Clearwisdom reporter Yue Ran
(Clearwisdom.net) On April 18, 2006, one day prior to
the visit of the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Falun Gong
practitioners from different places held a big rally in Washington DC, the
capital of the US, to call upon the international community to stop the CCP's
persecution of Falun Gong and stop the mass killing. 
DC Rally
Dr. Terri Marsh gives a speech
The rally was jointly organized by the "Falun Dafa Association"
and "The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China"
(CIPFG). Banners reading, "Bring Jiang, Luo, Liu and Zhou to Justice," "Stop the
Persecution, Stop the Killing," "Protest the CCP's Inhuman Killing,
Calling on the International Community to Investigate and Urgently Rescue." The stage was
surrounded with white wreaths. Participants wore white flowers on their chests,
and unfurled white banners. The rally was solemn and respectful.
According to information collected, the CCP's criminal
act of harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners, selling their
organs for profit and then cremating the murdered bodies to destroy the
evidence started in late 2000, reached a peak from 2001 to 2003, and organ harvesting is still taking place. No forced labor camps, prisons, detention
centers, hospitals (especially police hospitals and military system hospitals),
or extensions of forced labor camps and prisons (secret concentration
camps) can escape the responsibilities for such atrocities.
Some Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China recall
that during the time from 2000 to 2001, when a large number of Falun Gong practitioners
traveled to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong, forced labor camps,
prisons, detention centers and mental hospitals were overcrowded. Jiang's regime
even released many criminals before their sentences were up to make room for
Falun Gong practitioners. Later, Jiang's regime mobilized a large sum of money
to urgently build secret concentration camps, dedicated to detaining Falun Gong
practitioners, and ordered that no detainees could be released once detained
there. The information obtained recently shows that the crimes of harvesting
organs from healthy, living Falun Gong practitioners and selling their organs for
profit before cremating their bodies to destroy the evidence, occurred on
a large-scale in secret concentration camps. According to the witnesses, the secret
Sujiatun Concentration Camp once held 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners, but two
thirds of them have been murdered.
After the witness revealed the criminal acts in the Sujiatun
Concentration Camp, the CCP spent three weeks disposing of eyewitnesses and
covering up the scene of the crime, and then welcomed the international
community to investigate. At the same time, Falun Gong practitioners have
learned that there are at least 36 concentration camps similar to the secret
concentration camp in Sujiatun. But recently, under the orders of the diehard
followers of Jiang and Luo's regime, the Falun Gong practitioners in these
secret concentration camps have been urgently transferred to forced labor
camps, prisons, hospitals and related facilities to continue being detained.
These forced labor camps, prisons and hospitals coordinated together, and the
detained Falun Gong practitioners who are used as "live organ
suppliers" are facing the threat of having their organs removed while they are
still alive and their bodies cremated to destroy the evidence at any time.
Therefore, overseas Falun Gong practitioners urgently established the Coalition
to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, urging the CCP to immediately
open all forced labor camps, prisons, detention centers, hospitals and other
related facilities for the international community to investigate.
Falun Gong practitioners believe that if the CCP cannot
immediately open all forced labor camps, prisons and other related facilities
where Falun Gong practitioners are detained, prior to July 1, when the
so-called law against organ harvesting takes effect, and even earlier, the CCP
will once again destroy the evidence and then invite investigations from the
international community. What is even more serious is that if the international
community cannot take effective, timely action to stop the crimes, more Falun
Gong practitioners who firmly believe in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance,"
honest, kind and good people, will die horrible deaths under the knives of the Jiang regime's
doctors. Therefore, the chairman of the CIPFG, Dr. Zhao Zhangji, urgently called
upon the international community to support the CIPFG, and together with Falun
Gong practitioners, conduct investigations, stop the killing and stop the
brutal persecution that has lasted for nearly seven years.
Dr. Terri Marsh heads a not-for-profit coalition of lawyers from around the world prosecuting CCP officials for their crimes against Falun Gong. As lead counsel in a lawsuit
against former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin, Dr. Marsh condemned the genocidal killing
taking place in forced labor camps and detention centers across China. She underscored the urgency of the situation, pointing out that a mass slaughter is underway right now. She cited details
mentioned in a witness's testimony. The witness was a main
surgeon in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. He wrote in his
diary, "The patient (Falun Gong practitioner) was administered anesthesia,
lying on the operation table. When using scissors to cut open her clothes, a
small box dropped out. Inside the box were a Falun badge and a small card. The
words on the card were, 'Mom, Happy Birthday.'" The doctor suffered extreme mental anguish day and night for participating in these criminal acts.
Renowned tenor Guan Guimin was invited to the rally to make a speech and sing a song. In his speech, he pointed out that everyone's acts will leave a record in the cosmos, Gods are watching everyone's actions. In the face of money and profits, everyone will place their conscience and morality. One's future will be written by their choices made today.
Representative of persecuted Falun Gong practitioners in China Mu Xiangjie recounts her personal experience
Representative of the persecuted Falun Gong practitioners
in mainland China, Tianjin practitioner Ms. Mu Xiangjie, who was recently
arranged to come to the US by the United Nations, spoke to the audience,
choking with sobs. Two years ago, after she escaped from China, she had lost the
ability to speak. In the past two years, she resumed her ability to speak by
persisting in practicing Falun Gong. Today, she could step forward to expose
the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in forced labor camps, and she
felt very fortunate. While being illegally detained in China, she was subjected
to the persecution that is taken as "quite common" in these forced labor camps,
such as brainwashing, sleep deprivation for many days, and being handcuffed and
shocked with electric batons. She once witnessed a woman practitioner being
carried into the forced labor camp while being wrapped in a quilt. Later, this
practitioner was tortured to death in the forced labor camp.
Ms. Mu Xiangjie pointed out there are still many more
Falun Gong practitioners who are suffering torture and abuse in forced labor
camps. The CCP commits heinous acts beyond people's imagination, and she requested the
international community to proactively conduct investigations.
The SOS Van Tour organized by "The Global Coalition to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners" successively arrived in Washington DC. Participants are Falun Gong practitioners from St. Louis, Chicago, Dallas, Toronto, Boston and other areas in North America. A representative of the participants, Ms. Mao, stated that the CCP's killing of Falun Gong practitioners has been far more than an issue of persecution of belief and human rights: it tests everyone's soul, and urgently requires everyone and every government to make a choice between profit and conscience. This choice will ultimately determine the destiny of everyone and every government.
Posting date: 4/19/2006
Original article date: 4/19/2006
Category: News & Media Reports
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/4/19/125624.html