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July 20th Press Statement from the Belgian Falun Gong Association

July 25, 2004

Respect people's lives and end the human right violations against Falun Gong practitioners: Five-year peaceful appeal shows the power of truthfulness-compassion-tolerance

We are Falun Gong practitioners from Belgium. For five years since the 20th of July 1999, with peace and rationality we have been facing the persecutory campaign by the Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin in his attempt to 'eradicate' Falun Gong.

Such a persecution against humanity throughout the world is still going on. The whole of China is turned into a tool to implement Jiang's personal vicious will and exterminate belief in 'truthfulness-compassion-tolerance', which are the main principles of Falun Gong. Inhumane brainwashing, torture, various ill-treatments, murder, hate propaganda, etc.; all evil methods throughout history, are used against innocent Falun Gong practitioners, their families and friends. Millions of innocent people are victims. Over 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been verified as being killed by the Chinese authorities' persecution. More and more horrible cases of violence continue to be revealed...

To endanger the world, Jiang and his accomplices extended terrorism beyond China's borders. The recent shooting incident in South Africa, where Falun Gong practitioner David Liang was shot by a hired gunman with an AK-47 rifle while on his way to file legal charges against the two visiting Chinese officials, clearly shows that the criminals responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong do not even shun terrorism to cover up their crimes against humanity.

Recently, the 'Chinese culture' is used to make the persecution penetrate into other countries and to poison people, such as what happened in Paris in January 2004. Innocent Falun Gong practitioners were illegally detained by French police as the result of Jiang exporting his persecution via Chinese cultural activities.

No nation or people with conscience could ignore such inhumane crimes, and let the genocide and torture continue. We witnessed that more and more people have taken actions to condemn and stop the persecution. Legal actions have been taken worldwide to bring those responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong to justice, including in Belgium and many other European countries.

Today, we are commemorating those Falun Gong practitioners who have sacrificed for their beliefs. We believe that with efforts from each of us in the international community, including you, me and others, we can end this persecution, the most vicious in the history of mankind, and save more people's lives. We are already on the way to success.

Falun Gong Association in Belgium

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