By Practitioners from UK
(Clearwisdom.net) July 20th 2002 saw the end of the third year of persecution
against Falun Gong by Jiang Zemin's regime. Jiang uses his political power to
carry out this persecution in a villainous fashion. Against public opinion and
the will of the people, the persecution is also against human morality. For the past three years, Falun Gong practitioners, with their indestructible
will, have safeguarded their noble belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and
Forbearance" in a peaceful and firm way. For the past three years Falun Gong
practitioners have deeply touched the kind and righteous people in the world.
Today, Falun Dafa is practiced in almost sixty countries. Today on July 20th, British practitioners held activities to clarify the truth
and to spread Dafa around the UK, in London, the Midlands and the North.
Outside Chinese Embassy in London
In London, practitioners held a press conference outside of the Chinese
Embassy featuring a statement calling for an immediate end to Jiang's reign of
terror. The Vice Chairman of Friends of Falun Gong Europe, Mr. John Dee, also
made a speech and practitioners read statements from Glenda Jackson MP and
councillor Brian Coleman. In their statements, they condemned Jiang's
persecution of Falun Gong. Later, a practitioner talked about his sister,
subjected to brutal persecution just because of her belief in Falun Dafa, and
who is still imprisoned in a labor camp.
Officials inside the Chinese Embassy did not dare to come out and listen.
They set up an amplifier to play loud music and interfere with our speeches and
statements. This kind of behavior made the passers-by recognize the spreading of
Jiang's persecution outside of China.
Nearby residents were influenced by the noise from the amplifier, so the
manager from an office building came to the Chinese Embassy to complain to the
police officer on duty about the noise, asking them to turn off the amplifier.
However, the Chinese Embassy just kept its doors shut as usual. Then, the angry
manager came toward one practitioner, saying, "They [the Chinese officials] are
rascals! You did a good job!"
When we were sending forth righteous thoughts, a British woman sat down near
us, pressing her hands together in front of her chest and showing her support
for us. In the afternoon, some of the practitioners left the Chinese Embassy for
Chinatown to tell the Chinese people the truth about Falun Gong and Jiang
Zemin's persecution. This was different from our past experiences because many
Chinese people came toward us to take information. Now the information in
Chinese can be handed out very quickly. Many passersby were attracted to our
display, reading the information carefully. Some of them asked us to teach them
the exercises, so a Chinese and a westerner learned the five sets of exercises
on a busy Chinatown street.
Posting date: 7/26/2002
Original article date: 7/26/2002
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2002/7/24/33797.html