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What Chinese Culture does Chen Zhili Represent?

State Councilor Chen Zhili of the People's Republic of China is coming to
South Africa on July 11 [S1] for the opening of the "Voyage of Chinese
Culture to Africa." She will also visit Zimbabwe and Tanzania. Africans may
want to know more about who Chen Zhili is, and what she represents: a career
spent denying the freedoms of speech and belief, and, in her enthusiastic
persecution of Falun Gong, the attempt to control a nation's thoughts and
beliefs through brainwashing, torture, the denial of access to education,
indoctrination and[S2] the promulgation of hate propaganda.



Chen Zhili first rose to prominence as an enemy of free speech. In 1989 she
worked closely with Jiang Zemin, then mayor of Shanghai, and Zeng Qinghong,
even then Jiang's right-hand man (and now suspected of arranging the June
28 shooting of David Liang), in closing the Shanghai Economics Guidance
newspaper, because it published the views of then rising democracy movement
in China. [S2] Jiang rewarded Chen by promoting her to be Shanghai's
Minister of Propaganda.



On March 18, 1998, Jiang, who himself had risen to become the most powerful
person in China due to his role in cracking down on the democracy movement
after the Tiananmen massacre, appointed Chen as Minister of Education, even
though she had no previous experience in education.



Real educators in China have strongly opposed Chen. Hong Kong's Zhengmin
magazine reported presidents from well-known universities directly under the
Ministry of Education, such as Qinghua University, Beijing University,
Zhejiang University and Fudan University, co-signed a letter requesting her
removal. In March 2003, during the National People's Congress and the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Chen was impeached. In
March 2003 Jiang put Chen's name forward for the position of State
Councilor (mainly in charge of education). Kaifang magazine reported that 27
of 32 delegations to the People's Congress expressed strong objections to
Chen. Nearly 40 colleges and universities opposed her. Yet, with Jiang's
backing, this Minister who was slated to be removed was promoted to State
Councilor.



The vigorous opposition to Chen very likely reflects strong disapproval
among China's educators for Chen's most notable project: turning China's
entire educational system into a tool for persecuting Falun Gong, a
traditional Chinese meditation practice (http://www.falundafa.org). Under
Chen's leadership graduate schools, middle schools, primary schools, and
even kindergartens have been used to persecute Falun Gong. This persecution
directly violates the P.R.C.'s Education law, which states, "citizens
shall enjoy equal opportunity of education, regardless of their ethnicity,
race, gender, occupation, property, or religious belief."



Teachers who refuse to participate in anti-Falun Gong activities or who
refuse to give up their practice of Falun Gong are dismissed and illegally
detained. Students are denied admission, or expelled from school or denied
entering a higher grade or graduation. In some cases students are treated in
this way not because they practice Falun Gong but because their family
members do. Teachers and students are sent by force to "transformation
classes" V quasi concentration camps where Falun Gong practitioners are
subjected to brainwashing, or to China's notoriously brutal labor camps, or
to mental hospitals where they are subjected to horrifying tortures at the
hands of psychiatrists employing mind destroying drugs.



At Qinghua University alone (China's MIT) more than 300 faculty members,
graduate school students and undergraduates have been illegally detained,
dismissed, and sent to forced labor camps.



Falun Gong practitioners are hardly Chen's only victims. She has attempted
to turn the clock back in China's schools, and make their business that of
indoctrination rather than education. She has had hate propaganda attacking
Falun Gong included in the textbooks of elementary and middle schools, and
made answering questions on exams about Falun Gong "correctly" necessary
for passing.  Schools at all levels incorporate anti-Falun Gong education
into their instruction.



One of the biggest initiatives of this former Minister of Propaganda was the
"Million Signature" campaign.  Beginning in February 2001, students at
every level of schooling in all of China were deceived, coerced, or
threatened into signing a petition denouncing Falun Gong.  This petition was
then taken to the United Nations, where a few governments who did China's
bidding acknowledged it, and then these acknowledgments were publicized in
China to strengthen the government's anti-Falun Gong propaganda.



Through the power the education system gives over China's youngsters, Chen
was able to force onto Chinese society an "anti-Falun Gong movement."
Youngsters throughout China were forced to take part in anti-Falun Gong
activities, including the circulation of pledges among adults "not to
believe, not to spread, but resist" Falun Gong.  Various methods have also
been employed to use students to spread the hate propaganda against Falun
Gong to their families.


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Background

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa (about), is a practice of meditation
and exercises with teachings based on the universal principle of
'Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance.' Practiced in over 50 countries
world-wide, Falun Gong has roots in traditional Chinese culture. With
government estimates of as many as 100 million practicing Falun Gong,
China's Communist leader Jiang Zemin outlawed the peaceful practice in July
1999 (report). Since that time, Jiang's regime has intensified its
propaganda campaign to turn public opinion against the practice while
imprisoning, torturing and even murdering those who practice it. The Falun
Dafa Information Center has verified details of 1,000 deaths (reports /
sources) since the persecution of Falun Gong in China began in 1999. In
October 2001, however, Government officials inside China reported that the
actual death toll was well over 1,600. Expert sources now estimate that
figure to be much higher. Hundreds of thousands have been detained, with
more than 100,000 being sentenced to forced labor camps, typically without
trial.



