Practitioners Clarify the Truth in Cities on the North Island

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During the 2005 Christmas and 2006 New Year holiday season, practitioners toured cities on the north island to clarify the truth, expose the Chinese Communist Party's evil persecution of Falun Gong, and introduce Falun Gong to local residents.

After the truth-clarification in New Plymouth, the practitioners continued their journey to Wanganui and Palmerston North. On a Saturday morning in Palmerston North City, after practitioners introduced the beauty of Falun Dafa and the truth of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong, eight Chinese people expressed a desire to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. The largest local English newspaper covered the event, and a reporter from Wanganui conducted a telephone interview after the event.

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From January 4-7, 2006, practitioners from New Zealand went to Taurange, Whangarei, Palmerston North, and other cities on the north island, to introduce Falun Gong and clarify the truth. Local people were amazed to learn that there is a such a beautiful practice spread out all over the world. When learning of the persecution against Falun Gong happening in China, many people couldn't believe it, since it's so hard for people from the countries of freedom to imagine that in modern society, there exists an evil regime such as the Chinese Communist Party, that persecutes nice people. Many people asked with concern, "How can I help you?" When they learned that nearly seven million people have withdrawn their membership in the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliates, they're so excited,

"Good, good! China has hope."

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Whangarei is a city in North Island, New Zealand, two hours from Aukland. The residents there, including many Maoris and a considerable number of immigrants from the United Kingdom and other areas, are pure and natural. During the 2006 New Year holidays, practitioners from New Zealand visited Whangarei to promote Falun Dafa and clarify the truth of the persecution to local people and tourists. Reporters from local media, including Whangarei Leader and The Northern Advocate, covered the event.

While clarifying the truth, practitioners were often asked these questions: Do the atrocities committed by the Chinese Communist regime have anything to do with New Zealand? How can people from New Zealand can help to stop the persecution?

Seeing photos which document how practitioners are brutally tortured in China, one man even held a practitioner and cried out. He said that the persecution, which he had just then learned about, made him so sad. A British resident who immigrated to New Zealand in 1963 had a deep understanding about Communism. He said that there was also a communist party in New Zealand. Fortunately, it had never been able to grow big as local people could not accept them. Another gentleman from Scottland said that he had some understandings on how evil Communism was. However, he was still shocked when he saw the posters that disclosed the brutality of persecution.

A little girl and her brother learned the exercises attentively while their mother was watching nearby.

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Media Reports:

Whangarei Chronicle: Chinese protesters in town

The Northern Advocate:  Chinese regime `evil like Hitler'

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Whangarei Chronicle: Chinese protesters in town

http://www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3667723&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=

By LAUREL STOWELL

A GROUP of New Zealand Chinese want to tell Kiwis about the hidden activities of the all-powerful Chinese Communist Party.

About 20 travelled to Wanganui on Saturday afternoon to spread the message. They were Chinese from Auckland, Wellington and Palmerston North, and they brought banners, photographs and newsletters and marched in Victoria Ave.

Shirley Shao and John Yu live in Auckland and were among those who came. Ms Shao is a reporter for the Chinese version of the international Epoch Times newspaper, and both are also practitioners of Falun Gong.

Ms Shao said people had been resigning from the Chinese Communist Party at the rate of 20,000 to 30,000 a day since November last year, when her paper published its Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.

Mr Yu said the party had been responsible for the deaths of 80 million Chinese over the past 56 years. Between 1959 and 1961 40 million died of starvation. They were prevented from leaving their provinces to look for food elsewhere.

Death and torture were still happening, the protesters said, and they hoped defections from the party would eventually cause its collapse and a new democratic era in China.

Nearly seven million people had resigned so far, leaving about 60 million party members.

They had made their statements using false names, in order to avoid persecution. But they had provided genuine contact details to the paper.

There was an “unwritten law” against resigning from the party, and people’s lives were endangered if their withdrawal became known.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had banned Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms Shao said.

Falun Gong did promote truth, compassion and forbearance.

It was completely free, with no donations asked for. It had nothing equivalent to a place of worship and didn’t worship any being.

The demonstration in Wanganui showed photographs of Christians and Falun Gong practitioners being tortured. Members of Falun Gong numbered 100 million. They had been taken to detention centres, had their bank accounts closed, been fined, lost their jobs, lost their entitlement to education and worse.

Ms Shao said her practice of Falun Gong endangered her relatives still in China.

She had mailed one piece of paper about the practice to her parents, who were retired university professors. “They didn’t receive it.

Then one day they were asked to go to the police station, and told their daughter in New Zealand was practicing Falun Gong. They were asked to renounce the practice, and told they would immediately be taken to a detention centre for 15 days if they refused.”

Their telephone was tapped, and they were afraid to tell their daughter what had happened, but her son was able to pass on the message when he returned to New Zealand after visiting them.

Mr Yu said he had personally been tortured for his Falun Gong practice while on a visit home to China in late 1999. He was hit with a plastic bar and kicked by police in his northern home town of Harbin – with the police wearing their hard winter boots.

Two of the other practitioners he travelled with were subjected to electric shocks.

In China the CCP had absolute power, the two said. It controlled the media, there were no elections and it didn’t allow other parties to grow their membership. 

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The Northern Advocate:  Chinese regime `evil like Hitler'
http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3667525&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=

06.01.2006
By Mike Barrington

The Chinese Communist Party has been a bogeyman for western democracies since the late Mao Tse-tung led it to power in 1949.

The 1306 million people in the world's most populous nation have not been looking quite so fiercely red since the Soviet Union was dismantled and Helen Clark started teeing us up for a free trade deal.

But Chinese people living in Auckland came to Whangarei yesterday with the news that China's communist rulers were still as savage as they where when a reputed 30 million people perished in Mao's Great Leap Forward.

About a dozen Chinese people distributed pamphlets yesterday in Cameron St, where they held a banner saying they were from the New Zealand branch of the Global Withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party Service Centre.


They claimed almost seven million people had withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party over the past year and the desertion was continuing with about 30,000 party members quitting daily.

The demonstrators practice Falun Gong, an exercise and philosophical system resembling tai chi. It is apparently banned in China and Whangarei shoppers learned yesterday that communist authorities there had tortured Falun Gong followers, using electric shocks and other brutal methods.

But what about all the butter, lamb, beef and fruit we have earmarked for the free trade deal?

Global Withdrawal officials John Yu and Todd Yu - unrelated despite their similar surnames - said they wanted New Zealanders to understand the nature of the regime running China. It was "evil like Hitler" and the Yus urged Kiwis to consider who they would be trading with.

"They don't want this (trade) for the people. All they want is the power," Todd Yu said earnestly.

John Yu said he came to New Zealand from China over nine years ago, starting here as a student and now working in a factory making stainless steel bench tops.

He handed out pamphlets saying withdrawals from Communist Party brain-washing were a refusal to accept lies, violence and state terrorism.

The demonstrators also distributed copies of Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, a book calling for party "poison" to be purged from the Chinese spirit.