Liang Haibin, a seafarer who fled mainland China last July, is now seeking political asylum in Australia. He says he grew up with an Education from the Chinese Communist Party and thought it was perfect. It was not until he stepped out of the country for the first Time that he realized he had been lied to for a full 30 years.
Liang Haibin had previously worked in many occupations, first as a worker in an engraving factory. in 2015 he became a seafarer and had the opportunity to work in more than 30 countries, seeing the big world, opening his eyes and seeing the truth of some things. This year was a turning point in his Life.
Going abroad only to find out he was cheated for 30 years
After living in China for 30 years, Liang Haibin was very concerned about current affairs and saw that the government was always perfect in all the news. When he left the country, he saw the truth in the overseas news reports and the real things he saw and heard that he could never see in the news in mainland China. Only then did he realize that he had been deceived for 30 years.
Seaman Liang Haibin photographed on his first ship in 2015 (courtesy of Liang Haibin/Da Ji Yuan)
Liang Haibin, who has traveled to more than 30 countries, said, “I realized that whether on the mainland or abroad, those who oppose the Communist Party’s human rights abuses and dictatorial tyranny, that group it is completely right, and what they want is nothing more than the rights they themselves should have, which is freedom and democracy. But why should they be so brutally persecuted?”
Although Liang Haibin has not actually been persecuted by the CCP, he considers himself a victim; he believes that by firmly opposing the CCP, an evil political party, he is actually defending the Constitution, “because what the CCP is doing is contrary to the Constitution, our country and our government are being eroded step by step by an evil force, and it is the people who suffer. “
Liang Haibin said that since the outbreak of the pneumonia (CCP virus) Epidemic in Wuhan, he has been completely intolerant and has made public statements. Seeing the Chinese Communist government seal off cities and households, ignore lives and trample on human rights made him furious to the extreme.
During the epidemic, many seafarers who had been floating at sea for a year were kept out of the country because of the Chinese Communist Party’s policy. According to Liang Haibin, in March and April, the port did not allow seafarers to get off the ship or change shifts. He was on a ship of more than 20 people can only call a small boat to send supplies. The seafarers pulled out a banner, and Liang Haibin recorded a video of seafarers shouting slogans: We are healthy! We want our leave! Give me back my freedom! Give me back my human rights!
Liang Haibin wrote an article in solidarity with the millions of seafarers at the time, criticizing the authorities. He wrote: This special group of seafarers has made a monumental contribution to China’s import and export trade, and is an indispensable and important force in the development of China’s shipping industry. Other countries pay attention to the protection of seafarers’ rights, but the Chinese Communist Party does not care at all; and the spread of the epidemic has caused seafarers to face difficulties in changing shifts and going Home.
In order to support their families, this special group is uprooted from their hometowns, drifting at sea for a long time, living an isolated life; long hours of high-intensity work, leaving their families, enduring loneliness and isolation, which has caused psychological damage …… various functional departments to pass the buck to each other, inaction, fear of taking responsibility, to the already very difficult seafarers to go home again A high wall has been built.
He also found that law enforcement is often above the law and equal to the law, how is this fairness in the rule of law? Liang Haibin wrote many posts in his circle of friends, openly criticizing Xi Jinping and the Communist Party’s corrupt system, and openly demanding that Supreme Court President Zhou Qiang step down.
“Because at the legal level, the people are not allowed to raise objections, what kind of law is that called? The law is meant to govern us, the common people, not them, the government. Everyone is supposed to be equal under the law, but you will find that actually the law is not equal.” He said.
Liang Haibin was publicly vocal in April 2020 and fled China in July. With a special visa for seafarers, Liang Haibin was able to leave the country without any problems.
“When I learned the truth about history, how terrible it was for the Communist Party to persecute Falun Gong practitioners to death with a living life! On the mainland, one dare not even speak freely, and crimes for speaking abound.” He said, “In mainland China, all media are under government control, including some so-called self-published media. (And the uncontrolled ones) are like some citizen journalists, and what happens to them can be imagined, many of them are arrested.”
China’s millions of seafarers’ interests are not protected
Liang Haibin disclosed that seafarers are not given the full amount of wages, are betting part of the salary, but also to do a month to bet a month, bet half a month, always bet. When the contract expires you can go on leave, you have to send the certificate to the company, which is kept by the company, in order to pay the final payment. “We go to work on board, our passports, certificates, all the documents are also taken away by the captain, we are not allowed to keep them ourselves, so that he can control the crew”.
Liang Haibin also found that there were two contracts on board, for example, when he was in his internship, one was for a monthly salary of $500 and the other was for more than $1,200, “but the salary I took was 500 (I actually only got $325, the other $175 was staked in the company) and the one that said more than $1,200 was for the ITF (International Transport-workers Federation). But I was paid $500 (actually I only got $325), and the other $175 was deposited with the company. I realized that I was being screwed and kept in the dark! The contract had a bullying clause that the crew were not allowed to complain to the ITF abroad.”
The company squeezes the crew, the ship owner squeezes the crew, and there are many layers of exploitation. For example, every time after loading and unloading cargo to wash the cabin, wash a cabin can get 500 U.S. dollars, but to the hands of the crew will be left 200 to 250 U.S. dollars.
“Shipowners and companies generally rely on seafarers to make money, but the treatment of seafarers is not good, compared with the relative difference between foreign countries, but also unpaid wages,” said Liang Haibin.
He said, “China’s millions of seafarers, the interests are not protected, the reason is because China has not joined the ITF framework agreement, so shipowners can be emboldened to exploit and squeeze us, and even owe us wages.”
“But not all of their ships are registered as Chinese, Hong Kong and Panama. These places are signed ITF agreement, so you can sue him after leaving the country.” Liang Haibin to help colleagues to collect wages, ask for a statement, in Brazil, but also publicly to the company to sue.
Liang Haibin has worked for both private and state-owned crew companies in mainland China. “State-owned enterprises are more powerful, because the store bullying, like private enterprises in foreign countries a lawsuit, unlike the central enterprises have so many means to bribe the censor, some countries are COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Group) investment in the construction of the terminal.”
Crew work is both dangerous and hard
Liang Haibin said that the crew’s work is very hard, according to the contract a voyage of nine months or more, the task is global. Some are fixed routes, such as China to Australia, China to Brazil …… some depart from China to Australia, after unloading and loading may go to South Africa, after unloading and loading in South Africa may go to Brazil.
The work of seafarers is also very dangerous, climbing up and down, and even work in the long closed toxic space, experience high winds and waves, or encounter pirates. Every job on the ship is a risk to life and limb. There are even young people who have just graduated from school and have been on board for less than two months before they lose their lives. How many crew members lose their lives at sea every year? This figure has never been made public.
“A life is lost, and the company is still screwing the crew by tampering with the insurance money. It’s an open secret that there are many cases of this kind of thing happening in China every year. We said during the company’s training that you should pay attention to safety on board, don’t have an accident, you want to have an accident we also earned, to be frank with you.” Liang Haibin said.
Once he personally experienced, the ship in Karachi, Pakistan, the anchorage, crane when the explosion occurred, the ship’s motor man and the chief sailor almost died. After the accident, he waited for rescue for more than four hours.
There was another time in Zhoushan, a colleague on board for the first time was crushed by the iron plate, the reason for the accident was the high wind and waves leadership also asked the crew to work on the deck. After the accident, the company did not immediately arrange for medical treatment to save money, and stayed on board for nine days before going to the hospital, resulting in a permanent disability.
Because every day is a dirty, Liang Haibin in the ship almost do not take pictures. When he got off the ship and went out to play, he came in contact with many kind local people abroad.
Chinese compatriots should not be deceived by the Chinese Communist Party anymore.
Liang Haibin said that he used to know that Falun Gong was a group that came from the propaganda of the Chinese Communist government and everything was negative. But he has long known that the Communist Party is full of lies and that words cannot be trusted.
He said, “When I went abroad and got out of the country, I realized what Falun Gong is, and that it is actually a very good group for strengthening the body. Why was it branded as a cult? I really think this government is talking with its eyes open.”
“Falun Gong is able to strengthen the body and give people all the ideas of ‘truth, kindness and forbearance’, which is very good, and there are many ordinary people who are willing to explore and learn, and there are more and more people. In fact, people did not threaten it, never did anything. A group of good people, why do you call them a cult? It is because they feel that there are many people, and they are worried that its kingdom will not be preserved, and they subjectively determine that these people will threaten its regime in the future, and then they start to make up charges and lies, and brand them as a cult, arresting people, killing people, and doing nothing evil ……”
After leaving the country, Liang Haibin learned a lot of the truth about Falun Gong, “I also came into contact with some Falun Gong practitioners, and they are all really very kind!” He said, “People must have a conscience. I can’t understand those who attack Falun Gong. What qualifications do these people have to attack them? People really should not be blinded by their eyes. To judge whether things are right or wrong, good or evil, one must analyze them with one’s heart and not just look at one side of the story.”
For the Chinese Communist Party, Liang Haibin said, “If I am given the chance to choose again now, even if I am invited in a palanquin, with a mountain of Gold and silver in front of me, I will not have anything to do with this force of evil, this government.”
Currently, Liang Haibin is temporarily living in the Australian Immigration Detention Center. He said he fled China to avoid persecution by the Chinese Communist government and came to Australia to seek asylum, so he took the initiative to contact Australia’s Border Protection Agency because Australia is a party to the UN Refugee Convention.
I’m not actually trying to be some kind of hero, I just want to tell more people through me, so they can wake up and stop being deceived,” he said. If China doesn’t move toward democratization, then the people will always be slaves, all persecuted. The Constitution states that the people are the ones who supervise the government, and how many people are now being persecuted because they supervise the government? Countless!”
He also firmly believes that justice will prevail over evil. The Chinese Communist Party has reached a point where heaven is angry with people. Thousands of conscientious and awakening Chinese compatriots have a righteous and good heart, a heart that does not want to be with evil.
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