An Appeal to the People of the World

Can you imagine how it feels to be assaulted and tortured because you believe in Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance?

Can you imagine how it feels to get expelled from school or to lose your job because you practise a spiritual method?
Can you imagine how it feels to be forced into a mental hospital where you are injected to drugs that destroy your nervous system?

Can you imagine that the regime in China can even stage self-immolation incidents and blame it all on Falun Gong?
Can you imagine that the regime kills decent human beings and reports it as “suicide”? Can you imagine that the regime are even persecuting children and old people, and has killed an 8 month baby and her mother, because they practised Falun Gong?

Can you imagine that vicious and slanderous propaganda and lies are spread all over the world?

Can you imagine how it feels to stand in a park to do exercises for body and soul and then be dragged into a van and later be tortured to death in custody?

Can you imagine how it feels to be forced into a labour camp where you have to work for more than 12 hours a day so that the guards can “reform you”?

Can you imagine how it feels to be forced to write guarantees to give up the practice that has benefited your mind, body and soul?

Can you imagine how it feels to not even read a book that tells you how to be a good person?

Can you imagine how it feels to be regarded as a criminal when you are only doing some exercises and read a book that tells you how to be a true, good human being?

Tears are falling from my eyes as I write these words. I have benefited so much from this practice, both physically and mentally. It is hard to understand that millions of people in China do not have any human rights. Their voices cannot even be heard, because the

information to the outside world has been sealed off. It is even harder to understand that more than 300 people have been tortured to death because they wanted to be good people.

I have walked a SOS march of more than 250 kilometres. I have been hunger-striking, participated in candlelit vigils and parades, writing articles in the newspapers and informed people around the world about the persecution in China– all to raise the awareness of the media, politicians and the public. But the persecutions are still continuing and are escalating. The regime even burned a practitioner alive and then called it “self-immolation”. A policeman dragged two practitioners to death on a motorcycle. The persecution has reached an insane point.

I hope my tears can wake you up – this is my appeal to all you people of the world – help us stop this persecution of innocent people!

Good is rewarded with good. Evil is met with evil. This is not a new idea – it is the law of the universe. It cannot be changed according to one’s will. So everyone has to be held responsible to his or her own actions.

We are all bounded together in this world. I am you and you are me. This matter concerns us all, and if we don´t take a stand now, this might end up in another Holocaust. We urgently call upon China to end this brutal persecution against Falun Gong and its practitioners.

“The outmost tragedy is not the evil people’s brutality, but the good people’s silence”, as Martin Luther King put it.

If not now? When? If not you? Who?

By a Falun Gong practitioner from Sweden
30th October 2001