Falun Gong Protests China Policy

Campus Report ^ | July 24, 2008 | Rachel Paulk

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Falun Gong Protests China Policy

by: Rachel Paulk, July 24, 2008

Falun Gong practitioners met on Friday, July 18th, near the Washington Monument to protest Communist China’s treatment of the peaceful religious sect. Holding signs with statements such as “If you don’t believe what the Communists say about Tibet, why would you believe what they say about Falun Gong?” and “Support 40 Million People Resigning from Chinese Communist Party,” over two thousand people met to raise awareness of the group’s persecution by the Chinese Communists. Officially outlawed July 20th, 1999, the Falun Gong practitioners have weathered a brutal crackdown in both the red Mainland and overseas as well.

The upcoming Olympics have Communist officials scrambling to clean up the street. Zhou Yongkang, Chinese Minister of Public Security, stated in a speech in 2007 that “We must make efforts to create a harmonious society and a good social environment for successfully holding the 17th Communist Party Congress and the Beijing Olympic Games [...] We must strike hard at hostile forces at home and abroad, such as ethnic separatists, religious extremists, violent terrorists and ‘heretical organizations’ like the Falun Gong who carry out destabilizing activities.”

Joel Chipkar, an Italian-American convert to Falun Gong, asserted that “They’ve already arrested 8,000 Falun Gong practitioners from January 2008” in their efforts to eliminate the religious faction.

Branded as a “heretical organization” by the Communist regime, Falun Gong practitioners not only face the threat of the CCP’s brutal disapproval, but also suffer from a malicious propaganda campaign as well, they are quick to point out. Chipkar noted that “The number one weapon in every genocide campaign in history—every persecution you can think of from Hitler to Rwanda to Bosnia—the number one weapon is hate propaganda.” Falun Gong is no stranger to the malicious propaganda campaign.....

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