CCP’s Persecution Inspired ‘Single Largest Whistleblower’ to Expose Its ‘Tyrannical Nature’: Documentary
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The Chinese regime, which not only governs a nation but also operates extensively globally, is facing scrutiny from a group of meditators who have become its “single largest whistleblower,” as revealed in a recent documentary.
NEW YORK—The Chinese regime’s human rights abuses have turned a group of meditators into its “single largest whistleblower,” according to a new documentary.
Released on April 15, the short film titled “the Long Arm of Beijing” draws attention to Beijing’s long-running campaign to silence the targeted spiritual community Falun Gong, a group espousing tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance in China and globally.
The chain of events goes back to China’s 1990s, when the faith group was the “pride of a nation.” Some 70-100 million people took up the practice then over its health benefits—around one in every 13 individuals in the mainland. That changed in 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) decided Falun Gong’s popularity was a threat to its power over the people. Overnight, the group of meditators became the “public enemy no. 1,” the film said.
Falun Gong books are set on fire in Shouguang City, China’s eastern Shandong Province, on Aug. 4, 1999. Chinese authorities in cities across China burned millions of Falun Gong books and materials after the communist regime launched a campaign to persecute the spiritual practice in July 1999. (STR/XINHUA/AFP via Getty Images)
In the United States, volunteers shedding light on the persecution and human rights violations in China found themselves stalked and harassed. An engineer was attacked in his Atlanta home and left bleeding on his front lawn, with intruders taking his computer and hard drive. Another New York native received phone calls in the dead of the night playing back recordings of her private conversations. A U.S. intelligence officer warned the community that the regime had deployed assassins on U.S. soil, according to the film.
Alongside the assaults and intimidation, top CCP officials also went all out to malign the faith group. Now-deceased communist leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution in July 1999, was spotted later that year handing then-U.S. President Bill Clinton a book filled with unfounded claims from the CCP’s propaganda vilifying Falun Gong. In 2001, three Chinese diplomats called then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice at the White House to read to her a 20-minute prepared speech defending the suppression campaign, according to reports from the time.
Falun Gong practitioners do the sitting meditation exercise at Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles on Oct. 17, 2015. (Larry Dye/Epoch Times)
With the threat of arbitrary arrest, torture, and possible death looming over them, tens of millions inside China mobilized to clarify their story in the face on an onslaught of state propaganda.
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They printed leaflets and, under the cover of the night, hand distributed them from neighborhood to neighborhood to raise awareness of what Falun Gong was about and the CCP’s persecution. At the cost of their lives, some hijacked the state-run broadcast networks to tell their side of the story.
When it became clear that the regime was profiting off its persecution of Falun Gong, using them as a living organ bank for lucrative crimes of forced organ harvesting, formerly imprisoned adherents still in China started reached out to foreign officials about unexplained disappearances of their friends—knowing full well the danger they were bringing to themselves under the CCP’s suppressive atmosphere, where it tries to control all information going in and out of the country.
Rep. Zachary Nunn (R-Iowa) speaks at a hearing about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) forced organ harvesting before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China in Washington on March 20, 2024. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times)
Engineers who practice Falun Gong have been at the forefront of developing software technologies to help people in China bypass the CCP’s internet firewall and access uncensored information.
Additionally, Shen Yun, a New York-based performing arts group with many Falun Gong practitioners, travels worldwide with the mission of showcasing pre-communist China, according to its website.
Collectively, these efforts serve as the largest whistleblower of the CCP, shedding light on its crimes and tyrannical nature, as stated in the film.
Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, emphasized the significant impact of these initiatives both within and outside of China, surpassing that of any other single group.
Passersby sign a petition held by a Falun Dafa practitioner during a march through the center of Warsaw, Poland, on Sept. 9, 2022. (Mihut Savu/The Epoch Times)
Browde highlighted the unique challenges posed by the CCP, which operates both domestically and internationally, making the whistleblower environment particularly difficult.
He condemned the regime’s persecution of Falun Gong as a testing ground for persecution methods now used against other groups in China.
By expanding its influence to the West, the CCP has developed the capacity to suppress dissenting voices globally, Browde warned.
He concluded by emphasizing that while Falun Gong serves as a test case, the ultimate goal is to target any individual or group.
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