By German practitioners
(Clearwisdom.net) On July 20, 2004, practitioners from Munich and its
suburbs protested against five years of persecution by appealing at the Chinese
Embassy in Munich. Five years ago on that day, hundreds of people throughout
China were taken from their homes in the middle of the night to face an
indoctrination process consisting of scare tactics, brainwashing and other forms
of coercion meant to break their belief. This large scale, atrocious and most
viciously covered-up systematic persecution against Falun Gong practitioners was
prefaced by overwhelming state-run media propaganda and followed by brutal
repression. During the past five years, millions of people were kidnapped or forced to
attend brainwashing sessions, thousands of people were sent to labor camps or
prisons for up to eighteen years, tens of thousands of happy families were
broken up, and reliable resources reveal that at least 1,000 Falun Gong
practitioners lost their lives directly due to torture and abuse in custody or
prison, while the true death toll could be over 5,000. By following Falun Gong's
principles of "Truth, Compassion and Tolerance," millions of Falun Gong
practitioners in China and outside China have been engaging in peaceful
activities to counter the web of fear and hatred spun by China's state-run media
and let more people know about the brutal persecution. Now with the awareness of
more and more people, more than twenty lawsuits against those who had acted
unlawfully towards Falun Gong have been filed. Falun Gong practitioners held an exhibition of the brutal persecution facts
and demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises at the Munich Chinese
Embassy. Many onlookers or passers-by came to ask for leaflets and newspapers.
Even the policemen, who at first were unfriendly, changed their attitude later. Before the activity ended, it started to rain. However, practitioners kept
sending righteous thoughts and continued the activity. It was not until
practitioners left that it started to rain heavily. like many previous events,
the embassy staff monitored the entire activity by video taping it.
Posting date: 8/2/2004
Original article date: 8/2/2004
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/7/22/80037.html