By Zeng Hongda

Minghui/Clearwisdom correspondent

(Clearwisdom.net) On the evening of April 25, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in the Dallas region gathered in DART Station downtown to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the April 25 peaceful appeal. They explained the facts, and distributed flyers during the peaceful gathering to expose the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and its crimes of organ removal from live practitioners.

On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners appealed to National Appealing Office based on rights granted by the Constitution of China and requested the release of the practitioners unlawfully arrested in Tianjin. They also requested a free cultivation environment and legal publication of Falun Dafa books. The then Prime Minister met and talked to the practitioners' representatives, and the practitioners left at night after the issue was resolved.

Ms. Fu from Beijing is currently studying at the University of Texas in Dallas. She and her parents participated in the 4.25 appeal in 1999 in person. She said, "We heard that some practitioners were arrested in Tianjin for rationally explaining the truth. My parents and I thought we should go to appeal, as my parents benefited from practicing Falun Gong. We went to the National Appeal Office and returned home after learning that the issue was resolved."

But less than three months later, on July 20, 1999, the CCP regime broke its promise of "freedom to practice" and initiated the inhuman brutal persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. Ms Fu said, "Since July 20, 1999, my parents have been arrested and harassed several times. On March 19, the police arrested them again. No other family members have seen them since then."

At the rally, several practitioners gave speeches and exposed the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong. Ms. Wu said, "On March 8, the Clearwisdom website exposed the live organ removal in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. More crimes were exposed after that. The barbarity shocked world people. On April 20, two witnesses stepped forward with great courage. The CCP denied the allegations on March 28 after three weeks' silence. On March 29, a military doctor in China confirmed the CCP's live organ removal and that the Sujiatun Concentration Camp was one of 36 concentration camps in China. On April 4, the "Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China" (CIPFG) was established to investigate China's labor camps, concentration camps, prisons, hospitals and all locations detaining Falun Gong practitioners, and the persecution against practitioners."

Practitioner Ms. Hu said, "The CCP denies the crimes on the one hand and destroys the evidence underground on the other hand. Based on news from all sources, hospitals in China with the capability of organ transplantation are hurrying to conduct operations and claim that suitable and healthy organs can be found within a short time. What does all this mean? How come we do not worry about those practitioners who are unlawfully imprisoned? Their lives are in danger! We urgently call on all governments, organizations and kind-hearted people to stop the CCP's crimes and support the investigation of all labor camps thoroughly and independently."

Many passers-by paid attention to the rally and accepted flyers from practitioners. Reporters from a local Korean newspaper covered the event.

In the evening, the practitioners held a candlelight vigil to commemorate those fellow practitioners who lost their lives in the persecution.

Posting date: 4/28/2006
Original article date: 4/28/2006
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/4/27/126264.html

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