Germany: The Munich Beer Festival Attracts Tourists to an Anti-Torture Exhibition (Photos)
(Clearwisdom.net) The 18th of September was the opening day of the 171st
Munich Beer Festival, which lasts for sixteen days. Tourists from all over
Germany and the world traveled to Munich to take part and the city was
constantly busy. In Marienplatz in the city centre, Falun Gong practitioners
from Munich and Bavaria held an information day and anti-torture exhibition to
show people how Jiang Zemin uses his regime to persecute Falun Gong
practitioners in China. On one side of the exhibition, beautiful music and exhibition boards
informing people that Falun Dafa is spreading all over the world caught people's
attention. They stopped to have a look and accepted the leaflets handed to them
by the practitioners. On the other side of the exhibition, there was a
re-enactment of practitioners being tied up on a Tiger Bench and locked up in a
cage. Standing nearby was a policeman with a fierce look. The acting conveyed to
the people that all these things are happening in China's forced-labor camps.
People were shocked: many were gazing at the scene with their eyes wide-open and
couldn't believe that this is happening every day in China. When being told what
was being shown here was only the tip of the iceberg and the real persecution in
China is even crueler than this, people were indignant and signed their names on
a petition to bring Jiang Zemin to justice.
The Jiang Zemin regime has persecuted Falun Gong practitioners for over
five years since July 1999. Tens of millions of Falun Gong practitioners have
been forced to sign their names on a guarantee to give up practicing Falun
Gong. Many of them have been taken to be brainwashed because they refused to
sign and many of them have been taken to forced labor camps to be
"re-educated". At present, over 100,000 practitioners are imprisoned
in all sorts of forced labor camps and mental hospitals. 1047 Falun Gong
practitioners have been confirmed as being tortured to death. Numerous
practitioners have been forced to leave their homes or families, and have lost
their jobs. The Jiang regime has used the whole of China's state apparatus and
propaganda machine to conduct a campaign of annihilation against Falun Gong
and deprived those who practice of their basic human rights. In order to
escape condemnation from the international community, the persecution has
changed its form recently. The regime has tried to hide the persecution and
suppression of Falun Gong practitioners even more deviously. In the past few months, reports about practitioners being tortured have
come out one after another. Gao Rongrong was electrically shocked on the face
for seven hours and tortured to the brink of death in Longshan forced labor
camp; Wang Xia became a human skeleton in Linhe City Inner Mongolia; Wang
Guijin, who had been pregnant for nine months, was forced to have an induced
labor in Huaiyang County Henan Province: These are the unbelievable facts. At
present Jiang Zemin has a lawsuit brought against him for crimes of torture,
genocide and crimes against humanity by practitioners from many countries all
over the world. Upon first seeing the exhibition, two Germans said, "Oh, it is the
Falun Gong religion." On hearing this, a practitioner told them what
Falun Gong was and why Falun Gong has been persecuted in China. After hearing
the facts, they went to the petition board to sign their names at once. A tourist group from Northeast China approached the exhibition and a
western practitioner went over and gave them some leaflets. Among the
tourists, there was one who had interviewed Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of
Falun Gong, before the persecution began. When the western practitioner told
him that Mr. Li is a good person, that tourist was startled at first and then
his memory seemed to return quickly. He said, "Yes, he is a very good
person," showing a genuine smile. The people's longing for Dafa was encouraging to everyone. The
practitioners who were playing the roles of tortured practitioners and the
perpetrators continued on silently, although they had been in the scorching
sun for several hours. Many practitioners were too busy to take lunch because
they wanted as many people as possible to hear the truth. A young Chinese
student, when he began looking at the anti-torture exhibition, was very angry
and started shouting that the practitioners were losing face for the Chinese
people. The practitioners patiently told him the whole story of the
persecution, from the self-immolation deaths in Tiananmen Square that Jiang
staged to frame Falun Gong and the Jiang regime's crimes of genocide, to the
Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful opposition. Finally, that young man became
quiet and took a Video-CD and some leaflets with him. He said that he would
watch the video and read the materials carefully when he got home. Source http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200410/22231.html
The information day attracted a lot of people to come to learn about Falun Dafa
The brutality of the persecution revealed by the anti-torture exhibition
shocked people
A tourist learned Falun Gong sitting meditation
A tourist brought a flower to pay tribute to practitioners who have
been persecuted to death in China
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/9/21/84693.html
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