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In 2004, NTD's sister media, the Epoch Times, published the nine commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party. It's a series that exposes the Chinese regime's use of propaganda, censorship, persecution, mass killings, and authoritarian control. The end result is an estimated death toll of 60 to 80 million people, a number that exceeds the total number of casualties in both world wars combined. Coinciding with the publication of the nine commentaries was a move among Chinese to renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party and its youth groups. NTD had a chance to sit down with Mai Li, a recent Canadian immigrant. She grew up in a family that's been persecuted by the CCP for four generations. She says the nine commentaries reads like a script that tells her family's miserable story. And a warning, some viewers may find the following content disturbing. Here's Mai Li's story. After reading it, I empathized deeply. I felt that every scene had taken place in our family. Every tragic story was our family's story. Mai Li said that her great-grandfather once engaged in animal husbandry, owning thousands of acres of farmland and multiple beef and mutton shops. More than half of the people in the village depended on their family for survival. However, the arrival of the cruel Communist Party forced huge changes upon Mai Li's family. Her great-grandfather went from being extremely wealthy to losing everything, even his life. Today, Mai Li herself is facing persecution from the centralized powers of the CCP and cannot return to her home in China. Before the Communist Party was about to enter Beijing, someone warned my great-grandfather, saying, the devil is coming and we have to leave because everything is about to change. This place will become hell. But my great-grandfather said, if we leave, what will happen to the people who rely on our family to survive? So I cannot leave. He decided to stay. But as revealed in the nine commentaries, once the CCP was established, it used various revolutions and movements to kill people and steal their property. After he went through these revolutions, everything my family had built, factories, shops, farmland, and even our last remaining ancestral home, was completely seized by the Communist Party. They first lied to you. They advised us by saying, hey, we are here to make reforms. Let's change these shops into public-private partnerships. After the public-private partnership, there will be equal distribution. Under socialism and communism, everyone will live a good life. Mai Li's great-grandfather's family agreed, based on the principle of doing good for the people. As a result, their personal assets were confiscated. One of the CCP's excuses for seizing people's property is to destroy old things under the slogan of New China, and force people to re-register their personal assets under the CCP. People from the CCP told him, your previous registration is useless. You have to register again because this is the New China. Everything from the past is old and obsolete. When you took your documents to re-register, the CCP would actually take an inventory of your family's assets. In terms of the economy, the Chinese Communist Party implemented policies of elimination and transformation. It carried out land reforms in rural areas to eliminate landlords and rich peasants, seizing their properties to establish control over them. At the same time, in urban areas, it sought to destroy the urban and rural national middle class. After my great-grandfather was labeled a capitalist, he was forced to report to the village committee every day and recite Mao's quotations. If he hesitated, made a mistake, or if they simply didn't like the way he looked, they would beat him, kick him, and humiliate him. During the Cultural Revolution in China, from 1966 to 1976, Mao Zedong launched what was known as struggle sessions, where those accused by the Party of being class enemies were publicly humiliated, accused, beaten, tortured, and even killed. Battles often took place in the workplace, classrooms, and auditoriums, where students were pitted against teachers, friends and spouses were incited to betray each other, and children were manipulated into exposing their parents, leading to the breakdown of interpersonal relationships and social trust. The Maoists would often pre-arrange scenarios, agitating and scripting the situations, in order to incite crowd support. Mai Li's great-grandfather was one of the victims. My great-grandfather was dragged out for a struggle session, and paraded through the streets while wearing a tall hat and a sign that labeled him a capitalist. Along the way, people threw stones and bricks at him, hurled insults, and shouted abuse. It was an inescapable humiliation. The families of the persecuted also do not escape the fate of persecution. Mao Zedong said, hooligans and ruffians who have always been despised by society are in fact the most courageous, thorough, and resolute participants in rural revolutions. Therefore, these hooligans, ruffians, and proletarians have become the core force of the CCP's revolution. The local bullies were known as CCP activists. Every day, these thugs sat in front of our house, watching my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and my aunt, as they went in and out of the village. Whenever they saw them, they would hurl extremely vicious and degrading insults to humiliate them. The persecutors also threatened their relatives, friends, and any people who had been helped by the Maile family. They were told to sever ties with the family, otherwise they would be implicated. For the Communist Party, simply severing ties was not enough. They demanded that our relatives turn against us, denouncing, persecuting, insulting, and even beating us. Even though relatives and friends severed ties with the family, they were eventually implicated in various movements. My great-grandfather was deeply dejected after returning from yet another struggle session. Instead of going to his own room, he stepped through the courtyard gate, and without hesitation, jumped into the well. It was truly a psychological torment, especially coming from those closest to him. My great-grandfather had always treated them well, yet they turned against him and persecuted him. I believe that was the final straw that broke him. During the Cultural Revolution, in addition to inciting relatives and friends to turn against each other, the CCP also ransacked homes, destroying cultural relics and ancient books, trampling on traditional Chinese culture. During the Cultural Revolution, our home was ransacked. We had a study filled with ancient books. According to my grandmother, it took them three whole days and nights to burn everything. They looted all the antiques they could carry, gold and silver jewelry, jade bracelets, as well as pots, plates, bowls, and paintings from official kilns. They thought the books were worthless, so they burned them all. But in reality, those books had been passed down in our family for over ten generations. Finally, they kicked us out of our house. Mai Li's grandfather faced his own struggle session, in which he was criticized and punished along with his father. He was also forced to do farm work. He was not given enough to eat and wasn't allowed to rest when he was sick. He was left deeply traumatized after suffering the devastating loss of his father, home, and possessions. Ever since my great-grandfather jumped into the well, my grandfather would jolt awake at 3 a.m. every night, sitting upright in bed, drenched in cold sweat. My grandfather was a quiet man who rarely spoke his mind. He kept everything buried deep inside. The stories I'm now sharing were gradually told to me by my grandmother, piece by piece, and only after I became an adult. My grandfather never spoke about our family's past, because the weight of it was simply too much for him to bear. Since the CCP monopolizes all social resources, once a person was classified as a target by the dictatorship, they would immediately face a crisis in their life and be deprived of their dignity. People with a rural household registration could not go to the grain store to buy grain, and their children were not allowed to go to school in the city. My father was born in 1956. By the time he was old enough for school, the Cultural Revolution had already begun. Because our family had been labeled as capitalists, he was barred from attending school simply for being the son of a capitalist. My father always told me one thing, we must never take part in any Communist Party organizations, including the Red Soldiers, the Red Guards, and the Communist Youth League. Through a VPN, Mai Li learned more about the hidden history of the 1989 June 4th Tiananmen Square Massacre, which inspired a deep reflection within her. I am not the only one being persecuted. So what can I do? I regularly printed leaflets about the June 4th Tiananmen incident and placed them in schools and bus stops. In 2014 and 2015, Mai Li suddenly found that she and her family were under surveillance by the CCP personnel. While Mai Li was traveling abroad in June 2024, her family in China was threatened. The CCP forcibly searched her home and uncovered June 4th truth clarification leaflets. When I checked in with my mother to let her know I was safe, she told me someone came to the house. The village secretary and the village chief brought people with them. They threatened my mother, saying contact your daughter and tell her to come back immediately. If she doesn't, you won't be able to escape either. They asked where my room was. Then they ransacked my bookcase and tore through all my belongings. They took some books and my June 4th flyers. After learning the news, Mai Li had no choice but to stay in Canada. She was unable to return to her native homeland and was forced to be separated from her family. Our family is a reflection of China, a snapshot of its tragedy. Mai Li encourages Chinese people who are shrouded in terror by the CCP to bravely expose its atrocities. For example, during the white paper movement, one person stood up and held up a blank sheet of paper. Then a hundred others stood up in solidarity. The Communist Party became afraid, and so they lifted the lockdown. I hope everyone can find the courage to stand up. If I am brave and you are brave, the Communist Party will be afraid. Anyone who has ever joined the Communist Party must renounce their membership. You must draw a clear line between yourself and the party, making it clear to the world. The Communist Party is the Communist Party, and the Chinese people are the Chinese people.