(Clearwisdom.net) July the 20th 2004 marks five years
of brutal persecution against Falun Gong. On Sunday the 18th of July,
practitioners from Nordic countries held activities in Helsinki Central Park to
appeal for an end to this persecution. Five years ago in July 1999, Chinese
dictator Jiang Zemin banned Falun Gong in China and launched a systematic and
vicious campaign of genocide, which has claimed more than a thousand innocent
lives to this day.
Falun Gong practitioners from Finland, Sweden and Denmark
organized a live anti-torture exhibition to expose the torture methods used on
Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese labor camps and prisons. The brutality of
the persecution was also depicted in a photo and poster exhibition that showed
more than twenty-five different torture methods. The exhibitions also included
many heart breaking stories from victims of torture in China. One was from Zhao
Ming, a Falun Gong practitioner living in Ireland, who was tortured in many
different ways while being illegally held in a labor camp for his belief in
Falun Gong. On one occasion five policemen gave him electric shocks with six
high voltage electric batons all over his body.
During the day many people wanted to find out more about the
real situation of human rights in China. After hearing the facts, people were
shocked, angry and sad. Many kind-hearted people supported Falun Gong
practitioners by signing petitions to call for an end to these human rights
abuses. People had a hard time believing that these kinds of atrocities against
peaceful Falun Gong practitioners are taking place in the world today.
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200407/20882.html
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