无路的处境中，却完全没有感到绝望。”“深感自己不配做师父的弟子，只想用心学透《转法轮》，万万想不到我也可以成为大法弟子！”
得法这五年来，白先生每天除了工作、吃饭、睡觉，就是学法、炼功、讲真相。他说：“不管日子怎么苦，工作怎么累，我都会抓紧时间学法，《转法轮》爱不释手，已读过一百五十多遍了。师父各地的讲法也在不停地学。《论语》每天至少背诵三遍。”“我驾德士五年来从没有休息。每天早晨一踏出家门，就会提醒自己是一个修炼人，不管今天载到什么样的乘客或公路上碰到怎样的麻烦事，必须按真、善、忍来衡量。我对乘客笑脸相迎，以诚相待。只要是有机缘打开话匣子，都会顺着乘客的反应适时地讲真相。”“也多次遇到过乘客遗忘物品在车上的事，不论多贵重的财物，我都会尽快把东西归还给乘客，因为他们一定很着急，我因此受到公司及乘客十多次的表彰。这在修炼前，我是绝对做不到的。”
不知不觉中，白先生身上看似无解的问题也一一得到解决。他买了属于自己的屋子，重获家人的信任与尊重。二零一五年五月，在纽约法会上，他有幸亲见慈悲伟大的师父。自觉是个罪人的他说：“在这一生中，我想都没有想过还有这样的机会。就在准备入场时，都觉得是在做梦，当师父出现在我眼前的那一刻，我哭了，心里不停地喊着：谢谢师父，谢谢师父！”
值此世界法轮大法日来临之际，白先生表示：“得法的每一天都在感恩，每天必做三件事，师父救命之恩无以为报，一定听师父的话，精進实修，讲真相，引导有缘人，全力以赴。”
越南新学员夫妇：大法重塑人生
公司老板李先生来自越南，时常因生意往返于新越两地之间。二零一五年十月底，他去胡志明市探望一位老朋友。
这位友人因背部问题曾四次来新加坡做手术，之后她的身体每况愈下，不能出门，只能在家里走走，她甚至不能长时间坐着，最多十五分钟，就必须躺下了，所以她大部份的时间都在床上。可是这次的见面让李先生非常惊奇，他说：“她近乎康复了。她可以出门去市场买东西，事实上，她修炼法轮功只有一个月的时间，这真让人震惊！”由此他得到宝书《转法轮》，很快走入了大法的修炼。
李先生被书中博大精深的法理所折服，人生中许许多多的问题都找到了答案，整个的人生观完全转变了。他说：“（大法）回答了很多我以前找不到答案的问题，比如，‘我为什么在这里？我的人生的目的是什么’，虽年近五十，可是在此之前我不知道这些人生最基本问题的答案。”
李先生热爱阅读，修炼前买过很多书籍，只要在网络上看到有一本畅销书，他就会买来阅读，也有从书店买来的名著，花多少钱都觉得是值得的，他收集了很多销量第一的书籍。在他的家中有一个漂亮的大书架，他的书籍收藏就整齐地摆在里面。令李太太不可思议的是，在读了《转法轮》后，爱书的先生把家中上百本的书籍收藏都捐给了图书馆。李先生说：“以前读过的所有的书都不能与大法书相比，大法涵盖了一切。”在先生捐书的第四天，太太也想一探究竟，捧起了《转法轮》。
夫妇俩非常愿意与人分享他们得法后的喜悦与转变。他们的三个孩子也都阅读了《转法轮》，包括一些亲友。
李先生说：“我希望自己的孩子成为更好的人。过去太太非常担心孩子们的课业成绩，不停地督促他们读书，新加坡人称为‘怕输’。现在就不会那样逼着他们读书了。以前觉得只有教育才能使他们人生的路走得更好，现在的转变是，教育固然重要，心灵上的提升更为重要。我们俩个都改变了对孩子的教育方式。”
李太太说：“我所有的一切都在转变，在从新思考。以前过于物质化，思想上的负担很重，一直在担心这个，担心那个。现在，不安的内心能够平静下来了，我们对未来都更加有信心了。”“师父改变了我的思想，就象重生了一样。”
李先生也表示自己方方面面都在改变，也因此更加快乐。“家庭中、工作中、待人处事上，跟以往都不同。能够控制自己的情绪，以前我的脾气有些暴躁。我也改变了和同事、生意伙伴谈话的方式，我现在更注意倾听，非常平静，尤其在意见不同时，我也解决了很多以往不能解决的问题。总体来说，感觉是更加快乐。”
他说：“我们把大法介绍给在越南的亲戚和朋友。看到他们的变化，我们也非常高兴，有些人改善了健康，有些人改变了为人处世的态度，我们都很感激师父，给我们指出了一条路：如何做个更好的人。”
一家人沐浴佛恩，夫妇俩异口同声地说：“谢谢师父！”
重回大法中
来自中国东北的周女士年少时曾跟着母亲学法、炼功，度过了一段非常幸福的时光。后来因为工作、结婚、生子，人生中停不下来的追逐和忙碌，她遗憾地没能坚持修炼，这一转眼就是近二十年的时间。
不过，母亲的善良和坚定一直深深烙印在她的心里。来到新加坡工作后，周女士曾遇到过在街头分发真相资料的大法弟子，她还主动帮助分发资料，她说：“母亲一有机会就会讲给我大法的美好。修炼后，她身心受益，我都看在眼里，即使在迫害中，遭受牢狱之灾，她仍然坚定地信仰真、善、忍。我特别希望更多人了解真相，我当时还问能不能自己出钱多买些资料，我也找时间去分发。”
去年七月，周女士突然非常想看大法书。因时过去太久，她都不记得书中的内容，也不记得炼功动作了。当亲友们辗转着把《转法轮》带给她后，通过阅读，她才渐渐又想起了许多。今年三月，她幸遇街头讲真相的学员，她告诉学员想看其他大法书，这样在同修的帮助下，她又如饥似渴地阅读了师父在各地的讲法。好像从睡梦中醒过来，现在她每天都会抓紧时间学法、炼功。
听说有大法日的庆祝活动，她提早放工赶来，一出地铁站，看到庆典的场面，眼泪就止不住地往下流。这是继九九年迫害发生后，她首次看到众多法轮功学员在公开的场合举办活动的场面。她哽咽着说：“看到这样的场面就想流泪。我想到师父太不容易了，他为了我们，为了众生，真的承受了太多。师父一再延长时间，苦苦等待我们。”“没有什么语言能够表达对师父的感激，没有什么能够报答师父。谢谢师父的慈悲苦度，祝师父生日快乐！”
各族裔民众找到真相
 图6：二零一七年五月二日，新加坡法轮功学员在芳邻公园庆祝即将来临的世界法轮大法日，路人驻足了解真相。 |
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 图7～9：二零一七年五月二日，新加坡法轮功学员在芳邻公园庆祝即将来临的世界法轮大法日。图为各族裔民众了解真相后签名支持法轮功学员反迫害。 |
学员们清亮的黄色T恤吸引了德国大学生Nicolas的目光，使原本在街上游走的他踏入绿草茵茵的芳林公园。在听了学员们的介绍后，他说：“首次听闻法轮大法，感觉很好。”他还表示，能够遵循“真、善、忍”的法理很好、很重要。
身为德国人，对共产党的残暴统治并不陌生。他说，在柏林墙倒下之前，东德人也是很艰难，为了摆脱共产主义意识形态的控制，他们向往到西德去，引申到现今，“中共不尊重人权，中国人也都向往着自由社会。”他在呼吁制止中共活摘法轮功学员器官的征签表上签字，希望惨绝人寰的迫害早日结束。
印度裔Ravi先生与学员探讨了很多信仰层面的问题。对于中共打压一个追求向善的修炼团体，他感到十分费解。学员向他解释中共的邪恶本质，并说中共宣扬无神论，不相信善恶有报，因此什么都敢做。Ravi先生最后明白了，表示迫害不应该发生，他在征签表上签上了自己的名字。
来自中国的小伙子善明（化名）一直在聆听学员讲述真相，久久不愿离去。对于这场迫害，他说：“很残忍，太可怕了！”他在反活摘征签表上签名，并声明退出曾加入的中共团、队组织。
年轻的Jamie小姐是新加坡人。她在征签表上签名后说，以前就知道一些法轮功遭受迫害的事实，不过，很高兴碰到法轮功学员，可以更加深入地了解。她说：“我自己做过对中国的研究，包括（中共）怎么迫害西藏的僧人等。”就好像西藏的僧人为了抗议中共暴政而自焚，她原以为二零零一年发生在天安门的自焚事件，是法轮功学员做出的类似抗争。当得知，天安门自焚是中共为栽赃陷害法轮功而一手导演的伪案时，她感到非常震惊，她说回去一定去看《伪火》（False Fire）这部纪录片。
西班牙游客：感受到美好
西班牙退役军人Vincent和太太同游新加坡，在庆典现场巧遇法轮功学员。听过介绍后，夫妇俩坐下来观赏学员们的功法演示。Vincent表示，能感受到炼功可使人心境平和，思维清晰，能增强人的注意力。他还说，学员们演示的五套功法，展现出东方的修炼文化，让人感受到大法的美好。
同时，他也很钦佩法轮功学员面对中共的残酷迫害，仍能和平理性反迫害，以非暴力的方式对抗暴政。“这不同于西方社会常见的示威集会，示威者呐喊抗议，发泄不满情绪。”他说，这里平静的场面令人想静静地融入其中。
一位来自美国的女士被法轮功学员的炼功场景所吸引，很有兴致地观看了一会儿，忍不住比划着，跟着学起动作来。
定居在美国多年的陆女士来自中国。她在美国通过阅读《大纪元时报》，了解了很多真相，她很快就在征签表上签了名，并说，以前家里有个保姆就是炼法轮功的，人很好，朋友的妈妈也炼功，“我觉的炼功很好啊”！
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Monday, May 1, 2017
A pilot’s story – finding answers to the deepest questions
Since 1999, China has experienced the most concerted campaign of propaganda and disinformation that the world has ever seen—one using every communication channel and the communist regime’s entire mass media arsenal. The key target of this campaign has been people who follow the ancient spiritual practice of Falun Gong. In the most literal sense, their voices have been silenced amid a cacophony of venom and lies. Here, they have the opportunity to present their stories of perseverance, faith, and personal evolution, straight from the heart.
This story is about Capt. Nguyen Tuan Dung, a Vietnamese pilot with 14,000 flight hours. Many people have asked him why he left a high-paying job in the Middle East for a position with a Taiwanese airline. The answer is that he wanted to learn Chinese so that he could read the Chinese version of Zhuan Falun the main book of Falun Gong—a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.
Capt. Nguyen, 44, has been a pilot for 22 years, with expertise in flying the Airbus A32o. He has trained in Australia and France and is fluent in Vietnamese, English, Russian, and French.
Taking Up the Practice of Falun Gong
As a pilot, Capt. Nguyen has had many opportunities to visit many different countries and experience different cultures. Seeing so many people afflicted with sadness and suffering, he found himself often wondering about the purpose of life—why there is so much pain in the world, and why people are here on Earth.
He felt stressed, and sometimes had trouble sleeping at night. He sought answers in religions, philosophy, and psychology, but none of these disciplines provided what he was looking for. He also practiced martial arts, but that didn’t help either. He was still confused by the basic questions.
Three years ago, his parents, both sports coaches, called him from Vietnam, excited to tell him about their experiences of cultivating Falun Gong. They suggested that he give it a try. He was practicing a different qigong at the time, so he didn’t take his parents’ suggestion seriously.
Later, when he visited his parents on a vacation, his mother taught him the Falun Gong exercises. On the plane back to work, he opened the book Zhuan Falun.
After one hour of reading, he felt that he’d found the answers to all the questions that had bothered him for such a long time. What a profound teaching, he thought. Once home, he spent 10 days reading all the Falun Gong books, and watched Master Li Hongzhi’s exercise instruction video. Then he called his parents and said, “I’ve found the profound spiritual teaching that I’ve been looking for!” He then officially started cultivating Falun Gong.
Improved Health
Soon after taking up the practice, Capt. Nguyen experienced a major improvement in his health. He used to be exhausted after long-distance flights, especially the red-eye (overnight) flights. After these flights, every bone in his body seemed to ache. The qigong exercises he tried before didn’t help, and the intense pain would last for days.
Now that he practices Falun Gong, he always does the exercises after the red-eye flights and before going to sleep each day. When he wakes up, he feels good, with no pain.
Pilots are required to have an eye examination every year after age 40. Nguyen was surprised to discover that after he started practicing Falun Gong, his vision got better than it was when he flew military aircraft in his twenties.
Following the Principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance
Most importantly, Capt. Nguyen has changed in terms of how he interacts with others.
“I try to follow Falun Gong’s teachings—Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and try to always consider others,” he explained.
He used to be hard on others. He is an excellent pilot and often won first place in professional races. Because of his skills, he developed an attitude of superiority and looked down on those who were not as good as he was. When co-workers’ performances didn’t meet his expectations, he would get angry and criticize them. His mother often said that his words were sharper than a knife.
Since cultivating Falun Gong, he now focuses on his own improvement. When others don’t do well, he often reminds himself to be tolerant and patient, and try to see things from others’ perspectives.
“When I have the urge to criticize others, I often ask myself—would this person be able to handle this? Everybody has different understandings of things. Should I measure others with my own criteria?” he asked. “When my heart changes, I find that the environment changes accordingly. Now, I get along with my friends and family.”
Nguyen is a happy person now. He is glad to share his experiences with co-workers, and those around him feel that he is a different and easy-going person. His co-workers enjoy working with him.
When asked what brought about the change, he often tells people it is Falun Gong’s teachings, and suggests that they give it a try.
Move to Taiwan to Read Zhuan Falun in Chinese
When he first started practicing, Capt. Nguyen worked for a Middle Eastern airline. He studied Zhuan Falun in English and Vietnamese. Yet he believed that reading the book in Chinese would help him come to a better understanding of the teachings, and he developed a wish to move to a Chinese-speaking environment.
An opportunity came soon after. Although the salary at the Taiwanese airline is only half of what he made in the Middle East, he feels that it’s worth it because he can take part in many different Falun Gong activities in Taiwan, and he can now read the Falun Gong books in Chinese.
It took him 10 months to learn all the Chinese words in Zhuan Falun. He is happy that he can now read the book in Chinese with local fellow practitioners.
Besides reading the books and doing the exercises, the captain wants to tell the public, especially Chinese tourists, what Falun Gong really is. With his fellow practitioners, he often talks to Chinese tourists at the airport, telling them of his own experiences practicing Falun Gong and about the brutal persecution in China.
Captain Nguyễn hopes to further improve his spoken Chinese so that he can do better in explaining the facts of Falun Gong to Chinese people and in this way help bring about an end to the persecution.
This article was originally published on Minghui.org, a website organized by Falun Gong practitioners to spread information about the Chinese spiritual practice and the persecution it suffers because of the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution.
From – http://www.ntd.tv/inspired/stories-of-conviction/pilots-story-finding-answers-deepest-questions.html
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