Germany: First Public Performance of the Play “Suing Jiang” in German

Last Saturday, Falun Gong practitioners went to the town of Coburg in northern Bavaria. Many passers-by stopped to see the Falun Gong exercise demonstration, and learn more about the horrors of the Jiang regime’s persecution of practitioners in China. A play entitled “The Judgement of China’s Dictator” caught a lot of people’s attention.

The play was performed as a piece of street theatre. A blue banner, with the German translation of “Suing Jiang Zemin for Genocide”, formed a stage curtain. Three German practitioners played the roles of the Judge, the Inquisitor and the Lawyer, while a masked balloon on a black cardboard chair represented the dictator Jiang. Jiang was being charged with instigating the persecution against Falun Gong, which has now been going on for four years. Chinese practitioners acted as witnesses, giving evidence and recounting their horrendous memories from time spent in China’s labour camps.

At the end of the trial, as the Judge found Jiang guilty and said that he would be punished, the masked balloon representing Jiang suddenly exploded.

At the beginning of June, Falun Gong practitioners were involved in celebration activities for the 1000th birthday of the town of Kronach and local media reported on this. After the incident, the Chinese Embassy in Germany sent materials that slandered Falun Gong to the newspaper’s headquarters. Practitioners immediately wrote articles to the newspaper to let them know the truth and the newspaper subsequently published them. After this, the citizens of Coburg wanted to know more about Falun Gong. Practitioners from the surrounding towns organised information days so that the public could learn everything they wanted to know about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution in China.

Within a few days, German practitioners translated the English script of the “Suing Jiang” play into German to allow more people to know about Jiang’s crimes and to give them the chance to support the international lawsuit against Jiang. The citizens of Coburg were very interested in the facts of the persecution and signed their names on a petition one after another. People sitting in nearby cafés watched the play as they sat and drank their coffee. We hope that this play will be performed throughout Germany in the near future.