United Kingdom: Practitioners in Edinburgh held a Peaceful Appeal at the Chinese Consulate on July 20th

On the 20th of July, a group of practitioners from Edinburgh went to the Chinese Consulate to hold a peaceful appeal. They protested against the campaign of genocide that the Chinese Communist Party has conducted against Falun Gong practitioners for the past six years and called for an end to these abuses of fundamental human rights.

In the morning, the wind was particularly wild. Although there was no place to hang the banners, practitioners put them between two trolleys which they used carry their leaflets and banners. This enabled the passengers in passing cars and pedestrians to see the messages on the banners clearly: “Urgent Rescue Needed for Falun Gong”, “More than 2,700 Practitioners Persecuted to Death, Stop the CCP’s Brutality”, and “Stop the Persecution”.

Some practitioners performed the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and sent forth righteous thoughts, while others distributed flyers to both Westerners and Chinese people. The spot was next to a busy road and car drivers would press their horns to show their support. A practitioner explained that this is due to practitioners from Edinburgh doing their exercises there every morning to promote Falun Gong and let more people know about the situation in China. As a consequence, many local people know about Falun Gong and the persecution.

Among the practitioners who took part in today’s activity, there was a busy Western man who works six days a week. He uses his only day off work during the week to write letters to people to let them know about the human rights abuses against Falun Gong and call for support. He quietly does a lot of work to rescue and encourage the practitioners in mainland China, who, despite living in a very difficult environment, still conduct themselves by the principles of Falun Gong - Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. Today was his day off, and he drove more than an hour to join the appeal, protest against the CCP’s brutality and commemorate the practitioners who have lost their lives.

There was also a young practitioner who does night shits. He spent a whole day hand-making a banner. This young man had never done any sewing but he worked from his heart, cut out the letters for the banner one by one with a pair of small scissors, and then stuck them onto the blue banner. The banner looked very nice and the words can easily be read, even from moving vehicles.

Everything practitioners do is to let more people know about the truth of Falun Gong, to stop the lies and propaganda created by the Chinese Communist Party, and to stop the persecution of a most peaceful and kind group of people. They do these works so that the fundamental, kind nature of humanity can be protected and promoted. The world needs Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.