(Minghui.org) “It is completely shocking! I hope more people get to know about it and are as shocked as I am, and outraged.”
“If you turn a blind eye to someone's suffering, you are partly complicit. It is up to us to stand up for people who cannot stand up for themselves.”
These are the words of Kristian Goodchild, a foreign liaison officer of the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics based in the United Kingdom. He found himself at a signature drive working to end the Chinese Communist regime's forced organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners.
The activity was held at Singapore's Hong Lim Park on December 10, International Human Rights Day.
People sign a petition calling for an end to forced organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners.
A Crime Committed in China Matters to People in Singapore
Many Singaporeans echoed Mr. Goodchild's sentiments in condemning the Communist Party's state-sanctioned organ harvesting.
The coordinator of the signature drive, Mr. Kong, says nearly 40,000 people have signed the petition over the past year and a half.
The petition was initiated by the NGO Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) last July. “Most of the signers are Singaporeans. There are also tourists, company employees and international students,” said Mr. Kong.
“Many kind Singaporeans, after talking to Falun Gong practitioners and learning how brutal the persecution is, signed the petition to support the practitioners and promised to research more about it online.” Mr. Kong went on to say, “Some people help raise awareness among their family members, friends and colleagues, so sometimes an entire family or several colleagues or friends signed the petition together.”
A Singaporean teacher sent a text message to his friend, a Falun Gong practitioner, after he saw the signature drive. He said, “I wish your activity success. My students have read about the persecution of Falun Gong. I pray for them [Falun Gong practitioners who are persecuted in China].”
