被真理唤醒的心(17)

一九九九年七月二十日下午三点，正放暑假的我在父母家和父母一起收看中央电视台的特别节目：

播音员正以冷酷的语调宣读中央取缔法轮功的命令。

我感觉像晴天霹雳。

当晚，我如常参加当地大法弟子的集体学法时，当地大法辅导站的站长来告诉我们：员警已开始在全国对大法弟子大抓捕、抄家、烧书。

（法轮大法的站长和辅导员是一些热心的老弟子，自愿承担大法的工作，比如：每天早晨拿录音机到炼功点，教新学员炼功和解答他们的问题。）

我赶紧回家把父母家里的大法书藏起来，一边藏一边怕员警突然闯进来。

那时我不知道，一场中国历史上对信仰最残酷的迫害，已经拉开序幕。（待续）

(英文对照)

At 3:00p.m., July 20, 1999, I was watching a special program on CCTV with my parents (I was spending my summer vacation in my parents’ home then).

An announcer was announcing the Central Government’s order of banning Falun Gong in a glacial and cruel tone.

It was like a bolt out of the blue to me.

On that night, while I took part in the local Dafa practitioners’ group reading as usual, the volunteer director of the local Dafa instruction center came to tell us: Police across the country had started massive arresting of Dafa practitioners, searching Dafa practitioners’ homes, and burning Dafa books.

(The directors and assistants in Falun Dafa were those warm-hearted veteran practitioners who volunteered to assume some responsibilities in Falun Dafa, such as bringing tape-recorders to the practice sites every morning for playing the exercise music, teaching new practitioners the exercises and answering their questions.)

I hurried back home to hide up the Dafa books at my parents’. While hiding I was afraid that police would burst in any moment.

I didn’t know then: The prelude to the most brutal persecution against freedom of belief in Chinese history had started.

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