(Clearwisdom.net) On the 2nd of September 2006, Swiss practitioners held activities in Biel, a German-French bilingual city in Switzerland, to promote Falun Gong and expose the persecution taking place in China.
As Biel is in a bilingual area with the majority of the population speaking French, it was hard for practitioners from German-speaking areas. Also, practitioners had not been here to promote Falun Gong in this city very often, so most people in Biel even did not know what Falun Gong is about.
As practitioners were setting up the stand for posters about the persecution of Falun Gong, several passers-by stopped to read them and then more and more people started to read the posters. Many others were attracted by the practitioners’ exercise demonstrations. People drinking coffee outside the café shop, passengers on buses and people waiting for buses attentively watched the demonstration of the elegant and peaceful exercises. Quite a lot of people came over to ask for information about local exercise classes and showed an interest in learning the exercises. One young man was serving in the army and would stay in Biel for only one month. He said he wanted to learn the exercises and would find the class even though he was not familiar with the city yet.
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| Exercise demonstration | People sign the petition to support Falun Gong |
Some people even crossed the street to ask for more information. When they heard about the issue of organ-harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China, many of them asked on their own initiative what they could do to help stop this crime. Many people signed the petition to call for an end to the persecution and to support practitioners under persecution in China.
A woman signed her name on the petition form and said she was so shocked at the news of organ-harvesting; it was hard to believe that this kind of thing could be happening in today’s world and hard to imagine that any human being could do such a cruel thing.
Category: Rallies & Protests
