December 10th, 2004 was World Human Rights Day. Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioners held an anti-torture exhibition. Before noon, more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Chater Gardens to call upon the public to help stop the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong, which has lasted for five years. This year's activity included a live reenactment of several torture methods used to force practitioners to renounce their belief in Falun Dafa and its principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.
From midday to evening, many people were attracted and showed concern, and people were shocked to learn that the brutal nature of the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong has reached such an extent. An elderly woman said, "I was very afraid just passing by there. How could this be happening? I was almost scared to death." She has been in Hong Kong for years, and seldom returns to Mainland China because she does not agree with the way that the Chinese authorities handle things. The Communist Party is certainly wrong for persecuting people like this. Some tourists from Mainland China wanted to learn Falun Gong, but felt helpless in the face of the circumstances in the Mainland.
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Dr. Lionel Jensen, Dean of the Department of East Asia Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame happened to pass by the site of the anti-torture exhibition. He said to the correspondent from The Epoch Times that many Americans who practise religion felt sad for the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of religious beliefs. Even those Americans who do not have any faith also felt sad for the Chinese Communist Party's treatment of Falun Gong by observing and via the information from the news.
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| Dr. Jensen says that he is sad at the Chinese Communist Party's treatment of Falun Gong. |
Dr. Jensen also expressed that the torture methods Falun Gong practitioners reenacted on the street are far from brutal compared with what practitioners in China truly suffer. He thought it is necessary to hold anti-torture exhibitions and important to let the public learn that many people are suffering these tortures in the Mainland, and some even tortured to death.
Beginning December 12th, Monday, Falun Gong practitioners will continue holding anti-torture exhibitions in several places, letting more people gain a deeper understanding of the inhumane persecution.
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