October 5, 2001

Another example of the evil's madness was shown today when a male official from the Chinese Embassy in Canberra, crossed the road from the embassy to assault and abuse female practitioners who were peacefully appealing opposite the Embassy.

On Friday afternoon, a man came out of the Chinese Embassy to collect a sign that had been left from a festival held at the Embassy some nights prior. After picking up the sign, he walked across the road, pointing aggressively and saying "What are you doing here?", "Falun Gong, you should not be allowed here!." The man came right up to some of the female practitioners who were sitting in front of the appeal banners and pointed his finger very aggressively close to their faces.

The practitioners explained "This is Australia, we are Australian citizens and have a right to peacefully appeal here." The man replied "I don't care about your B**** Australia!" Clearly he was extremely angry.

One of the practitioners sitting a short distance from the man decided to take a photo, as it seemed that the man could become violent. After taking two photos, the man realized that his picture had been taken and rushed across to try and grab the camera. He swiped at the practitioner attempting to get the camera and then slapped her across the face. While he continued to yell and be abusive, the practitioner pointed out his rude behavior to him and passed the camera back to another practitioner. The man then tried to grab the camera from the other practitioner and rudely grabbed her wrist.

When the practitioners said that they would call the police and held the man's arm, telling him to stay and wait for the police, a group of 4 or 5 men and women came out of the embassy and dragged the man back inside.

Policemen arrived after the incident and are conducting an investigation into this illegal and undignified assault. The photographs are to be used as evidence in this case.

From this incident, we can clearly see that the evil has gone completely mad when diplomats from a country cannot even behave with dignity, and disregard the laws of the country that they are in. Obviously, the gaps are starting to show in China's thin veil of deceit.

Posting date: 10/7/2001
Original article date: 10/5/2001
Category: Eye Witness Accounts

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