Clearwisdom Weekly

On Sunday March 26, 2006, the New York Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference was held at Madison Square Theatre. More than four thousand practitioners gathered there and shared Falun Gong practice experiences. At 3:15 p.m., Master Li arrived and spoke for about one hour. Practitioners applauded warmly for lengthy periods throughout the lecture.

Twelve Falun Gong practitioners shared their experiences, including those from their personal work and life, preparation for the Chinese New Year Gala, truth-clarification in Manhattan, protesting in front of the Chinese embassy or consulate, clarifying the truth about the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party in the Chinese community, and in media distribution and reporting.

The first speaker was a young Western practitioner who came to New York with his family and settled down in a borough. He started to spread the facts of Falun Gong to the community. Along with his effort, local residents appreciated his principles and elected him as a borough official. Recently he became a father. With concrete actions, he behaved as a Falun Gong practitioner toward his colleagues and family members and helped them to better understand Falun Gong.

Since last March, a group of practitioners have continued to spread the Nine Commentaries in Chinatown in Flushing, New York. They shared their experiences at the conference. Senior ladies stood in the cold wind for 5 hours every day. Countless people learned the facts at the site for truth-clarification. Some people sent CDs of the Nine Commentaries to China. When facing interference, some passers-by stepped forward courageously to support the practitioners.

Another Western practitioner shared his experience of moving to New York and participating in media and the Chinese New Year gala.

A group of practitioners from New Jersey shared their experience in reenacting torture methods in the cold winter of Manhattan and their xinxing improvement in the process.

A Chinese practitioner from Canada narrated her experience participating in truth-clarification in front of the Chinese Consulate in New York. She expressed her feelings of delight after seeing people understand the facts, her grievance after being insulted, and more important, her understanding of the significant meaning of truth-clarification in front of the Chinese Consulates to help people learn the truth. Later she returned to Vancouver, set up a banner in front of the Chinese Consulate there and started truth-clarification.

A Western practitioner from Canada shared his experience in truth-clarification while participating in a candidate's meetings during the elections. He also shared his experience of a truth-clarification activity, and the good results that came from the cooperation of all practitioners. He witnessed the power of cooperation among practitioners and was touched.

Some practitioners also shared how they overcame various difficulties in running media for truth-clarification. Each speaker's experience won warm applause.

The conference came to a successful conclusion at 5 p.m.

At around noon of March 25, 2006, more than 4,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Midtown Manhattan and held a grand parade. The parade exposed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s brutal persecution against Falun Gong practitioners, especially the recently exposed crimes of organ harvesting from living practitioners imprisoned in Sujiatun Concentration Camp. The practitioners called for more people to find out the facts, quit the CCP and have a bright future.

Photos 1, 2, 3: Exposing atrocities being committed in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp

On Broadway and 39^th Street, passers-by and tourists stopped to watch the parade. The grand parade caught the attention of many people. They took photos with camera phones and shot footage with camcorders. The New York mounted police moved in the front, followed by large banners with the words "Falun Dafa" and "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance", and then the Celestial Band, whose sounds reverberated through the skies.

Falun Gong was initially spread in China. Since the CCP and Jiang Zemin's persecution on July 20, 1999, along with practitioners' peaceful efforts against the persecution, Falun Gong has spread across the world. So far, Zhuan Falun has been translated into more than 20 languages. Huge book models for Zhuan Falun in both English and Chinese were a part of the parade.

On the well-decorated floats, practitioners of different ethnicities demonstrated the five sets of exercises. A group of more than 100 practitioners demonstrated the graceful exercises to show that Falun Gong is easy to learn and suitable for both old and young.

Falun Gong practitioners from across the world held banners representing their countries and regions to say to Manhattan, "We are Falun Gong practitioners from far away. We are pleased to come to Manhattan and send Spring greetings to you."

The CCP's brutal crimes in the last 6 years in Sujiatun: harvesting organs from living practitioners, murdering them, and cremating them to destroy evidence

Approximate 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners formed a huge procession to expose the wicked CCP's brutal murder of practitioners during the past 6 years.

A red dragon walked out with a waving tail, symbolizing the CCP initiating brutal persecution against Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. Then came nearly one hundred posters and banners to expose the persecution. Near one hundred people wearing media symbols showed that the CCP's mouthpiece slandered Falun Gong day and night. With string they pulled one hundred people behind, indicating that Chinese people were deceived by CCP's media.

A flatbed float showed the reenactment of barbaric atrocities in Sujiatun Concentration Camp. Police illegally sent practitioners to Sujiatun and doctors harvested corneas, kidneys and other organs from living practitioners to seek a huge, bloodstained profit.

On both sides and the back of the float were huge banners with the words, "The CCP harvests organs from living practitioners in Sujiatun Concentration Camp to seek profit."

Behind the float were several hundred practitioners linked with rope. Their mouths were sealed. Some of them had a symbol of "Sujiatun Concentration Camp" on clothes. This procession indicated that practitioners are forcefully taken to Sujiatun Concentration Camp and that Chinese people do not dare to speak out under the CCP's dictatorship.

Nearly one hundred practitioners held various banners and posters to tell the world's people about the continuous brutal murders of Falun Gong practitioners in China during the last six plus years, especially the appalling atrocities in Sujiatun Concentration Camp.

At the end of the procession was nearly one hundred practitioners wearing white. They carried photos of practitioners tortured to death to commemorate them.

The CCP has killed 80 million Chinese people while in power over the course of 50-plus years, including the brutal persecution against kind-hearted Falun Gong practitioners since 1999.

On November 19, 2004, the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published. It exposes the CCP's true nature and compassionately tells the world that the CCP commits all kinds of crimes, predicts heaven's destruction of the CCP and states that renouncing the CCP is the right course to take for people to find a safe future.

A huge banner told the world's people some good news, that nine million people have withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.

More than one thousand people held various banners and posters to introduce the Nine Commentaries, expose the CCP's bloody history, demand an immediate end of the murders, a stop to the brutal persecution against Falun Gong practitioners and to bring the culprits to justice. They also called on everyone to see the CCP's true nature and renounce it.

After the parade, the practitioners held a rally in Union Square in Manhattan to expose the CCP's barbaric atrocities in Sujiatun Concentration Camp.

On March 19, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany gathered at the Cologne Cathedral to condemn the Chinese Communist regime's atrocities in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. The purpose of the rally was to expose the CCP's brutalities, revealed just recently, in which the regime illegally imprisons Falun Gong practitioners, harvests their organs for extravagant profits when they are still alive, and cremates their bodies to destroy evidence.

A banner read, "The Chinese Communist regime brutally tortures Falun Gong practitioners in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. Body organs are illegally harvested for profit, and remains are cremated to destroy evidence." Tourists and passers-by were shocked by the anti-torture exhibition. It was hard for them to imagine such barbarities still exist in the world today. Many of them asked, "Is this true? Does it really happen today?"

Escorting several customers from India, an employee of a German company led the group past the site. When they saw the banners and photos that exposed the atrocities in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, they walked towards a practitioner and asked what had happened. After learning the real situation, the German gentleman asked what help he could provide. He also said that the company he worked in had a trading relationship with China. Practitioners told him to pass on the brutal facts about China to the company executives. He said he would surely do so.

A German lady with two male teenagers walked by. She was terrified by the existence and continuous operation of the concentration camp. She said such brutal persecution must be stopped and she would like to sign her name to support the petition. One of the teenagers also signed the petition. They kept discussing when they departed from the scene. Shortly after they left, the teenager who did not sign the petition returned to sign it.

A middle-aged gentleman who once worked in Shanghai for two years told a practitioner, "Even though I am a foreigner, I have some understanding about China's autocracy and tyranny. As China was not ruled by law, the authorities and government officials could do whatever they like." He also acknowledged that as China is a populous country, its market size and the economic allure have kept the western countries from making substantial criticism against human rights abuses in China. He hoped that the Chinese Communist regime would disintegrate like the former communist Soviet Union so that ordinary citizens will no longer suffer from similar persecution.

A group of businessmen from Eastern Europe came to see the Cathedral accompanied by a tour guide. When they saw the anti-torture exhibition, banners and photos, they asked what was going on. After learning the activities were being held to expose the atrocities and tyranny of the Chinese Communist regime, they expressed that they had a deep understanding about the tyranny of communism. They continued that it is fortunate that the communist autocracy in their own countries collapsed. They asked what they could do. Hearing that they were entitled to sign the petition even though they were foreign tourists, many of them signed it.

An old German man yelled at a practitioner, "What you are doing is to oppose the Chinese government. Why don't you go back to China and make your appeals there?" He also shouted at four European young people, who were about to sign the petition. "They are opposing their own government. You can't back them up!" he cried. The practitioner explained him, "We are not against a normal government. What we are protesting against is a tyrannical regime, and the violations of human rights and atrocities it has committed."

A practitioner told the man that nobody would harass him here even though he complained about the government loudly, but the situation was totally different in China. Should a person dare to criticize the Chinese government on Tiananmen Square, he would get into trouble immediately. He may be arrested and nobody would know his whereabouts afterwards. The practitioner explained to him that we were seeking support in Germany because there was no freedom of speech in China. When asked, "Don't you agree?" the old man finally nodded his head and said, "Yes, I agree."

A Chinese man with conscience, justice and courage also came to the site. Although he was not a Falun Gong practitioner, he joined practitioners in distributing flyers and newspapers to expose the atrocities of the evil Chinese Communist regime. He told practitioners that he was not surprised to learn of the brutalities of the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. Under the rule of a regime as autocratic and barbaric as the Chinese Communist regime, secret concentration camps, like the one at Sujiatun, were probably established a long time ago. Nevertheless, the existence of these concentration camps was not uncovered until recently. He said he had deep understanding about the brutal persecution that the Chinese Communist regime inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners, and it is the reason why he wanted to join the practitioners in condemning and protesting the violence and tyranny of the regime.

Among the people that showed up at the activities were several with unusual conduct. For example, a Chinese couple in their 30s hung around the scene, voice-recording what they observed using a hidden recorder, and photographing practitioners' activities unscrupulously. "Falun Gong has nothing secret to hide from the public." Practitioners told them, "The reason why Falun Gong holds activities at scenic spots is to expose the atrocities of the evil regime and to make the people of the world, including you, understand the evil nature of the Chinese Communist regime and its inevitable collapse." Practitioners also explained to the young couple that people who practice Falun Gong always conduct themselves based on Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. They have no interest in competing for power against any political party, and they are rivals to nobody. However, they have been forced to resist ruthless persecution. Practitioners also reminded the couple not to become the sacrificial objects for the Chinese Communist regime. Instead, they should cherish the freedom and democracy in Germany and spend some time to understand Falun Gong so they can be responsible for their own lives.

In the afternoon of March 14, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Finland held a protest at the Chinese Embassy, strongly condemning the barbaric crimes of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp.

Banner on the left: Protesting the CCP's killing of Falun Gong practitioners in Sujiatun Concentration Camp

Recently, an insider disclosed that the CCP established a secret concentration camp in the Sujiatun area of Shenyang City and imprisoned over six thousand Falun Gong practitioners. This secret camp has many doctors and a crematorium on site to incinerate human bodies. According to the disclosed information, nobody has yet to come out of the camp alive after being sent there. Before being burned in the crematorium, the practitioners' organs are illegally harvested and sold for profit. The Chinese Communist regime has transferred large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners in the Northeast and North regions to this concentration camp. By killing the practitioners and then cremating their bodies, the regime is trying to destroy the evidence of their crimes.

Two practitioners read out loud, in Chinese and Finnish, the announcement of an investigation of the suspects behind the killing of Falun Gong practitioners in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong.

The western practitioner who read the announcement told a reporter that although he has heard of many examples of torture before, he felt it was so shocking. After learning of the atrocities in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, he was truly horrified. He said that in European history, similar barbaric crimes have occurred, and this should not be allowed to happen again. He said that he felt a great responsibility and that he should take immediate action to inform the Finnish government, the media and all people of this barbarism by thoroughly exposing the CCP's evil nature. He appealed to the Finnish people and people around the world to work together to end this brutal persecution.

A Chinese practitioner said that he was extremely sad about this inhuman persecution. As a Falun Gong practitioner, he should step forward and urgently appeal to rescue Falun Gong practitioners in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. He wanted to express his strong protest to the Chinese Embassy and tell them to immediately stop the killing.

Ever since the horrendous crimes of removing organs from Falun Gong practitioners for profit and then cremating their remains inside the Sujiatun Concentration Camp was disclosed, people from all walks of life have voiced their condemnation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). At 10 a.m. on March 19, practitioners in Taitong held a rally to strongly protest the barbaric atrocities of the CCP. Besides local practitioners, representatives from the government, community leaders, medical professionals, veterinarians, the educational system, farmers, students, Taiwanese indigenous people and folks from Green Island participated in the rally and unanimously condemned the barbaric atrocities of the CCP.

Politicians from Different Parties Unanimously Condemn Atrocities of the CCP

Regardless their political affiliation, Tangtong politicians in succession condemned the atrocities of the CCP. A candidate for the Tangtong county commissioner, Mr. Liu, was the former deputy county commissioner. He said that safeguarding freedom of belief is the responsibility of everyone. As a lawyer, he cosigned a letter with other lawyers in Taiwan to condemn the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. He also hoped that everyone would step forward to rescue practitioners persecuted in China.

Chinese Nationalist Party candidate for the county commissioner Ms. Guang delegated an assistant to voice her support for Falun Gong practitioners.

Mr. Chen said that he came to the rally with a mixed feeling of indignation and admiration. While outraged by the atrocities of the CCP, he admired the courage of practitioners facing the most evil regime in the world. He stressed that the peace across the Strait must start with termination of the persecution of Falun Gong. At the rally, he shouted loudly: "Falun Dafa is good! Justice will defeat evil."

Dr. Guo from Dongxiang condemned the CCP for violating fundamental medical ethics and human morality. He stressed that according to human laws and heavenly principles, all perpetrators who have assisted the CCP in their atrocities will be held accountable in the future.

A representative of the local Veterinary Association pointed out that they would mourn for several minutes before dissecting any animal's body in order to express their respect to its life and give thanks for its contribution to humanity. However, people under the CCP's tyranny are being killed arbitrarily; they are treated with less respect than animals in free countries.

Education System: The Brutal Treatment of Students Reveals the CCP's Evil Nature

Schoolteacher Ms. Ye said that the purpose of education is to guide youngsters to goodness, which will foster a society of love and compassion. However, the CCP has totally gone the opposite way and has turned the Mainland into a place full of demonic characteristics.

A student representative of National Dong-Hwa University Su said that the greatest wish of students is to have a safe environment to study. However, such an environment has never existed in China. From the Tiananmen Massacre of students in 1989 to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and their family members, including babies and teenagers, one can clearly see the evil nature of the CCP.

Representatives of Farmers and Indigenous People: The Inhuman Atrocities of the CCP Are Not Tolerated by the Heavenly Principles

Farmer Ms. Zhen stressed that comparing to Chinese people living under the CCP's tyranny, people living in Taiwan are very fortunate. Ms. Gao of Bunun Folks and Ms. Pan of Amis Folks, wearing their traditional costumes, also joined the rally. They said that Taiwan's indigenous people love peace and cannot tolerate the CCP's inhuman treatment of practitioners of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance."

Other participates in the rally included representatives from postal workers and people from Green Island.

At the end of the rally, the participants jointly called on all kind-hearted friends to speak out against the atrocities. The rally was concluded with a motorcade parade to spread the news of the atrocities to more people.