By Danish practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) On the afternoon of April 25, 2008,
practitioners went to the Chinese Embassy to commemorate the ninth anniversary
of the peaceful appeal of ten thousands Falun Gong practitioners on April 25,
1999. Falun Gong practitioners assemble in front of the Chinese
Embassy to commemorate the April 25 Appeal Baol Anderson is about eighty years old. He has practiced
Falun Gong since April 1999. Baol has been coming to the Chinese Embassy to
protest every day for six years, regardless of summer heat, winter cold, winds
or rain. He said, "As long as CCP does not stop the persecution of Falun
Gong, I will continue to be at the Chinese Embassy peacefully protesting." Mr Song is from Dalian City in China. He recalled the
unforgettable day of the great appeal nine years ago. He said, overhearing that
practitioners were detained in Tianjin, a lot of practitioners in Dalian City
right away bought flight tickets to Beijing. "I happened to have no ID card
with me and could not get the flight ticket. So I went by train. It was the 26th,
the when I arrived in Beijing. At that time, the practitioners who appealed at
the State Council's Appeals Office in Fuyou Street had already scattered.
Looking at Beijing, there were loads of police. We could feel the tense
atmosphere before the storm of the persecution really started. There were lots
of discussions of different opinions between us practitioners. Some
practitioners gave up cultivation because they could not let go of human
attachments, but more practitioners chose to continue practising Falun Gong at
such critical moment, and steadfastly walked through. Cultivating is serious.
The every past step, when I was recalling it, was testing on our righteous
belief towards Falun Gong." Ms. Bao from Shanghai recalled the April 25, 1999.
"Shanghai is far from Beijing, so only a few went, as
representatives." "The fellow practitioners who came back from Beijing
told us that on April 25, the lofty morality of the over ten thousand
practitioners near Zhongnanhai made a deep impression on the police. Our
practitioners not only picked up the trash, but also picked up all the cigarette
butts left on the ground by the police. In the end, the police were even ashamed
casting cigarette butts on the ground. Nobody would have thought about that in
just a few months Jiang would launch the persecution of Falun Gong, establishing
the 610 Office which was especially in charge of persecuting Falun
Gong, and claim that he could annihilate Falun Gong in just three months. Only
because I didn't want to give up my belief in
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, I was taken away by the police from my work
place and then jailed unlawfully for three and a half years. I suffered both
mentally and physically." Ms. Wu who was already overseas at that time recalled,
"I read some experience sharing articles written by fellow practitioners
who participated in April 25's great appeal, vividly describing the events of
that day in great detail. I still remember clearly it's said that 'The police
told us that we couldn't stand on this side of the road. Therefore the folks
followed police orders and went to the other side. While doing so they saw
another policeman leading another group of practitioners in an orderly parade
right towards them. Then the two groups converged.' Later on when I saw that CCP
propaganda falsely claimed that Falun Gong practitioners besieged the
Zhongnanhai Central Government Compound, all of a sudden I realised that in
reality the police intentionally led the practitioners into a situation where it
appeared they surrounded Zhongnanhai to serve their propaganda needs to somehow
"justify" the persecution in the eyes of the public." In those years, Jiang, risking everyone's condemnation and
abusing his power, started the persecution of Falun Gong with his determined
will. Few other Party mandarins agreed with him. Yet, Falun Gong practitioners
stuck with the belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and persistently
opposed the persecution, peacefully and reasonably. They won the praise and
appreciation of people all over the world.
Posting date: 5/1/2008
Original article date: 5/1/2008
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/4/26/177271.html