Italy: Raising Awareness of the Persecution Every Weekend in the Roman Arena

“Bringing him to justice is not enough; he should be executed by shooting.”

Italian Falun Gong practitioners go to the Roman Arena every Sunday to let people know more about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution taking place in China. Lots of tourists from Mainland China visit the arena every day. One of these tourists from Mainland China pointed to the banner reading “Bring Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang to justice”, and shouted, “Bringing him to justice is not enough, he should be executed by shooting. He hasn’t done anything good. Let’s take some pictures and take them back to show people in China.”

People all over the world are now calling for the main criminals in the genocide against Falun Gong to be held responsible for their crimes in a court of law. The persecution of 100 million innocent people, who merely want to practise meditative exercises and live by the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance, has already resulted in over 1,100 deaths and over 100,000 people have been illegally sent to forced labour camps and prisons. The methods of torture and suppression used to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs range from electric shocking and sleep deprivation, to rape and burning with hot irons. In five years of persecution, there has never been a single report of Falun Gong practitioners retaliating to their suppressors.

Young Italian man: “We will tell our relations.”

On another occasion, two young Italian men asked a practitioner after seeing photos of the torture, “What can we do for Falun Gong?” The practitioner replied that telling the truth about Falun Gong to their relatives and friends and calling on their government to officially call for an end to the persecution would be supporting practitioners. They said, “Ok, we will tell this to our relatives and friends.