Switzerland: Rally Supports Quitting the CCP and Exposes the CCP's Atrocities

On the 4th of November 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Switzerland and Germany held a rally in the Swiss capital Berne, supporting the spread of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and the withdrawal of fifteen million people from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The rally also exposed the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.

Many passers-by were attracted by this special parade and demonstrations of the beautiful Falun Gong exercises; they happily accepted leaflets. After hearing a speech exposing organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist regime, many people immediately signed a petition demanding an end to the brutal persecution of Falun Gong.

Waist Drum performance

Banner: “Chinese Communist regime harvest organs from living Falun Gong practitioners”	Banner: “Falun Gong is Great”

The tight drum formation and the calling out of “Schnell, Schnell, Schnell, aus der KPC (quickly, quickly, quickly, quit the CCP)” could be heard far away. Many people shopping in the centre of Berne stopped to watch the peaceful parade. They first saw a giant banner in German, reading: “Fifteen million Chinese people quit the Chinese Communist Party”, which was followed by a waist drum group wearing yellow traditional Chinese clothes. Accompanied by the beautiful song of “Falun Dafa is Good”, four ladies performed Chinese dancing. Behind them was a banner in German and French, reading: “Stop Persecuting Falun Gong”. One banner showed a peaceful scene of four Falun Gong practitioners doing the sitting meditation exercise, as well as photos of the Chinese police brutally beating practitioners in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

People watching and listening to information about the CCP’s organ harvesting

Please help to stop the CCP’s organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners	People of all ages practise Falun Gong in over eighty countries around the world

The parade was followed by a live re-enactment of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Two “policemen” were escorting Falun Gong practitioners who were chained up and had obviously been tortured. They were accompanied by a “doctor” wearing bloodstained clothes and holding an operating scalpel. The banner behind them explained to the people that the scene represented what is happening in China: “Chinese Communist regime harvest organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit”. People were really shocked by the scene and wanted to know more. Leaflets were distributed and practitioners talked with passers-by. The leaflets gave details of what Falun Gong is, how quitting the CCP is unfolding in China and information on the organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist regime.

A lady brought her children to see their grandmother performing in the waist drum formation. She felt that the parade was very refreshing and pure. After her mother started practising Falun Gong, she learned that Falun Gong is very good. After watching this parade, she said she would ask her mother for the book of Falun Gong’s main teaching, Zhuan Falun, so she can understand Falun Gong more deeply.

Information Stall

The parade ended in Waisenhausplatz Square where an information stand had been arranged. Posters exposing the bloody persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist regime and introducing the book Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party were arranged along three sides of the Square. After the parade group arrived, a simple “operating table” was erected in the centre of the Square. The “doctor” in the parade started to perform a re-enactment of harvesting organs. Beside the table was a small cage; a “Chinese policeman” was pushing a Falun Gong practitioner into the cage.

“What you see is what is happening in China. The Chinese Communist regime harvest organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and trade them for profit,” a practitioner called Andere explained to people through a loudspeaker. He said that Falun Gong is an ancient Chinese cultivation method that teaches people to improve their moral character by following the principles of truthfulness, compassion and forbearance. But the Chinese Communist regime does not allow people to have their own beliefs. The regime began the bloody persecution against Falun Gong practitioners on July 20th 1999.

Another speaker called Urusla described how two people from mainland China, Peter and Anne, went toe the USA and exposed the Chinese regime’s organ harvesting. The claim of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners was confirmed by a Canadian independent investigation group, thus exposing the Chinese Communist regime’s atrocity to the world. Ursula also told people that member of the Canadian independent investigation group David Kilgour reported to the UN about their findings. Finally, Ursula appealed to all people and the media to help stop this most evil atrocity.

People were a bit surprised to see the “doctor” who was enacting organ harvesting speaking: “I am Wang Xiaoyang. I got my Masters degree from the University of St. Gallen in April. But I could not share my graduation ceremony with my mother. Just because she is a Falun Gong practitioner, she has been illegally detained in a Chinese prison by the Communist regime.” Xiaoyang said that because of the Chinese Communist regime’s illegal detention of her mother, her grandmother passed away and her father is sick and weak with no one to look after him. She has heard no news about her mother for two years now. She has always been worried that her mother has been tortured. Particularly after the organ harvesting revelations, she became more worried that her mother would suffer the same fate.

Xiaoyang stressed: “Through my acting as a doctor harvesting organs today, I hope more people will be concerned with this atrocity. I hope my mother has not encountered this kind of doctor, has not been forced to lie down on the operating table and have her organs harvested, and I hope she has not been killed. In fact doctors whose duty it is to save people are forced by the Chinese Communist regime to kill people. They are also being persecuted. Our activity here is to speak out for the persecuted people in China and inform people of their suffering. Your signature, your writing letters to the media and your MP, will deliver this information to more people. This would be a great help to stop the killing.”

After listening to Xiaoyang’s personal experience and seeing the posters of Falun Gong practitioners suffering torture, people cried. Many people signed the petition to show their support for Falun Gong practitioners’ efforts in countering the persecution.

Accompanied by the beautiful exercise music, Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated to people the five sets of slow motion exercises. Andere explained to people the character of each exercise and the time and location of Falun Gong exercise sites in Berne. He appealed to people again that behind the beautiful Falun Gong exercise demonstration, the atrocity of harvesting organs of live Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist regime is happening in China.

We will tell more people about the truth

A young lady told your reporter that she carefully read the posters about Falun Gong practitioners being tortured. “This is like what Hitler did before. This is really terrible. I hope we can stop this. We are all human.” When she learned that she could help by signing the petition, she immediately went to sign.

People sign the petition calling for an end to the brutal persecution

Daniel, a Falun Gong practitioner from Zurich, said: “It is very important to tell people the true picture and let the whole world know. Joining the parade could help people. I am happy to see fellow practitioners and provide my support. This is good.”

Mrs Zhang from Berne is over sixty years old. She and other practitioners performed on waist drums for about one hour in the parade. She told your reporter excitedly: “I am not tired. My spirit is very high. My throat has been a bit sore lately. But when calling out “Schnell, Schnell, Schnell, aus der KPC (quickly, quickly, quickly, quit CCP)”, my voice was fine.”

Mr Zhang, who came to join the activity with friends from Germany, talked about coming from far away to attend the parade: “This is my duty. Out of my conscience, I came to let more people know the truth.”