While Irish Falun Gong Practitioners were Commemorating the "4.25" Peaceful Appeal, an Eyewitness Pointed Out that the Persecution is a "Long-Premeditated Scheme"

On April the 25th, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the “4.25” peaceful appeal, Irish Falun Gong practitioners went to the Chinese Embassy in Dublin to practise Falun Gong exercises, and displayed banners reading “Falun Dafa, Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance” and “Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice”.

Irish Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Ming said, “We often practise the exercises outside the Chinese Embassy and thereby the staff of the Embassy have become more and more accustomed to our appeals. Since the message we convey in our appeals is to bring Jiang Zemin and his accomplices who persecute Falun Gong to justice, as opposed to aiming at the government, more and more officials in the Chinese government have come to know that this persecution is wasting money and not supported by the people’s hearts, and that it is not the entire Chinese Government’s decision”.

Ming also added, “I started to practise Falun Gong as early as 1994. All the senior practitioners in Beijing know that the suppression of Falun Gong is actually a long-premeditated scheme. The first article criticising Falun Gong was published in the Guangming Daily in 1996, which was an unfounded slanderous criticism used in the Great Cultural Revolution period. What was stated in the article was entirely untrue. Therefore, as long as these kinds of articles were published, many Falun Gong practitioners would clarify the facts to the newspaper authorities. If we had not explained the facts, the persecution would have been initiated long before.”