Hao Ran: Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the 4.25 Peaceful Protest

Today we are here to commemorate the peaceful appeal event by over ten thousand Falun Dafa practitioners that took place in Beijing on April 25, 1999.

Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a high-level cultivation practice introduced by Mr. Li Hongzhi in May 1992. Through the cultivation practices of millions of people, Falun Dafa has been proven to bring practitioners to higher spiritual levels, stabilize society, and improve individuals’ physical and moral well-being, playing an immeasurable positive role.

However, a small group led by Jiang Zemin, including Luo Gan, He Zuoxiu, and other evil individuals driven by power and greed, sought to gain political capital by persecuting Falun Gong and establishing personal authority. They slandered, harassed, and covertly investigated Falun Gong, escalating the persecution. The vicious incident of the illegal arrest of 45 Falun Gong practitioners in Tianjin on April 23, 1999, marked a turning point.

In order to fight for a normal and legal environment for practicing Falun Gong, and to secure the release of over 40 practitioners illegally detained in Tianjin, tens of thousands of practitioners came to the State Appeals Office on April 25, 1999, following the law. Upon learning of this, Premier Zhu Rongji personally met with representatives of Falun Gong practitioners, addressed their grievances, and secured the release of the detained Tianjin practitioners.

This event marked a significant chapter in modern Chinese history, showcasing peaceful and rational petitioning by the people and the State Council’s correction of lower-level government errors in accordance with the law. This brought joy to the Chinese people and earned praise from countries around the world.

However, the narrow-minded leader Jiang Zemin persisted in his wrath and unilateral actions. Against the unanimous opposition of the other six members of the Politburo Standing Committee, he bypassed standard procedures and had the Central Committee directly notify leaders at various levels and in various provinces and ministries to enforce his decisions. The notorious “610 Office,” established on June 10, 1999, to specifically persecute Falun Gong, operated as a Gestapo-like organization beyond the law, reminiscent of the Ming Dynasty’s East and West Chambers. On July 20, 1999, the comprehensive persecution of Falun Gong was officially launched and has persisted to this day.

Through the “610 Office,” Jiang Zemin issued orders to public security, forced labor camps, and prison systems at all levels to “defame their reputation, bankrupt them economically, and physically destroy them” Falun Gong practitioners. The directive included a series of “mass extermination” instructions such as “beat them to death, and it will be counted as suicide” and “directly cremate without examining their identities,” culminating in the heinous practices of organ harvesting on a large scale.

For the past five years, as these demons in uniform mercilessly killed in detention centers, forced labor camps, prisons, and operating tables, the Party’s mouthpiece deceived the nation and the world by claiming that these demons were “educating” Falun Gong practitioners.

I appeal to the embassy staff: if you harbor hatred or animosity towards Falun Gong, please calmly consider when the so-called evidence against Falun Gong emerged—after the persecution began in 1999. Why, during the seven-plus years from the initial introduction of Falun Gong in May 1992 until the persecution in July 1999, was there not a single piece of evidence speaking ill of Falun Gong?

Why did the Ministry of Public Security dispatch numerous undercover police officers twice in 1995 and 1997 to infiltrate Falun Gong, practice the exercises daily with genuine practitioners, yet fail to find any negative evidence?

Why were numerous high-ranking officials and intellectuals practicing Falun Gong prior to the persecution? Including the wives of all seven Politburo Standing Committee members and some of their children practicing Falun Gong? …

Perhaps the investigation conducted by former Chairman of the National People’s Congress, Qiao Shi, in 1998 could answer these questions well. His report to the central government concluded that Falun Gong brings benefits to the country and its people without causing harm.

Of course, the Party will never tell you these truths. What you hear and see are fabricated so-called “evidence” after the persecution began, especially the “Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident,” riddled with contradictions and loopholes, to the extent that the CCP erased that episode of “Focus Interview” completely because it was too fake, with almost every scene being botched. (The only related video available online is “Fake Fire,” dedicated to exposing the fabrication of the Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident.)

As the majority of you embassy staff are Party members, the CCP demands your loyalty, but it has never truly trusted you.

From ordinary employees to ambassadors, you are all under surveillance and monitoring. In fact, not only you, even high-ranking officials above provincial and ministerial level within the country are under constant surveillance.

The CCP demands loyalty from you, but it has continuously deceived you. Regarding the persecution of Falun Gong, it was illegal from the start, violating not only Party decision-making procedures but also China’s Constitution. Furthermore, all reasons for the persecution were fabricated. At the same time, the brutality of the persecution is intolerable to anyone with moral standards. The Party will never tell you this. Not only you, even the then-second-highest official of the CCP, State Premier Wen Jiabao, was deceived. In 2012, when Wang Lijun defected to the U.S. Consulate, his confessions of the CCP system’s organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners shocked Premier Wen Jiabao.

Wen Jiabao once said at an internal meeting in Zhongnanhai: “Using no anesthesia, extracting organs from live people, and selling them for profit—is that something humans do?”

To all compatriots in the embassy, please consider: why does the Party deceive you? Why does it monitor and guard against you? You have pledged loyalty to the Party, so why doesn’t it trust you? Your wealth, career, and family are all in the hands of the Party—what does it fear from you?

It fears the resurgence of your conscience and the awakening of your moral compass. Therefore, it blinds your conscience with hatred, covers your eyes with surveillance and fear, preventing you from visiting Falun Gong websites and accessing truthful information. Because falsehoods always crumble in the face of truth. When you see the truth of the persecution, judge it with your human conscience, analyze it with logic, the CCP’s lies veiled by hatred and nationalism will be exposed.

As the CCP engages in retrogressive behaviors, countries around the world are awakening and gradually seeing through the CCP’s inhumane nature and ambition for global dominance.

Now, the economic decoupling is accelerating, and technological blockades are mounting, anti-CCP alliances are strengthening… the CCP has become a pariah, reviled by all.

In this international context, those Chinese living long-term in Western countries who have been serving the CCP are in danger.

Chen Jun, a pro-CCP Chinese community leader in the U.S., was arrested and detained without bail for attempting to bribe American officials, falsely accusing Falun Gong.

Chen Xuefei, a prominent CCP propagandist residing in Sweden for 20 years, was permanently expelled by the Swedish government for her close ties with CCP intelligence officers and threats to Swedish national security.

People like them, residing in the West, had ample opportunities to understand information in free societies, and with their knowledge and intellect, could easily analyze and see through the CCP’s lies. However, they were brainwashed by the CCP’s hate education and lured by the CCP’s petty gains, ultimately becoming tools of CCP infiltration in the West, extending persecution, and paying a hefty price—with their life’s efforts in vain, their families scattered, and their reputations tarnished.

We urge those residing in the West but still serving the CCP: for your own and your family’s happiness, to save the mainland compatriots still suffering from CCP atrocities, and to allow the Chinese nation to reintegrate into the global family of nations, please visit the Falun Gong website, read “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” recognize the evil nature of the CCP, distance yourself from it, withdraw from it, and be a proud descendant of the Yan and Huang clans. Let the complete disintegration of the communist cult that ravages the Chinese land and torments the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation.

责任编辑: 高义