Falun Gong practitioners protest in front of Chinese Embassy
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On March the 15th 2006, an Italian Falun Gong practitioner was invited to attend a women immigrant forum hosted by the most prestigious social organization in southern Italy. As a guest speaker at the forum, the practitioner exposed the various forms of brutal persecution that the Chinese communist regime inflicts on female Falun Gong practitioners, forcing them to abandon their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance".
The hostess of the forum, who is also a renowned lawyer, commented that the barbaric, inhumane crimes of the Chinese Communist regime should be denounced and stopped by all of the world's people.
In her speech, the practitioner introduced herself as a Falun Gong practitioner originating from China. She lives in Italy now and enjoys freedoms of belief and speech. However, millions of female Falun Gong practitioners have been ruthlessly persecuted and tortured by the Chinese communist regime because they refuse to give up their belief. Many of them have been persecuted to death.
The forum participants were shocked after they understood the relentless persecution that is occurring in China, and indicated their support. The hostess said, "We can't tolerate the evil fact that such despicable torture and baseless persecution against a faith group has occurred and keeps going on in the 21st century."
She pointed out that the most basic human rights are not respected in China. Today we stress the importance of peaceful co-existence through mutual understanding and tolerance, but the Chinese Communist Party goes against these things. They trample on the basic values of humanity.
She said, "After we realize what Falun Gong is all about, in particular, it is even harder for us to understand the persecution. Therefore, we have to deliver a clear message: No matter which country or area of the world is concerned: such brutal, inhuman crimes should be stopped and denounced by the whole of humanity."
On March 25, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Madrid, Spain gathered in front of Chinese Embassy and condemned the CCP's brutal crimes in setting up Sujiatun Concentration Camp to murder Falun Gong practitioners, harvest body organs from living practitioners and cremate their remains to destroy evidence.
Practitioners in Spain protested the atrocities in Sujiatun and called on the international community to investigate and help stop the persecution.
The Chinese Embassy is located in a prestigious neighborhood. Passers-by were shocked and indignant at the atrocities at Sujiatun Concentration Camp after seeing the posters, banners and handouts. A gentleman said, "The Communist party's evil reputation is well known. Setting up a concentration camp to brutally persecute Falun Gong practitioners and even harvest body organs from the living is so barbaric. Such brutality must be stopped!" An old lady said after seeing the photos, "God will punish the criminals."
On roads, there were vehicles passing by continuously. Many of them slowed down to watch the banners and posters. Some rolled down window to ask for handouts. Some expressed support with thumbs up or tooting their horns. Even bus drivers slowed down. The drivers and passengers turned their heads towards the posters and banners and showed shock and indignation in their eyes.
On the afternoon of March 29, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Malaysia called for an end to the Chinese Communist regime's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong in front of the Prime Minister's Office, where the visiting chairman of the CCP's Political Consultative Conference Jia Qinglin would come to visit.
Holding banners to protest
Falun Gong practitioners expressed that the protest activities conducted in the Southeast Asia area, where the CCP's influence is rather large, can shock and frighten the CCP officials who visit the area. "We know Jia Qinglin will visit the Prime Minister's Office, so we come here especially to protest against him and at the same time convey our message to the Prime Minister that we hope he show concern over the persecution of Falun Gong in China."
Police officers and representatives from the Prime Minister's Office came to the protest site. The practitioners told them about the lawsuits against Jia Qinglin for crimes of genocide and torture. The officers were very surprised to hear the news.
Falun Gong practitioners expressed concern that when they held protest or appeal activities, sometimes the police, due to heavy pressure (from the CCP), would require them to leave the protest site, especially when they held protests in front of the Chinese embassy or protest the CCP officials when they came to visit. But the police can always feel Falun Gong practitioners' kindness and peacefulness. They would repeatedly say, "Thank you," and "Sorry" (showing their being helpless but have to ask the practitioners to leave) before the practitioners left. Sometimes the police would enthusiastically greet practitioners as old friends do.
Practitioners stood on alongside busy roadways in front of the Prime Minister's Office and unfurled banners reading, "Falun Dafa is Good," "Stop the persecution of Falun Gong" and "Jia Qinglin is sued overseas for the crime of torture." Shortly after the practitioners unfurled banners, Jia Qinglin's car passed by. The practitioners expressed that they would hold a protest against any CCP official who has participated in the persecution of Falun Gong.
About 2PM March 26, 2006, the rain that continued for days temporarily stopped. At the busy Yangmei Railway station, a group of Falun Gong practitioners were demonstrating the exercises and displaying pictures and reports on Chinese Communist Party's secret Sujiatun Concentration Camp. Passengers slowed down their steps. Some were shocked at seeing the "harvest organs from live people to sell for profit" display board and asked what bad deeds CCP did again. A practitioner explained the pictures and reports about the seven-year-long persecution of Falun Gong. The passenger waved his head as he could find any word to describe CCP's atrocity.
One man asked practitioners what is the source of these materials. When he learned that mainland Chinese risked their lives to bring them out and the Falun Gong practitioners volunteered to edit and print the flyers, he said, "It is hard to imagine that a hospital had such a decent appearance actually was murdering people inside it. The communist party is an autocracy. They set up a few model cities attempting to fool the foreigners. But they didn't give any freedom to Chinese people. (CCP) even wants to control what people think and what they believe. It is too evil. No wonder no one likes 'One Country Two Systems'. Look, Hong Kong has failed. CCP can kill its own people; it will treat Taiwanese worse..., your information is valuable, I respect your effort to let the public know the truth."
A practitioner is introducing the Sujiatun Concentration Camp and
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"human organ business"
Many foreign workers also came to watch. One worker can speak Chinese. After he learned the truth, he told his friends how cruel CCP is. Another foreign worker wanted to donate money but practitioners thanked him and declined. A practitioner wanted him to tell other people the matter and help to rescue the Falun Gong practitioners jailed in Sujiatun Concentration Camp.
The day before, a practitioner met the former Director of the Township. The director told him a real case happened in Mainland China. "One person caught flu. A mainland doctor said he needed a whole body anesthesia for some exams. When he woke up, doctor found no problem but he found one kidney was gone." He said that in Mainland China, people only worship money but without basic conscience and morality.
These days, we hear many stories about Taiwan patients going to Mainland China for organ transplants. They want to extend their lives and spent a lot of money for liver or kidney transplants in China. But the result was just opposite to their expectations. No one knew where the organ was from. It costs about 1 million Taiwan Yuan (USD 33,000). Those lucky ones live one or two years. Some die a few months after the surgery. One died three days after he flew back to Taiwan.
Today, one passenger took a flyer and told practitioners a story of his own. One of his relatives went to Mainland China and spent a lot of money for an organ transplant, but died in a hospital in China. He said he wanted the government to investigate how many Taiwanese were fooled to go to Mainland China who lost money and sometimes their lives.
Near evening, more and more people came and left railway station. Many people took the flyer and read seriously. When more people recognize the CCP's evil nature, it will fade into history.
On the evening of March 28, 2006, California's Union City Council passed a resolution, which decided to report to President Bush about the Chinese Communist regime's (CCP) atrocities of harvesting live Falun Gong practitioners' organs in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, and urge him to take action.
At 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, the first agenda of the city council meeting was questions from the audience. Several Falun Gong practitioners reported to the city council about the horrendous atrocities of harvesting live Falun Gong practitioners' organs and cremating their bodies to destroy the evidence in Sujiatun.
Bay Area computer engineer Shang Changhe began, "The media recently disclosed that the Sujiatun Concentration Camp has held more than 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners, their organs are removed when they are still alive, and their bodies are cremated to destroy the evidence. It is reported that only 2,000 practitioners are still alive there, no one is able to come out of the camp alive." Shang Changhe called upon the city council to write to President Bush and California State Council members to request the United States and the international community to investigate the atrocities committed at Sujiatun.
Ms. Cheng, who was arrested and detained in China for practicing Falun Gong, recently arrived in the USA. She recounted the persecution she suffered for appealing on behalf of Falun Gong in China. She said that she had been detained three times by Chinese police. During the detention, she had been subjected to tortures such as being forced to stand for a long period of time, being forced to kneel down, sleeping on cement floor and having her head bumped against the wall and other tortures. The guards once threw her heavily on the ground, as a result, she sustained an injured back and could not take care of herself. Upon hearing of atrocities committed at Sujiatun, she said, "I hope the American government will show concern about the incident, and will conduct an investigation and rescue the Falun Gong practitioners who are still alive."
Falun Gong practitioner Shen Shumin explained that both she and her husband had suffered persecution in China for practicing Falun Gong. She said, "Since the CCP started the persecution in 1999, our telephone had been tapped, and the police officers often came to our home to harass us. On a cold winter day, the police came and smashed our windows, and besieged us for seven days. Our personal freedom was severely curtailed."
Shen Shumin continued, "We went to Thailand afterwards, but they still would not leave us alone. We were often followed and had our photos taken by somebody secretly. Even worse, they came to our residence to threaten and harass us. Our personal safety was endangered." Shen Shumin is worried about the safety of detained Falun Gong practitioners in the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. She hoped the American government would conduct an investigation as soon as possible and rescue the practitioners detained there.
During the break of the city council meeting, the attendees asked for information and materials about Sujiatun Concentration Camp from Falun Gong practitioners around them. Deputy Mayor Richard asked Ms. Cheng more about the persecution of Falun Gong.
The city council resumed their meeting. Deputy Mayor Richard proposed a resolution, motioning the city council to write to President Bush to report to him about the recent atrocities of harvesting live Falun Gong practitioners' organs at Sujiatun, and urge him to take action. All members voted unanimously to adopt the resolution.