Recently, many foreign media have attacked the Party for covering up the SARS situation and they stated that the Chinese officials’ lies “will cost the world many lives and heavy economic loss.”
The value of deals at China’s top trade fair slumped to a quarter of previous levels — the worst showing in 15 years — state media said on Wednesday, in the latest sign that SARS is hitting Asia’s fastest growing economy.
Had I not been familiar with Falun Gong, I too would have believed the propaganda.
Individuals who have exposed the illegal detention, torture and deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese police custody have been charged with “leaking state secrets,” and sentenced to prison terms or held in detention and tortured themselves.
The World Truth Forum will examine topics such as Justice, China and the Law, as well as Human Rights and Civil Liberties.
The theme for the Parade was “Bendigo – golden past, golden future.”
Our parade entry fitted this theme very well. We represented some of the golden past of traditional Chinese culture with authentic Tang dynasty costumes and beautiful dancers including showing the ancient Falun Dafa Qi gong exercises and meditation.
Sources tell TIME that before the WHO team arrived at the hospital, 31 coughing, shivering staff members who had caught SARS from patients were hastily loaded into ambulances and driven around until the investigators left.
On March 3, 2003, Dafa practitioner Tang Fafen was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor. She was brutally tortured in the Zizhong Female Labor Camp in Sichuan Province. On April 12, 2003, Tang Fafen was released, on the verge of death, and passed away at home two days later.
Many people have died of SARS simply because China is not free, and
educated
Chinese today will be brooding about that.
A general sense of making a difference and presenting an event that was an attempt to touch people’s hearts. It was prominent to everyone that Falun Gong was a peaceful practice, and the practitioners that were at Bondi Beach displayed dignity and well-being.
I would like to share the following poem about the commemoration event that took place on Bondi Beach on 26th April 2003, remembering the Zhongnanhai incident of 25 April 1999.
Only when the truth is revealed about the innocent lives lost at the hands
of this regime will the damages born from its lies and propaganda be
tallied.