“In Chinese culture, it is commonly accepted in thought and practice that bad people should die. For the first few years after Falun Gong was introduced to the public, the government of China used its vast propaganda machine to encourage everyone to practise Falun Gong. Amongst the many benefits, practitioners were saving the country billions of dollars in health care. When a government survey concluded in 1998 that the number of practitioners exceeded membership in the Communist Party, President Jiang Zemin instituted the current crackdown. Since July of 1999, the Government of China has flooded the country with lies and false information. The intent? To make everyone in the country believe that Falun Gong is bad and to raise no objections when authorities torture practitioners to death.
And so, Falun Gong practitioners often shout out "Falun Gong is Good" and hold up banners in Tiananmen Square that say "Falun Gong is Good". Practitioners are publishing the truth of the persecution and details of deaths in custody -- information that is not allowed to be known through state-controlled media. This truth-clarifying information is distributed through flyers, CDs, television programs such as this one, and also, as in the following account, hanging banners in conspicuous places to help their fellow countrymen know the truth, that Falun Gong is indeed, very good.
Over the October 1st National Day holiday period some practitioners in Beijing risked their lives by putting up 30 six-meter banners and 6 loudspeakers to broadcast the true story of Falun Gong. Four banners and two loudspeakers were erected near Tiananmen Square, with one of the speakers placed at the base of the flagpole. These achievements are quite significant, considering that so many plain clothes police are constantly patrolling the area”
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6th November
“On October 20, 2001, about 120 Falun Dafa practitioners from Britain, France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands gathered on the square in front of the World Court in the Hague, where many war criminals have been tried and sentenced.
The statement read at the press conference strongly demanded that Jiang Zemin's government immediately release practitioner Zhao Ming, a Ph.D. candidate at Trinity College in Dublin. And they appealed to the international community to make more effort to rescue Zhao Ming. The speech also demanded that Jiang Zemin's government dismantle and abolish the "610 Office" (an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems) that was established to carry out the crackdown on Falun Gong and immediately stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. “
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/12/21/17000.html
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/12/21/17001.html
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