(Clearwisdom.net, October 6, 2005) To rescue Falun Gong children being persecuted in China, a group of students ranging in age from 5 to 19 held a four-day car tour during school break. Before the tour, the students held a press conference in front of the Chinese Consulate in Sydney on October 4, 2005. The tour is scheduled to stop at 8 cities to help local media and government organizations know the facts of the persecution of Falun Gong in China and call for attention from Australian society to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
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During the press conference, some representatives of the car tour narrated their experience in the cultivation of Falun Gong to the media and public, and exposed the persecution of Falun Gong in China and the difficult lives of child practitioners due to the persecution.
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He Yi, 15 years old, He Xu, 13 years old, and He Yue, 11 years old, are from the same family. They said in their speeches, "In China, the Falun Gong children are of similar ages as us. Some are even younger. We can imagine their suffering and think we have the obligation to help them study normally and practice freely. At the same time, we hope they can live free and happy lives like us."
Yan Wanying, a 16-year-old girl, said that she had practiced Falun Gong since she was seven. She followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to be a good student at school and a good child at home. She had a happy life. However, since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s persecution of Falun Gong, her whole family has been on the Chinese Consulate's blacklist and cannot return to China. In China, she has many relatives, including an aunt who was unlawfully sentenced to 3 years at a forced labor camp. Her grandmother was persecuted too and later became a refugee in Australia. She said she would like to help more Australian people learn about the brutality of the persecution and help those orphaned Falun Gong children.
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Xu Yang, 17 years old, one of the organizers, said that as a result of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, over the past six years, more than 2700 practitioners are known to have lost their lives, leaving behind innocent children of all ages who are now orphaned or semi-orphaned. No welfare system exists for these children and their lives are in jeopardy every day.
Xu Yang said, "We can speak for them in Australia and help them. We want to help people understand how much the children are suffering. Because of the CCP's cover up, Australians do not know the brutality of the persecution. Thus we'd like to speak out clearly so that more people will know the facts and help the children by stopping the persecution."
Lisa, the driver and caretaker of the young practitioners in the tour, said that there were two vehicles for the tour. Ten young practitioners participated with their own money or funds from their parents. Some children contributed their allowance money. She further said that the tour would be difficult in some areas, but the children were prepared. They hoped through their own efforts to help rescue the orphaned Falun Gong children in China.
