Mother’s Day Wish

My wish for mother’s day is to be reunited with my mother. 

Please visit my Mother’s Day Wish and help rescue my mother.

Thank you so much,
Jane

My Mother Says…

I’m torn apart inside.
Like my heart is also being held
in that detention center
Along with my mother.

My Mother says, “Don’t hate.
They too are deluded.”
And so I hate myself,
because I can’t do anything to help her

But I know my mother would say,
“Don’t hate yourself, my child.
You are a child of the universe
And so you must have only Love.”

Missouri State University Interviews Jin Pang

I was interviewed by Missouri State University’s newspaper, The Standard, about my mother being persecuted in China.

Listen to the interview here, and leave your comments:

Jin Pang interviewed by Missouri State University Newspaper

Mother-Daughter Wish to Reunite

Interview with Jin Pang about her mission to rescue her mother by the Chinese new year

SOS: Help Rescue My Mom and My Aunt from China

On July 29th, 2008, just one week away from the Beijing Olympics, my parents were kidnapped by police when they were at a friend’s home in Weifang City, Shangdong province only because of the so-called ”Peaceful Olympics”. On July 9th, about a dozen Weifang police officers broke into my parents’ house in China and took away our personal properties, including all our banking deposits and my father’s car. My father is not Falun Gong practitioner but he was also detained for a whole month only because he tried to protect my mom arresting. After my mom was arrested, nobody is allowed to meet her untill the lawyer required this strongly. 

 

   My mother learned Falun Gong, a peaceful body, mind, and spiritual practice in 1995. Rooted in the Buddhist school of practices, Falun Gong emphasizes moral rectitude. Three values-truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance-form the backbone of Falun Gong’s teachings. But since 1999, the Chinese Communist Party launched the severe persecution all over the nation to “eradicate” this peaceful practice. My mom was detained and severely tortured several times. One time, she was almost beaten to death only because she refused to give up her belief. My aunt who is also a Falun Gong practitioner was already sentenced to one year in a force-labor camp on August 10^th, 2008.

  I have lost contact with my mom for three months by now. I miss her very much and am extremely worried about her. Her leg was hurt in an accident so she could not take care of herself especially under the poor sitution in the detention center. I am the only child of my parents and I am also the only one in my family who could speak out for them. Many Falun Gong practitioners are tortured in the detention centers, force-labor camps, brain-washing classes, jails, mental facilities or secret concentration camps. I dare not imagine how badly my mom may be treated. In an attempt to stop me from rescuing my mom, the officers of CCP even threatened my safety here if I continue to expose the crimes they are committing in China.

 

Please help rescue my mom and aunt from China in any way you can. Please stand up to say “No” to the persecution of the other innocent Falun Gong practitioners.

 

Missouri student’s parents arrested in ‘ridiculous’ pre-Olympics crackdown

 

  As the gold-medal tally for China soars in Beijing, Linda Wang’s heart fills with pain.

“This is not the Olympics of humanity,” the somber Kansas City woman said. “This is the Olympics of hypocrisy.”

Wang and other Falun Gong practitioners in the region held a press conference today at the Johnson County Library to pressure the Chinese government to live up to the humanitarian ideal of the Olympics and release the parents of a Missouri college student arrested last month.

Jin Pang, 25, a first-year MBA student at Missouri State University in Springfield, said she hasn’t heard from her parents since they were arrested July 29 in a “Peaceful Olympics” sweep by Communist Party officials.

Earlier in the month, Pang said her parent’s apartment in Weifang City in Shandong province was ransacked by police and their valuables and lifesavings were taken to intimidate Falun Gong practitioners and do it under the guise of a pre-Olympic law-and-order sweep.

Her mother, Junping Cao, 51, a retired sales clerk and Falun Gong practitioner, and her father, Xiaoqiang Pang, 53, a detention center engineer who doesn’t practice the Buddhist-like discipline banned by the government, are being held at the Weifang City Detention Center, she said.

“It’s very ridiculous,” Pang said in an interview after the press conference. “They have taken advantage of the Olympics to persecute their foes.”

In place for nine years, Falun Gong practitioners say they read and exercise to create an inner peace that fosters competence, truthfulness, tolerance and good health. In China, the numbers who practice the discipline rivals that of the Communist Party.

Wang, who runs a nonprofit organization and is a freelance reporter for a Chinese newspaper, said today’s press conference was designed to expose the Chinese government’s inhumane and bloody persecution of Falun Gong.

As of Jan. 1, the Falun Dafa Information Center reports that at least 8,037 Falun Gong practitioners from 29 provinces have been arrested.

Scores of human rights organizations, Congress and even the City Council of Kansas City have recognized Falun Gong and condemned the Chinese government’s crackdown.

Over the past nine years, the Communist regime is believed to have murdered and tortured 3,175 Falun Gong practitioners, including 319 from Shandong province and 94 from Weifang City.

Faculty and Students at Missouri State University Support Rescue Efforts for Falun Gong Practitioners in China (Photos)

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2008/9/20/100799.html

Jin Pang is a graduate student in the College of Business at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, USA. Her parents in China were detained before the Beijing Olympics. The police detained her father for one month even though he is not a Falun Gong practitioner. Now her father is under 24-hour surveillance at home. Ms. Pang was unable to make contact with her mother Cao Junping after the police took her away. No one knows her mother’s whereabouts. The police in the Weifang City Public Security Office refused to disclose any information, even though Ms. Pang’s family members inquired about Ms. Cao. Ms. Pang’s aunt Cao Junfeng was sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp on August 10, 2008.

In order to rescue her mother and aunt and to call for help from the US government and others to stop the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China, Ms. Pang and friends initiated a campus signature drive themed, “Help rescue my mom and my aunt from China.”

Ms. Pang received support and help from students and faculty. Though the persecution in China seems far away, people were moved to hear that the family of a person in their midst is suffering from persecution.

Sara, a sophomore, saw the poster board on her way to class. After learning the facts, she said she would sign before going to class. She also put forward her ideas to help rescue Ms. Pang’s family members.

Dianna is a member of the Nitelife Club and was very moved after learning Ms. Pang’s story. She decided to invite Ms. Pang to her club to give a talk in order to let more people know about the persecution.

A student named Andrew wrote in an email that he obtained information about the rescue efforts. He did not have time to sign the petition initially, but after reading the touching story, he decided to come back and sign the petition.

A staff person in the International Student Service Center took a flyer when she passed by the signature collection venue on the first day. She signed the petition the next day and said she hoped to do more for Ms. Pang, such as make a financial donation. Ms. Pang declined the donation and said, “It would be more helpful if you could tell more people about this.”

On the second day of the signature drive, The Standard, the university newspaper, carried Ms. Pang’s story on the front page, and called on students and teachers to pay attention to the issue. The article stated that the support was not only for her and her family but was for human rights and humanity. The chairman of the Student Association told Ms. Pang that he would call on more students and student organizations to help rescue her family members.

In a conference of more than one hundred representatives from all student organizations, Ms. Pang narrated her family’s suffering from the persecution and her own effort to rescue her family members. Her courageous and righteous action won warm applause. After the meeting, many people signed the petition and encouraged her to keep going in her efforts. Some said, “I’ll pray for your family members. Your mother will return home safely.”

Jin Pang’s Olympic Pain

http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/canadian-detained-olympics-fg-targeted-2937.html

One month before the Olympic Games, on July 9, Jin Pang said more than a dozen police officers and officials from China’s extra-judicial ‘610 Office’ broke into her parent’s home and confiscated three laptops, two desktop computers, various Falun Gong materials, a digital camera, and bank deposits valued at an estimated $US7000.

On July 29, while visiting a friend, they were arrested and, according to sources, are now being held in Weifang City Detention Centre. Fifty other Falun Gong practitioners were kidnapped in Weifang City around the same time.

The arrests are part of a large-scale campaign that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) initiated against Falun Gong practitioners in the lead up to the Olympic Games, according to the Falun Dafa Information Centre (FDI). The FDI have collected information revealing more than 8000 arrests of Falun Gong practitioners in seven months across 29 provinces, 500 of which are from Beijing.

“The Olympic Games should not be an excuse for persecution. Persecuting innocent people severely violates the Olympic spirit and tarnishes the Games,” said Ms Jin, an MBA student at the University of Missouri.

“My parents are kind-hearted people. They treat others well and are respected by colleagues and friends. When friends learned about the news, they were shocked and angry. They cannot believe good people like my father and mother are a target of the CCP’s persecution.” she said in a press release.

This is not the first time her parents have been targeted, Ms Jin said. In 2001, Jin’s mother, Cao Junping, was arrested along with eight other Falun Gong practitioners. They were detained in a cold cement cell that was less than nine square meters and beaten by mobs they say were led by the town’s Party leader. The goal was to force them to renounce their practice.

When the beatings did not have the desired outcome for the the Party leader he ordered that the practitioners be tortured with electric batons and spiked clubs. After 11 days of torture, Cao lost her front teeth, the skin all over her body was burned; her legs were covered in bruises and blood. Cao was finally able to return home, but not before the police blackmailed her husband for 2000 RMB (approx. $US300, a monthly wage in that city).

Ms Jin said that although the Chinese regime promised to improve its human rights record when bidding for the Games, the situation has worsened, especially for Falun Gong practitioners. Reports from Amnesty International and other human rights groups agree. 

“It is the state machine that is really producing the terror and committing the crimes,” Jin said.

In 2006, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture, Manfred Nowak, reported that Falun Gong practitioners account for 66 percent of victims of torture in custody. The US State Department estimates that practitioners make up at least half of the 250,000 officially recorded inmates in China’s “re-education-through labour” camps.

Ms Jin said that while the Games continue, people should not forget the suffering that millions of Falun Gong practitioners are enduring in China.

Dear Mother

“Dear Mother” is written by Randall and his daughter Sara sings this song.  It really touched my heart the first time I listened.  I feel like I can hug my mom and talk to her. But when I woke up, the reality is so brutal to me……..