By a practitioner in Vancouver

(Clearwisdom.net) On April 8, 2006, practitioners from Vancouver held a "Great Wall of Truth" activity in Richmond to condemn the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s killing of Falun Gong practitioners and the atrocities of live organ removal, and called on all circles to stand up to stop the persecution.

The practitioners, wearing white or dark clothes with white flowers, lined up along both sides of 3^rd street and displayed photos, posters, and banners. The banners were worded "SOS: 36 Death Camps in China, Ruthless Communist regime profiting by removing organs from live humans", "Strongly condemn CCP's atrocities of live organ removal and cremation of practitioners' bodies in concentration camp", "Stop the genocide, stop harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners", and "Falun Dafa is great".

Falun Gong practitioners distributed handouts and collected signatures at intersections to call for the Canadian Government to condemn the CCP's bloody crimes, establish an investigation team and help end the CCP's atrocities.

Signature collection

Falun Gong spokesperson Ms. Ying Li said, "We are holding the 'Great Wall of Truth' activity in Richmond, which has a large Chinese population, to help people understand the inhuman atrocities taking place in China. Concentration Camps secretly imprison Falun Gong practitioners and harvest organs from living humans for profit. After the exposure of the CCP's Sujiatun Concentration Camp, the CCP is relocating evidence and killing witnesses."

"According to information from China, hospitals in at least 8 provinces are working overtime to conduct organ transplantation. We are worried that in the next few months, the CCP will hasten the killing of Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned in secret concentration camps and labor camps at the provincial and city-level."

A truck with banners runs back and forth on the street

"We are here today so that all people will know about the crimes in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. It is a portion of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. Similar crimes are occurring in many jails, labor camps, hospitals and related facilities in China. The crimes are still going on in some locations in secret. We urge parliament to investigate and we call on the Canadian people to help end the CCP's crimes. Especially those who are going to China to have organ transplants, please ask about the source of the organs."

A former Amnesty International staff member talked with a practitioner for quite a while. He said that Chinese products were so cheap and that no one knew what happened in China. Everyone knows the poor record of China on human rights, but what has the international community done? Far less than necessary.

An older man said, "There are CCP spies in our senior's activity center. They ask us not to believe The Epoch Times' exposure of the CCP's concentration camp. I told everyone, I came back from China recently. I know it is true. I read the newspaper everyday. I put it back after reading it to have more people know the facts. You must keep going."

An older lady from Sichuan told a practitioner on site, "I have read the Nine Commentaries from the Epoch Times. I experienced every event mentioned in the commentaries."

A young man passed by with his baby and signed his name and his baby's name. He said, "For both of us."

A candidate for the New Democracy Party in the city told a practitioner, "The CCP has an investment in Winnipeg. Do you know why they invest there? Because there is no people from your group. You should have a car tour to spread the facts and let everyone know it."

A local resident and his wife were shocked after learning about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and live organ removal for profit. They stayed quite a while and volunteered to hold banners.

He said, "As a Canadian citizen, I can have my own belief. Human rights are the basic rights for life no matter where you live. I come from Jewish community. My grandfather's family were all killed by Nazis. The CCP regime persecutes its own citizens inhumanely. I hope that the UN and all people around the world work together to stop the atrocities."

He said he would post the facts on a Jewish website and call the member of Parliament in his district, because it is not only China's issue, but an issue of all mankind and all of society.

Local resident and his wife

Candlelight vigil

Practitioner Tian said that some people were indifferent. "Do you like to know what is happening in China?" "No." "Would you like to help stop crimes?" "No." Tian is not discouraged but told the reporter, "We only want people to know the facts of the persecution. We came here to save these indifferent people."

Since the exposure of live organ removal in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, practitioners in Vancouver have held poster exhibits and signature collection activities many times in front of the art museum, in Chinatown and so on.

In the evening, the practitioners held a candlelight vigil in the rain in front of the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver to commemorate their fellow practitioners tortured to death by the CCP.

Posting date: 4/14/2006
Original article date: 4/13/2006
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/4/13/125127.html

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