Finland: Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition held in Helsinki

Between June 20th and July 1st, 2006, the second Finnish Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition was held at Galleria Oma Huone on Kalevankatu Street in central Helsinki. This is the second time a Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance International Art Exhibition has been held in Finland following the first exhibition, which closed on June 5th this year.

The venue for the exhibition was in the city centre and visitors came in a constant stream. The practitioners explaining the artworks to visitors were often kept very busy.

When a woman saw the painting Red Wall by Prof. Kunlun Zhang, she could not help weeping and was too sad to look at it any longer. In the painting, the CCP has changed China into a huge prison with the huge character of ‘crackdown’ forming a ghastly, bloody ‘Red wall’. Falun Gong practitioners were being tortured but did not succumb, instead their bodies was shining with uncompromising courage.

When four visitors from the Middle East saw the paintings Poisonous Injection and Forced Feeding, one of them said he was a doctor and he understood that these practices were very cruel.

A restaurant staff member who visited the exhibition came back with his friend and explained the paintings to him. When they saw the paintings describing the torture practitioners were suffering, his friend asked if it happened a long time ago. Practitioner told them it was happening right now and that the CCP is harvesting organs from live practitioners to make huge profits and cremating their bodies to destroy evidence. The two people said the hairs on the back of their necks stood up at this horrible news, it was beyond imagination.

A nurse from Kenya passed by the gallery on her way back from work. She got a leaflet from a practitioner and came to visit the exhibition. She listened very carefully when practitioners explained the painting to her. She said from this exhibition, she learnt not only the persecution of Falun Gong but also the evilness of the CCP; however, some Finns had not heard the truth, including her husband. She wants her husband to know more about this, so practitioner gave her a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, an eiditorial published by The Epoch Times newspaper.

When a visitor knew that Prof. Kunlun Zhang, the painter of Red Wall, was persecuted in China because he is a practitioner, he said, "No, China has Mao Zedong, Chinese people are living happily". Then practitioners told him about the persecution of Falun Gong from July 20th, 1999, and the huge wave of over ten million people withdrawing from the Party after the Nine Commentaries, which exposed the evil nature of the CCP, were published he was dumb and could not reply. A practitioner told him that maybe his opinions were infused by the information sent out by CCP and if he could read the Nine Commentaries with his heart, he would have his own right opinions. That man accepted a copy of the Nine Commentaries and thanked practitioner and said he would read it.

Before leaving the exhibition, most of them signed their name on the petition against the persecution of Falun Gong and asked for more material.