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About two decades ago, I got involved with helping persecuted practitioners of #FalunGong escape #China through an underground railroad to Bangkok, a route which passed through the treacherous Golden Triangle. It was bewildering to see the extent to which the Chinese regime was obsessed with this group of peaceful meditators, which was evident in the number of apparent CCP spies I saw trying to influence them. At the same time, I was stunned by the incredible tenacity of these practitioners, who would rather risk their lives than sign a piece of paper denouncing their faith. Wanting to tell their stories is a big part of what brought me to The Epoch Times originally. Today, it's exactly 25 years since the CCP launched the persecution of Falun Gong. The then-dictator Jiang Zemin vowed to "eradicate" Falun Gong within 3 months. But things turned out very differently from what he intended. And it's perhaps one of the greatest untold stories of our time. In the years that followed, despite facing imprisonment, forced labor, gruesome torture, and even forced organ harvesting—which The Epoch Times first exposed in 2006—Falun Gong practitioners in China would mount the largest civil disobedience and information freedom movement in modern Chinese history. It's estimated that millions of Falun Gong adherents in China not only continue to practice Falun Gong, but they run something to the order of 200,000 underground family print shops that make DVDs, brochures, booklets, and pen drives with firewall-busting software to distribute to their fellow Chinese, so they can finally access true and uncensored information.

Jan Jekielek

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