(Clearwisdom.net) On July 8 Falun Gong practitioners introduced Falun Gong in Kauhajoki, a small town in southeast Finland.
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| Talking to passersby about Falun Gong and the persecution | Practising the first of five exercises taught in Falun Gong |
It was the first time for many of the local people in Kauhajoki to see or
hear about Falun Gong. Many people were attracted to the music playing at the
activity and the beautiful performance of the slow moving and meditative Falun
Gong exercises, but when they saw the pictures depicting the torture experienced
by practitioners in China they fell silent and were truly shocked. The
practitioners took this chance and clarified the facts behind the
dreadful persecution, after which people signed their names on the petition to
help stop this atrocity. The local newspaper also attended and conducted an
interview with one of the practitioners. With more support from the kind people
who have learned about the persecution the culprits will soon be brought to
justice and the persecution stopped.
Since the Chinese Communist Party's crackdown on Falun Gong, a practice which
cultivates mind and body through practicing five gentle sets of exercises and
follows the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance,"
2781 Falun Gong practitioners have been verified via relatives, eyewitness
accounts or victims' photos, etc, as being persecuted to death. Most lost their
lives after enduring prolonged inhumane torture including continuous beatings,
shocks with high voltage electric batons, sleep deprivation, force-feeding, and
the injection of nerve damaging drugs, all which take place in forced labor
camps, jails and brainwashing classes all over the country. The United Nation's
2004 Report on Human Rights Persecution of Falun Gong pointed out that the
brutality and cruelty of the torture "defies description."
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200508/28512.html
Originally in Finnish: http://fi.clearharmony.net/articles/200508/3090.html
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