The activity started at 3:00 p.m. and over one hundred practitioners sat in an orderly fashion. A white board was set up in front, and it showed the names of 396 practitioners who were tortured to death. Some practitioners held banners behind it, which read, "Falun Dafa is good" and "Completely deny the evil's murder and slander, all people holding justice step forward to stop the persecution of Falun Gong." Between Fa Zheng Nian (see photo 1) and practising the exercises, a practitioner read an open petition statement, updated information on the persecution in Changchun and some recent death cases due to the persecution. Some practitioners distributed flyers to passers-by and clarified the truth to them.
The candlelight vigil started at 7:00 PM and ended at 9:00 PM. A candle was lit before each practitioner. In the meeting, all the names of the nearly 400 practitioners tortured to death were read. From the afternoon to the evening, many people passed through Chater Garden, and many of them stopped to look at the poster boards. Some said in shock after seeing them, "How come so many died!" Before the end of the activity, an American tourist said, "I am a Christian, but like many other American people, I support the rights of Falun Gong practitioners for their beliefs and practice."
Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/4/14/20972.html
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2002/4/13/28434.html
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