Practitioners in the UK Appeal for Fairness to the Visiting Chinese Leader, Hu Jintao
By practitioners from the UK
On October 31, Hu Jintao, the Chinese Vice President
completed his 4-day-visit to the UK. During his visit, the practitioners in the
UK made use of all available opportunities to express their voice to the leader
and to reveal to the British media and public the truth of Falun Gong and the
persecution instigated against it by the Chinese government.
Practitioners waited outside the places where Hu Jintao
visited, such as the Dorchester Hotel, Imperial College London, the British
Museum and Downing Street. The message that we wanted to get across was:
"Please get involved directly with Falun Gong issues and
please be fair to the Falun Gong practitioners."
We had many chances to make direct close visual contact with
Mr. Hu. We waved and smiled at him, welcoming the leader to visit the UK. We
spoke, "Welcome Vice- President Mr Hu! Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa!"
Many police officers on duty were moved by the Falun Dafa
practitioners. One policeman asked us, "Why would you spend so much of your
working and leisure time in such chilly weather? Is it really worth it?" We
told him that in China, almost every day there are innocent Falun Gong
practitioners tortured to death, and we simply have no chances to meet the
Chinese officials and state our request. The Chinese Civil Affairs Office is no
longer a place where people can go and express their complaints; instead, it has
become the home of arrested Falun Gong practitioners. Anyone who says "Falun
Dafa is good!" could receive a serious prison sentence and even be tortured
to death.
We also told the police that we were lucky here to have the
freedom to speak and to have our own beliefs, even though we have to suffer a
little bit in chilly weather to express our views to the leader. In China, the
Falun Gong practitioners are in such an unimaginably harsh situation. According
to the official directives, any Falun Gong practitioners who die from torture
should be treated as "suicide".
Everyone who heard about the persecution showed great support
to us. During the hours before Mr Hu returned to his hotel, we read out loud the
articles on "Peaceful Journey" and "Journey to Return Home"
in both Chinese and English.
The literature we read was heard by the police, the residents
and passers-by. Everyone was listening carefully. Especially when we read a
declaration article by practitioners in court, "No Regrets". It said,
"Everyone seated here please ask yourself, are you able to keep the
righteous standards of 'kindness, faithfulness, manners, wisdom and trust' as a
true human being; are you able to safeguard the righteous, fearing nothing from
the selfish and the evil?" All of a sudden it became really quiet, and the
practitioners doing exercises shed tears. We suddenly felt how the degenerate
evil was being eliminated and how the fresh creation was formed from
nothingness.
The police asked us for many leaflets, and some even
expressed that they would like to learn the exercises. We were also told by many
that people loved the Falun Dafa music since it made them feel calm.
When we told the police that among the practitioners present
there were many PhD students from famous UK universities, IT Consultants, Senior
Engineers, Lecturers and Financial Consultants, they were really surprised. They
could never imagine that such a group of people would pay such a price for their
belief.
Unconsciously, we changed the environment. When we were not
sure about the route of the Chinese leader, we were always able to gain help
from the kind-hearted people. Many times we stood for hours in the chill, only
wanting to say one sentence to the Chinese leader when he showed up,
"Please get involved directly with Falun Gong issues and please be fair to
the Falun Gong practitioners." Such great tolerance and firm belief were
witnessed by the leader's assistants, the guards, and the embassy staff, and
they showed respect to us. Even though some Chinese assistants were not able to
speak to us directly, we could see the respect in their eyes.
We also realised that what really made the impact was our
pure hearts, all in harmony. We held these demonstrations in order to offer the
worldly people a chance to get to know us. Whenever we faced obstacles, we were
not trapped by them; instead, we were patient and used kind hearts. In such a
way, all obstacles were overcome.
Source: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/1643.html
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