By Minghui reporter Ying Zhi

(Clearwisdom.net) On April 4, 2006, the Canadian new government was sworn in. More than 150 Falun Gong practitioners started a two-day truth clarification activity on April 3 on Parliament Hill, exposing the Chinese Communist regime's (CCP) mass killing of Falun Gong practitioners in secret concentration camps. Members of Parliament, representatives of non-governmental organizations and members of the public came to support, make speeches and condemn the CCP atrocities. They urged the Canadian government and the international community to investigate the secret concentration camps.

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Canadian Members of Parliament Urge the Government to Take Action

Politicians who came to support the activity on April 3 included former director of Asian-Pacific Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs David Kilgour, Members of Parliament including Bruce Stanton, Maria Mourani (her assistant read the letter on her behalf), Borys Wrzesnewskyj, Peter Julian, Larry Bagnell, and former veteran diplomat Brain MacAdams. Politicians who came on April 4 included Members of Parliament Bernard Patry and Bill Siksay, and renowned international human rights lawyer David Matas.

In addition, Canadian members of parliament Libby Davids and David McGuinty wrote letters on Friday and last Wednesday respectively to the Foreign Minister expressing great concern over the incident and urging the Foreign Minister to take action.

Maria Mourani said in her letter, "I would like to try all means to urge the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to request that the United Nations investigate and expose the facts."

Larry Bagnell said, "I'm looking forward to the Canadian government making a comprehensive and broad response in a transparent and completely open manner."

Bruce Stanton said, "Such an atrocity (secret concentration camp) is absolutely intolerable and must be stopped immediately."

Peter Julian said, "Today, I promise you, we will push forward the state of affairs to ensure an investigation over such a horrible and serious incident that has possibly happened."

Libby Davids said in his letter to the Foreign Minister, "I hope you agree that Canada cannot keep silent in face of such a serious report." Davids believes that it is Canada's responsibility to exert influence on the international community on condition of not violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment.

Canadian Veteran Diplomat: The World Cannot Allow Crimes to Escalate While Waiting for Evidence

On April 3, Canadian veteran diplomat and expert on the Chinese issues, Brain MacAdams said in his speech that last week, as we expected, the CCP denied the existence of the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. He said that if one searches using the Google search engine, for "China denied," we can obtain 2.1 million items of record. MacAdams gave an example that after seizing power, the CCP has denied facts including great famine that starved to death 20 to 43 million people, the system of re-education through forced labor camps, the Tiananmen Massacre, SARS, bird flu and organ harvests of death row prisoners. MacAdams said that the first group that denied the holocaust was the Nazis.

MacAdams stated that forgetting the past will make history repeat itself. "Last week, on March 27, 82 year-old Rudolph Vrba died in Vancouver. In April 1944, Vrba drew people's attention. He and Alfred Weltzler were the first Jews to escape from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. They told the Allied Forces about the holocaust happening at Auschwitz."

MacAdams said that as the first witness, both of them wrote shocking and elaborate reports on the death camp, but many people did not believe them, and the news revealed in the reports was suppressed. As a result, from May 15 to July 7, 1944, 437 thousand more Jews were sent to concentration camps. Not until the beginning of large-scale transferring of Jews in Hungary, was their warning known at "Auschwitz Draft." Their alarm bell saved 100 thousand people's lives, and they therefore enjoyed extensive prestige.

MacAdams believes that the world cannot allow the escalation of crimes while waiting for evidence. The Canadian government must immediately request an investigation.

Falun Gong Practitioners: Persecution is a Crime Against Humanity

According to evidence provided by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), in late April the China's organ transplant operations will resume. Falun Gong practitioner Li Xiaoce said at an interview, "We must remind the international community, the CCP will take even more sinister and large-scale action against Falun Gong practitioners to destroy the evidence of their crimes." Li Xiaoce said, "The severity of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners exceeds the persecution of any race, nationality and religious group in history, it goes beyond people's psychological endurance and it targets basic human nature, and therefore the essence of the persecution is against humanity."

On April 3, Ottawa citizen Simone Boucher, who often reads the "Epoch Times," read reports about the secret concentration camp and took a special day off to come to attend the rally. She said, "The persecution is too severe to describe with words." She expressed that she would write to raise people's awareness. Four high school students from Ottawa learned about the news and drove to the rally site to support and sign the petition.

The Canadian Falun Dafa Association held a press conference on April 4 at the Canadian Parliament to provide the Canadian media with evidence from the Epoch Times and the WOIPFG.

Posting date: 4/6/2006
Original article date: 4/6/2006
Category: Open Forum
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/4/5/124558.html

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