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【大纪元4月26日讯】（大纪元纽约记者站报导）在4.25十周年之际，全球各地法轮功学员纷纷举办各式纪念活动。4月25日，大纽约及周边地区两千多名法轮功学员在法拉盛举行大型游行集会，抗议中共的暴政压迫。著名政论家，《北京之春》主编胡平在当天纽约4.25中南海和平请愿十周年暨声援5300万三退大潮集会上以《法轮功抗暴十周年》为题目发表演讲，胡平先生的演讲全文如下：
一位艺术家朋友为今年——2009年——设计了一种文化衫。在洁白的T恤衫上，印下四组阿拉伯数字：50、30、20、10。
这四组数字是什么意思呢？
50，指的是50年前，也就是1959年发生在西藏的藏人抗暴事件；
30，指的是30年前，即1979年的民主墙运动；
20，指的是20年前，即1989年的八九民运和六四屠杀；
10，指的是1999年4月25日法轮功中南海请愿事件，到今年整整10年。
记得在10年前4.25这一天，有上万名法轮功学员聚集在北京中南海附近向国务院请愿。整个活动持续了一整天。由于这次事件发生在六四事件10周年前夕这样一个极其敏感的日子，又是发生在中南海这样一个中国极其敏感的地方，所以立刻引起全世界的关注。
4.25事件最令人惊异的是，中共当局事前居然“毫不知情”。于是很多人怀疑法轮功有一个秘密组织。不过我很快就了解到事实并非如此。一位基督教牧师的朋友亲口告诉我，在4.25事件前两天，他正好住在北京一位朋友家中，听朋友说起法轮功要向国务院请愿。他这位朋友并不是法轮功学员，也不是在什么机要部门工作。可见法轮功这次行动事前并没有保密。想来中共的安全部门事先是听到消息的。大家知道，自九十年代中期以来，国内各种矛盾层出不穷，向政府部门请愿的事情经常发生，由于这类请愿活动都不具有政治色彩，规模也有限，当局见惯不惊，一般都没有格外防范。
有些中国人，由于对一般的宗教或信仰都很不了解，所以容易被中共的宣传所迷惑。殊不知和其他不少宗教或信仰相比，法轮功要算很温和的了。它一不主张禁欲，二不主张独身，三不主张吃素，四不主张出家出世，五不主张上贡修庙，六不主张禁医禁药。如果连法轮功都要算“X教”，其他这些宗教或信仰又当如何论处呢？
除了从媒体上外，我还从亲戚朋友那里了解到不少关于法轮功的情况。原来，我的中学同学里就有法轮功学员。这几个同学人都挺好的。有位女同学因为传《九评》给拘留过好几次，一出来就继续传。我还听亲戚讲到一位邻居老太太，是退休的小学校长，因为到北京上访被抓回来关进看守所。那个监室关的都是小偷妓女，你偷我摸，又打又闹，很不安宁。这位法轮功老太太关进去没多久，居然使那些小偷妓女都变老实了，那个监室也成了模范监室。不只一个懂气功的中医师告诉我，法轮功的功法确有独到之处。2005年1月17日赵紫阳去世，民众要自发悼念却遭当局禁止，海外的一些民运人士很气愤，于是组织起来到纽约中领馆对面集会抗议。那天纽约特别冷，我们在讲演和呼口号完毕后匆匆撤离现场，赶快找个房间钻进去暖和暖和。回头一看，有五、六个法轮功学员，都是中老年了，还有两个女性，就在我们刚才集会的地方铺开毯子开始打坐，一直到我们离开时都没动，让我们惊讶不止。
法轮功的集会游行场面都很大。印象最深的是那次联合国举行各国政府首脑高峰会议，来自专制国家的反对人士和受迫害群体纷纷趁此机会组织集会游行，曼哈顿联合国大厦附近一带成了抗议的海洋，其中还免不了出现了一些火爆场面。纽约市政府出动大量警察，还从外地借调来很多警察维持秩序。在形形色色的抗议队伍中，就以法轮功的人数最多，队列最长，服装最整齐，最守秩序。旁边值勤的警察忍不住对记者说：“要是游行示威的都像这样，我们就没事干，就不用来了。”
十年来，中共当局对法轮功进行了非法的系统性、灭绝性的打压，法轮功却居然打不垮，压不倒。法轮功为争取信仰自由而展开的和平抗争，英勇壮烈，可歌可泣。法轮功的抗争已经成为当今世界上最大的人权运动之一。法轮功对非暴力的坚定执著，尤其令人感佩。法轮功为中国，也为全世界，树立了一个非暴力抗争的典范。法轮功在当前中国的维权运动中扮演了重要角色，我们相信，法轮功还必将在未来中国的道德重建中发挥重大作
Over 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners from Greater New York and neighbouring areas held a rally in Flushing on April 25—the 10th anniversary of Falun Gong practitioners’ group appeal in Beijing, near the regime's Zhongnanhai compound. It was also a gathering to mark the 53 million people who announced their withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. Renowned political commentator and editor-in-chief of Beijing Spring Magazine, Mr. Hu Ping, delivered a speech titled, “Falun Gong Resists Violence For Ten Years” at the rally.
The following is the text of his speech:
An artist friend of mine designed a T-Shirt for 2009, a white background with four sets of numbers: 50, 30, 20 and 10
Why these four numbers?
50: 50 years ago, the Tibetan’s protest to the regime’s violence happened in 1959;
30: 30 years ago, the democratic wall movement in Beijing happened in 1979;
20: 20 years ago, the Tiananmen Square democratic student movement, and the massacre that later followed, happened in 1989;
10: Falun Gong practitioner’s group appeal in Beijing near the regime’s Zhongnanhai compound happened 10 years ago, on April 25, 1999.
As I recall, on April 25, 10 years ago, over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered near Zhongnanhai compound in Beijing to appeal to the State Council. The activity lasted for a whole day. The gathering happened just before the 10th anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen Square Massacre. At that time, the location was the most sensitive place in China, and Falun Gong drew worldwide attention immediately.
What surprised me most is that the regime claimed it knew nothing before the incident. And a lot of people suspected Falun Gong was a secrecy group based on that claim. But soon, I understood things were not that. A priest friend of mine told me that he was in Beijing just two days before April 25, 1999. He stayed in one of his friend’s places in Beijing, and he came to learn from this friend that Falun Gong practitioners wanted to appeal to the State Council. His friend was neither a Falun Gong practitioner, nor a regime official. From that I can see that the appeal was not kept secret beforehand.
As a lot of people know, during the mid 1990s, many conflicts broke out in China, and appeals were quite common. As such an appeal has no political agenda, their scales were limited also. The regime had got used to it and normally would not take special prevention.
Besides collecting information from media, I also got to know Falun Gong from my relatives and friends. Surprisingly, some of my primary schoolmates are Falun Gong practitioners, they are all kind people. One female schoolmate had been detained several times for spreading the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party, however she persists once released.
My relative also told me a story of his neighbour, a grandmother, who is a retired elementary school principal. She was locked in a detention center for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Most of the people locked in the detention center were thieves, prostitutes, and thugs, and the place was in chaos. However, not long after the grandmother was locked up did those thieves and prostitutes start to behave themselves, and her cell had been awarded as model cell.
Another thing that surprised me was when overseas democratic activists went to protest in front of the Chinese Consult in New York after former Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang passed away on January 17, 2005. At that time, the regime banned the memorial service voluntarily organized by mainland Chinese people. That was a very cold day, we quickly left the scene and wanted to get into a warm house after we delivered our speeches and yelled slogans. Just as I was going to leave, I saw six middle and old aged practitioners taking over the place and starting their meditation, a special way to protest. Two of them were also female.
I understand Falun Gong from their rallies also. The most impressive one was the protest during the UN summit, many groups being persecuted and opposing autocracy organized their rallies and marches during that period. It became a sea of protests outside the UN building in Manhattan. Conflicting scenes were not avoidable, New York City mobilized large numbers of police forces and even borrowed many police from other places to maintain the order. Among the protesting groups, Falun Gong had the largest population, longest troop, yet was the most tidy and most ordered. A police on duty even told journalists, “If all protests are like this, we would have nothing to do, and would have no need to come.”
In 10 years, the Chinese communist regime’s illegal, systematic, and extinctive suppression could not defeat Falun Gong, and Falun Gong’s peaceful resistance to fight for freedom of belief is heroic. It has become the largest human rights movement in the modern world. Falun Gong’s persistence on non-violent resistance is admirable. It has established an example of non-violent resistance for China and for the whole world.
Falun Gong is playing an important role in the current rights protection movement in China. And I believe Falun Gong will definitely offer great help in the process of moral rebuilding in China’s future.
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