On February 14, 2004, Melbourne Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference A Falun Gong spokesperson in Melbourne said, “On the evening of the She said that technically speaking, what the Falun Gong practitioners in She continued that on June 6, 1999 the dreaded “6-10 Office” was She also said that Jiang has attempted to ‘eradicate’ Falun Gong by On February 14, the temperature in Melbourne reached as high as 41 degrees C. One coordinator in the Melbourne Falun Dafa Association expressed that Jiang Australian National TV Station, TV Channel No.9, New Tang Dynasty TV and the
in front of the Chinese Consulate-General, protesting the latest deaths of Falun
Gong practitioners as a result of the persecution, and calling for bringing the
chief perpetrator Jiang Zemin, and other officials mainly responsible for the
deaths, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang, and the murderers to justice.
Valentine’s Day when couples celebrate being together, we cannot forget our
friends, relatives and fellow practitioners in China who are suffering
persecution. Recently, more Falun Gong practitioners died as a result of the
persecution. The known death toll has rapidly increased to 884. In addition,
Chinese police have recently launched a new round of large-scale raids and
arrests, and many practitioners have been taken away.”
China are suffering is genocide according to the definition of the 1948 U.N.
Convention Against Genocide.
set up to systematically and exclusively persecute Falun Gong on the orders of
Jiang Zemin. It employs imprisonment without trial, forceful indoctrination,
sexual and psychiatric abuse, torture (inflicted even upon the elderly and very
young), and murder. Its aim is to terrorize and dominate the minds of Falun Gong
practitioners to the point where they succumb and give up the spiritual practice
that gave them improved health and high moral character.
whatever means necessary. The choices Falun Gong practitioners are given is
“transform or die.” Jiang’s strategy has been to “defame their
reputations, bankrupt them financially, destroy them physically,” and
“the death of Falun Gong practitioners from beating is nothing and shall be
counted as suicide; the body shall be directly cremated without investigating
the person’s identification.”
The hot weather didn’t affect Falun Gong practitioners’ resolution to rescue
their fellow practitioners in China. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ling said,
“Some people say that we are involved in politics, some say that we are
against the Chinese government, but actually neither of them is correct. We
don’t have any political agenda; our sole purpose to come here is to call upon
kind-hearted and righteous people around the world to show concern over this
escalating persecution of Falun Gong in China. We also call for bringing the
chief perpetrators Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang, and the
police who murdered Falun Gong practitioners to justice.”
should be held accountable for killing innocent Falun Gong practitioners and be
put on trial. He has been sued for the crimes of genocide, torture and crimes
against humanity around the world. One of his crimes was staging the
“Self-immolation on Tiananmen Square to frame and slander Falun Gong
practitioners.”
Epoch Times in Melbourne came to conduct interviews.
Posting date: 18/Feb/2004
Original article date: 16/Feb/2004
Category: Australian News
