(Minghui.org) On July 18, 2013, over one thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered for a candlelight vigil on the National Mall lawn between Capitol Hill and the Washington Monument, commemorating those who have been tortured to death in the persecution of Falun Gong. The event was a part of a series of activities in Washington DC to mark the 14 th year of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist regime and to call for an immediate end to this atrocity.