Slovakia: Falun Gong in Levice and Kremnica

On Friday September 8th, practitioners of Falun Gong visited Levice city in Slovakia. Although to begin with the weather was rather cloudy, they put up a table with a petition against the persecution, erected the banner stands showing the scenes from the persecution and started to practice the peaceful Falun Gong exercises.

The passers-by took flyers. Many of them were students of secondary schools who couldn’t imagine a persecution of such scale. They also couldn’t remember a parallel with the behavior of the communist regime in Slovakia, which was strongly emphasized by older generations. As one construction worker saw a banner disclosing the torture of women in Chinese prisons, he immediately signed the petition and also invited his colleague to do the same, which they did. He also thanked us for doing something about the situation in China.

One citizen of Levice, who was worried about national discords in Slovakia, signed our petition as he saw that we support the values of tolerance and goodness.

In the afternoon a few children from Levice wanted to imitate Falun Gong practitioners and they also wanted to learn the exercises. They patiently repeated movements of the exercises, which one of the practitioners showed them and afterwards they also decided to help us with distributing flyers.

Saturday morning belonged to another city, Kremnica. Thanks to an announcement in a local broadcast, there were already a few people waiting for us, to learn more about Falun Gong. Two ladies were impressed by the paper lotus flowers, which we gave to children, they were happy to learn the technique of making the lotus flowers themselves.

Our petition was signed also by a few tourists from Poland who came to Kremnica for a visit. They practiced Tai-chi and couldn’t understand why the Chinese government persecutes the peaceful exercises.

During these two days we gathered about two hundred signatures to our petition.