News and Events from around the World -- March 25, 2006

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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  • Belgium: Practitioners Protest the CCP's Killing of Falun Gong Practitioners in Front of Chinese Embassy

  • Austria: People are Supportive of Falun Gong Practitioners After Hearing about the Atrocities in Sujiatun Concentration Camp

  • Montreal, Canada: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in St. Patrick's Day Parade



  • Belgium: Practitioners Protest the CCP's Killing of Falun Gong Practitioners in Front of Chinese Embassy

    On March 20, practitioners in Belgium protested the CCP's atrocities in the secret Sujiatun Concentration Camp, harvesting organs from living practitioners for profit. They also urged the Belgian government and European Union to pay attention to and investigate the crimes in Sujiatun Concentration Camp and help stop the CCP's inhuman persecution.

    The banners read: "Strongly protest the CCP's Sujiatun Concentration Camp murdering Falun Gong practitioners and selling their organs for profit" and "Urgently rescue Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted in China". Several wreathes were placed beside the banners to commemorate the fellow practitioners who were tortured to death.

    At least 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been imprisoned in Sujiatun Concentration Camp. The CCP has killed many of them through harvesting their organs and then cremating their remains to destroy evidence. This extreme evil deed against practitioners is an outrage to heaven and earth. Such a brutal tragedy occurring in today's society demonstrates the CCP's evil nature and can only hasten its demise.

    The practitioners broadcasted news reports exposing the CCP's atrocities and interviews with two practitioners familiar with the situation. They also relayed calls from more than 1,000 family members of practitioners who wish to ask the world to help rescue their relatives.



    Austria: People are Supportive of Falun Gong Practitioners After Hearing about the Atrocities in Sujiatun Concentration Camp

    On March 16, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Austria organized an activity in the renowned tourist center of Salzburg, exposing to the local residents and tourists the CCP's barbaric crimes of taking organs from Falun Gong practitioners for profit and then cremating the remains.


    Falun Gong practitioners held activity in Salzburg to expose the CCP's atrocities

    After reading the poster exhibition exposing the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist regime and posters about the Sujiatun Concentration Camp, many people were shocked. They expressed their strong condemnation of the Chinese Communist regime. A great number of people came to sign a petition expressing their support to Falun Gong practitioners.

    A lady working for the "Women's Organization for World Peace" said after meeting the practitioners: "I have been looking for you all this time. It's so good to meet you today. I know about the Chinese regime's brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Since its establishment, the Chinese Communist regime has repeatedly persecuted its own people." This lady invited Falun Gong practitioners to attend a large-scale activity organized by her group.


    People signing the petition and reading leaflets

    Another lady cried after viewing the poster exhibition. She was from Yugoslavia, which was under the Communist rule. She knew the brutality of Communist regimes very well and encouraged and wished the practitioners well.

    A gentleman from Iran watched practitioners doing Falun Gong exercises from a distance. After quite a while, he came forward and put his name on the petition. He said to practitioners that when he watched them doing the exercises, he felt a strong force; it is this force that makes the Chinese Communist regime very afraid, a force for peace. He said it reminded him of Gandhi and that this force would surely be victorious.

    A young lady said to practitioners that she very much wanted to sign the petition, but she was not eighteen yet. However, she would tell everyone she knew about this terrible thing happening in China. She wanted to go home immediately to tell her parents.



    Montreal, Canada: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in St. Patrick's Day Parade

    On March 19, as the only Chinese group, Falun Gong practitioners participated in the 182nd St. Patrick's Day Parade. About 4,000 people from 45 groups marched in the parade while tens of thousands watched.


    The Falun Gong group


    Waist drum troupe


    This is the fourth time that practitioners participated in this grand occasion. A lot of people were familiar with the movements of the Falun Gong exercises and many were mimicking the movements. Practitioners played waist drums to the "Falun Dafa is Good" melody while the dance troupe performed simultaneously.

    "Beautiful! It is truly beautiful!" A lot of spectators exclaimed upon seeing practitioners' performance.


    Hands waving from the rostrum, Montreal VIPs, including the Mayor, greet the Falun Gong group

    Fliers distributed by practitioners were designed and printed especially for this event. While one part gives an introduction to Falun Gong, the other part documents the horrifying atrocities taking place inside the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. Thousands of practitioners have been detained in the camp, where the Chinese Communist regime harvests organs from living practitioners and then cremates their bodies.

    Practitioner Ms. Sun said: The goal of the practitioners' participation in the parade is to present the beauty of Falun Gong and bring the public joy and peace. However, on the other side of the earth, the Chinese Communist Party has set up a concentration camp in Shenyang to harvest practitioners' organs for profit and then cremate their bodies. While the perpetrators have committed severe crimes, facing such inhumane atrocities, people who remain indifferent and silent are also complicit in the crime.

    The practitioners' procession has 6 seniors, who just completed a 36-hour hunger strike at Parliament Hill. Ms. Zhang, one of the seniors, said: "We don't mean to pressure the Canadian government. We want to protest the atrocities of the Chinese Communist Party and call on the Canadian government to speak out and help us end this outrage."