INTRODUCTION
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Australia is situated in the southern hemisphere and has vast natural unspoiled
beauty.
This pure land has attracted three women from Mainland China; Esther Wang,
Jennifer Zeng and Jane Dai. They each travelled here from far away. At that
time they did not know each other, however similar experiences have brought
them together…
This is a story of three women.
It is seemingly an ordinary story however, it is actually far from ordinary.
The story takes place in both the southern and nothern hemisphere, spanning
across two centuries, and continues to this day……..
Three Women’s Story
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Approximately 100 kilometers south of Sydney is the attractive seaside city
of Wollongong. Esther Wang and her husband Bill live there.
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As Esther recalls when she first met Bill in China, and at that time never imagined
that they would be together in the future.
Esther:
In fact we first met in 1994, because at that time, the company I worked
for was looking for some overseas construction companies.
Bill came to my company, and I was his translator, that’s how we met, but
at that time I completely never expected we would continue.
Anyhow, I remember at that time, my boss told me, he said: “Bill, this
person, is absolutely trustworthy”.
Because at that time in China, the common thing lacking between people is
trust, so after I heard my boss, who is a business person, even make such a
comment, I felt probably he is very nice.
(vo)
To enable Esther to truly get to know about Bill and his family, he invited
her to Australia for a visit.
Esther:
He first invited me to Australia in 1995, so I stayed for about two weeks
with his younger sister.
After coming here I felt I had full trust in him.
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Melbourne is a cultural city. The old tramcars give a unique style to this
famous city, however, when Jennifer was forced to leave home with unspeakable
pain in 2000 and come here, this elegant city was unable to comfort her
innermost feelings.
Before this, she was at the peak of her career and life. Jennifer had
always lived in China. Throughout primary school, high school and university,
she was a top academic.
Jennifer:
I have always come first, from when I was young till I reached maturity.
No matter what kind of exam, I have never been beaten by others.
When I entered Beijing University, even in such a competitive environment I
was the top academic as usual.
At the time of my graduation, the previous three years results were lined
up next to mine and my result was still in front.
I was exempt from taking the entrance exam to attend the Masters Degree.
I graduated from the Masters Degree with outstanding results, averaging over
90%.
I was then recommended for a Doctorate but I did not wish to continue
studying. I gave up.
Then I entered the development and research center in
the State Council.
That was a position many people could not get in even
if they went out of their way, but I got in...
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Sydney is one of the most charming cities in the world. In 1987, Jane Dai
came to Sydney for the first time, not only attracted by its beauty, but also with
the intention to search for answers about life in the Caucasian culture.
Jane Dai:
I came here in 1987 because in my heart I have been looking for something.
I did not want to repeat my parents’ lives, but I also did not know what
kind of life I wanted.
I entered Hangzhou Univerity when I was 17 and studied there for 4 years but
I did not find the answer.
Therefore, I came to Australia in 1987.
In the second week, I found a “share accommodation” from the newspaper, in
the hope of finding the answer in the Caucasian culture.
I lived with these people for 5 years, and started going to church in 1989.
After becoming an Australian citizen in 1992, I spent all my
savings on travelling around the world.
I wanted to visit all the museums and artistic halls, because what I
studied at university was Tourism Economics. This was my major.
I spent 5 months in America and Canada, and 7 months in Europe, then I went
to England and I even joined a western tour group to Israel.
My last stop was Hawaii where I found myself on the beach facing the ocean,
I cried out because after 6 years in the Caucasian culture I had not found the
answer.
Jennifer:
Since I was young my favourite and most enjoyable hobby has been reading, because
I feel that to a human being a fundamental thing is a spirit, mmm, is a
spiritual entity.
Then after going to university, people become mature and naturally have
needs at another level, i.e.
what’s the truth of life and why people are living, these type of questions?
Many philosophers also question: Who am I? Where do I come from, and where am
I heading towards? Why is a person living? What’s the purpose of life? Do we
live just for living itself?
Because I have read many books since childhood, I like to ponder. Pondering
if there is a final truth in this universe? Is there any principle? Can one go
beyond oneself, avoid illness, ageing, and even death? I started to think over
these things. Then I read a lot because I went to a university which is the Beijing
University, there are lots of books in that library. I remember I basically
read all the east and west philosophy books which I could borrow. Especially
those masterpeices, because their mature and deep explanation of life at that
time had a big impact on me. What’s strange though, this impact would weaken in
time. When it has faded away, I feel those fundamental questions that I had
just mentioned were still not answered, nothing clear. Therefore, I had always
been searching.
Esther:
In 1996, since at that time I decided that I was willing to marry him and
to live in this environment, because I felt I fully trusted him, and I was
happy to do so.
(vo)
To a traditional Chinese family, it takes great consideration to allow the daughter
to marry a foreigner. How would Esther’s parents regard the marriage of their
daughter to Bill?
Esther:
That was also quite a difficult part. Because to my parents, the family concept
is regarded as very crucial for us. We are a very happy family. Therefore, when
I told them I wanted to go to Australia for a marriage, and live there for
good, I did a lot of work on them, certainly Bill did as well. He wrote a
letter to my parents, telling them how they could believe him absolutely and
trust he would take care of me very well. When my parents listened to the
letter I read out to them, they were deeply touched by his sincerity.
(vo)
After getting married, Esther happily got along with Bill’s family, and
quickly adapted to the western life.
Esther: (in English)
…remember you jumped over the fence to Pat's place and came
to see me? ….and I thought I was expecting a really formal style. I was
thinking I have to be really polite and really show my highest respect, and you
said:' I just climbed over the fence, and just came over to say Hello, and I’ll
go back very soon.
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Not long after, Esther’s family came to Australia to visit them. Even
though Esther’s mother didn’t understand English, she became a good friend with
Bill’s mother.
Bill’s mum: (in English)
She
used to come with Esther’s father
…….. and her mother used to get into everything. You know she is always
ready to help. And she even helped Esther to make fly screens for the windows.
She’s a lovely person. She’d fit in anywhere.
(vo)
Soon after she settled down in Australia, Esther quickly found a job in a
financial company.
Esther’s boss: (in English)
We’ve got 25 staff, and Esther is one of the good workers in
the place.
Jane Dai:
I
returned to China in September 1993.
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Not long after Jane returned to China, she met her husband, a worker.
Jane Dai:
I met my husband in June. He is very simple, plain…very different.
(vo)
In 1988, Jennifer married her soul mate when she was studying her Masters
Degree.
Jennifer:
My husband and I similarly pursue spiritual life, seek perfection, we are also
quite romantic. We often go out, and we have travelled to many places.
(vo)
The path of life is not smooth. Soon, Jennifer twice had massive hemorrhages
when she was giving birth to her child, and her health suddenly deteriorated.
Jennifer:
When I was in labour, things went wrong, a big medical complication
happened. I lost consciousness as a result of two massive hemorrhages , I had
one foot in the grave… I
couldn’ be moved from the delivery bed at that time.
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Unfortunatly, Jennifer caught hepatitis C from a blood transfusion during
the complications. At that time she was at the peak of her career and life, and
all of a sudden fell down defeated.
Jennifer:
Because I have been quite outstanding since childhood, others have had very
high expectations of me, I also had very high expectations of myself. Then,
when this illness came, I felt like I was given the death penalty, except the
execution was postponed for 5 to 8 years, that’s it. My life has not begun, but
appeared to be already over.
I was diagnosed with hepatitis. At that time I only knew it was a
hepatitis, but did not know which kind, as now there are many kinds of
hepatitis. However everyone was very scared upon hearing about hepatitis, they
feared I could infect the child, so they immediately sent me to a hospital for
infectious diseases, and isolated me from my child. Then my husband sent our
child back to his hometown, and asked his mother to look after her.
Since then, my child and I were seperated. She grew up with her grandmother.
Everytime she said “mama”, her grandmother wanted to cry. She felt really sorry
for her. The child can call mum, but mum is not around.
As a mother, I lay in the hospital and looked at the photo of my child, she
had changed so much after she left me for a month. I couldn't even see the
growing up process of my child. So the pain of the
disease was engraved eternally in my heart.
(vo)
Jennifer was not the only one to experience the tribulation of disease,
Jane’s father-in-law also suffered from urenia. Fortunately, their destinies
did not turn out according to their medical ‘death sentence’, instead, their
lives made a turn for the better.
Jane Dai:
My father-in-law had urenia before 1996. It cost the family lots of money
looking for famous Chinese and western medicine doctors. The result was that he
waited for the death. My husband’s uncle said this disease was like a big stone
rolling down the mountain, it was impossible to push the stone from the bottom
of the mountain back up to the top. However, a miracle happened. One day, his
neighbour gave him a book called Zhuan
Falun. He started to read the book and practiced the exercises in the park,
and he miraculously recovered. Therefore, my husband and his older sister also
started to practice Falun Gong since 1996.
Jennifer:
After I had practiced Falun Gong for more than a month, there was an annual
health check in my workplace. I went for the health check, and the result
showed I was completely normal. The hepatitis C I had for more than 4 years,
and which could not be cured with tens of thousand Yuan disappeared. Moreover I
felt I was even more energetic than at the most flourishing time in university.
I felt that I was given a second chance at life.
(vo)
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, was introduced to the public by Mr.
Li Hongzhi in 1992. Falun Gong is a traditional cultivation system of the Buddha
school and comprises a series of relaxing movements without any mind acitivity.
It is based on the cosmic principles of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance.
According to official Chinese government information, tens of millions of chinese
were practicing it within a few years.
Esther:
My older sister introduced Falun Gong to me. At that time, nobody else
practiced Falun Gong around my home in Australia. I only acquaried some Falun
Gong books and material about the exercises from my sister, and I slowly read
by myself. When I read the books, the most impressive thing it says is a person
must treasure virtue/moral. Moreover I also had this kind of belief before. I
think no matter what a person does, we can’t lose this most precious part of
being a person.
Jennifer:
My husband and I are very happy. When I had the illness, the most painful
part was that I had bad moods all the time. Like just now I mentioned I lost
hope in my life so my mood of course became very bad. Very often for no reason
I got moody and angry with my husband. Because of my bad mood, I always needed
him to comfort me and make me happy. If he didn’t do it properly I would cry
for 3 days. Then slowly my life became unpleasant.
That’s how I felt at that time. Because I was sick, even though he made the
greatest effort as a husband, it
could not make me happy. Nobody can change this fact about my illness.
Only after I practiced Falun Gong, did my body become healthier, and he was
truly very happy as well, as he indeed saw I became healthy and happier. Moreover
my attitude to life completely changed. I was originally a
pessimistic person. I looked at things first from the bad situation and the
negative side.
After I practiced Falun Gong, he could see I no
longer had emotional ups and downs, or those petty little worries, he didn’t need
to console me. No such things any more. He doesn’t need to because I’m always
open minded and harmonius. When he has worries I even can help him out.
Before it was never like this. In the past it has always been him to
comfort me, never vice versa. So when he saw all these changes, he then said “Your’e
practicing something really good, just keep practicing.
Jane Dai:
On 28th April 1997, my mum and I visisted one of our relatives, I happened
to see the book “Zhuan Falun”. This book contains all the answers I searched
for in my life, therefore, I could not express in words my feeling at that
time.
(vo)
Why chose Falun Gong, have they ever questioned their choices?
Jennifer:
It was my rational choice to practice Falun Gong, but there was a time that
I had reservations.
After practicing for a few months, a voice inside me suddenly said: “now that
you believe all these so much, and are so dedicated to it, what if all these
are fake”. I have thought about it. I was thinking at that moment, “yes, what
if it was fake!”, since experiencing the faslehood of the Great Cutural
Revolution and the idolism of Chairman Mao I know most chinese won’t blindly
believe in anything anymore. Why, simply afraid to be deceived.
I studied Natural Science. I seriously and carefully read all the contents
of Falun Gong literature from beginning to the end: Falun Gong guides so many
people’s practice, and truly improves so many people’s moralities and good
health. That’s to say what modern medicine and science couldn’t solve, Falun
Gong did, and it has been verified by so many people’s practical experiences. Falun
Gong can explain what modern science can’t explain, and achieve what modern science
can’t achieve; Science can’t change people’s heart, but Falun Gong can.
Therefore, speaking from this angle, I know what I have chosen…
(vo)
So how do westners look at this practice? How does Bill think about it?
Esther:
I think this practice is very good, mostly because it teaches people to be
good, which I am also willing to learn. So I gradually introduced it to Bill.
In the beginning, as a westerner, he thought it was another theory of religion,
but when he saw my changes, and the benefit I had gained, he gradually opened
up the book and started to learn. Then slowly he realized the difference.
(vo)
When these three women were immersed in their happy lives, they did not
think unimaginable changes could happen.
(vo)
In July 1999, Jiang Zemin’s regime banned Falun Gong and started the comprehensive
persecution of Falun Gong practitioners who were persistant in their practice.
Jennifer:
I remembered on the day of July 22nd, I heard the editorial of the
People’s Daily newspaper while in my car, that symbolized the start of the crackdown,
I was astonished. The tone of that news announcer had no difference to the tone
of criticisism during the Great Cultural Revolution.
Esther:
All the media in China included news broadcasts, newspaper and radio
station all endlessly criticised Falun Gong.
(vo)
According to Chinese authorities, it was claimed that there are too many
people practicing Falun Gong and this would threaten national security.
Jennifer:
You‘d hardly believe the government of such a big country can be so shameless
to such an extent, can spend so much effort to produce all those lies. No
matter how capable your speech, you still do not know where to begin to clear
out these rumours. Additionally, they control all the propaganda tools, they
can say whatever they want to say. What all the radio stations, TV stations and
newspapers broadcast for 24 hours are their propaganda.
(vo)
Then, how do Falun Gong practitioners face this sudden change?
Jane Dai:
In July 1999, my husband and his sister went to Beijing to appeal for Falun
Gong, to say a justified word for Falun Gong: “Falun Gong is good.”…………Jiang
Zemin’s regime established the “610 Office” nation wide, everywhere, every
city, every district, every resident’s committee…
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The “610 Office” is a bureau specifically created by the Chinese government
to persecute Falun Gong, and is named by its date of creation, being the 10th
June, 1999. It has absolute power over all levels of administration in the
Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches. It is similar to
the "central Great Cultural Revolution Group" during the Chinese
Great Cultural Revolution or the Nazi’s during Hilter’s reign.
Jane Dai:
…therefore we no longer have normal lives.
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At that time, Jane returned to Australia in order to give birth to her
child. But in July 2000, she again returned to China after she learned that her
husband had been kidnapped.
Jane Dai:
For the safety of my unborn child, I came to Australia to give birth. When
she was 4 months old, I took her to China. When I called home in July, my
father-in-law told me my husband and my sister-in-law had been kidnapped, he
did not know where they were. I was very anxious, therefore I wanted to go
back. I knew it was dangerous for my child, but I hoped he could see his child.
After I arrived, my husband was released. That was his first time in a
brainwashing class. The orders came from Guangzhou. We lived in Haizhu
District, and my sister-in-law lived in Yuexiu District, however they both were
kidnapped and missing at the same time. They threatened my husband that if he would
not give up the practice in the next brainwashing class, he would be straight
away put into a forced labor camp.
(vo)
Some people say, if Falun Gong practitioners practice at home, then nothing
would happen.
Jane Dai:
It is impossible in that environment in China. You will still be taken to a
brainwashing class even you practice at home. They insisted that you must sign
the “repentance statement”. ………..To avoid going to the brainwashing class, he had no choice but to leave
home. Currently there are many people are like this in China, leaving home to
avoid further persecution…
(vo)
What do Falun Gong practitioners have to say to the government?
Jane Dai:
Because we have benefited a lot, it is not right for the government to do
so. My husband carried a very kind intention trying to clarify the truth to
them: to make it clear that our family has benefited a lot, Falun Dafa is good.
(vo)
For the same purpose, Esther’s mother went on the streets.
Esther:
More than 3 years ago, the crackdown on Falun Gong started in China. She
gradually felt more strongly that she should step forward and speak up for
Falun Gong. My mum took some material and handed it out to pedestrains and
passers-by, to let people know more about the situation of Falun Gong outside
of China. However, she was reported by someone, and just because of this she
was sentenced to 3 years in a forced labour camp.
My older sister also has been detained for more than a year. As soon as my
family members were detained, I completely lost contacts with them, with only a
couple of relatives allowed to visit them. While visiting them, they’re asked
to transform their mind. I have no idea on earth what type of people they want
to transform them into. A person who firmly believes in Truthfullness,
Compassion and Forbearance, a person who gradually learns to become better, to
be good to others, tell me what other type of people you want to transform them
into.
Jennifer:
I have been arrested 4 times. The last time, I was sentenced to 1 year
reeducation through labour. I was detained there for a
year. I am most reluctant to
talk about this part of my experience, because it is too cruel, too cruel to
imagine, spiritually and physically. I was simultenously tortured with two
electric batons by the police, until I lost conciousness. They dragged me along
the floor, then asked prostitutes to kick me. They forced me to squat under the
burning sun where the ground temerature would have been nearly than 50 degrees,
I could not move a bit, two hands locked behind
the head, head lowered to see my own knees. I squated in this position for 15
hours without moving. Many times I nearly fainted.
(vo)
In the forced labour camps in China, an electric baton is commonly used. Different
means of torture are most often used on Falun Gong practitioners.
Jennifer:
When people were brought to the dispatch place of the forced labour camp,
the first word you heard upon entering the door was: “lower your head”. Then
the sound of electric batons followed. Torture with electric batons was very
frequent. I saw an unmarried female Falun Gong practitioner tied to a chair, 4
to 5 strong men tortured her with electric batons on her genitals and head
until she became incontinent and lost control of her bodily functions. She lost consciousness and
could not wake up for a long time.
Also,
an elderly lady, a practitioner in her fifties, was forced to write a
“guarantee statement”. She refused, then 4 to 5 policemen striped off her
clothes, stepped on her on the floor. They used 4 to 5 electric batons together
to torture her. The
electric current was so strong that she could not stop jumping up. Even though
she was under 4 to 5 policemen’s feet she still jumped up. After they electric
shocked the front of her body, they then tortured her back. Her whole body was
full of round, black and burnt spot, like baking the pancake. An elderly lady
in her fifties was also tortured like that, hardly anyone was spared.
(vo)
The persecution of Falun Gong is doesn’t just happen in China. It has alse
extended overseas. Esther, as a Australian citizen, was refused a visa by the
Chinese Consulate in Sydney to back home when her father died.
Esther:
At that time I heard my father passed away, but I could not get a visa. The
Chinese Consulate in Sydney refused to grant me a visa, just because I practice
Falun Gong.
(vo)
Esther is very worried about her family members being arrested and
detained. Even though Esther has a wonderful life in Australia, she is
experiencing the pain of not being able to contact her mother and sister.
Esther:
I feel my mum has given me so much, but she is now put in jail. We haven’t
had any contact for more than 2 years. It is not fair to her. Falun Gong
practitioners just want to be good, she did nothing wrong.
Even though my sister is detained, our hearts are together. I know she misses
me a lot. I called her the day before she was arrested, I told her I had bought
her some Christmas presents, and was going to send to her, but I could no
longer find her when I called later.
I know she is thinking of me. When I had my birthday last month, I can’t
imagine under what condition and circumstance in that environment she was, but
she was able to call out, just to ask my relative to tell me “happy birthday
sister”.
I miss my family terribly. I don't feel they should be
there at all.
(vo)
Jennifer’s husband completely lost contact with her after she had been
arrested, and he was very worried about his wife’s situation.
Jennifer:
After I was sent to the forced labour camp, my husband could not find me until
4 months later. They simply did not tell him where I was. He desperately looked
for me not knowing whether I was alive or dead.
After 4 months, he saw me for first time, and he cried. Then what he said
for his first sentence, he said he was reading a book about Zhang Zhixin. He
said: “Don’t be stubborn at all.” I knew what he was worrying for.
(vo)
Zhang Zhixin is a lady who dared to speak the truth to the government in
the seventies in China. She was arrested and brutally tortured because of that,
and eventually tortured to death by cutting her throat.
Jane Dai:
In July last year, I returned to Australia. ….from the internet I know…he…I
clearly remember that day. It was 26th July, I was living with a
practitioner named Li Ming. It was around 7am to 8am, she asked me to come and
have a look. I ran to the computer, I was stunned, I could not believe. At that
moment, my whole body was shaking, I could not speak even one word. I turned
around to look at my daughter Fadu, she completely looked like her father. I
could see my husband in her. My whole body, my heart broke.
(vo)
Chen Chengyong, the husband of Jane Dai, has been arrested many times for
appealing for Falun Gong, and brutally tortured and died due to the persecution.
Jane Dai:
At that time, I called home and a policeman answered
the phone. I really wanted to find out what had happened, therefore I applied for
a visa to go back to China right away, but the Chinese Consulate refused to
grant me a visa, as my name was in the blacklist, I already had trouble when I
came back here. Therefore I took my daughter everywhere for help. After 8
months, the Australian Foreign Affairs Department managed to get his ashes
back.
(vo)
Since 1999, more than 700 Falun Gong
practitioners have been persecuted to death in police custody.
(vo)
Bill, Esther’s husband, as a westerner,
how does he look at all this? And what about Bill’s mother and Esther’s employer,
what do they say?
Bill: (in english)
When Esther's mum and dad were here, we had such happy
times. We used come and walk along the beach and, I think her mum really
encouraged us to come out more. But since her mum has been locked away in a
labour camp, it's just been so hard. To see her mum the way she is in there:
she has her hands tied, she's completely locked away, unable to do anything.
She can't even think on her own. What I want to do is not just help Esther's
mum, I want to help everybody, because we are all one family. Esther's mum is
suffering and there are others suffering just as much, and I don't want to be
selfish. Although sometimes I feel because of my relationship I am selfish. I
want to save her, but, we have to think about all those other practitioners in
the same situation. We should rescue all of them, not just one or two. If we
don't change the situation, who is going to change it? It will always remain
the same unless we do something ourselves. We must rectify the wrong ourselves.
Just believed that what we are doing is right. I know Falun Dafa is good, I
know it is righteous. And I know nothing can break that, and that gives us strength
to carry on our fight, and to make sure that we help all of those people in
China to have the same freedom that we have here.
Bill’s mum: (in English)
It's so sad that she is in that prison now. She shouldn't
be in there, you know. All other people shouldn't be there too. It is so wrong
for them to be there you know.
I say a prayer every night, get them out of there, all
the people. Get them out. Esther's sister and brother in law, you know. Even a
little prayer might help, or say, come on, somebody up there, do something to
stop that government from putting innocent people in jail.
Esther’s boss: (in English)
I come from a family of four sisters, my brother and mum
and dad still alive. And the family is extremely important. (and) I suppose
with Esther, that's the same thing. So it's no different. If my family were in
a position like hers, I'd probably be doing the same as what she is doing.
Jane Dai:
Sometimes I think of my husband, it’s very sad to
think of him. Definitely.
Before, we were very happy, but such a happy family has been destroyed just like
this.
(vo)
Jane Dai, who lost her husband, has
been living in resistence to and fighting this injustice. Jane can’t stop feeling
sad for her two-year-old daughter when she sees other happy families.
Jane Dai:
This is the most heartbreaking thing. She is too
young, only 2 years old. She was only 9 months old the last time she saw her
father. I really do not know how to face her. I certainly wish my child could have
her father, growing up in a healthy family. But today I have to bring her up on
my own, to be mum and dad, it is very difficult.
I really wish my child could have her father around,
to grow up in a happy family, however, when I think about there are thousands
and tens of thousands of children in the same situation as her in China, it
encourages me to have enough strength to speak out.
Jennifer:
When the plane I was on landed on this Australian
soil, I basically did not feel relieved, instead it’s a kind of drifting
feeling. I had to leave home to avoid further persecution, so that I can
continously try the best to help those people who are still suffering in China.
I feel my heart is connected to theirs.
Dai:
Now I take my daughter around the world, continuously
talking to governments, media and to everyone I encounter, on the train, in the airports, and on
the streets. When I ask them for directions I also tell them what is happening
in China and what happened to my family. I have the chance to speak, but there
are tens of thousands of families like mine that don’t have the chance. I have
many good friends in the jail, but because they do not give up, they are
continually punished, their terms are extended, extended and extended again.
When I think of what they have endured, I have the courage to continue my path.
(vo)
This is how three unrelated women
walked together. They have the same wish. That is: maintaining the right of
belief, calling more people together to resuce their families and friends.
Esther：(in
english)
…to let everyone know how I’ve become a direct victim of
this persecution of Falun Gong happening in China.
Jane Dai: (in english)
…we travelled a lot of countries. I speak out to
government, to media. I call for help to stop the persecution.
Jennifer: (in english)
…i am here to call for the help of all the kind hearted
persons.
(vo)
Facing the almost 4 years of
persecution under a totalitarian regime, do Falun Gong practitioners have the
confidence to continue?
Jennifer:
I never regret that I chose to practice Falun Gong,
even in the most difficult time in the forced labor camp, I did not regret my
choice. Why? Because today I clearly and rationally know what I have chosen.
Esther:
Well, to uphold a righteous true belief, you may need
to make sacrifices.
Jane Dai:
As everytime i mention this, my heart
is bleeding. But I still want to speak out. If I do didn’t
practice Falun Gong, I would manage to put this sorrow out of my mind and start
a new life again. However, Falun Gong teaches us to consider others first.
Esther:
What we are practicing is Truthfulness, Compassion
and Forberance to gradually become a good person in our lives, to become even
better. We believe there’s
nothing wrong in continuing to do this.
Jane Dai:
Every one of us has benefitted spiritually and
physically, therefore each of us is using our heart to do this. Jiang Zemin
uses his money and power, but we do not believe money and power can change
people’s hearts.
Type onto screen:
Jane Dai takes her daughter Fadu everywhere, to tell people how she lost
her husband, and what is happening in China;
Jennifer Zeng is now living in Melbourne to avoid being detained in the
forced labour camp again. She can’t return to China, return to her husband and
daughter. She suffers the pain of seperation and continuously tells people
about her personal experience;
Esther Wang’s only closest family are still detained in the forced labour
camp in China. Contact between the three of them is completely deprived. Esther
can’t even get information about her mum and sister…