Finland: Supporting Thirteen Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party

On September 9th, 2006, at the time of the EU summit meeting held in the Finnish capital Helsinki, Friends of Falun Gong, volunteers from The Epoch Times newspaper and Falun Gong practitioners held an assembly and parade activity supporting the thirteen million people who have withdrawn from the CCP and protesting against the atrocity of the CCP harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.

The assembly gathered in Nalinkadri Square at 11 o’clock in the morning, Falun Gong practitioner Doctor Weiyi Wang from America, one of the Canadian independent investigation report authors Mr. David Kilgour and a Falun Gong practitioner Ms Daiying from Norway who has been put in prison for five years in China to be cruelly persecuted, gave a short speech respectively, together appealing to the international community to pay attention to China’s human rights record.

Assembly spokesperson	David Kilgour giving a speech

Waist-drummers procession	Little kids holding 'No CCP' banners

Mourning those Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted to death	Reenactment of organ harvesting

Banners in the parade

People watching the parade

Ms. Weiyi Wang said that the CCP’s atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners seeking huge profits and burning the corpses to extinguish the evidence should gain international attention, appealing to the Finnish government to stand out and support Falun Gong practitioners against this persecution.

Ms. Daiying told everybody, she was put in prison being persecuted for five years in China and nearly lost her sight. She appealed to the international society to request the Chinese government to stop persecution of Falun Gong.

Mr. David Kilgour called on all foreigners to ask those tourists from China, why the Chinese government let such people like Ms. Daiying work as a slave labourer. He also told people that he and another author of the independent investigation report, Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas are prepared to nominate the famous Chinese human rights lawyer Zhisheng Gao who has been locked up in China for the Nobel peace prize next year.

The parade started from Nalinkadri Square with the Chinese traditional waist drummers taking the lead, they went through the city centre business area for about two hours. During the parade, a passer-by who grew up in the former Soviet, expressed his views in relation to organ harvesting from living people: ‘‘I think this behaviour is totally wrong. Human rights should dominate everything. Their doings are not human behaviour; I think they are more like animals. They do not respect individual lives but do everything for money.’’

A Finnish inhabitant mentioned the CCP’s control of the media Network: ‘‘I know that the problem with Chinese network blockage. I used to work for Amnesty International in London; our website cannot be viewed in China.

A lady said, ‘‘China needs to be free, now is the time.’’

The Finnish media carried a report about this parade and indicated that Finnish people have a deeper and broader understanding of Chinese human rights’ current situation due to recent media attention and reporting.