News and Events from around the World -- April 26, 2006

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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  • Taiwan: Grand Parade of 10,000 People Support 10 Million Withdrawals from the CCP

  • France: Falun Gong Practitioners Urge the Council of Europe to Investigate Concentration Camps in China

  • Russia: Exposing the CCP's Crimes Again on the Streets of Moscow

  • England: Informing the People of Bath about the Chinese Concentration Camps where Falun Gong Practitioners are Killed for their Organs

  • Switzerland: Reenactment of Human Organ Harvesting Shocks People

  • Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners in Northern Europe Protest in Goteborg against the CCP's Atrocities



  • Taiwan: Grand Parade of 10,000 People Support 10 Million Withdrawals from the CCP

    On April 23, 2006, groups and individuals from different fields in Taiwan jointly initiated a parade activity entitled, "Support Human Rights, Support 10 Million People Quitting the CCP." The attendees condemned the CCP's atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, and called upon the international community to look into all forced labor camps, prisons and hospitals in China, and immediately stop the CCP from killing and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.


    A grand parade supporting 10 million Chinese people quitting the CCP, attracts 15,000 Taiwanese people from all social strata to participate

    The parade procession set off from Kaidagelan Boulevard in Taipei, and then marched along Zhongxiao East Road toward the No. 2 Building of the World Trade Center in the East Area. The parade procession passed through the busiest business district. The route was 6.5 km, attracting 15,000 people to participate. The parade procession spanned four km, and the scene was spectacular. Many media outlets came to conduct interviews and cover the parade. The parade once again brought the Taiwanese people to focus on the Falun Gong's appeal of "Stop the Persecution, Stop the Killing" that has never ceased in the past seven years.

    Ten Million Withdrawals from the CCP, the CCP comes close to its end


    Founder of Human Nature Foundation Shi Ying makes a speech

    Ming Chu-Cheng, a professor of political science at National Taiwan University expressed that many despotic political powers may look strong prior to their collapse, but the CCP has come close to its end. Soon, it will be eliminated by Heaven, just like former communist Soviet Union and eight countries in Eastern Europe. It indicated that the tyranny's being formidable is not reliable. "Good will be rewarded, and evil will be punished," and tyranny must perish, these are lessons from history. Ten million withdrawals represent people's wholehearted support. As for the collapse of the CCP, people do not need to worry if China will be in chaos, because the CCP is absolutely not equal to China, the CCP's collapse is absolutely not the demise of China. On the contrary, the disintegration of the CCP is the rebirth of China.

    Founder of Human Nature Foundation Shi Ying expressed that the Nazis' holocaust made people concerned about the inhuman collective persecution under despotic systems, however, the withdrawals happening inside China have rekindled people's hope for humanity. People may transform the brutality of the despotic political power because they have learned the truth and their conscience has been awakened, but the premise is that there must be opportunities for people to learn about the true nature of the CCP.

    What is professionalism

    Chinese journalist Ms. Wang Wenyi, shouted loudly, "Stop Persecuting Falun Gong" at the US welcoming ceremony for Hu Jintao. Was she against professionalism? Renowned political commentator Lin Baohua expressed that this was an act representing conscience and a sense of justice, and should not be taken as a focal point to comment; conversely, the press, which remains indifferent to the CCP's mass killing of people, and loses its professional spirit when facing the CCP, should be condemned by society. How many people has the CCP killed? Have the media condemned it? Why claim Wang Wenyi is against professionalism only for speaking out several words of conscience!

    Lin Baohua said, as a friend of Wang Wenyi, he wanted to salute her. Actually, Wang Wenyi has two professions, one is a doctor, the other is a journalist. Shouting, "Stop Persecuting Falun Gong" on that kind of international occasion, was mainly out of her humanitarian spirit as a doctor.

    A taxi driver said that from today's parade, he saw people voluntarily come out to support the withdrawals from the CCP happening in China. Many young couples carried their children, and there were also many elderly people. He hoped more media outlets could pay more attention to and report on the CCP's outrageous atrocities.

    Cruel CCP enrages Gods and human beings


    Reenactment of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China, people are indignant

    Liu Shao-Tung, associate professor of human anatomy at Kaohsiung University broke down in tears as soon as he started mentioning the CCP's harvesting and selling Falun Gong practitioners' organs for profit. He was indignant at the CCP's barbaric acts.

    A middle-aged woman said that after watching the report on TV she watched the news of live organ harvestings from Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP. She had never expected that there are still such cruel things occurring in the world today. She could not help crying after saying this.


    Reenactment of methods the CCP uses to brutally torture Falun Gong practitioners

    A young woman who got a copy of truth clarification material as soon as she walked out of the subway, said, "Is it true? It's horrible!"

    Two students from the fifth grade said, "Is this happening in Mainland China? Has it been done by the police? How can they be so cruel? My father works on the Mainland, I'll tell him about this immediately."

    An elderly man in his 80s had his family in the Mainland implicated because he was overseas. The CCP deprived them of the opportunity to work, limited their food supply, and several of his family members were starved to death. He believes that the tyranny must perish, and that he will live long enough to see the disintegration of the CCP.

    A mother carrying her child on a bicycle expressed that everyone has freedom of belief. It is very inhumane to force people to give up their belief. The CCP slaughters the people as a butcher does animals. Everyone should stand up to condemn the CCP.

    The CCP harvests organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and sells them to make huge profit

    Falun Gong practitioners acted out a play to help people gain deeper understanding of the CCP's atrocities of live organ harvesting. Prior to the play, a practitioner who acted as a police officer said he felt depressed. Usually, as a practitioner, he tried his best to be a good person, but today, he had to act such a role.

    After the parade set off, the play was performed on the truck that led the parade.

    The parade procession attracted the attention from passersby, who held a heated discussion among themselves. A special edition newspaper of the ten million withdrawals from the CCP distributed on the way was well received by the spectators. Many people could not help reading immediately after getting the newspaper to find out what is happening, and why the CCP, which looks so strong, is ready to collapse.


    France: Falun Gong Practitioners Urge the Council of Europe to Investigate Concentration Camps in China

    On the 11th and 12th of April, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from France, Germany and Switzerland, went to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg to raise awareness of the atrocity of harvesting and selling organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in labor camps, and the subsequent cremation of their bodies to eliminate the evidence. They called upon the Council of Europe to pass a resolution to condemn and stop the 7-year persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and to facilitate an investigation of the persecution and the secret concentration camps. Lastly, they called on the Council to expose the CCP's atrocities and its repeated attempts to cover up its crimes to the whole world.

    Practitioners read the evidence collected by the International Committee to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong and testimonies of several witnesses of the CCP's atrocities of harvesting organs. They also displayed many banners and posters and distributed truth-clarifying materials to expose the atrocities. Many people were shocked and indignant upon learning of the crimes of the CCP. They could not imagine that such crimes could have happened at this modern civilized age. Many people said that the international community must not remain silent and must try its best to stop these crimes against humanity.

    Members of the Council of Europe and NGO Representatives Condemn the CCP's Crimes and Call for Investigation


    Council member Tadeusz Wita from Poland interviewed by a reporter

    Council member Tadeusz Wita from Poland told reporters that the Auschwitz concentration camp was in Poland, and the Polish people will never forget this painful memory. He said that he cannot tolerate such a crime happening in today's world and said he would push the Council of Europe to take part in the investigation of the CCP's concentration camps and harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. He stated that he would lobby his colleagues extensively to stop such a cruel persecution.

    French council member Michel Hunaul supported the broadcast by New Tang Dynasty TV Station in China. After reading the exhibition boards, he repeatedly said that he would help Falun Gong practitioners.

    When interviewed by reporters, a representative of the Intentional Alliance for Abolishing Slavery, an NGO of the Council of Europe, said, "We must expose this conduct and support people who expose this conduct. We cannot be unmoved by conduct that harms personal integrity and human dignity. I am very sad to learn about these intolerable things. NGOs must stop these atrocities before the world is turned into an inhuman place. I will spread the news everywhere I go. I will tell them, 'People will have a future only if they fight for human rights.' "

    Last December, MEP Alessandra Mussolini issued a written statement suggesting that the European Parliament pass a resolution to condemn the labor camp system in China. The statement said, "Labor camps in China are in fact concentration camps, where violence and violation of human rights take place every day."

    French People Call for an End to the persecution

    After learning about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP and the secret concentration camps, French citizens one after another told the reporter:

    "This is too terrible! Removing organs from living people! We must stop this kind of crime! The concentration camps must be eradicated."

    "Everybody has human rights; they (the CCP) have no right to ban the practice of Falun Gong, this kind of crime must be stopped."

    "The French government and the Council of Europe should make an effort to safeguard human rights."

    "I thought the Nazi concentration camps in World War II were a thing of the last century. I never expected that there were concentration camps in today's China. Such a tragedy shall not be allowed to happen again." A French policeman who was responsible for the security of the European Council said, "I will tell the news of the persecution of Falun Gong to my friends and colleagues and hope the crimes can be stopped as soon as possible." He also requested extra materials to distribute to people he knew.

    A lot of French people signed their names to express their support for Falun Gong practitioners and urged the international community to make an effort to stop the cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP.

    European Falun Gong Association Holds a Press Conference in the Council of Europe Building


    Press Conference

    With assistance from Polish Council Member Tadeusz Wita, the European Falun Gong Association held a press conference inside the building of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on April 12th. At the press conference, the association announced the establishment of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China and openly invited related international organizations, state agencies and the media to form a joint investigation group to go to China to perform a comprehensive investigation of the truth of the persecution of Falun Gong and the secret concentration camps.

    Mr. Wita told the reporters at the press conference that he would try his best to push the Council of Europe to pass a resolution to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong. He indicated that this procedure was already under way. Attendees of the conference included representatives from the European Falun Gong Association, members of Coalition to Investigate the Persecution, members of the "World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong," and representatives from the Epoch Times and "Sound of Hope" international radio station.

    Background information: The Council of Europe has forty-six member states. It was established on the 5th of May 1949 and headquartered in Strasbourg, France. Its purpose is to promote economic and social progress in Europe; safeguard democracy and human rights; seek solutions to major social issues. The supreme decision-making and executive body of the Council of Europe is the ministerial commission composed of the foreign ministers of the member states. A committee composed by the representative of minister stationed in the Council is in charge of daily affairs. The European Human Rights Court is an organization of the Council of Europe.


    Russia: Exposing the CCP's Crimes Again on the Streets of Moscow (Photos)

    On April 22, 2006, Russian Falun Gong practitioners held a rally in Moscow to continue to expose the CCP's atrocious crimes of harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners for profit, especially calling for the international community's urgent attention to the atrocities of destroying the evidence of their crimes in cooperation with hospitals in different places by means of massacring Falun Gong practitioners in forced labor camps.

    During the entire activity, practitioners introduced to passers-by what Falun Dafa is and the situation of Dafa's spreading in nearly 80 countries, and also told people the truth about the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong over the past 7 years.


    Demonstrating the exercises


    Exposing the CCP's savage crimes of harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners

    Many people learned the truth, accepted the truth clarification materials handed by practitioners, and signed their names to support Falun Gong's anti-persecution campaign.


    Signing to condemn the CCP's atrocities

    A middle-aged man accepted the truth clarification materials, and listened to practitioners' talking about the cruel persecution happening in China, then said seriously that, this is not surprise, it has happened in the former Soviet Union, what do you need me to do? Practitioners said that, "We need the just support of everyone from the international community to condemn the CCP". He then went to the front of our table and signed the petition form to support Falun Gong and to stop the CCP's killing.

    A senior citizen came over here to take the truth-clarifying materials and chatted with practitioners for a long time. He said, "The Communist Party and the dictatorship cannot be separated. The CCP will be always the same no matter who is the leader; it is all about maintaining its political power and not serving ordinary people. It is impossible to have any freedom as long as the CCP is there. It can do any evildoing for keeping its power. If people want to have democracy and freedom, the only way is for the CCP to collapse. Today the Russian people can have the freedom of belief and the rights of democracy, although they are imperfect, it is the result of renouncing the Communist Party. " He signed the petition form on his initiative to support Falun Gong, and a few older people also signed the petition to support Falun Gong.

    A group of lovely children arrived at the square, and carefully listened to practitioners' talk about the things happening in China. Practitioners told them the stories of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted by the CCP due to the practice of "Truthfulness Compassion and Forbearance" based on the display boards and picture book. After understanding the situation, the children silently went to give their signatures to support Falun Gong's anti-persecution.



    England: Informing the People of Bath about the Chinese Concentration Camps where Falun Gong Practitioners are Killed for their Organs

    During the Easter weekend, Falun Gong practitioners from England held an activity to inform the people of Bath about recent revelations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners to supply a lucrative international transplant trade.

    This famous city was packed with tourists as well as locals enjoying the spring sunshine during the Easter break.


    People petition for an end to the persecution

    Large quantities of leaflets, and special editions of The Epoch Times newspaper focusing on the Sujiatun Forced Labor Camp and other such camps were distributed. People seemed genuinely moved and shocked to hear about this situation. One young woman said that she felt physically sick after reading about the atrocities. Another said she had previously written to the Chinese Ambassador in the UK to express her concern about the persecution of Falun Gong, but had never received a reply. She found the recent news about organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners very disturbing.

    Many people were eager to sign a petition urging the British government to condemn and help mobilize an investigation and rescue. Others said that they would probably write to their MPs.

    Many people wanted to know more about Falun Gong and its repression in China, and spent time talking with practitioners as well as carefully reading the posters that explained all about the persecution.

    A journalist from the local newspaper discussed the issue with a practitioner, and plans to report on the event. A photographer from the same newspaper also took some photographs of the activity for the article. A local Amnesty International activist took leaflets and newspapers to distribute to interested parties in Bath, and offered to consider initiating a letter writing campaign by the local Amnesty group. He was very pleased that practitioners had taken the initiative to hold this event in his city.

    One woman was interested to receive the special edition of the newspaper as she regularly picks up a copy of The Epoch Times each week on the London underground and feels it is a good paper.

    One Chinese lady stopped to talk at some length and to sign the petition. She works as an interpreter for the Home office, a British government department that deals with Immigration issues, and sometimes she can be involved with Falun Gong asylum seeker cases. She was very supportive and took many types of information material to give to her colleagues in the Home office, so as to give them a more in depth understanding about Falun Gong and the persecution.

    Overall the event was very successful and practitioners were really pleased that they were able to raise awareness of the issues with so many people.


    Switzerland: Reenactment of Human Organ Harvesting Shocks People

    While two "doctors" in green operating gowns were busying "operating", a policeman with a lot of money in his hand stands nearby. In front of "the operating table" hangs a price list of organs, revealing the shady dealings.


    Re-enactment of live organ removal

    On April 13, 2006, a shocking sight near Commonwealth Square in the capital of Switzerland caused many passersby to stop, and then carefully read the exhibition boards disclosing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) removal of organs from live Falun Gong practitioners. Many people enquired what was going on and many also asked for more information regarding the persecution.

    "What you are looking at is a simulation of the persecution that is currently taking place in China. The person whose organs are being removed is a Falun Gong practitioner. He practices the same gentle and slow exercises as those people who are doing them nearby. He simply tries to be a good person according to the principle of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance." A practitioner was patiently telling passersby the reason for the simulating demonstration. "But it is because the CCP doesn't allow people to have their own criterion of judging what is good and what is bad and doesn't allow people to live according to the principle of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance that it has been persecuting Falun Gong practitioners for almost seven years. Recently some witnesses have stepped forward to claim that all over China, especially in the northeast, there are many concentration camps where incarcerated Falun Gong practitioners have had their organs removed for profit and their bodies cremated to eliminate the evidence. Such incidents exist in all forced labor camps, and they are still happening in some places right now. Since 2000, the number of organ transplant operations has abnormally increased. This is especially the case recently, as it has emerged that there will be a great number of organs available from live donors until the end of May. Even if some people are willing to denote their organs, it is impossible for there to be such an abundant supply of organs from live patients in such a short period of time. What is most likely is that the CCP is persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in an even more ruthless fashion in order to eliminate the evidence. Please help and lend support so that an independent investigation into the persecution happening now in China will be instigated and quickly stop the persecution."

    Passersby were shocked by the facts. They signed the petition, one after another, expressing support for the investigation into the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and rescuing those Falun Gong practitioners who are illegally locked up in China. A practitioner was holding four petition boards that were being signed at the same time, with some other people quietly waiting nearby. Crowds of people were also waiting for their turn to sign the petition.


    Passersby sign the petition expressing their support

    We also want to sign the petition

    Two mothers were passing by the stall together with their four or five children. While signing the petition, the mothers were listening to a practitioner describing what Falun Gong is and disclosing facts regarding the inhuman methods of persecution that Falun Gong practitioners have suffered. A child suddenly asked: "Mom, may I sign the petition?" "Of course, you may. There is no age limit for signing the petition expressing support for human rights." The mother was pleased and patiently showed the children how to sign. Several children signed their names on the two petitions.

    Such terrible persecution should cease immediately

    Another lady, who had not only taken the materials but signed the petition as well, said when asked: "It is really frightening to hear about such a persecution taking place as we speak in China. It is just due to people's faith and different opinions that the CCP has removed their organs and detained them. This is what makes such a persecution so unimaginably evil. I think that this violation of human rights should cease immediately."

    At the same time, she expressed: The future of China will be bleak if crimes of illegally removing people's organs for profits and persecuting people for their faith continue in such concentration camps in the country.

    I am going to let my students know all about this

    Upon her departure, a teacher took some blank forms of the petition saying that she was going to ask her colleagues and students to sign the petition expressing support for the end of the persecution that severely infringed human rights. In the meantime, she also said: "I am going to combine what I have come to know about the persecution of Falun Gong and the CCP's removal of organs for profit with the two topics of human rights and the economy in my teaching so that my students will know more about the persecution of human rights happening in China."

    The same old disastrous road should not be followed again

    On seeing the simulation of the CCP's removing organs from live people, many passers-by thought of those concentration camps during World War II. They commented: It is really difficult to imagine that such a bloody, inhuman persecution still exists in the world today. We are willing to support the immediate end of the persecution, I hope that more people can find out about the persecution.

    The demonstration held was near the Bern Commonwealth Square in the Capital of Switzerland. For several years, Falun Gong practitioners in Switzerland have held activities here such as Information Days, Anti-torture Shows, and petitioning for the release of those Falun Gong practitioners who are illegally locked up in China. Many passers-by already know the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong. Some of them have asked with concern: Is the persecution still going on? Some have told Falun Gong practitioners: I have signed the petition expressing my support. Last time, I saw the art exhibition you held in Tunnel,that torture is far too cruel. Some have passed on what they have found out regarding the persecution to their colleagues, relatives and friends.

    Before setting up the information stall for the demonstration, Falun Gong practitioners were protesting against the CCP persecuting Falun Gong at the Chinese Embassy. During the protest, the spokesperson expounded in German about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners for a long time by the CCP and read out in Chinese "The Announcement of the Establishment of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China."

    At the end of the activity, a member of the Organization of Human Rights who was invited to join it told the spokesman: I have listened to the speeches with tears in my eyes. Really, I have never thought that the CCP would treat Falun Gong practitioners so cruelly, though we have heard of it before but have never thought of it. After that, she asked more about the persecution in detail.

    Doctors, please do not become the butchers for the CCP

    Ms Yang, a Falun Gong practitioner who acted as a "doctor", said: "Although the part I demonstrated was wearing operating clothes and looking like a doctor who heals the wounded and rescues the dying, what I did was like a butcher more than a doctor. I feel that these doctors have also suffered from the menace of the CCP, especially when I think that so many doctors are being deceived in daily life. They even have completely violated their responsibility as doctors and become butchers in reality as well as in name under the condition of being forced. The more I think of this, the more I feel that we should let all people know the truth and stop the persecution immediately, and make all those who are deeply poisoned by the CCP be able to regain real freedom.

    Some passersby were shocked at the simulation. They would either come over and carefully take a look and see if all this was a real demonstration, or would make sure by asking again if the Falun Gong practitioner playing the part of the victim was still alive. Whenever Ms Yang gave positive replies, she would stress: In China, Falun Gong practitioners, whose organs are being removed, are still alive. Please help end the inhuman killing.

    Mr. Fedier, a Falun Gong practitioner remarked: Compared with a few years ago, more and more Chinese and western people are paying attention to China and getting to know the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong. So when the day the whole truth comes out arrives, the persecution by the CCP will not continue any longer. Similar to members of Nazis who were on trial in Nuremberg, Germany after the end of the World War II, those accessories of the CCP must also be responsible for their crimes when the trial of the CCP takes place.



    Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners in Northern Europe Protest in Goteborg against the CCP's Atrocities

    On the morning of April 15, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark gathered in Goteborg Sweden along with local people for a parade to protest against the evil act of the Chinese Communist Party removing organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in labor camps and concentration camps for sale, and to express support for the resignation of ten million people from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.

    The parade started from Gtaplatsen square in the centre of Goteborg. After passing along the city's main street, the University of Goteborg and through pedestrian areas, the procession stopped at the Chinese Consulate in Goteborg to protest against the CCP's brutal acts. The Swedish Falun Gong Association spokesman Ms. Wang Lei advised the personnel at the Chinese Consulate and said, "At present, an investigation of the labor camps and concentration camps in China has been launched. Injustice is self-destructive. That is the sad end for those who help with this evil. Those who still do evil things should stop before it is too late and create a bright future for themselves and their family. Otherwise there will only be regrets. We will deal with those who participated in the evil deeds according to law, no matter where they escape to."

    The procession's final destination was where the municipal government sits, Gustav Adolfs Torg. A meeting was held there. Mr. Hans, editor-in-chief of the Swedish edition of The Epoch Times said, "the communist party has slaughtered more than 100 million people in the world. The Council of Europe has approved a resolution condemning the crimes of the Communist Party worldwide earlier this year. The CCP in China is the remaining communist totalitarian regime; it still oppresses the masses of Chinese people. Since the publication of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party one and a half years ago, nearly ten million people have withdrawn from the CCP. This gave ordinary Chinese people great encouragement. We support the just act of those ten million courageous people and hope each Chinese person can read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party conscientiously to clearly see the true face of the CCP."


    Swedish Falun Gong Association spokesperson Ms. Wang Lei advises the personnel of the Chinese Consulate

    Protesting against the CCP's removing organs from live Falun Gong practitioners and expressing support for ten million people who resigned from the CCP

    The NGO representative in support of China's human rights said: "Although the CCP has done countless things in persecuting its people in history, taking organs from live Falun Gong practitioners for sale is the most evil thing they have done. It is entirely inhumane. We urge the Swedish government to adopt corresponding actions together with the international community according to international law to stop such cruel and ferocious trampling on human rights by the CCP."

    One Falun Gong practitioner from Denmark commented, "I was once persecuted in China. I hope to awaken people's conscience through my experiences and to give them a chance to stand up against the atrocities that are taking place in China.