Turkey's Burasi Canakkale: Falun Gong Stands Rock Solid in Face of Inhuman Persecution

(Clearwisdom.net) On August 15-18, 2007, Burasi Canakkale, a large newspaper in northwestern Turkey, published a series of articles authored by well-known reporter Ali Can Altun. The articles were entitled, "Falun Gong: Standing Rock Solid in Face of Inhuman Torture (Parts I and II)," "Persecution Continues in Concentration Camps," and "Report on Evidence of the Persecution." These articles systematically laid out what Falun Gong is about, the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) brutal persecution, and the CCP's atrocities of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners.

The article went straight to the point from the beginning, "Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong), is a cultivation method which brings peace to one's heart, health to one's body, and wisdom to one's mind. Seven years after its introduction to the public in 1992, the practice was persecuted by the totalitarian Chinese Communist regime. Hundreds of thousands of practitioners were abducted and taken to concentration camps where they were tortured, and many even disappeared."

The article continued, "So far Falun Gong is the only practice in the world that truly cultivates both mind and body. The practice follows the principles of the universe. Five easy exercises are taught absolutely free of charge. After its introduction to the general public by Mr. Li Hongzhi in 1992, Falun Gong quickly gained popularity. By 1999 there were nearly 100 million people practicing in mainland China.

"To date Falun Gong is practiced in nearly eighty countries and regions, winning over two thousand seven hundred awards from various governments and organizations. Falun Gong's founder has been nominated four times for the Nobel Peace prize."

The article also cited concrete data showing Falun Gong's amazing health benefits, "According to the Chinese regime's official statistics collected prior to the persecution, on twelve thousand practitioners, 93.4% of Falun Gong practitioners had various illnesses prior to practicing. Through practicing Falun Gong, the overall rate of health improvement was as high as 99.1%, with 58.5% complete recovery and 80.3% obvious improvement. In addition, 96.5% of the practitioners felt their mental well-being improved significantly." The article then exposed the CCP's brutal persecution and its atrocities of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners with almost two and a half pages of writing illustrated with multiple photos: "More and more people took up the practice, as it benefited both mind and body. According to statistics, in 1999 nearly 100 million people in China practiced Falun Gong, which far outnumbered CCP members, causing the CCP to panic. On July 20, 1999, out of personal jealousy, the then CCP dictator Jiang Zemin manipulated the entire state apparatus to launch a massive campaign of propaganda, lies and unprecedented brutality against millions of Falun Gong practitioners." "Executing genocidal policies of 'ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially and annihilate them physically,' the CCP's persecution is the most atrocious in the history of mankind. To date hundreds of thousands of practitioners are detained, over one hundred thousand have been sent to labor camps, at least six thousand have received prison sentences, and thousands have been sent to mental hospitals and injected with never-damaging drugs. According to incomplete statistics, confirmed via non-governmental venues, three thousand and eighty Falun Gong practitioners have died during the 8-year persecution, since July 1999." The article continued, "In March 2006 the incident of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners at Sujiatun concentration camp came to light and shocked the world. In secret concentration camps, large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners are kept as living banks of unwilling human organ donors to be killed atrociously on demand when their organs are required by the CCP to fetch extortionate prices. Their bodies are then cremated to eliminate the evidence." "In July 2006, after four months of independent investigation, the former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, David Kilgour, and a famous international human rights lawyer, David Matas, released a report entitled, Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China, confirming that there has been and continues today to be large-scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners."

"The most horrible thing about organ harvesting is that it is done while practitioners, who are all unwilling donors, are still alive. The bodies of those with organs are stolen are cremated directly to eliminate the evidence. The Chinese Communist regime is behind the practice and pockets the profits made from the illegal trade of these organs. The crimes committed by the CCP are more brutal than that of the Nazis."

In the end the article called out, "In face of such brutal killings on earth, those who still have conscience and a sense of justice - what are you waiting for? Let's step forward bravely to stop the inhuman brutality together."
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/9/4/162106.html

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