Due to their relationship with Taiwan, our family was “exiled”, to a small town called Tonghua in the Northeast of China, close to North Korea. During the Cultural Revolution, all young intellectuals were sent to the countryside. I had just graduated from middle school and also went to the countryside. I got an opportunity, i.e. I worked in a grain warehouse, instead of farming and planting. I worked in the Liuhe grain warehouse as a temp. Everyday I carried grain bags which weighed 100 kilograms. At that time I was only 16 years old and my body was not yet fully grown. Try carring a 100 kilogram grain bag walking on a swinging bridge. It was a dangerous job. During that period of time as a temp, I never stopped playing basketball. Every morning, first thing, I played basketball for an hour.
There was a water well, I had some water, then I took a shower with it. Later I thought about why I did it like that.
It looked odd. I also used to wonder why I had such a passion to play by myself . It was absolutely hopeless back then. I didn’t have any expectations. During that period of time there were no nation wide gymnasiums. None of the professional teams were performing at all. No careers at all. None of the career development in athletes existed. Despite all that, in the end I made it indeed. It was amazing stuff. As far as why I did it, I think it was because I found a way to let out my passion for life while playing basketball. I felt like I was living in that way, my spirit did not die. That’s why I always talked about how the US, to a great extent, saved my life because the US invented basketball. Basketball is where I started my relationship with the US. My passion for basketball has never changed, from the very beginning till my retirement, till I coached my daughter to play . I’m very committed to it. At that time Zhou Enlai instructed that they wanted to play the sports card to break though the diplomatic bottleneck Therefore the National team sent out a bunch of people to look for talent with professional potential. They were told that there were some tall young men including my brother and myself. I was selected and went to Beijing. I was put into an intensive training camp when I was 16 years old, not yet 17. Something happened during the training.
1b Potato skin affair
Once we had potatoes for our meal. Since the potato skin was dusty and dirty, my best friend and I peeled the skin away. Our so called “political in charge” saw us and instructed us to give a self criticism in front of the whole team for wasting the potato skin. I thought that my hope for my life and my career would vanish because of this piece of potato skin. Your life could be gone because something like that, because your life was controlled by others. I did the self criticism, ate “ bad food” and swore in front of the People’s Hero Monument, as well as went through propaganda sessions and brainwashing. Thank God ! this “political in charge” had an affair with a married woman. He left, therefore my friend and I survived. He was involved in such a scandal , even though he was educating us about ethics. That woman died by jumping off a building. That’s why that guy was expelled and sent back to his hometown. At that time I made a judgment based on ethics. What these people taught us is fake. Since that time, I began to doubt them. These people looked professional and taught us ethics, but what about themselves? Their behavior made me feel everything was deceitful. Nothing was true. However it was a big decision if I wanted to pursue the truth. The only truth for me was in basketball. I simply tried to play basketball well. When the “youth team for camp training” was dismissed, only I and a best friend of mine stayed in the “National Sports Committee”. We were treated as special talented candidates for further training.
Of course, for me, the only true relationship I could have was the truth between my basketball and myself. Because I was unable to find anything true among Chinese people. Therefore I concentrated on playing basketball and I played it well. Finally the youth intensive training team was dismantled. Only my best friend and myself stayed with the National Gymnastic (Sports) Commission, as special talented candidates for further training.
My best friend stayed with the National Track & Field Team. After a year long training program, one day he suddenly showed up in my dormitory, telling me that he was not allowed to take training here anymore since he had a family history issue, i.e. his father used to serve in the Kuomingtang’s Army. He was kicked out on account of his background. I went to the Beijing train station to see him off. I was full of despair but I didn’t let him notice it. He didn’t know anything about my family background, as my best friend. I understood that it would come to me sooner or later, i.e. I would be kicked out for sure. At the Beijing train station, there was a song called “Dong Fang Hong”(Red in the Orient”). When the train started moving, my friend tried to lean out from the window to wave at me. I never realized that it was the last time I would see him. I never saw him again! It is an eternal pain in my heart.
He returned to Harbin, Heilongjiang province, and was in despair. He began to drink alcohol. When he was drunk and fell asleep, he was killed by gas leaking from his stove. I had already been kicked out when I got this news. Of course after a while, the National Sports Committee found out my family background, and they gave me the “death penalty” – that I was not allowed to go overseas for games and that I couldn’t stay on the National Team because of my family background. I couldn’t believe it. I knew some well known coaches on the National team and gymnasts who went overseas for games. They also had some family background issues. However I thought I would be able to go overseas if my technical skills reached a high level.
In this respect, all Chinese athletes were simply a tool of the Communist government. They could dump you anytime, humiliate you with no regard for your dignity. At that time I made up my mind. I was kicked off the National Sports Committee, I was wondering what I should do. I loved basketball unconditionally. I told the people in charge that I could play basketball inside China if I wasn’t trusted to go overseas to play . However they didn’t give me any answer.
Then I tried to find a solution myself. I contacted some coaches in Guangdong Military Division to join the team and play there, as a new start in my basketball career. I didn’t tell anybody, since somebody from the Liuhe grain warehouse came to Beijing to look for me. I didn’t want to go there because there was no hope for basketball in the Liuhe grain warehouse. I didn’t tell anybody and left for Guangzhou Military Division.
Escape _ Fall 1971
I carried only a handbag with me, with no languages for travelling. Written on my bag in yellow was the slogan “Serve your people”. I had been keeping this bag with me for all of my basketball career. Why? Whenever I saw “Serve your people”, I thought about how this society lacked any ethics. The so called “people” were the Communists and its government.
The National Sports Committee paniced because somebody had escaped. They sent a team from the police department to look for me. When they were in Guangdong Military Division and saw me playing basketball, they didn’t notice any wrong doing. Cao Cheng, the chief director of the National Sports Committee issued an order – that Guangzhou Military must send this guy back.
I was in total despair when Guangzhou Military Division had a talk with me, trying to send me back. Before I came to Guangzhou, I thought I could start another career life here and move on. That little piece of hope was crushed when I was told that I was not allowed to stay. At that point in time I felt that there was no difference if I lived or died.
I was not allowed to make my own choices. I was like a doll. I cried indeed, with total despair. I was in my room alone, thinking of what I was supposed to do. I felt a big anger in my heart. At that time I didn’t have any idea about God. I thought that I shouldn’t give up, I should give it a try. Well, I decided to go back to Beijing with them. I could imagine what was waiting for me in Beijing, nothing good. Then I was isolated in Beijing, in order to confess my motivations for escaping. They thought that I would escape to Taiwan from Guangzhou and then Hong Kong because of my Taiwan relationship. That was their guess. I didn’t think of it at all. I did it for my basketball.
At that moment I made the most important decision of my life, I refused to be in despair. It is a significant choice when you refuse to be in despair. You can choose hopelessness in your life and you can reject it as well. Even though I didn’t see any hope, but I still rejected despair.
I went back to Beijing and made a self confession for a week in an isolated place. Then I made a complete self criticism in front of all of the National Basketball Team members.
The National Sports Committee was afraid that I would escape again. They sent 2 people to go with me to Liuhe. I remembered it clearly, I was sent back to Liuhe, lying on my small bed with a small oil lamp. There was no electricity in Liuhe at that time. I was staring at the oil lamp, wondering what I should do next. Should I wait and be manipulated by somebody else? Should try to survive by myself again? My elder brother came to see me and encouraged me. He said, if you stayed, the leaders of the grain warehouse would not be nice to you since you run away from here before. Besides, they knew that you didn’t want to come back to the warehouse. It was no good for you to stay here. I agreed with him. Then I escaped from there again through the wired fence.
This time I ran to a team in Jilin province in Changchun city. The province team knew me and my potential. They needed me . I stayed there for a couple of months, and I thought I could start my basketball career there. It didn’t happen either. Why? Shengyang Military Division took away my personal file and they knew I left the National Basketball Team. They also knew I was very talented. They needed me, and as a result of it I was serving in the Army. During that time I had an expectation to join the Army, because that would help my parents family benefit from it and they wouldn’t be discriminated by neighbors. My parents got investigated by their employers. If I served in the Army, it would be good for them. Then I went to Shanyang Military Division, wearing military uniforms. Then I thought I could start playing basketball. It didn’t happen then either. I was told that I had a record for running away.
The Army wouldn’t trust you. I was sent to the front for labor work, for brainwashing. Since I had been sent to the front, I wasn’t able to play any basketball.
In the Army there wasn’t enough food. I was starving. There was a war in Zhen Bao Dao (Treasury Island) against the Soviet Union. I am tall and eat more. I was often hungry, plus the heavy, labor intensive workload. At that time we were building a dam, in addition to the regular military training. My health was getting worse, I got stomach bleeding. I didn’t know it and didn’t know that it was a serious illness. When I returned to Shenyang Military Division basketball team, I was too weak to play any basketball. It was not a problem for me to shoot the ball into the net anytime before, now I could not reach the net even once. I thought, my God (even though I didn’t know the existence of God at that time), what should I do?. I still played with others, no matter what. However my health was getting worse and worse. I didn’t accept it and nobody could have known unless they had checked it out.
Till one day I couldn’t get up anymore. I remembered that I had a fever, but nobody came to visit me. It was popular the idea ,“love each other and help each other”, but unfortunately nobody came to help me at all. During the meeting,I felt dizzy due to the fever. But they sang a song of words like “People’s Army is a university, we held Mao Zedong’s thoughful red flag high up”. It irritated me. I was so angry and shouted with the dirtiest words in the world. My throat was sore due to the fever. Somebody heard me in the hallway and reported that Kai Chen talked fudge. I didn’t. What I said was true. They sent me to the hospital. I was there for a week and my fever was gone after pennicilin injection.
I continued training after my return. I did not recover at all. I had a gastric ulcer, but it wasn’t discovered , and stomach bleeding, which caused anemia, and almost caused my death. I was also bleeding. Then I was sent to the hospital again, for a month.
When I was hospitalized, I received a letter – my best friend had died. I got this letter when I was in the most hopeless situation. Needless to mention other unhappy stuff, not even talking about my basketball career. This bad news came. How would you deal with it? Usually people would be defeated and get it over with. No matter what, hopelessness was indeed hovering in my mind. My best friend had died. Death was also awaiting me. There was no hope then. But I still rejected despair. I refused it.
I asked to get out of the hospital once I heard my best friend had died. I wanted to work hard for my future. I started training right away. At least my stomach stopped bleeding, even if it still hurt. I somehow gained some motivation through the training, i.e. I wanted revenge for my best friend. Of course it was not an individual hatred. I had a vague idea: the most effective revenge in this society was to make myself happy. I didn’t see anybody happy in their lives, none.
I gave myself a promise – I wanted to be happy, and I believed I could find happiness. I must pursue it. Even though I didn’t see it, from people around me. They were not happy. But I believed I would be able to find it

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Falun Gong Organ Harvesting Confirmed

CNN Caught In Genocidal Correctness

John Kusumi has recently published a commentary titled ‘CNN caught in Genocidal Correctness’ express his opinion that two years ago CNN should have reported the story of China’s organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience since the apparent evidence is confirmed by Lu Guoping, David Kilgour, and David Matas. If CNN have exposed such crime of bloody harvest, it would lead to the international community taking action to stop what is akin to a holocaust in progress or perhaps they could have stopped the first villain - CCP from killing for additional two years.

Including Wall Street Journal, many U.S. main stream media discredited the evidence of audio and video recordings from Dr. Lu Guoping who admits that he and his colleagues went to prison to select Falun Gong practitioners for involuntary organ donations to be used in transplants, the doctor also admits that he was the person interviewed in the audio recording. The audio is part of a series of recordings, taken by investigators for Kilgour and Matas.

They called hospitals throughout China, posing as relatives of patients who needed transplants. They asked the hospitals if they had organs from Falun Gong practitioners for transplant. The callers got recorded admissions throughout China that hospitals did have Falun Gong organs for sale. The video is a documentary by Phoenix TV and is being distributed by Chinese embassies and consulates; its authenticity is therefore endorsed by the Chinese government.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room has Wenyi Wang as a guest. Dr. Wenyi Wang is the heckler on the South Lawn of the White House. With an Epoch times press pass and shouting at the U.S. and Chinese Presidents who were meeting together, “Stop the killing!” On the way in during the elevator ride, Blitzer’s producer coaches and warns Wang: ‘Don’t talk about organ harvesting’ on TV, Blitzer proceeds to act like a school headmaster, scolding Wang as though the only story was her disruption at the White House.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper did a report about ‘organ tourism’, about a California man who went to China for an organ transplant. Cooper did raise an eyebrow at China, saying that a prison population was ‘vulnerable,’ but, he stopped short of mentioning Falun gong, so there was no exposure of that persecution / crackdown campaign, and no indication that the organ sources may be prisoners of conscience.

Journalists file the first draft of history while historians file the later drafts of history. Wenyi Wang was there with a message. CNN didn’t get the message. 40,000 Falun Gong practitioners are dead will be documented by many historians, and will stand as a black mark against the regime of Communist China, makes CNN look bad.

Around the world, Kilgour and Matas got their points across. Their publicity was well received by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Calgary Herald, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Sydney Morning Herald, CBC News, China Post, NZ Scoop, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Christian Science Monitor, The Ottawa Citizen, The Toronto Sun, Abbotsford News, AFP, Asia News, Canadian Christianity, Chronicle Herald, CounterPunch, Cowichan Valley News Leader, CTV, Free Market News, Langley Times, South China Morning Post, Taipei Times, The Halifax Daily News, The Leader-Post, The Vancouver Sun, Times Colonist, Victoria News, Times of India, Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun, the Chicago Tribune, the Irish Medical Times, the Guardian, and the Washingtoin Times.

Who is missing from this list? United States Opinion leaders are missing. They are The Associated Press, UPI, New York Times, and Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and CNN. Their omission is now exposed, at least to history.

Kilgour and Matas got the story, and CNN didn’t.

Everyone else knows about China’s crimes against humanity, the last to know will be NBC News anchorman Brian Williams, and International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge who cannot be happy as this organ harvesting story tarnishes the Olympics.

The world swore, ‘Never again’ after the Nazi holocaust. Rather than expose the story CNN left space for the Chinese goverment to add two more years of killing into the record of history. The release of the Kilgour-Matas report did not cause a ripple. The American public was kept in the dark for the next two years.

John Kusumi also commented in his commentary that if it was his to arrange, he would have Nuremberg-style trials for Peter Jennings (ABC News), Tom Brokaw (NBC News), and Dan Rather(CBS News) who accessories to genocide.

Today we have phone interviewed with John Kusumi and further discuss the reasonings why U.S. opinion leaders dodge The Organ Harvesting story. Here is the question from Qing Yue, a news reporter for Chinese Sound of Hope Radio Network.

Q 1: The U.S. main stream discredited the organ harvesting story but why do you and your organization credit it?
Q 2: What is the reasoning behind the U.S. media discredited the organ harvesting story?
Q 3: Do you believe Chinese Communist Party behind U.S. media?
Q 4: Why media remains silent?
Q 5: How does Chinese Communist Party make U.S. media stand with them?
Q 6: Who controls U.S. media?
Q 7: Media should be independent. But, why do media look at White House’s attitude?
Q 8: What made media swing from independent to State control media?
Q 9: Are the U.S. media under pressure of White House?
Q10: Why media sometimes cares more for human rights and sometimes not?
Q11: What is the force push that pendulum?
Q12: Some media pro for communism. Is U.S. media under that influence?

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On July 18th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners from all over the world and people from all walks of life gathered together in front of the White House to appeal the persecution of Falun Gong. The persecution of Falun Gong, by the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has lasted for a total of 9 years. Over 3000 people are confirmed to have been tortured to death during this grueling 9 years taken from incomplete statisitics. The actual number is suspected to be much higher. Some of those who went to appeal have personally gone through the persecution and witnessed the CCP’s brutality.

Mr. Kui Huang, who has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, and is a recipient of the Zheng Geru Scholarship, was illegally jailed for 5 years because he is a Falun Gong practitioner. He suffered from many excruciating types of torture in prison.

“One method of torture often used was sleep deprivation. Once they wouldn’t let me sleep for a whole month.

Sometimes I was only allowed to sleep for several minutes a day. At that time, I could even fall asleep while standing. Seven or more other prisoners were sent to watch over me 24/7, even during my trips to the bathroom. If I showed any sign of drowsiness they would immediately shove me in order to wake me up. The long sleep deprivation is actually very inhumane form of persecution and it does damage to the human body both physically and mentally.”

He was forced to keep squatting for a consecutive 3 days and was not allowed to stand up even once. His legs suffered from indescribable affliction. He was also frequently beaten or shocked by electric batons.

“My arms were pulled behind my back and cuffed. More than 10 policemen, wearing heavy leather boots, kicked me at the same time. When I was forced to the ground, those policemen continued to shock me with electric batons. Electric shocks all over my body… including many sensitive parts, like ears, palms, very sensitive parts. I was in extreme agony and underwent dramatic convulsions.”

He protested against the torture by refusing to eat, but drew even more brutal persecution.

“To force feed me, they chained my arms and legs, and pried my teeth open with metal pliers, pinched my nose, and held my throat open with chopsticks and threw lumps of porridge into my mouth. If I breathed, I would inhale the porridge. I didn’t even know if it flew into my trachea or esophagus. That was great pain.”

Another form of torture was called “Flying an Airplane”. This form looks rather
simple, but it is able to torture people to death. “Wooden planks were nailed together to form a cross. My wrists and ankles were chained to the ends of the cross and kept that way for a very long time. My limps were sore and tingling. It felt as if my veins were frozen that way. Ordinary people could hardly withstand this kind of torture.

However strong a man’s will is, he couldn’t help but shudder upon hearing the word ‘airplane’.”

Mr. Huang said, although suffering from the most inhumane tortures of the CCP, there are still many Falun Gong practitioners in China, holding firm to their belief of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.

“The principle of Falun Gong is to teach us to be a good person, a better person, a person beneficial to the society. Its emphasis on cultivating one’s morality attracts me. Nowadays, the moral standard of the whole society is declining at an alarming rate; people are so attached to material comfort and their own desires. Falun Gong practitioners who cultivate their morality can effectively stabilize this society, and help restore the moral standard. Falun Gong is like a clear stream, washing away the dirt in people’s heart.”

Mr. Huang also pointed out that what the CCP fears most is for its people to know the truth.

“Think about it. Falun Gong, the cultivation method, could attract millions of practitioners from all walks of life, from all levels of the society. Besides, the practitioners are still holding fast to their faith even with nine years of brutal persecution. There’s got to be some reason. I hope more people will be able to come to know the truth about Falun Gong, and see through the CCP’s deceitful propaganda. When all the people know about the truth of

Falun Gong, that will be the time that the CCP fears the most, because it will be facing its dissolution. The CCP has always relied on all kinds of lies to deceive its people, pretending that it’s the savior of all. But in fact, it is the CCP that is the root of all evil in China.”

Mr. Kui Huang, winner of First-class Excellent Student Scholarship, and Outstanding Graduate of the prestigious Tsinghua University was recommended to the Ph.D. program without examination, after receiving his Bachelor’s degree.

Because of his practice of Falun Gong, he was forced to suspend his schooling for 3 months from Oct. 1999.  In June 2000, because he openly practiced on campus, he was beaten publicly by many policemen. Then he was expelled from Tsinghua University. He had been illegally detained by a State Security agent. In Nov. 2000, he was illegally arrested in Zhuhai for “subverting the political power of the state”, then he was charged with abotaging legal enforcement” and detained in the 2nd detention center of Zhuhai.

The two chairmen of the US Congress rights group, Democratic Party Congressman McGovern and Republican Congressman Wolf said there were incidents, which abused the process and rule of law. Wolf criticized the Chinese government for using the ‘war on terrorism’ and ‘Olympic security’ as a cover for the persecution of Uighurs. McGovern accused the Chinese Communists of conducting the trial in absolute secrecy. They urged the Chinese government to comply with the promises in their Olympic bid, where they committed to improving the human rights situation.

Fan Ziliang said, “The questions asked were identical to the ones at the last interrogation. This is an act by the regime to intimidate the public before the Olympics. It shows that the authorities tremor in terrible fear.”

Fan’s friend, Wu Gaoxin, who commemorated the June fourth Event, said that harassment before the Olympics demonstrates that the regime is very fragile and scared psychologically. Fan Ziliang simply spelled out the truth, reporting major incidents, corruption and inside stories of Huzhou City. Out of fear for any future actions during the Olympics, the authorities have taken away his personal computer in an attempt to silence him.

The former soldier believes that the people should try police who have repeatedly broken the law. He says that Yang’s action, which amount to a vengeance against corrupt officials was done in haste, and is criminally liable for his actions.

On July first, Yang Jia, armed with a knife broke into the Zabei Bureau of Public security in Shanghai City. He repeatedly stabbed police and guards, and six police were unable to be revived after receiving treatment in hospital. Another three police and one security guard were injured.

The president went further to say that in the world, only despotic and communist regimes have had propaganda departments. Including Hitler, Saddam Hussein and Cambodia’s Hun Sen. However these cannot prevail, there is an ancient Chinese saying “to block public opinion overrides the importance of halting a landslide”. In the overseas media, only the Epoch Times speaks the truth, and all others have been bought by the CCP. He really admired the media organized by Falun Gong practitioners, which can break the blockade of the CCP.

Mo Feng Jie went on to say that the CCP is desperate and standing on their last legs. “The Chinese people are abandoning the CCP, but the CCP are trying to extend their time in power. Eutelsat chose to stand on the wrong side, so we are trying to bring it back.”

Zhang Xuerong appealed to the audiences of Sound of Hope to write to the international community and Eutelsat, and express the wish of the people in Mainland China for freedom of press.

According to Central News Agency reports in Taipei on July thirteenth, the China Economic Net has recently revealed the major reasons why manufacturing businesses are facing difficulties. These include escalating production costs, raw materials, and gains in the renminbi. Currently out of three hundred thousand manufacturers in Wenzhou city, approximately sixty thousand have completely or partially ceased production, of these; two thirds have officially shut down.

Media reports state many business owners feel the situation is hopeless: to stop production is to await demise, while continuing production would hasten demise.
A medium shoe factory owner by the last name Xie said, “After one season of hard work, our calculations have revealed little profit, and so we decided to sell the factory.”

However, a recent report published by the Wenzhou Shoe [Business] Association indicates that medium to large shoe enterprises, “are flourishing in both production and sales”, because of being established earlier and market transfer. It stated that the ones that had shut down were smaller enterprises.