Together to Stop the Persecution: Northern California Falun Gong Practitioners' Anti-torture Exhibition Moves People (Photos)
(Clearwisdom.net) Clearwisdom.net correspondent Kelly Huang reports from
San Francisco: On July 9, Falun Gong practitioners from San Francisco, California held an
anti-torture exhibition and a poster display in front of the Mountain View City
Hall. The activity exposed the Jiang group's crimes of employing state-run
terrorism and cruel torture to persecute Falun Gong practitioners who cultivate
themselves in accordance with Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance and exposed the
export of this terrorism overseas. Citizens from Mountain View expressed their
view that this kind of state-run terrorism must be stopped.
Accompanied by the dignified music, Falun Gong practitioners
reenacted the tortures applied on fellow practitioners in China,
including "hanging and beaten," "tiger
bench," "digging bamboo sticks underneath
practitioners' fingernails," "violent
force-feeding," "forced abortion," and
"confinement in an iron cage." The live mock-torture
reenactment clearly showed the public the brutal persecution
encountered by millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
During the torture exhibition, other practitioners
simultaneously demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises by the side
of the exhibition. Many passers-by carefully watched each
mock-torture reenactment and read the descriptions nearby. Some
said that such a good practice should not be suppressed. Some
people talked with practitioners to learn more about the facts. Tony, a Mountain View resident, told practitioners that when
he drove by, he saw the practitioners so he especially stopped
his car and came to take a look. He said that he has been to
China but he did not know about the persecution that is going on
there. Practitioners told him that more than 1,000 Falun Gong
practitioners are verified to have died from the persecution,
many more are still detained in psychiatric hospitals and forced
labor camps where they are severely tortured. Practitioners said
that the methods demonstrated here were only a tiny part of all
that have been used to torture practitioners. Tony said, "I
believe you! These are acts of terrorists. What can I do to
help?" Practitioners told Tony that Jiang's group not only applies
state-run terrorism in China, but they have even exported it to
other countries throughout the world. Some overseas
practitioners' phones have been tapped and some practitioners'
vehicles were damaged. The Chinese authorities have also sent
out secret agents to compile a list of practitioners' names in
countries outside China; thus when Jiang visited Europe in 2003,
many practitioners from different countries, who planned to go
to Iceland to hold a peaceful appeal, were barred from boarding
flights to Iceland. On June 28 this year, in South Africa, some
Falun Gong practitioners encountered an attack by hired gunmen;
at that time, the practitioners were preparing to file a
complaint against the two Chinese high-ranking officials, Zeng
Qinghong and Bo Xilai, who were visiting South Africa. The two
officials have been closely following Jiang and have spared no
effort in persecuting Falun Gong. Tony said with indignation,
"We shall work together to stop these kinds of terrorist
acts. I'll try my best and do what I can." He told the practitioners, "Learning about the truth
about Falun Gong is the most meaningful thing that I've done
today."
Anti-torture exhibition
Forced abortion reenactment
Violent force-feeding reenactment
Demonstration of confinement in an iron cage
Reporters taking pictures
Falun Gong exercise demonstration
Clarifying the truth
Passer-by looking at the posters
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/7/10/79073.html
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