(Minghui.org) Greetings, signatures, handshakes, hugs… This is how tourists from all over the world—as well as the Irish—expressed their support for Falun Dafa practitioners in their efforts to expose the persecution.
Practitioners held an event on a bustling commercial street in the centre of the capital, Dublin, on October 22, 2022. They demonstrated the exercises, distributed information, and collected signatures on a petition to end the persecution. Many visitors from China also expressed their admiration for Falun Dafa practitioners’ courage and persistence.
The brutalities portrayed in the pictures of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tortures practitioners was in stark contrast to the peaceful and graceful exercise demonstrations that attracted passersby to stop and watch and take pictures.
People sign a petition calling for an end to the persecution of Falun Dafa at an event in Dublin on October 22.
Overseas Chinese Voice Their Support
In Ireland on a business trip, a woman from China was walking in downtown Dublin when she noticed practitioners meditating and stopped to chat. She said she’s been to several countries and seen practitioners holding events and demonstrating the exercises many times.
A practitioner told her that there are Falun Dafa practitioners in more than 100 countries around the world, but only in mainland China are they brutally persecuted, “If Falun Dafa is really as terrible as the CCP’s media claims it is, then why is it practiced in so many countries?” The lady nodded in agreement. She used a pseudonym to withdraw from the Youth League she’d once joined and thanked the practitioner, saying, “You have worked hard!”
A young lady from Wuhan, China, said she’d just earned her Master’s degree and now works in Ireland. She told a practitioner that she first heard of the persecution of Falun Dafa and the CCP state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting in a video when she was in Wuhan two years ago during the COVID lockdown. The evidence presented in the video shocked her. She said that she wept as she watched the short film. She couldn’t believe how a political party could do such inhumane things to people that believed in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. “It’s really cruel!” she said.
After seeing the video, she withdrew her application at work to join the Chinese Communist Party and told her parents about the CCP’s crimes of organ harvesting. She said that she admired Falun Dafa practitioners and was totally disappointed at the current situation in China. She was sad to be Chinese.
The practitioner told her that practitioners clarify the truth to Chinese people because they want them to be safe. The young lady seemed glad to quit the Youth League and Young Pioneers, two Communist Party-affiliated organizations.
Ms. Li, a financial clerk in a nearby company who moved to Ireland more than 20 years ago, noticed the practitioners’ event during her lunch break. She said she never uses WeChat app (a popular smartphone application controlled by the Chinese government that can collect users’ personal information and monitor users’ posts) and realised the disasters in China are caused by the CCP. “ The CCP is really not a good thing!” She quit the Young Pioneers, an organisation she’d joined in elementary school.
A Swedish family supports Falun Dafa.
People Support Practitioners’ Efforts to Expose the Persecution
Aiden and Rebecca brought their daughter downtown to buy a birthday gift. They noticed the display boards and stopped to read them. The couple said they’d never heard of Falun Dafa before. After talking with practitioners, they learned that countless Chinese people lost their freedom, were tortured, and even had their organs harvested just because of their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. They immediately signed the petition to end the forced organ harvesting from practitioners in China.
