法輪功｢四·二五｣上訪真相問答（圖）

法輪大法自一九九二年傳出後，修煉人數呈幾何級數增長，至一九九九年七月，有上億人修煉。一九九五年三月和五月，李洪志老師應邀到法國和瑞典傳功講法，拉開了大法在海外洪傳的序幕。從九九年七月開始，共產邪黨在中國大陸持續八年滅絕性的迫害下，法輪功不但沒有倒下，反而在國際上迅速傳播，洪傳至八十多個國家和地區。法輪大法主要著作《轉法輪》已被譯成近三十種文字出版發行。法輪大法使各國人民對中國的悠久燦爛文化更加嚮往，給中國贏得巨大的國際聲譽。截止二零零七年底，獲得海外各國政府及各界二千八百多項褒獎與支持議案信函。李洪志先生從二零零零年起連續四度獲諾貝爾和平獎提名。這些都顯示了法輪大法超越民族、國界和時空的巨大威德和感召力。

至今還有人說，因｢四•二五｣法輪功｢圍攻｣了中南海，中共才鎮壓法輪功的。這些人是因不了解真實情況，才被謊言欺騙。實際中共與江澤民明明知道什麼是法輪功、更知道修煉法輪功的都是好人。就因為法輪功太正了，而中共的本質是｢假、惡、斗｣，與｢真、善、忍｣不共戴天，才一定要滅之。所以它們對法輪功的鎮壓是精心構陷、預謀已久的。早在｢四•二五｣前三、四年，江氏集團就要取締法輪功並進行了多次大圍剿，陰謀不斷，越演越烈；預謀了天津事件，又秘密導演了中南海事件。雖然當時的總理朱鎔基合理的處理了這萬名法輪功學員和平上訪的事件，但江氏集團並不甘休，繼續耍盡陰謀，終於｢七二零｣撕掉遮羞布公開瘋狂鎮壓。所以｢四•二五｣絕不是中共滅絕法輪功的原因，也不是鎮壓法輪功的開始，只是它們蓄謀已久系列陰謀構陷的重要一環而已。

問：什麼是｢四•二五｣？

九年前，即一九九九年四月二十五日，逾萬法輪功學員自願到北京和平上訪。這個出現在中共統治下的民眾大規模和平上訪，震動了世界，被視為中國歷史上的奇蹟，也就是｢四•二五｣事件。法輪功｢四•二五｣事件並非突發事件，也非江澤民渲染的那種包圍政府要地的政治性示威舉動。下面對此事件前後的史實按時間順序作一簡述。供希望了解｢四•二五事件｣真相的人們參閱。

問：為什麼要去上訪？

答：一九九九年四月十一日，何祚庥在天津教育學院《青少年科技博覽》雜誌發表了題為｢我不贊成青少年練氣功｣的文章。該文章以捏造事實、誣衊、誹謗、陷害的卑劣伎倆，指名攻擊法輪功，醜化法輪功修煉者的形象，誣衊法輪功創始人。該文章在天津發表後，天津的一些法輪功學員認為有必要向有關方面澄清事實真相，並期望通過與雜誌編輯部的交涉來消除該文章的惡劣影響。因此，四月十八日至二十四日，部份法輪功學員前往天津教育學院及其它相關機構反映實情。

問：為什麼要去中央上訪？

答：九九年四月二十三、二十四兩日，天津市公安局動用防暴警察毆打反映情況的法輪功學員，導致有的法輪功學員流血受傷，四十五人被抓捕。當法輪功學員請求放人時，在天津市政府被告知，公安部介入了這個事件，如果沒有北京的授權，被逮捕的法輪功學員不會得到釋放。天津公安向法輪功學員建議：｢你們去北京吧，去北京才能解決問題。｣迫害的嚴重升級引發了法輪功學員的關注，各地法輪功學員懷著對中央政府的信任和期待紛紛自發通過上訪國務院信訪辦的途徑來尋求｢天津事件｣的公正解決。

迫害法輪功並不是起源於一九九九年，早在一九九六年六月中宣部即指示各級批判法輪功，光明日報攻擊法輪功，之後新聞出版署禁止出版、發行、銷售法輪功書籍。公安部連續兩年，以封建迷信、｢偽科學｣的帽子，調查法輪功，並派人監視和｢打入內部｣。何祚庥在北京電視台攻擊法輪功。法輪功學員不斷向中央和地方的各級領導寫信，反映法輪功利國利民，有利於人民身心健康的真實情況。一九九九年四月十一日，何祚庥在天津教育學院《青少年科技博覽》發表文章誣衊法輪功，天津的一些法輪功學員向有關方面澄清事實真相，天津警方抓人是迫害的進一步升級。

問：上訪的法輪功學員要反應什麼意見？

答：法輪功學員要向中央領導反應煉功後身體變好和修真善忍使人心變好的事實。讓領導了解法輪大法好，法輪大法使人道德回升的情況。說明法輪大法利國利民的事實。

問：上訪法輪功群眾是圍攻中南海嗎？

一九九九年四月二十五日，上萬法輪功群眾陸續彙集在北京｢府右街｣附近。儘管人數眾多，人群卻出奇的安靜，並且秩序井然，維持治安的警察這時候也覺得沒什麼事可做而開始閑聊 。

上訪學員安靜祥和，警察沒事閑聊

與中南海相鄰的｢西安門大街｣，是當時國務院信訪局的所在地。中國設立信訪制度的本意，是為了使群眾疾苦有一個下情上達的渠道。上萬名群眾直接來到國家最高的信訪部門，這在中國歷史上還是第一次。

這次大規模的群眾和平上訪，事後被海外媒體簡稱為｢四•二五事件｣。隨後，法輪功，這一根植於中國傳統文化的氣功修練方法，通過海內外媒體的傳播，迅速成為世界新聞的焦點。儘管在以後幾年裡，中國的官方媒體對於此事件和海外媒體有截然不同的態度，我們從當時的中央電視台新聞畫面和現場照片都可以看到，上訪群眾的身後，並不是中南海特有的紫禁城紅色圍牆（見圖）；而和上訪群眾隔街相望的才是紫禁城的紅色圍牆，以及中南海西門。眾所周知，中南海的正門是面向長安街上的新華門。事實上，四月二十五日在長安街上並沒有上訪群眾聚集。人群主要分布於府右街和西安門大街，並且無人聚集在中南海紅色圍牆的一側。

問：朱鎔基總理妥善解決｢天津事件｣和｢四•二五事件｣

答：二十五日早八點十五分左右，當時的總理朱鎔基一行人從國務院正門（西門）出來走過馬路來到上訪學員的面前。學員中響起了掌聲。朱總理問：｢你們幹什麼來了？誰叫你們來的？｣ 有（許多）學員說：｢我們來反映法輪功的問題，沒有人組織。｣ 朱總理又問：｢為什麼不寫信上訪？怎麼這麼多人都在這兒？｣

很多學員都在回答，有的學員說：｢信都寫的成麻袋了，還沒得到回應。｣朱總理說：｢我對你們的問題有批複。｣學員說：｢我們沒有收到。｣總理讓選幾個代表進去進一步說明情況。

四月二十五日中午時分，法輪大法研究會的李昌、王治文和其他三位北京學員作為法輪功代表進入國務院同政府官員會談，申訴了法輪功學員的三點要求：

一）釋放天津被抓的法輪功學員；
二）給法輪功修煉群眾一個寬鬆的修煉環境；
三）允許出版法輪功書籍。

政府官員輪流參加會談的有國務院信訪辦的負責人，北京市的負責人，還有天津市的負責人。傍晚時分，天津按照中央指示釋放了所有被關押的法輪功學員。隨即，學員們靜靜離去，整個過程平靜祥和，秩序井然。

需要說明的是：因為國務院信訪辦的位置就在中南海的西門，否則法輪功學員根本就不會去中南海附近。可是一九九九年七月迫害開始後，中共媒體卻造謠說是｢衝擊中南海｣，這明顯是嫁禍法輪功。

問：江澤民為什麼公然推翻總理結論，決定鎮壓？

答：以偽造出身、鎮壓六四學生起家的中共頭子江澤民出於恐懼，加之嫉妒朱鎔基因圓滿處理此事得到的巨大讚譽，不顧其他六個政治局常委的反對，執意要鎮壓法輪功，在中央會議上公然聲稱：｢中央鑒於蘇聯社會主義制度消亡的歷史教訓，一直決心在意識形態領域進行一次消毒，法輪功鼓吹『真善忍』，給了我們動手『消毒』的機會，我們的打擊工作可放手進行，以後利用其經驗可有效運用於其它氣功組織｣。從中可看出，中共鎮壓的根本原因只是因為法輪功講｢真、善、忍｣！

一九九九年七月二十日，中共開始全面迫害法輪功，實施｢名譽上搞臭、經濟上截斷、肉體上消滅｣｢打死算自殺｣等滅絕政策；全國媒體鋪天蓋地的編造和散布各種謊言，如同文革再現；一時間，神州大地血雨腥風。

問：迫害至今仍在持續？

答：自一九九九年七月二十日中共非法鎮壓法輪功至今，數千萬堅持信仰的法輪功學員被迫害得流離失所、家破人亡，以及遭受非法判刑、勞教、酷刑致死、活摘器官等殘酷迫害…其罪惡罄竹難書。

八年來，儘管中共嚴密封鎖迫害真相，但仍有三千一百四十八名法輪功學員被迫害致死案得到證實確認（至二零零八年四月二十五日），致死案例遍布全國各地。

時至今日，人們或以為對法輪功的迫害已停止了，其實是由於中共所有的謊言都被戳穿以及迫於國內外的強烈譴責，因此不敢再公開迫害，而暗地裡進行的越來越隱蔽持續和滅絕人性：每年有數千名堅持信仰、講真話的法輪功學員遭到非法判刑、勞教、抓捕和各種迫害，酷刑致死時有發生；現僅知的中共就有三十六個秘密集中營自二零零一年至今，一直持續活摘法輪功學員器官出售並焚屍滅跡，數萬法輪功學員死難，其中僅遼寧省瀋陽市蘇家屯集中營一地就有四千人遇害，震驚世界！

摘引自【明慧網二零零八年四月二十七日】

English Translation:

Questions and Answers about the April 25 Appeal (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) Since Falun Dafa was made public in 1992, the number of practitioners has grown exponentially. By July 1999, there were one hundred million of practitioners. Between March and May 1995, Teacher Li Hongzhi went to France and Sweden to teach Falun Gong and give lectures by invitation which opened the prelude to the worldwide spreading of Falun Dafa. In July 1999, the evil CCP started to persecute Falun Gong in China. During the past eight years of brutal persecution, Falun Gong has not disappeared, but has quickly spread to more than 80 countries and areas around the world. Falun Dafa's major text, Zhuan Falun, has been translated and published in about 30 languages.

Even now some people still say that the CCP cracks down on Falun Gong because Falun Gong practitioners "besieged" Zhongnanhai on April 25, 1999. These people are deceived by lies because they do not know the truth. Actually, the CCP and Jiang Zemin clearly knew what Falun Gong is about and even knew that Falun Gong practitioners are good people. The CCP's nature is "falsehood, viciousness and fighting", which is absolutely irreconcilable to "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance," the essence of Falun Gong. The CCP wants to eliminate Falun Gong. Therefore its suppression of Falun Gong was planned well in advance. In the three or four years before April 25, 1999, Jiang's regime suppressed Falun Gong many times, quietly beginning the crackdown. Their conspiracy escalated continuously. They plotted the arrest of 45 practitioners in Tianjin, and then secretly manipulated the April 25 appeal to suit their propaganda needs. On July 20, 1999, the regime started the official public suppression of Falun Gong. The April 25 Appeal is not the reason the CCP wants to eliminate Falun Gong, nor was it the beginning of the suppression of Falun Gong. It was just an important link in their plots that had been afoot for a long time.

Q: What is the April 25 Appeal?

A: Nine years ago; April 25, 1999, more than ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners voluntarily went to Beijing to appeal. This large-scale peaceful civilian appeal amazed the world. It was regarded as a miracle in Chinese history. The April 25, appeal of Falun Gong was not a "seige of the Zhongnanhai Central Government Compound" as Jiang's propaganda made it out to be.

Q: Why did they go to appeal?

A: On April 11, 1999, He Zuoxiu wrote an article titled, "I Do Not Recommend the Youth to Practice Qigong" in the Youth Overview magazine published by the Tianjin Normal Institute. The article lied, and defamed Falun Gong, Falun Gong practitioners, and the founder of Falun Gong. After this article was published in Tianjin, some local practitioners thought it was necessary to clarify the truth to the relevant government departments and the magazine's editorial staff. Therefore, from April 18 to 24, some Falun Gong practitioners went to the Tianjin Normal Institute and other relevant departments to clarify the truth.

Q: Why did they go to Beijing to appeal?

A: On April 23 and 24, 1999, the Tianjin Police Department dispatched the riot police to beat the Falun Gong practitioners who were appealing in Tianjin. Some were wounded and bleeding. 45 practitioners were arrested. When others went to City Hall to ask for their release, they were told that the Police Department had stepped in with this incident; that the arrested Falun Gong practitioners would not be released without authorization from Beijing. Tianjin police suggested to Falun Gong practitioners; "Go to Beijing. You can solve the problem only by going to Beijing." The severe escalation of persecution provoked the attention of Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong practitioners from all places in the country placed their trust in the Central Government and voluntarily went to appeal at the Appeals Office of State Council to pursue a just resolution.

The persecution of Falun Gong did not originate in 1999. Early in June 1996, the Chinese Propaganda Bureau had already instructed all underling levels to criticize Falun Gong. Guangming Daily published articles criticizing Falun Gong and then the News Publication Bureau forbid publishing, distributing and selling Falun Gong books. The CCP put the labels of superstition and "fake science"on Falun Gong. Successively for two years, the Police Department investigated Falun Gong , dispatching people to watch and pretend to be practitioners. He Zuoxiu attacked Falun Gong on Beijing TV. Falun Gong practitioners kept writing to the Central Government and local governmental leaders, reporting the true situation that Falun Gong benefits the country and the people and benefits people's health in both mind and body. On April 11, He Zuoxiu wrote an article in the Youth Overview slandering Falun Gong. Some Tianjin Falun Gong practitioners went to the relevant departments to clarify the truth. Tianjin police arrested practitioners, which escalated the event.

Q: What did the Falun Gong practitioners want to tell the Government?

A: Falun Gong practitioners wanted to tell the leaders of the Central Government the facts about their improved health after practicing Falun Gong and how people's hearts have been purified by cultivating "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance". They wanted to let the leaders know that Falun Dafa is good and how Falun Dafa can improve the declining morality. They wanted to explain the fact that Falun Dafa benefits the country and the people.

Q: Did they lay siege to Zhongnanhai?

A: On April 25, 1999, more than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered near "Fuyou Street" in Beijing. Although there were so many people, the crowd was very quiet and in perfect order. The police who maintained public order felt they had nothing to do and started to chat.

Line of appeal people in a perfect order

Police chatted near the appeal crowd

The Appeal Office of State Council at that time was at "Xi'anmen Avenue," next to Zhongnanhai. The original idea of China's setting up the appeal system was to provide a message channel from the lower lever to the upper lever for people's grievances.. It was the first time in China that more than 10,000 people directly went to the highest level office of appeal in the country. Widespread media attention resulted. Although there have been very different attitudes towards this incident between the Chinese official media and the overseas media over the years, we can see from the news flashes of the Chinese Central Government TV station and the pictures they used behind the appeal people were not the special red wall of Zhongnanhai, but across the street was the red wall and the west entrance to Zhongnanhai. It is well known that the official entrance to Zhongnanhai is Xinhua Gate, facing Chang'an Avenue. Actually, on April 25, no appeal people gathered at Chang'an Avenue. The appeal people mainly stayed at Fuyou Street and Xi'anmen Avenue. And no one stayed by the side of the red wall of Zhongnanhai.

Q: Did Premier Zhu Rongji properly resolve the "Tianjin Incident" and "April 25, Appeal"?

A: At around 8:15 am on April 25, then-premier Zhu Rongji led a group of people to walk out from the West Gate to the State Council across the street and came in front of the practitioners who were appealing. Applause arose among the appealing practitioners. Premier Zhu asked, "What do you come for? Who asked you to come?" Many practitioners answered, "We came to report the situation about Falun Gong. No one made an arrangement for us." Premier Zhu asked again, "Why do you write letters to appeal? Why are so many people here?"

Many practitioners were answering. One practitioner said, "The letters I wrote can almost fill a gunnysack. But I did not get any response." Premier Zhu said, "I had replies to your issue." Practitioners said, "We did not get any reply." The premier asked the practitioners to select several representatives to enter the State Council and further report the situation.

At noon on April 25, 1999, Li Chang and Wang Zhiwen from the Falun Dafa Research Association and three Beijing practitioners went into the State Council as Falun Gong representatives and had a conversation with the governmental officials. They stated three requests of Falun Gong practitioners:

1. Release the Falun Gong practitioners who were arrested in Tianjin
2. Provide a relaxed environment so Falun Gong practitioners could practice publicly without fear of government retribution.
3. Allow the publication of Falun Gong books.

The governmental officials who attended the conversation included the person in charge of the Appeal Office of State Council and the people in charge of Beijing City and Tianjin City. At dusk, Tianjin City released all detained Falun Gong practitioners according to the instruction from the Central Government. Afterwards, the practitioners left quietly. The whole process was very peaceful and orderly.

It is necessary to state that the Appeal Office of State Council is located at the West Gate to Zhongnanhai, otherwise, the Falun Gong practitioners would not go near Zhongnanhai. However, since the persecution started in July 1999, the CCP's media spread a rumor saying that "Falun Gong beseiged Zhongnanhai". The purpose clearly was to put blame onto Falun Gong.

Q: Why did Jiang Zemin reverse the Premier's conclusion and decide to crack down?

A: Jiang Zemin, the CCP leader, had risen by fabricating his family background. He was a central figure in the CCP's bloody repression of the student appeal of June 4, 1989, also known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Out of fear and jealousy towards Zhu Rongji, who successfully resolved the incident and earned a huge reputation, Jiang Zemin ignored objections from the other six members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo and personally determined to crack down on Falun Gong. In a meeting of the Central Government, he claimed, "Whereas the historical lesson regarding the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Central Government has determined to sterilize the domain of ideology. Falun Gong advocates 'Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance', which gives us a chance to sterilize. We can give a free hand in this attack issue. Later on, the experience we earn can be applied to other Qigong organizations."

On July 20, 1999, the CCP started to fully crack down on Falun Gong. It employed the inhuman policies such as "defaming their reputation, crippling them economically, destroying them physically" and, "killing them and attributing it as suicide". The media in the whole country intensively fabricated and spread all kinds of lies, which seemed to be a recurrence of the Cultural Revolution.

Q: Does the persecution continue today?

A: Since the CCP started to crack down on Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, up to now, tens of millions of Falun Gong practitioners who insist on their beliefs were sentenced, sent to labor camps and some even tortured to death. Practitioners became homeless and destitute, their organs were harvested while alive and their families were broken. The CCP's crimes are too numerous to record.

During the past eight years, although the CCP strictly blocked the truth of the persecution, 3,148 cases of Falun Gong practitioners tortured to death were confirmed by April 25, 2008. The deaths occurred all over China.

The persecution proceeds secretly, continuously and inhumanly. Every year, thousands of Falun Gong practitioners, who insist on their belief and speak true words, are illegally arrested, sentenced and sent to labor camps. They experience all kinds of persecution. Death due to torture has happened often. It is known by now that the CCP has 36 secret concentration camps. Since 2001, the concentration camps have harvested and sold practitioners' organs, cremating the murdered bodies to destroy the evidence. Just in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, about 4000 practitioners were killed. The true scope of the persecution remains a closely guarded secret, buy in time, justice will be served and the persecutors will pay the inevitable price of their wrongdoings.