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At 10 a.m. on December
11, 2005, around one thousand people gathered in Roosevelt Park in Manhattan Chinatown
to support 6.2 millions Chinese people issuing statements online to quit the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP). Many Falun Gong practitioners from the Eastern US, including
Washington DC, participated in this rally.
It had snowed twice in December in New York. Practitioner Ms. Li drove for 6 hours
from Washington DC to participate. She said, “I participate in the rally because
of the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong. It has lasted for six years.
I hope more people will understand the evil nature of the CCP and the persecution
via reading “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party“. For more
than a half century, the CCP has persecuted too many Chinese people to death or
disability. It is so wicked. To withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations
means to choose a good future and not to be an accomplice of theCCP.”
Practitioner
Ms. Wei said, “Practitioners spreading the Nine Commentaries and
participating in related marches and rallies neither intend to overthrow the CCP
nor take power. They only want the world's people to know about the evil
nature of the CCP.”
In the rally, a representative for the World Organization
to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) said, “On November 25, 2005,
a policeman He Xuejian, in his 20s, in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province unlawfully interrogated
two practitioners: 51-year-old Liu Jizhi and 42-year-old Han Yuzhi. The he raped
them. Other police in the substation did not try to stop it, but provided a convenient
environment or left them alone. The occurrence of such atrocities is a result
of the CCP's instigation and protection of lawless law-enforcement personnel.
The CCP fabricates lies to deceive people, breeds hatred and maintains state terrorism
with violence.”
Representatives from the Global Service Center for Quitting
CCP and New York Service Center for Quitting CCP, and democracy activists such
as the chairman of the Chinese Democratic Party World Federation, chief editor
of Web Digest, and the chairman of China Peace also made speeches at the rally.
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After the rally, the participants conducted a grand
parade, attracting crowds of people. The procession started with dragon and lion
dancing, followed by a drum team, banner team, and ended with a waist drum team.
The participants in the parade include many Chinese people as well as westerners
of different ethnic origins.
Through the Nine Commentaries and quitting
the CCP events, many people have come to know about the CCP's persecution
of the Chinese people for more than a half century–and that it is ongoing. A
viewer, Mr. Liu, said that he issued a statement withdrawing from the CCP Youth
League when the total withdrawals had reached one million.
Ms. Wei from New
York pointed out, “The persecution of Falun Gong is ongoing. The CCP continues
its systematic, brutal persecution of the Chinese people. According to the Minghui
website, so far at least 2792 practitioners have been tortured to death, at least
6000 unlawfully imprisoned and more than 100,000 practitioners unlawfully sent
to labor camps.
A Chinese couple said, “The CCP is the worst. We came to the
US many years ago because of the CCP's persecution. The CCP can fabricate
lies at will based on its own needs.”
During and after the parade, many volunteers
distributed the Nine Commentaries and other literature in Chinatown.
Posting
date: 14/Dec/2005
Original article date: 13/Dec/2005
Category: World
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