(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, the Singapore police have been restricting Falun Gong practitioners' truth clarification activities. They confiscated practitioners' display boards and banners, and intended to investigate the practitioners' activities. This situation is quite different from that of before. On March 21, 2006, a police officer forcibly took away banners and display boards, and told Ms. Huang Caihua, "If it were up to me, I would not do this; it's the higher-ups that ordered us to do so, and we have to comply." Ms. Huang also noticed that the Chinese Embassy changed an officer recently, and said, "The police officer's explanation doesn't exclude the possibility that the Chinese Communist regime (CCP) has exerted pressure on the Singapore police."


On March 22, at the Singapore Financial Center, people stop to learn about the truth


March 22, two plainclothes police officers at the practitioners' event site

When the tragic incident was disclosed about the mass killing of Falun Gong practitioners, harvesting organs from living practitioners and then incinerating their remains to destroy the evidence in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp and other concentration camps, Falun Gong practitioners in Singapore were shocked and took action. On March 22, 2006, practitioners displayed pictures at Raffles Place - the financial heart of Singapore - to expose and protest the CCP's Nazi-like atrocities at the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. These outrageous facts shocked the passersby. Many people stopped and carefully read the contents on the display boards, and many people took the initiative to learn more from the practitioners and anxiously asked what they could do to help.

A man who works as a security guard condemned the CCP expressed that Singaporeans should join in the efforts to stop these inhuman crimes.

The truth clarification activity was held from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., with many practitioners' participation. After the lunch break, the police required the practitioners to leave using the excuse of their having no permit. Some practitioners left, but the police did not interfere with the remaining practitioners, who continued displaying the pictures to clarify the truth.

At 8:30 a.m. on March 31, when practitioners prepared to display pictures and distribute truth-clarifying flyers at the same place as they did the last time at Raffles Place, they noticed that the police were already there waiting, and there were many plainclothes policemen at the site. Some of them kept videotaping the whole situation. The police soon required the practitioners to leave, using the excuse of "breaching the Public Entertainment Act." This time their attitude was tough. The practitioners kept explaining the situation to them, and told them the horrible facts about Sujiatun and that they wanted to tell the facts to the local people, so as to jointly rescue the remaining practitioners in the concentration camp whose lives were at stake at any time. Nevertheless, the police still took away their display boards. Their way of doing things this time was completely different from their manner nine days before.

The same afternoon, Ms. Huang and another practitioner came to Raffles Place after their truth clarification activity in front of the Chinese Embassy. As soon as they displayed pictures and started clarifying the truth to people, police officers surrounded them. At about 3:00 p.m., the police forcibly took away the display boards and a banner lying on the ground, again using the excuse of "breaching the Public Entertainment Act." They even confiscated the two banners still in the practitioners' bag. The practitioners explained to them, "Our display of pictures has nothing to do with the Public Entertainment Act, the police should respect citizens' right to freedom of speech endowed by the Singapore Constitution. The constitution also endows the citizens with the right to clarify the truth when being wrongly slandered At this life-and-death critical moment, the police should help rescue lives who are at stake, not suppress people from voicing their concerns."

Unfortunately the police did not want to listen. At about 3:00 p.m., they forcibly arrested Ms. Huang and took her to the police department, but soon after, they let Ms. Huang leave the police department. Ms. Huang insisted that she would not leave until the police returned her display boards, and as a result, some more officers came to persuade her to leave. One of the officers said to Ms. Huang regarding the incident at Raffles Place, "If it were up to me, I would not do this. The officer above me was changed and he ordered us to do so, so we have to comply." He also said, "The police has been watching you for a long time, but you did not hold any activity like this before." After 8:00 p.m., Ms. Huang left the police department. Based to her previous experience, she believed it would be unlikely that the police would return their display boards.


On April 6, a plainclothes police officer videotapes the practitioners' activity in front of the Chinese Embassy

On April 6, a plainclothes police officer is collecting practitioners' truth clarification display boards in front of the Chinese Embassy

On the morning of April 6, 2006, Ms. Huang, who has persisted in doing truth clarification for nine months in front of the Chinese Embassy, came to the embassy as usual. She unfurled banners and display placards protesting the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong and started doing the exercises. At around 11:00 a.m., four to five plainclothes police and two officers in uniform came over and asked, "Have you applied for a public entertainment permit?" They then started removing display boards and banners. Ms. Huang asked, "We do the exercises in front of the Chinese Embassy to protest against the CCP, what does that have to do with entertainment? On previous occasions, you said if we were more than five persons, we would be taken as gathering without a permit, now you are telling us about this 'Public Entertainment Act.'" The day before this, a man came out of the Chinese Embassy and walked to the front of the display boards, apparently to learn about the truth. After taking some of the truth-clarification materials, he took pictures of the surrounding area and entered the embassy.


On April 9, in the busy area of Si Ma Lu, practitioners expose the CCP's atrocities to the local people

On Saturday April 8, Falun Gong practitioners went as usual to the busy area of Si Ma Lu to display placards and tell the local people about the persecution of Falun Gong, focusing on the Sujiatun incident. Soon, seven to eight police officers in uniform arrived. About one hour later, the police told the practitioners, "You haven't applied for a permit, so we'll confiscate your placards. I'm only telling you once." After that, they removed over a dozen placards, three banners and other materials and copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. The practitioners explained to surrounding people that there is such a horrible large-scale live organ harvesting taking place in China, and that everybody is responsible to help stop the crimes. The police, however, restricts us from clarifying the truth to rescue people; their act is just like committing a crime." The police left shortly afterwards. The practitioners continued clarifying the truth to the local people. At 1:00 p.m., another group of practitioners came and displayed placards and banners exposing the CCP's tyranny. Many people looked at the display boards and learned the facts. The practitioners did not leave until 4:00 p.m.

During the police's recent actions, they have confiscated 30 to 40 placards in total and over a dozen banners.

Ms. Huang said that she has been protesting the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong in front of the Chinese Embassy for nine months, and she has never stopped for even one day, no matter what the weather is like. She has never met with such incidents where the police forcibly removed display boards and banners. There was also not such a case even in other places on the island, where practitioners have been clarifying the truth for eight to nine months. The police have learned about the truth and understood why the practitioners are holding these activities. Ms. Huang believed that the Chinese Embassy recently changed an officer in charge, and former Prime Minister and current Senior Minister Mr. Goh Chok Tong announced a visit to China in the near future. The series of actions from the police may have something to do with pressure from the Chinese Embassy. Ms. Huang pointed out that this January, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Domestic Affairs Wong Kan Seng associated Falun Gong practitioners' truth clarification activities with violence and drug trafficking and other crimes in an exclusive interview with the media. He warned the general public to pay attention to "non-violent crime," which has had very bad influence among the local people. Ms. Huang and other Falun Gong practitioners have written many letters to Mr. Wong and other government officials, but their attitude toward Falun Gong has not seen much change. Nevertheless, Falun Gong practitioners in Singapore will continue their truth clarification efforts all the way until the persecution is stopped.

With the recent exposure of the CCP's outrageous atrocities in concentration camps, Falun Gong practitioners from around the world and many people of conscience have been holding rallies in different places to protest the CCP's inhuman and barbaric acts. On April 5, an urgent announcement from the Committee to Investigate the Facts stated that witnesses who have been locked up in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp and other concentration camps in China have been secretly transferred and their lives are at risk at any moment. Some hospitals in mainland China have suddenly started doing organ transplantation operations on a large-scale - a mass killing to destroy the evidence is taking place right now. We urgently call on the international community to immediately put a stop to this new wave of genocide.

At this serious historic moment, Singapore Falun Gong practitioners advise the Singapore government not to succumb to the CCP's pressure. The government is urged to position itself correctly on this major issue of principle.