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In 1992 media footage showing starving men behind barbwire fences led to global outrage and reaction to ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia. It is long overdue for the media to show the world pictures of what is happening to Falun Gong practitioners in China today.
Recently the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the Central Commission for Comprehensive Control of Law and Order and some other departments jointly issued a policy document that stipulates the strict investigation of the installation of satellite dishes.
The suppression of Falun Gong that began in China in July 1999 may well be the darkest and the largest scale persecution in human history. Facing this persecution, a group of volunteers in North America concerned about human rights formed an organization called the “World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong” (WOIPFG) in 2003.
One day a friend asked me, “Why do you hate Falun Gong?” I said, “Nonsense! I don’t have any enmity towards Falun Gong, why should I hate Falun Gong?” However, I felt something strike at my heart. Do I hate Falun Gong? Nobody practices Falun Gong in public at my workplace, so Falun Gong is seldom mentioned. I haven’t criticized Falun Gong in public, either. Yet my friend pointed to me and said, “Judging from your behavior, your words and even your expression, one can tell that you hate Falun Gong.”
I wondered, how could an embassy official do such a low-level thing like this. What if they hit the cars driving past? I felt very ashamed as a Chinese that the staff of a government agency would behave like this.
I went to see the movie “I, Robot” with my girlfriend last night, and although I wasn’t expecting it to be a great film, I was suprised that it gave me some insights into why we human beings are so unique and precious.
The lawsuit states that Bo Xilai has contravened Article 357 of the Russian Criminal Law in his crimes of genocide, torture and crimes against humanity.
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer will go to Beijing on August 16, 2004 for a two-day state-visit. Practitioners called upon the Foreign Minister to openly condemn the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China during his state visit to China. They hoped that the Minister would request China to release those Australian residents’ family members.
Like hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – of others in China, Zhu was detained by Chinese authorities and sent to brainwashing classes in order to force her to renounce Falun Gong. She was held at the Pi County Brainwashing Center in Xinjin County, Sichuan Province.
Falun Dafa practitioners from Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast areas participated in the annual Sugar Festival in Nambour, Queensland. This is the only parade in the Sunshine Coast area.
