Why One Person Was Sued 99,000 Times in Two Months

Former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin is being swamped by thousands of lawsuits filed against him, and most people would probably agree that it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person.

 

In 1999, Jiang launched a violent persecution against the tens of millions of Chinese citizens who practice Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese meditation discipline based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

 

This year, Jiang may finally face justice. Since the beginning of May, over 120,000 people have filed over 99,000 lawsuits against him for his human rights crimes, according to the website Minghui.org, which documents the persecution.

 

Jealous of the practice’s enormous popularity, Jiang utilized the massive Chinese Communist Party apparatus to carry out unspeakable crimes against Falun Gong practitioners. People who practice Falun Gong adhere to strict nonviolence, yet Jiang and the Party have imprisoned, tortured, beaten, murdered, harassed, brainwashed, and harvested the organs of untold numbers of these peaceful meditators.

 

Jiang expected Falun Gong to quickly collapse under the pressure. Sixteen years of oppression later, the tens of millions of Falun Gong practitioners who are still alive are steadfastly determined to stop the persecution.

 

Many others in China and abroad have also taken up the practice, which is renowned for its health benefits.

 

The wave of lawsuits began in May, after a change in Chinese law guaranteed that all court cases would be accepted and could no longer be thrown out for minor reasons, according to Epoch Times.

 

It began with a trickle: 31 lawsuits were filed by May 28, Minghui.org reported. As word got around China and around the world, the lawsuits began to snowball.

 

Chinese courts are indeed accepting the lawsuits, and although some plaintiffs have been arrested or harassed, the large majority have not, Minghui.org reported, according to Epoch Times.

 

“Even just a year ago this was unheard of. This is big change with wide-reaching ramifications,” Falun Dafa Information Center spokesperson Erping Zhang said in a statement, according to Epoch Times.

 

In fact, Falun Gong practitioners are not so much trying to bring the frail, 88-year-old former dictator to justice as they are using the lawsuits to raise awareness of the persecution, aiming to end the campaign of terror once and for all.

 

Sources: http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2015/7/26/151742.html

http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2015/6/13/151051.html

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