파룬궁에 대한 박해는 중국에서 1억 명을 표적으로 삼았고, 중국 전역의 수많은 가족과 지역 사회를 파괴했습니다. 우리는 살해당한 사람과 살아남은 사람 그리고 다른 사람의 자유를 위해 투쟁하는 사람의 이야기를 통해 이 박해가 얼마나 많은 희생을 치렀는지 엿볼 수 있습니다. 아래에 나오는 사례는 바로 그들의 이야기입니다.
Before the persecution began in 1999, the shy yet resilient Ms. Yifei Wang worked as a senior journalist for the Chinese Communist Party. She supported her parents’ practice of Falun Gong after they became healthy for the first time in decades.
When Falun Gong prisoners of conscience like Ms. Zhenping Chen are rescued from dire situations in China, it’s usually thanks to the concerted efforts of overseas fellow adherents, rights organizations, and politicians.
While Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Sun Yi was incarcerated in China’s infamous Masanjia forced-labor camp, he began writing SOS letters about the desperate situation in the camp and hiding them inside the packaging of goods for export that he was made to work on.
“I would never forget the horrible scene: I lay on my bed, in tears, like a dead fish because of the injuries, hearing the horrible screams from practitioners being tortured! I felt like being in hell! But the most painful wound was in my heart!“
Ms. Zhu Xiumin was shocked to find herself pregnant after she ended a five-month hunger strike in protest of the arbitrary detention for her faith. She had been force-fed with psychiatric drugs during the ordeal, yet her unborn baby survived.
Helen Chen, 70, never imagined that she’d be living in Northeast Minneapolis. At one point, she didn’t even expect to live past 50. After taking up Falun Dafa, Helen’s health improved dramatically, and she found answers to many of her life’s questions.
A 64-year-old woman was severely tortured, according to her recent harrowing account, and was brought “to the verge of death” multiple times for practicing a form of meditation that is persecuted in China.
From practicing Falun Dafa, Mr. Roy Manning discovered the meaning of life. He became kinder to others and cared less about self-interest. Yet for appealing for his faith, he would face unbearable physical and mental torment.
Two years ago, Sunny Guo, a then 47-year-old Chinese housewife, came alone to America to start a new life, one free of religious persecution. She was fleeing repeated detention and torture by the Chinese Communist Party in its attempt to break her will so she would give up her faith.