(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Pan and Mr. Yang, an elderly Chinese couple living in Bern, Switzerland, started to practice Falun Gong in 1998. After the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party began in 1999, they have taken every opportunity to expose the truth of the persecution when meeting other Chinese. A reporter interviewed Ms. Pan, who is approaching seventy years old, asking her to tell us about her story.
Reporter: How are you, Ms. Pan? How did you start to practice Falun Gong?
Ms. Pan: I used to practice another qigong practice. Although I practiced it for fifty years, I was still plagued by diseases. I went to hospitals for my medical conditions but it did not help. In November of 1998, I started to practice Falun Gong. Seven weeks later, I became another person: I felt light without illnesses. I have deeply experienced the goodness of Falun Dafa. Since July 20, 1999, the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] has been beating down Falun Gong, blotting out the sky and covering up the earth, which I think is absolutely wrong. Therefore, I must step out and clarify the truth. I know that Falun Gong is innocent, and so is our Master.
Reporter: When did you start to explain the truth to the Chinese people?
Ms. Pan: In the spring of 2000 when the Chinese Embassy in Switzerland learned that I am a person who practices Falun Gong, they asked me to give up practicing. I then told them about how I have benefited from practicing Falun Gong; this was the first time that I clarified the truth to Chinese people face to face.
Reporter: Did they ask you to go to the Embassy and have a word with you then?
Ms. Pan: No. It was in spring of 2000 when the UN Conference on Human Rights was held in Geneva. It was because the Chinese Embassy did not know that I practiced Falun Gong then, that somebody from the Embassy phoned me saying, "You and Mr. Yang are of comparatively higher character within the community of overseas Chinese."
Reporter: What education have you and Mr. Yang have received?
Ms. Pan: We both graduated from university. The person from the Embassy said, "I am calling to ask you take part in a press conference to criticize Falun Gong." I told him, "Frankly speaking, I am a person who practices Falun Gong. You all know that I was in poor health in the past. Now I am very healthy. It is Falun Gong that has given me my health. Today, you ask me to participate in a meeting to criticize Falun Gong and say that Falun Gong is not good. If I were to do it, then I would have no conscience." I talked to them on the phone for over forty minutes then.
Reporter: What was their attitude?
Ms. Pan: They insisted on saying, "Don't take part in political activity which is against the Government." I told them: "You are wrong. The CCP's persecution of Falun Gong is absolutely wrong, which history will prove. Many people who practice Falun Gong are scholars, experts and persons who have obtained several degrees. They all take part in cultivation practice. As soon as they start to practice, they become healthy. Is it that they have chosen something wrong? Are they all unwise or superstitious?"
Reporter: This was the first time for you to explain the truth to the Chinese. Well then, how did you continue after that?
Ms. Pan: After that, I often participated in many get-togethers. My friend often introduce me to their other friends. Some of them have come here working from mainland China and some are visiting their relatives. So I just take the opportunity to clarify the truth to them, distributing the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and persuading them to quit the CCP and all its affiliated organizations such as the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers.
I'll give you an example. A man who came to visit his relatives is the manager of a big company in a city in China. When clarifying the truth, I said to him, "Do you know that there have been over 10,000,000 people who have quit the Party? Since 1949, the CCP has killed over 80,000,000 Chinese people and now it is still killing people. Nearly 3,000 Falun Gong practitioners whose names are known have been persecuted to death." After that, I told him how Falun Gong is wonderful and what changes took place in my body through practicing Falun Gong. After hearing my experience, he also felt that Falun Gong is indeed miraculous. He said, "The CCP suppression of Falun Gong has really gone too far."
I continued, telling him: "The CCP is so cruel that it has removed organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in order to seek huge profits." He was shocked at this and said, "Why has it so cruelly treated our own fellowmen?" I said, "What the CCP has done has aroused the great indignation of both men and gods. If man does not destroy it, God will. Please quit all related organizations of the CCP in order to keep yourself safe, and don't be involved in it when it is destroyed." He answered, "I will consider it for a while." I told him, "Please read the Nine Commentaries carefully when you get home."
After reading the Nine Commentaries, he asked me out, saying: "Please help me to quit all the organizations of the CCP and help my girlfriend to do so also." He told me: "Both my elder brother and his wife used to work for the police in the 610 Office in China. Once, they went to Beijing to bring a Falun Gong practitioner back under escort [because he had gone to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong]. The Falun Gong practitioner is a university professor. On their way back, the professor was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong, which made a stir in the whole carriage and had a strong impact on all the passengers. Even my brother and his wife were so interested in his truth clarification that they forgot their own identities as police. When they got home, they said, 'We will not do such a thing anymore; we'll tell our leader not to also.' I said to him, "You have not only learned the facts and have quit the Party, but you will have an opportunity to do a very good deed as well. Please contact your bother and his wife and ask them to quit all organizations of the CCP." He answered: "Right; I will try to persuade them to withdraw from all the organizations of the CCP when I get back."
Reporter: Now, more and more Chinese are coming to Europe as tourists.
Ms. Pan: When the Government of Switzerland relaxed visas for Chinese who want to come to Switzerland, more and more tourists from mainland China have been coming here. Every day, about one or two hundred tourists go to Lucerne, a famous site. I go there every day to clarify the truth. It takes me two hours by train. No matter what the weather is, I persist in going there.
Some Chinese tourists are very happy to take the truth-clarification materials and some would like to, but dare not. For example, a crowd just got off the tour bus and one of them very much wanted to take materials. As soon as he gets off the bus, he says loudly, "Are these materials about Falun Gong?" I answer, "Yes, they are telling you the truth about Falun Gong. We have got the Nine Commentaries as well." He said, "Give me one of them." He then shouts, "Who is afraid of taking the materials?" With his shouting, some others also take the materials. When looking through the materials, they find the Nine Commentaries in it. After making eye contact, several people first put the Nine Commentaries into their bags and then they all stand there reading some other newspapers and materials about Dafa.
Reporter: Have you ever met some whose attitude was especially rude?
Ms. Pan: Yes. There was one policeman from China. He said: "Don't tell me that. Do you know what I do?" I told him, "I don't care what you do; you can be a good person whatever you do." He said, "I am working for the police and my duty is to catch people." Because he was near a watch shop, he continued, "Do you know that a watch chain can be used to handcuff a person?" I said to him, "You don't need to frighten me. What I am doing is good for you. You will commit crimes if you arrest a good person. You should defend a good person." He said, "You get away from here!" I said, "We have freedom in Switzerland. That we practice Falun Gong is defended by the Law, and we are not in China. From your behavior, you should read the Nine Commentaries carefully. Once you read it, you will know exactly what the CCP is." He went on, saying, "We are all here today working for the police."
On seeing other people coming, I went up to them to distribute materials. Well, there were indeed some other policemen taking the materials. One of our fellow practitioners told him about how he had benefited from practicing Falun Gong. That policeman said, "Yes, we all know that Falun Gong is good because it is a marvel in healing illness and fitness. Why do you come out clarifying the truth? You can just practice it at home." The fellow practitioner answered, "Because it is wrong to beat it down and Falun Gong is wronged. We are crying out about our grievances and are telling people the facts about Falun Gong." The other people indeed were listening to him, and could accept the truth clarification as well. This just happened these past two days.
Reporter: Thank you, Ms. Pan.
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In fact, not only Falun Gong practitioners in Switzerland clarify the truth
to the Chinese people, Falun Gong practitioners in over eighty countries and
areas including China, where Chinese people are likely to meet, are out there
distributing truth-clarification materials. This story of Ms. Pan clarifying the
truth is in fact happening in different places throughout the world. The sound
of truth clarification will not stop until the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong
stops.
