(Clearwisdom.net) At 7pm on June 20, 2005, Chinese Ambassador Lu Shumin in Canada visited Montreal, and the Chinese community held a banquet for him at Hongbaoshi Restaurant. Falun Gong practitioners went to appeal, strongly protesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) murder of Falun Gong practitioner Gao Rongrong, demanding an immediate end to the persecution of Falun Gong and punishment for the murderers.
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Gao Rongrong, after suffering severe and prolonged torture and disfigurement, was murdered on June 16, 2005, becoming the 2585th Falun Gong practitioner who died as a result of the persecution.
Falun Gong practitioners displayed photos of horribly disfigured face of Gao Rongrong who was brutally tortured for persisting in her belief, and held several banners, reading "Blatantly murdering Gao Rongrong, it's intolerable," "The CCP disfigured her face first and then killed her," "The CCP has caused death of 2576 Falun Gong practitioners," "Immediately stop the persecution of Falun Gong," "Severely punishing murderers," "Don't assist the CCP to do evil, choose a bright future," "Chen Yonglin set a precedent, people afterward should catch up." Many community members who came to attend the banquet watched, and some hid behind the glass window of the restaurant to watch.
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According to a Clearwisdom report, Falun Gong practitioner Gao Rongrong was abducted by lawless officials in July 2003, and taken to Longshan Forced Labor Camp. On the afternoon of May 7, 2004 at 3:00 p.m., Ms. Gao Rongrong was called to the office by camp Ward Leader Tang Yubao (male) and Jiang Zhaohua (male). These men shocked her for about seven hours with electric batons. Ms. Gao's face was severely deformed. Local practitioners risked their lives to publicize the photos of her horribly disfigured face from electric baton shock torture to the outside world, causing great attention from the international community. On October 5, 2004, several Falun Gong practitioners successfully rescued Gao Rongrong. Later, the CCP took fierce vengeance against Gao Rongrong and practitioners who revealed the truth to the outside world. On March 8-9, 2005, Gao Rongrong was unfortunately rearrested, and on June 16, 2005, she died from complications stemming from torture and abuse while in custody.
The CCP clearly knew that the Gao Rongrong's case has "too big an international influence," but it actually re-abducted her until tortured her to death, which speaks volumes about the CCP's evil nature and its desperate attempt before ending. Thereby, it conversely arouses the attention from the international community and people from all walks of life.
An Afghanistan man passed by Falun Gong practitioners' appealing site, and told people in a loud voice that his 36 family members were killed by the Communist Party in 1979. He was the only survivor of the family, and he lost his home. He kept saying, "The Communist Party is sinister gang," "the Communist Party is amok," and "Down with the Communism." When he learned the truth about Falun Gong, he took his initiative to help hold banners. He said to Falun Gong practitioners, "I want to stand with you, let those people (Chinese embassy staff) come down, I'll talk with them, why do they kill people?" He remained during the four hours of our appealing and was reluctant to leave us.
The banquet was postponed for over an hour, the ambassador's car had already arrived, but stopped for a long time several hundred meters away from the restaurant, trying to find a detour to enter to avoid Falun Gong practitioners' appeal group. Finally, they had no other way but to enter the restaurant in front of the practitoners. Several Chinese men forcibly stopped reporters to take photos.
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A Chinese man stops reporters from taking photos
According to incomplete statistics, over the past six years since July 20, 1999, as of today, 2603 Falun Gong practitioners are verified through civil channels to have died as a result of the persecution. The torture death cases are distributed in over 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. But the actual death toll far exceeds this number. At least 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been illegally sentenced to prison, more than 100,000 practitioners have been sent to forced labor camps, thousands of practitioners have been forced into mental hospitals to be tortured with drugs damaging the central-nervous system. A large number of Falun Gong practitioners have been abducted to brainwashing centers located in different places to suffer mental torment, and many more practitioners have been subjected to beating, physical punishment and economic extortion by so-called "law enforcement personnel."
