(Clearwisdom.net) The Swedish Malmo Festival started on August 21 2005 and many tourists went to the National Park to watch different activities. On the lawn of the northeastern part of the park, Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the practice's exercises, performed waist-drum and dances, staged an exhibition and ran a "Folding Paper Lotus Flowers" project.

Beside a sign reading, "Rescue the orphans of Falun Gong practitioners" in Swedish, many adults and children sat around a table. They were listening to practitioners talking about the stories of some featured Chinese children, while folding lotus flowers.

"The boy who is demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises there is Liu Xiaotian. After he escaped from China, he came to Denmark. When he was sixteen years old, both of his parents were persecuted to death because of practising Falun Gong. He once lived alone for one year without anyone assisting or taking care of him. He often weeps for long periods of time and wakes up from nightmares."

"Rongrong, four years old, lost three family members who loved her most. Sometimes, she will climb onto a stool and bend over the table to kiss the urn which contains her father's ashes. Sometimes she will innocently tell others, 'My father is in heaven.'

"Rongrong's father, Zou Songtao, was arrested by the Chinese police because he was not willing to give up the belief of 'Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.' Her father was viciously beaten with electric batons by Wan Xin and Shao Zhenghua, the policemen in the labour camp in Zibowang Village, Shandong Province on November 3rd, 2000. Afterwards, he fell from the building in which he was tortured on the same day. He was only twenty eight years old when he died. Because Jiang Zemin gave the secret order: "If Falun Gong practitioners are beaten to death, the authorities can regard it as suicide," many people believe that Zou was forced off the upper story of the building or was thrown from a window after he was beaten to death to create a 'suicide scene.'

"Rongrong's mother, Zhang Yunhe, was forced to flee from home to avoid arrest because of her belief. Afterwards, she was sent to Dashan female prison in Qingdao and has been imprisoned since then. Rongrong had to live with her grandparents when she was only two and a half years old. However, her grandmother in her sixties could not endure losing her son-in-law and forced-separation with her daughter, and she passed away in August 2001."

"Xuanxuan, five years old, has not seen her father for three years. Since she was two years old, she had to flee from home with her mother and grandparents. One night last February, these three adults were taken to a brainwashing centre in Harbin. Xuanxuan silently sat alone for a whole night."

"Little Kaixin often weeps by herself. Both of her parents are Falun Gong practitioners. When she was one and a half years old, her mother, Luo Zhixiang, was persecuted to death on the 5th of December 2002. Her father, Huang Guohua, was also persecuted and illegally detained by the authorities. Kaixin was raised by her paternal grandparents. She has never revealed her mother's death to her maternal grandmother. With kindhearted people's help, Kaixin and her father have been rescued abroad."

Nearly 2,700 deaths of Falun Gong practitioners have been verified during the past six years of cruel persecution in Mainland China; however, the actual number of deaths is believed to be much higher. There are still hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned in labour camps, prisons and mental hospitals, where they are subjected to torture, brainwashing and forced slave labor.

During the persecution of a hundred million Falun Gong practitioners, about ten million children in China have been affected. Many children have been expelled from school, become homeless, discriminated against and detained with their parents, and some have even been persecuted to death. Many children have become orphans because their parents were persecuted to death. The ages of the orphans are between five and eighteen. Some orphans only stayed with their parents for a short time before their parents were persecuted to death. Most orphans cannot get any help from the Chinese society. Some orphans don't even know that their parents have already passed away and are deeply traumatized. They urgently need help.

Many people came to the paper lotus flower folding table. Some parents who had listened to the explanations told newcomers the meaning of folding the paper lotus flowers and the stories of the orphans in China. People left with leaflets and the lotus flowers they had made. Many of them expressed their deep sympathy for the orphans.

Source http://clearharmony.net/articles/200509/28551.html