Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners Welcome Wen Jiabao to Europe

From May the 1st, Wen Jiabao will pay a visit to five countries in Europe, and his first stop will be Germany. A couple of weeks ago, Falun Gong practitioners in Berlin began taking the initiative to contact the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and the police stations in various districts of Berlin to make clear Falun Gong practitioners’ position towards the upcoming visit of Chinese officials, i.e. to welcome Wen Jiabao to Europe and urge him to bring Jiang Zemin to justice. In the meantime, they explained the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong in China to German officials, and told them that the appeal activities organised by Falun Gong practitioners in Germany for the past five years were all peaceful and legitimate, and that German Falun Gong practitioners would like to make every effort to help Germany’s authorities and police understand Falun Gong. They also told them that they will keep in close contact with the police before and during the activities, as well as cooperate with them closely.

A Falun Gong practitioner in Berlin, Ms. Zheng said: "During Wen Jiabao’s visit to Germany, German Falun Gong practitioners will hold a series of appeal activities. We’d like to welcome him, and hope that he can understand the true situation about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. We also want to urge him to immediately stop this suppression against the extensive kind-hearted Falun Gong adherents as well as punish seriously the prime culprit Jiang Zemin and his followers, with a view to the interests of the entire nation and our national future. In the past five years, all the activities held by Falun Gong practitioners are to counteract this persecution as well as to expose the lies and slanderous propaganda geared to sustain this persecution. We also urge all the kind-hearted people in the world, including the Chinese government officials at various levels who do not support this persecution, to learn the facts. In fact these officials are also the victims of this persecution.

"Out of his own jealousy and greed for power, Jiang Zemin insisted on his own prejudice to initiate this persecution, and abuse his authority to mobilise the entire national machine to carry out and maintain this persecution. The diehard followers of Jiang’s orders, such as Luo Gan, Zhou Yongkang, Liu Jing, Chen Zhili, Sun Jiazheng, etc. were arranged to have a position in the government agencies that play critical roles in sustaining this persecution, such as the CPC Political and Legislative Affairs Committee, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Propaganda, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education. At present these people still hold these important positions. That’s one of the reasons why this persecution can still be sustained. But we also found that through Falun Gong practitioners’ incessant explanation of the facts in recent years, more and more people in the world, especially in China, have come to learn the facts, and more and more people have stood up bravely to oppose the persecution. As a matter of fact, once the foundation of lies that sustain the persecution collapses, the persecution will be over, and the prime culprits of the persecution, Luo Gan, Zhou Yongkang, Liu Jing, etc. will be brought before the tribunal of moral justice."

The spokeswoman of the German Falun Gong Information Centre, Ms. Lilge-Stodieck, expressed that Falun Gong practitioners and officials of the German Federal Criminal Police Administration, which is the agency responsible for security measures for state-visit officials, have recently held talks. Falun Gong practitioners, based on their compassionate and cooperative attitude, clarified the misunderstanding resulting from the Jiang group’s lies. Ms. Lilge-Stodieck said, “Falun Gong's principles are ‘Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance', and we deal with all people in accordance with these principles. We hope that our direct contact with the German police authorities will make their work become easier. Since after they witness in person Falun Gong practitioners’ compassionate and cooperative nature and learn that Falun Gong practitioners will truly look at things from the other person’s perspective, the lies made up by Jiang’s regime to frame Falun Gong will naturally collapse. German officials can thus give correct orders, and German police will have far less pressure when carrying out their enforcement."

Since early April, Berlin practitioners have held Falun Dafa Information Day activities in various districts of Berlin to clarify the facts to the public. The banners reading “Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice on Genocide and Crimes against Humanity” always attracted passersby’s special attention.