International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) Representative Speaks at Falun Gong Human Rights Demonstration, Place des Nations, Geneva (excerpt)

(Clearwisdom.net)

Dear Friends, mes amis, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a great pleasure for me to bring you the respect and the compliments of IGFM Internationale Gesellschaft f r Menschenrechte Germany. IGFM means International Society for Human Rights.

But I do not only bring the respect and the compliments, I also bring the firm promise of our continuing attention and assistance to the case of Falun Dafa practitioners and their plight in their home country China--a China which is ruled by ruthless, pitiless, unforgiving dictators, who - above all - have named it the People's Republic of China.

But today's China is not a "People's" Republic. It is a straightforward dictatorship which denies its citizens all democratic, civil, and public rights and punishes heavily, tortures, and quite often murders those citizens who insist on these rights. The right of a private life, the right to liberty and security of person, the right to freedom and expression, the right to peaceful assembly and association--these are only a few of the rights laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. When the PRC joined the UN it accepted all of these rights without any reservation, and promised to put each and all of them into reality in Chinese territory.

But today's China does not grant any of these rights, though they are compulsory obligations for every member state of the UN.

No one knows that better than your peaceful fellow practitioners inside China. By any standards it is totally unaccepatble -- and by that I mean all and every moral standard of civilized people and nations on this globe -- it is totally unacceptable how your fellow practitioners are persecuted, tortured, maimed, killed, and their families and friends pressured by the Chinese dictators and their willing helpers. It is a screaming injustice -- a shame and disgrace for China and a disgrace for humanity.

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I know it is the best you can do. [...] Every single practitioner radiates an inherent patience, energy, and confidence which makes him or her absolutely unassailable by political propaganda and pressure. This is your strength, an unsurmountable asset which is beyond any dictatorial might. Jiang Zemin realized this. And he fears it. More than anything else. Therefore the repression, therefore Office 610.

Though Falun Gong is totally unpolitical and a private affair, to the dictators your strength is a threat. To me, to IGFM, to the free world it is something quite different. It is not only hope. It means certainty.

These days there is much talk about another infamous dictator, the diseased Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union - good riddance. When warned of the strengths and patience of religions, he asked "How many divisions does the Pope have?". Voil? You and I know the outcome.

Your fellow practitioners in China should know how to use their strength and and their patience. Falun Dafa practitioners are much stronger than any suppression, than any terrorist regime. Be sure, Falun Gong will survive the present regime, and will be even stronger than before, will be able to practice peacefully, in private and in public.

And this will be so within the foreseeable future. Until then IGFM stands at your side. Have confidence.