Germany: People of Munich Support Practitioners' Activities to Raise Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong

On July 5th, 2008 Falun Gong practitioners held activities in the square of St. Michaels Church, in the busy business district of Munich, to expose the nine year persecution of Falun Gong and support the 39 million Chinese people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organisations.

Activities in the square of St. Michael’s Church in Munich	Passersby sign to support the petition against the persecution of Falun Gong

Attracted by the activities, many passers-by stopped to view the displayed photos illustrating the CCP's persecution of the Chinese people, in particular Falun Gong practitioners, over the past decades. They were extremely shocked to learn the regime’s atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. They signed to support the petition against the persecution one after another. Some of the overseas Chinese who had joined the CCP and its affiliated organisations in the past denounced the CCP and other affiliated organisations on the spot.

Currently, the trend of denouncing the CCP is gaining momentum, and the number of the Chinese people denouncing the CCP on the Epoch Times Website amounts to 40 thousand to 50 thousand every day. Large-scale activities supporting the CCP-quitting campaign, coupled with the spread of the “Nine Commentaries on the CCP” (an editorial published by The Epoch Times newspaper), has attracted the attention of people around the world to the Chinese regime’s persecution of its people as well as its agents’ terrorism, intimidation and kidnapping activities in the international society. In particular, the Chinese regime has escalated the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in the run-up to the Olympic Games. On the other hand, to distract the Chinese people’s resentment for the Chinese regime’s dealing with the recent earthquake disaster, the regime has instigated some Chinese thugs to stir up the violent incident in Flushing, New York to frame Falun Gong. With the exposure of all these atrocities, the Chinese regime’s trampling on human rights has become the focus of people’s attention worldwide

As many Germans have already acknowledged the fact about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners through diversified media, they favourably responded to practitioners’ solicitation of signing the petition to condemn the Chinese regime’s persecution of Falun Gong. In response to a practitioner’s explanation that the Chinese regime has harvested the organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, a German said, “It is really terrible. How could this kind of terrifying things happen today? I hope you are able to persevere exposing the Chinese regime’s atrocities.” Some Catholic sisters also signed the petition. Taiwanese tourists were very happy to see the banners supporting the Chinese people quitting the CCP and signing the petition.

Quite a lot of tourists from China and the Chinese students studying in Germany visited the booth. Some talked to practitioners for a long period of time; others hoped to understand the reason why they should withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organisations; still others had pictures taken in front of the banners; besides, some accepted the “Nine Commentaries on the CCP” and other materials, saying that they would read them at home thoroughly. In the meantime, those who had joined the CCP and its affiliated organisations filled out the CCP quitting form to denounce these evil organisations on the spot, while others expressed that they would denounce the CCP on the Epoch Times’ website.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen told our reporter, “The purpose of holding these activities is to help people further understand the CCP intrinsic evil nature and the harm it has posed to the entire world. Some of the Chinese people have already known the nature of the CCP, but many of them still have illusions about the CCP due to a lack of clear understanding of the CCP. In fact, communism originated from Germany; however, many German people are still not clear about the distinction between the CCP and China. Not only did the CCP deceive the Chinese people, it also persecuted its people and Falun Gong. The purpose of helping Chinese withdraw from the CCP is to help our countrymen awaken from being deceived by the CCP and not to persecute Falun Gong, to avoid being punished as an accomplice when the CCP is eliminated by heaven.”

A Chinese said that the CCP is very bad, but the Chinese people cannot help. Mr. Chen said, “It’s hard to find the people who really believe in the CCP. As there are over one billion people in China, why should we be fearful? All of us should screw up our courage to get rid of the CCP.” The Chinese agreed with Mr. Chen and accepted the flyer, saying that he would surf on the Internet to read more information.