Falun Gong's 12-year Peaceful Resistance to the CCP's Persecution
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Today marks the 12th anniversary of one of the largest campaigns against people of conscience in China. On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party brutally cracked down on the Falun Gong spiritual group. For twelve years, practitioners from around the world have been calling for an end to the persecution. This week they hold candle light vigils to commemorate those who've died at the hands of the Chinese regime.
Twelve years after the Chinese Communist Party launched a brutal campaign to eradicate them, Falun Gong practitioners are lighting up hope. Last Friday ahead of the anniversary of the persecution that began on July 20, 1999, two thousand practitioners took part in a candle light vigil in Washington, D.C.
For one woman who experienced abuse first hand, the vigil is a tribute to those who've died in the persecution.
[Zhang Lianying, Falun Gong Practitioner]:
"My husband and I know more than twenty practitioners—some are good friends, others are neighbors. Some were beaten to death just four days after being arrested. We came overseas so that we can tell more people, asking them to stand up and stop the persecution in China."
Falun Gong is a meditation practice with five sets of gentle exercises and teachings based on the principles of truth, compassion and tolerance. It was first taught to the public in China in 1992 and became widely popular. On July 20, 1999, the then leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Jiang Zemin, launched a nationwide campaign to eradicate Falun Gong.
[Erping Zhang, Spokesperson of the Falun Dafa Information Center]:
"When Jiang Zemin waged the persecution in 1999, he started the campaign short of legal grounds. In fact this persecution itself is against China's constitution which has a clause of freedom of religion and freedom of conscience."
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Today marks the 12th anniversary of one of the largest campaigns against people of conscience in China. On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party brutally cracked down on the Falun Gong spiritual group. For twelve years, practitioners from around the world have been calling for an end to the persecution. This week they hold candle light vigils to commemorate those who've died at the hands of the Chinese regime.
Twelve years after the Chinese Communist Party launched a brutal campaign to eradicate them, Falun Gong practitioners are lighting up hope. Last Friday ahead of the anniversary of the persecution that began on July 20, 1999, two thousand practitioners took part in a candle light vigil in Washington, D.C.
For one woman who experienced abuse first hand, the vigil is a tribute to those who've died in the persecution.
[Zhang Lianying, Falun Gong Practitioner]:
"My husband and I know more than twenty practitioners—some are good friends, others are neighbors. Some were beaten to death just four days after being arrested. We came overseas so that we can tell more people, asking them to stand up and stop the persecution in China."
Falun Gong is a meditation practice with five sets of gentle exercises and teachings based on the principles of truth, compassion and tolerance. It was first taught to the public in China in 1992 and became widely popular. On July 20, 1999, the then leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Jiang Zemin, launched a nationwide campaign to eradicate Falun Gong.
[Erping Zhang, Spokesperson of the Falun Dafa Information Center]:
"When Jiang Zemin waged the persecution in 1999, he started the campaign short of legal grounds. In fact this persecution itself is against China's constitution which has a clause of freedom of religion and freedom of conscience."