United Kingdom: The Unruly and Offensive Behavior of the Chinese Consul in Edinburgh
By a UK practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) One of our fellow practitioners is a young man. One
day, he came to the Chinese Embassy in Edinburgh to peacefully appeal as usual.
The peaceful appeal at the Embassy has run for two hours every day for the last
three years. It has grown from just one practitioner in the beginning, to a
group of practitioners each day. We usually do the exercises on the street
beside the Embassy where there is a three-foot high iron pillar that we tie our
display board to. One side of the display board reads, "Stop Persecuting Falun
Gong," and the other side displays photographs showing evidence of the
persecution.
One day, after this practitioner tied up the display board he began to
practice the Falun Gong exercises. As soon as he finished the first set of
exercises, he opened his eyes to see a Chinese person looking at the display.
He immediately took out a leaflet and handed it to the person, saying politely,
"Sir, please take a look." Then he started to tell him about the worldwide
spread of Falun Dafa and how the Chinese media slanders Falun Gong. All of a
sudden, the Chinese man rudely interrupted him and said angrily, "Why don't you
believe in Christianity?" The practitioner explained to him patiently that
Falun Gong is not a religion and told him some more about the practice.
The man stopped him again and said, "Why don't you go back home and practice
at home? Do you know how we Chinese lose face when you practice here?" The
practitioner remained calm and explained that countless practitioners have been
arrested and beaten up for not giving up their belief, and that some have even
been sentenced to imprisonment without trial. In addition to that, some corrupt
elements in the government employ the whole country's media to export lies
abroad to slander Falun Gong. This behavior is what really causes the Chinese
people to lose face. On hearing that, the Chinese person started shouting, "Do
you know that a lot of foreigners laugh at you?!" Our practitioner corrected
him, "Do you know our peaceful appeal has received support from many
passers-by? The local people who live nearby send tea, food and letters to us,
and even more people send their encouragement for our persistence. With more
and more people learning the truth, we are getting more and more supporters."
The Chinese man left before the practitioner finished, and he was foul-mouthed
and tore up the leaflet. After he walked around the Embassy, he went into the
building.
The practitioner described the Chinese person's behavior to us afterward.
After some discussion, we realized that this was the Consul of the Embassy in
Edinburgh. As he often comes and goes by car, we seldom see him. We were all
shocked by his behavior, how could this kind of person be sent abroad as a
diplomat?
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/7/7/78861.html
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