(Clearwisdom.net) World Journal reported in Chinese on May 17 that about 400 Falun Gong practitioners gathered on May 16 in the San Francisco Chinatown to celebrate the 12th anniversary of Falun Dafa's introduction with parade, dance, displays, an exercise demonstration and personal experience sharing.
San Francisco Falun Gong spokesperson Zeng Yong expressed that it has been 12 years since Falun Dafa was first made public. May 13 each year is the World Falun Dafa Day. The event held by San Francisco practitioners on May 16 is also part of the celebration. Over the past 12 years, 100 million people from more than 60 countries throughout the world practice Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance, the essential teaching of Falun Gong. Unfortunately, they are subjected to the extreme suppression by the Chinese government (Jiang's group). Therefore, the celebration on May 16 also included the solemn content of exposing the injustices of the persecution.
Falun Gong practitioner Duan Li also said that during the event, they would use the form of a play for the first time to show how the Jiang's group persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. The play would also display some "torture equipment". Zeng Yong added, we learn about the torture implements and methods through channels from China and victims' personal testimonies. They include the "Tiger bench", "winding up clothes" and the horrible "iron cage".1 The names are bad enough. The play denounces the injustices, and hopes to awaken more people to call on Jiang's group to stop the persecution.
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Description of these tortures available at: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html
