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(Minghui/Clearwisdom correspondent Li Jingfei reports) On the afternoon of March 25, 2006, more than 500 people from all walks of life gathered on Manhattan's Union Square in New York and held a rally to support the nine million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. They strongly condemned the brutal atrocities in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp and called on the Chinese people to awaken and quit the evil CCP.

On Saturday afternoon, the rally started off with the grand music of the "Celestial Band." The band played "Falun Dafa is great" and "America the Beautiful" on busy Union Square, which caught the attention of many people, many of whom were excited to hear music they were familiar with.

More than twenty speakers from non-governmental organizations, doctors and reporters from America, Europe, and Australia gave speeches at the rally. Simultaneous English translation was provided on-site.

Practitioner Mr. Charles Lee, who was illegally imprisoned for three years in China and just returned to the U.S. last January, called on the American people and government to help stop the barbaric atrocities in Sujiatun.

Singer Demetrios Andrianis composes a song on-site to condemn the CCP's atrocities

New York resident and singer Demetrios Andrianis was moved by the playing of the Celestial Band in Manhattan. He followed the procession to the rally site. Upon hearing of the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong and the barbaric atrocities in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, he was shocked and started to immediately compose a song to express his indignation over the CCP's atrocity. He said that it was a voice from the bottom of his heart. In the song, he wrote:

"You (CCP) kill Chinese people and harvest their body organs;
God will punish you for all your crimes;
Chinese traditional culture is great with a long history;
Why do you sell their organs?

What in the world is concentration camp?
You asked us to take care of ourselves;
Why do you harm Chinese people?
How come you can commit such crimes!

Their practice origins from 5,000-year-long Chinese traditional culture;
Truth, Compassion, Tolerance is their belief;
Why do you have them pay the price of blood?
Why do you harm Chinese people?
How come you can commit such a crime!..."

Falun Gong spokesperson Mr. Erping Zhang exposed the various kinds of persecution that Falun Gong practitioners have suffered since Jiang Zemin and the CCP collaborated in 1999 in initiating the persecution against Falun Gong.

Ms. Jun Guo, the Editor-in-Chief of the Epoch Times newspaper, said, "The CCP's crimes stem from executing the genocidal policies of Jiang's evil faction, that were established in 1999."

Mr. Lee expressed his appreciation to all who participated in rescuing him. He said the support was important and helped him cherish life during the evil persecution.

Mr. Lee said, "Today I am free, but hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are still suffering from the CCP's brutal torture."

When he was a doctor in China, Mr. Lee personally witnessed other doctors harvesting organs from executed inmates. He called on the American people and government to help stop the barbaric atrocities in Sujiatun.

Ms. Lorraine Kabacinski, an acupuncturist, said that the CCP set up the concentration camps and harvested organs from living practitioners. Leaders and people from around the world must send out a clear voice to the CCP: "Your evil deeds are being exposed throughout the world. You must be held responsible and your lies cannot cover up your brutal crimes."

Ms. Zhao from a New York professional woman's association said, "We will tell everyone living in each free country about the evil crimes in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. People who know the facts will tell their governments and senators via various channels. In such a way, we can stop the brutal genocide together."

Mr. Baiqiao Tang, the president of China Peace, a non-governmental organization in the U.S., said, "All Chinese people should be shocked and stand up and not keep silent, because silence is encouragement to criminals."

Mr. Tang said, "If you do not stand up to speak, disaster is actually moving towards you. The CCP's persecutions over several dozens of years makes the Chinese people form the thought, 'I'll keep silent as long as it does not occur to me.' This is not wisdom. In the past over 50 years, the CCP has persecuted nearly all families. Everyone takes a chance when he is not persecuted. Then everyone becomes a victim as time goes by."

Mr. Shizhong Chen, the president of the Conscience Foundation, said, "Some international organizations, governments, and media's silence is because of declining conscience and moral values. For their own interests, they keep silent about the persecution. The Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group have sent emails about the facts of Falun Gong to people around the world. The question people ask most is 'What can we do?' To have more people join the effort to stop the persecution, we set up the Conscience Foundation to spread the facts to governments and call for conscience."

Mr. Yongchao Chen, a pro-democracy activist who came to participate in the rally from Denmark, narrated his own experience of suffering the CCP's atrocities.

Dr. Tianxiao Li, a Ph.D in political science from Columbia University in New York, said, "At the moment that the CCP is near its demise, the shocking news and crimes of the Sujiatun Concentration Camp have been exposed. The CCP is conducting genocide and blaspheming God."

Mr. Dawei Gao, the person-in-charge of the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP, said, "The CCP's committing such barbaric crimes of killing Falun Gong practitioners and harvesting their organs again demonstrates to the world that the CCP is an evil gang against God, man and nature."

The center called on all Chinese people to awaken and quit the evil CCP.

Mr. Zhiyuan Wang, representative of The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), called on all righteous and kind people around the world to stand up and investigate the crimes in Sujiatun. He also warned all criminals directly or indirectly involved in the crimes to awaken soon to help the investigation, for only in this way can they be saved in the future. Such crimes are unimaginable and inhuman.

Mr. Wang said, "Along with more and more people coming to know the facts, all righteous and kind people around the world will stand up to protest the atrocities and investigate the crimes. All those criminals involved in the crimes will not escape. It is just a matter of time. WOIPFG will bring all those criminals to justice one after another."

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/3/27/123794.html

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has imprisoned several thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in Sujiatun Concentration Camp, where it harvests body organs from living practitioners, and cremates their remains in a crematorium on site to destroy the evidence. Witnesses have come out to testify one after another. The Mainland Affairs Council expressed its position on March 24, 2006 with regard to the CCP's atrocity: "It is hard to imagine that a country can adopt such a form to deal with people with different views." Taiwan is similar to other countries in the world in its objection of this manner of harvesting organs for transplant, which cannot be accepted in any country.

Deputy Minister Johnnason Liu said in a routine press conference that Taiwan's position is the same as other countries with regard to improving people's health through the medical system and health standards. Maintaining peoples' health through commercial mechanisms such as illegal harvesting and selling of human organs is hard to accept in any country.

It has been just over ten days since the Sujiatun atrocity has been revealed. Why does the CCP regime keep silent to the outside world's condemnation and request for the facts? Johnnason Liu said that the CCP's handling is generally this way to hide their inhuman deeds, and those substandard policies.

He said that in the case of the Sujiatun incident, the CCP is thinking about how to minimize the adverse effect of this disclosure, and indicated that this is often the CCP's way of handling things. For example, in the case of an epidemic, the CCP would deny it at the beginning and then delay an official announcement if it turns out to be something it cannot deny. Such a manner of handling important developments harms peripheral countries.

Insiders think that the CCP's silence to the Sujiatun incident indicates that there are different opinions among top level CCP officials. Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng mentioned that the Sujiatun incident relates to crimes against humanity and genocide. If these two crimes are recognized, international prosecution will be initiated and head of state status will be ineffective in evading the punishment of the International Court of Justice.

"Organ transplants are life risking. There are many doubts about the mainland medical system as to the quality and facilities [for organ transplants]," reminded Johnnason Liu. Thus, if people in Taiwan want to go to the mainland to have an organ transplant, they "Should think it over. Otherwise, there is no possibility to reverse the course."

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/3/26/123730.html

From March 22 to March 25, 2006, U.K. Falun Gong practitioners participated in a signature-collecting campaign launched by human rights organizations at Trafalgar Square and St. Martin's Place in London for four days in a row. The events were organized to expose the atrocity in which the Chinese Communist regime established a concentration camp in Sujiatun to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, harvest their organs when they were still alive and cremate their bodies afterwards to eliminate evidence. In addition, practitioners called on the international community to pay attention to this atrocity and launch a thorough probe into the concentration camp.

The general public was shocked by the Chinese Communist regime's inhuman and despicable deeds. Some attentively viewed the photos and read the captions on the display boards, while others sat on the lawn to read flyers and other truth-clarification newspapers. Many people signed the petition to condemn the crimes committed by the Chinese Communist regime. They urged the U.K. government to help put an end to this cruel killing atrocity, and called on the United Nations to launch an investigation and rescue those being persecuted. Sometimes, people had to queue up to sign the petition. In the first three days, over one thousand signatures were collected.

People sign the petition for launching a probe into the Sujiatun Concentration Camp and rescuing Falun Gong practitioners in China.

A British government employee who passed by the square took the initiative to take some flyers for her co-workers. She said she didn't know that such a persecution could happen nowadays, so she was very much shocked to learn the news. She also mentioned that there will be a U.K. delegation visiting China, and she hoped that Falun Gong practitioners could send some flyers and other materials to the delegates.

A woman who is running a website featuring little-known facts about the dark side of history said that her next project would be something on the dark side of Chinese history since the Communist regime took power. She said that after the project is completed, the articles would be publicized.

A member of a non-governmental organization expressed that she would contact other organizations so as to launch another campaign to improve China's human rights situation.

Many people expressed that they would write their parliamentarians to condemn the Chinese Communist regime's atrocities and call on the British government to help put an end to the persecution. On the third day, two men who had stopped by previously saw the practitioners again. They said, "We have talked to our parliamentarians, and we hope that everything will go right."

A woman who works nearby asked the practitioners, "Will you be here in the next two days? I'll tell all my co-workers about the event here, and invite them to view the photos on display here and pick up some truth-clarification materials as well as sign the petition."

Two students at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, picked up many flyers and newspapers, saying that they would distribute them to their teachers and classmates. After reading the Chinese-version truth-clarification materials, an elderly Chinese woman took some English-version materials for her colleagues. A young Japanese girl was shocked to learn the news about the Sujiatun concentration camp. She asked the practitioners for five copies of the Chinese language version of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party for her Chinese classmates. Some French young people who were in London on a sightseeing trip picked up some newspapers, saying that they would bring them back home for their parents. A man from Australia said that he heard of the Chinese Communist regime's persecution against Falun Gong, and that he had signed a petition last year in support of ending the persecution. He hoped that his signature would be of help to Falun Gong practitioners. Many others also asked the practitioners, "How can I help to stop this persecution?"

During the activity, quite a lot of British people said, "You've done a right thing. You should raise the public's awareness of these atrocities."

Someone also asked, "Now that these kinds of barbarian things takes place in the 21^st century, why didn't the mass media report them whatsoever?"

Many people have already known that it is due to economic interests that some foreign governments and mass media keep silent on this matter.

Two western women told the practitioners, "We feel very sorry that many people still keep silent on it. There have been so many unjust things happening in the world. We should not keep silent any longer, and instead, we should take action to stop this persecution."

On the first day, a mother passed by the square along with her daughter. While viewing the photos on display boards, she talked to the little girl, "You see! These innocent people are persecuted in China, but their voice is not heard by the outside world." Pointing to a practitioner, she also said to her daughter, "What these people are doing here is to tell people what is going on in China, and to call on them to help put an end to such a cruel persecution."

A mother tells her daughter, "What these people are doing here is to tell people what is going on in China, and to call on them to help put an end to such a cruel persecution."

There was one memorable exchange that took place on the first day. Two policemen talked to a practitioner, saying that someone had complained to them that the displayed photos of persecuted practitioners were not good for children. The practitioner thus explained to the policemen the facts about Falun Gong and the cruel persecution practitioners are being subjected to, and told them that the photos expose something happening in China today and that the purpose of displaying the photos was to stop the persecution.

Pointing to another practitioner who carried her three-month-old baby while handing out truth-clarification newspapers nearby, the practitioner told the policemen, "This young mother distributes newspapers and solicits petition signatures over there today, along with her three-month-old baby, for the same purpose - to put an end to the inhuman persecution. The Chinese Communist regime's evil atrocities are detrimental to all humankind." After listening to this practitioner's explanation, these two policemen thus said that they could go ahead with the exhibition as they liked.

Later that same day, a mother came to view the photos and other materials along with her six- or seven-year-old boy and two- or three-year-old boy. She also explained to the boys about the meaning of the photos. A practitioner approached the mother to ask her if she thought the photos might have any negative impact on kids. The mother said, "These photos would not have any negative impact on kids, and on the contrary, they are very good for the kids. I hope they would know the importance of respecting human rights from a very young age."

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/3/27/123815.html

With the news of Sujiatun Concentration Camp harvesting Falun Gong practitioners' organs while they are still alive being exposed recently, a U.K. Chinese organization for upholding human rights, Friends of Tiananmen Mothers, handed in an appeal letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair, and asked the U.K. government to pay attention to the information about the human organ trade in China.

According to an RFA report on March 24, the U.K. newspaper, The Independent reported on Tuesday, pointing out that the human organ trade on the black market is still rampant in Mainland China. Friends of Tiananmen Mothers stated in a protest that the Chinese hospitals involved in the illicit human organ trade have benefited financially from it.

On Wednesday, the director of Friends of Tiananmen Mothers, Ze Xia, said that they have raised the request to the U.K. government and hoped the Sujiatun situation can be investigated. Sujiatun, located near Shenyang City in Liaoning Province, China, is a hospital on the surface, but actually terrible crimes are committed there. People's organs are extracted and sold while they're still alive.

Ze Xia said that the most vicious thing is that they take the organs away from people who were detained in prisons, while they're alive, and it is said that most of them are illegally-detained Falun Gong practitioners.

Ze Xia expressed that the human rights organization's volunteers are all stunned by the news of the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, and will start to expose to the outside world the fact that the human organ trade is still rampant inside China. She said that an event will be organized in London's Trafalgar Square, to expose the situation in China.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/3/26/123732.html