[ClearWisdom.net] Chinese New Year of 2001 is fast approaching, and yet Jiang Zemin is recklessly apprehending Falun Gong practitioners throughout China. The Jiang regime, having contracted "Mad Power disease," "Phobia of the People," and "Raging Jealousy syndrome" [translator's note these terms are a play on words on various diseases and ailments in Chinese] has already developed a vicious habit: every time New Year's or a festival rolls around, they will, without fail, arrest and inflict harm on people en masse as a way to demonstrate their power and to protect themselves. They don't care that tens of thousands of homes are broken and that families are dispersed everywhere with no place to go. They don't care that huge numbers of innocent citizens are forced to spend the holidays behind bars and cold prison walls with only truncheons and brutal torture for company, doing hard labor with their blood and their tears. This situation has escalated ever since the crackdown on Falun Gong was announced on July 20 of 1999.

Based on news that has been received in recent days, just taking the three Eastern provinces as an example, public security officers have already spent several days in a row apprehending Falun Gong practitioners on a large scale in preparation for the Chinese New Year holidays. The vast majority of practitioners are seized and taken directly from their homes. In some regions, they have taken away several hundred people from just one small residential area. The city of Changchun has even transferred the very steadfast Falun Gong practitioners who were being detained in the Fenjing Labor Camp to the Weizigou Labor Camp. Jiang Zemin is planning to use this method of transferring people to different labor camps, to move them here and move them there, until they finally disappear (disposing of them in secret). Since mid-January, the various workplaces, public security offices in each area, and community personnel in the city of Shenyang have started going to the homes of the Falun Gong practitioners whom they have been contracted to watch over. They have been coercing practitioners into writing pledges (not to appeal, not to distribute materials) or to pay guarantee fees, or directly rounding them up and detaining them together in so-called Chinese New Year "learning classes." At the time of this article, this kind of arresting and detaining has spread throughout Mainland China. At present, many Falun Gong practitioners have had no choice but to leave their workplaces and their homes, forced to wander elsewhere, destitute.

It is hoped that all of the families of Falun Gong practitioners will be able to step forward to protect their loved ones, unveil the evil, and go to the public security offices to demand their return. We also hope that the international community and members of society will pay attention to this issue.

At the same time, we sternly warn Jiang Zemin: Stop your reckless and senseless actions, stop arresting people, and release the innocent Falun Gong populace immediately, otherwise you alone will bear all of the karmic consequences!

January 19, 2000