Swedish Falun Dafa Association Writes to the Thai Embassy
Dr. Apichart Chinwanno, Ambassador. Ref: Chinese Falun Gong practitioners, with UN refugee protection status,
detained by the Thai police Your Excellency, People in Europe consider the Thai people to be kind, helpful and courageous.
Their struggle to recover from the tsunami catastrophe won the hearts of many
Europeans. With this background, it came as a shock to us that the Thai police
detained seven Chinese Falun Gong practitioners with UN refugee status, two of
them children, thus worsening their suffering. On December the 15th about twenty Thai police officers arrested three men,
two women and their children aged five, six and fourteen. These Falun Gong
practitioners did nothing wrong, but the Thai police chose to lock them up like
they were criminals. They were peacefully meditating in front of the Chinese
Embassy in Bangkok on December the 15th most probably in sympathy with two
female Falun Gong practitioners who were raped by the policemen of Zhuozhou
City, Hebei Province in China. They were very sad about what happened to their
fellow practitioners in China. They are now even sadder that Thailand, the country that has protected them
earlier, has given in to pressures from the Chinese embassy. According to the Falun Gong Information Centre, a Thai immigration
investigator, Wikorn Jarupruch, told Falun Gong practitioners that it was the
Chinese Embassy who directed the police to take action against them. At around noon that day, the Thai police officers went in and out of the
Embassy. Then for no reason, they forcefully searched Falun Gong practitioners'
bags, took their banners, and arrested them. The official reason for arresting the five adults, given by Officer Pithipan
Krisdakorn, was that they failed to show proper evidence of legal entry into
Thailand. This is an unreasonable claim. Like many refugees, they do not have
passports but official letters of protection status from the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office. The police action was taken with disregard for refugees in need of
humanitarian help and avoiding persecution. This really disappoints us in
Europe. The fourteen-year-old girl was released but seven people are still detained.
Among them are Mr. Huang Guohua and his five-year-old daughter Kaixin whose
mother Luo Zhixiang was three months pregnant when she was killed in Chinese
police custody in 2002. The poor girl has been living with her grandparents in
China until last December when she was reunited with her father in Bangkok. He
had fled to Thailand earlier, after having been arrested and tortured in China
himself. The normal procedure for handling refugees is for the police to call the
UNHCR, but once again we regret to say that the police did not act accordingly. What happened in Thailand is part of the evil scheme by the communist regime
to persecute Falun Gong practitioners who strive to follow their beliefs in the
principles of truth, compassion and tolerance, rather than the communist
ideology. The Chinese Communist Party fears that virtue and morality will
challenge the authority of its corrupt dictatorship. Falun Gong has been senselessly persecuted in China for over six years, and
at least 2790 practitioners have died from torture. Protests in front of the Chinese Embassies and Consulates are being held all
over the world and will continue until the persecution in China ends. During the
past six years of sufferings, Falun Gong practitioners have never asked for
anything else except the right to practice their belief peacefully. What happened in Thailand recently must be a mistake. We sincerely hope that
the Thai authorities will release the seven refugees, two of them are children.
They have come a long way. They have suffered enough. We are anxiously waiting for the release of the UN refugees. Yours sincerely Malin Nordstrand
Royal Thai Embassy,
Floragatan 3,
Box 26220 100 40, Stockholm.
18th December 2005
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