Candlelight Vigil in Geneva Calls for an End to the Persecution

After a parade during the day, several hundred Falun Gong practitioners held a candle light vigil in the evening of the 3rd of April in front of the building where the UN Human Rights Commission was held to urge the international community to pay close attention to the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and help bring an end to it.

Since the CCP began to persecute Falun Gong in 1999, the persecution taking place in China has got worse every year. Illegal detention, beatings and forced feeding have been accompanied by draconian tortures such as water dungeons, the tiger bench, bamboo sticks under the finger nails, strait-jackets and death beds. Many practitioners have been sexually abused at the hands of the Communist authorities, particularly female practitioners. Recently several witnesses revealed that the CCP removed organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in order to make huge profits, and then burned the corpses to destroy any evidence. This made people realise the brutality of the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP which has gone beyond one's imagination.

Those Falun Gong practitioners who came to Geneva to appeal to the United Nations to pay close attention to this matter and conduct an independent investigation included an eighty seven year old man who suffered greatly in a communist country, a mother with a several month old baby, a successful businessman from Italy and a nun from Taiwan who saved travelling expenses by walking. Most people took time out from study or work and found the cheapest airline or train tickets.

In the view of Mr. Zhu from the Netherlands, the CCP acted against nature by removing organs from live Falun Gong practitioners. He believed there are still a lot of things, probably more brutal, that remain concealed at the moment. However, all of the CCP's vicious act will be known to the world some day. Mr. Zhu hoped that through the diligent appeal by Falun Gong practitioners, more people will wake up from the deception of the CCP, see clearly the truth of the persecution of innocent Falun Gong and join the international call to stop these human rights atrocities.