(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners held activities near the Chinese Embassy in The Hague on April 25 to commemorate a peaceful appeal in Beijing 23 years ago. Later that day, they set up a booth at the city center to expose the ongoing persecution in China.
Protest at the Chinese Embassy
April is a peak tourist time in the Netherlands because the world-famous tulips are in bloom. Despite the rain that day, practitioners came to the Chinese Embassy in The Hague and peacefully exposed the ongoing suppression in China.
The activity started at 9 a.m. as practitioners did the Falun Dafa exercises. They displayed numerous banners worded “Falun Dafa is good,” “The world needs Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance,” and, “Stop the persecution of Falun Gong in China.”
A practitioner read an open letter to tell people about the peaceful appeal of 1999. “Falun Gong is a peaceful meditation group and practitioners simply want to be better people following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. This can be seen from the peaceful appeal in Beijing in 1999 as well as all activities practitioners have held since then.
“But the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to suppress the group in July 1999 and the tragedy has lasted 23 years. Millions of Falun Gong practitioners have been discriminated against for their faith. Many were arrested, detained, and tortured and their families broken apart.
“We hope the CCP officials will listen to the facts instead of blindly following the CCP’s persecution policy. There is a Chinese saying, ‘Good is rewarded with good and evil meets evil.’ In fact, quite a few key perpetrators have met with consequences for their involvement in the persecution. From numerous political campaigns in the past, especially the Cultural Revolution, it is common for the CCP to choose scapegoats to execute to ease the public anger,” the letter continued.
In the end, practitioners called on ending the suppression and bringing former CCP leader Jiang Zemin to justice for initiating the persecution. Their letter also encouraged officials to quit the CCP organisations and avoid being implicated with the regime.
After talking with practitioners, several people who came to the Chinese embassy for paperwork agreed to renounce their memberships in the CCP organisations they’d previously joined.
