By a Finnish Practitioner

Mourning fellow practitioners who died as a result of persecution. In China, nearly 3,000 Falun Gong practitioners have died as a result of the CCP's persecution

(Clearwisdom.net) On September 9, 2006, at the time of the Eurasian summit meeting in the Finnish capital of Helsinki, the European Service Center for Quitting the CCP, Friends of Falun Gong, Epoch Times volunteers and Falun Gong practitioners, held a rally and parade supporting 13 million people quitting the CCP, and protesting the Chinese communist party's (CCP) atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.

Demonstration of live organ harvesting to expose the CCP's brutality

"Be quick, quit the CCP"

People watch the parade

The rally was held in ''Nalinkadri Square'' at 11 o'clock in the morning. In attendance were Falun Gong practitioner Dr. Wenyi Wang from America, one of the Canadian independent investigation report authors, Mr. David Kilgour, and Falun Gong practitioner Ms Dai Ying from Norway. The three gave speeches calling on the international community to pay attention to China's human rights situation.

Ms. Wenyi Wang said that the CCP's atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for huge profits and burning the corpses to destroy the evidence should be cause for extreme concern and should be condemned by the international community. She called on the Finnish government to support Falun Gong practitioners in ending this persecution.

Ms. Dai Ying told everybody that she was put in prison for five years in China for being persistent in her cultivation in Falun Gong, and was tortured to the point of nearly losing her sight. She called on the international community to help stop the CCP from persecuting Falun Gong.

The parade was held after the rally. The parade procession started from ''Nalinkadri Square'' with the Chinese traditional waist drummers leading the way It went through the busiest business area in the city center for about two hours. During the parade, a passer-by who grew up in the former Soviet Union, expressed his views on organ harvesting from living people: ''I think this behaviour is totally wrong. Human rights should dominate everything. Their actions are not the behaviour of humans; I think they are more like animals. They do not respect individual lives but do everything for money.''

A Finnish resident mentioned the CCP's control over the Internet: ''I know the problem with the Chinese network blockage. I used to work for Amnesty International in London. Our website cannot be viewed in China. Looking to the future, I think that first and foremost should be people's freedom. People must be allowed to have their own opinions and beliefs. Nowadays in society, the Internet enables people to know what is happening at any time. The desire to control people's thoughts is not possible.''

A lady said: ''China needs to be free. Now is the time.''

The Finnish media carried a short report about the parade. The report indicated that the Finnish people have a deeper and broader understanding of the Chinese human rights' situation due to recent media attention on the subject.

Posting date: 9/14/2006
Original article date: 9/14/2006
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Translated on 9/13/2006
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/9/12/137639.html

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