(Clearwisdom.net) On June 5, 2009, the New York Falun Dafa Association and the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) held a rally on the square in front of the United Nations in New York. They called on the international community to help stop the CCP's ten-year-long persecution of Falun Gong.

It was raining heavily in New York. Several hundred Falun Gong practitioners and people from all walks of life stood in the rain, holding banners with the message, "Disintegrate the Chinese Communist Party, Stop the Persecution" and other truth-clarification messages. They also acknowledged the thousands of Falun Gong practitioners who have lost their lives in the persecution. Ms. Martha Flores-Vazquez, a community leader in New York, Chinese scholar Yanjun Sun, democracy advocates Boqiao Tang, Jun Wang, and Kexue Zheng, and quite a few people who were persecuted in China participated in the rally.

"We cannot let such crimes continue"

Falun Gong spokesperson Erping Zhang said, "Ten years ago, the CCP used its entire state machinery and initiated an unprecedented, brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. To force practitioners to give up their belief, the CCP applied various tortures and even conducted live organ harvesting [of incarcerated Falun Gong practitioners] for lucrative profit."

It is estimated that over the last ten years of persecution, at least several thousand Falun Gong practitioners were tortured to death. Over 3,000 of these cases have been documented. At least more than 100,000 practitioners are still imprisoned in forced labor camps and mental hospitals, suffering forced labor, brainwashing and torture.

Mr. Zhang said, "We stand in front of the United Nations to remind the international community to pay attention to the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. For ten years the persecution has not stopped but instead has escalated. We cannot let such crimes continue."

Community leader, "I always support you!"

Ms. Martha Flores-Vazquez, a community leader in Flushing, called on all circles in New York and the international community to work together to end the persecution. She said, "You [Falun Gong practitioners] have the right to practice your own belief in the United Stated and in the world. I always support you."

Chinese scholar Mr. Yanjun Sun, who studies religious psychology, reminded the international community that keeping silent perpetuates the crime and disasters will follow.

Mr. Sun pointed out that when the CCP's former leader claimed he would eliminate Falun Gong within three months, no one suspected that it would be otherwise, since the docile Chinese people have gotten used to autocratic tyranny.

He said, "But Falun Gong practitioners' steadfast belief and uncompromising courage prevailed over the CCP's arrogant attempt. Ten years have passed. Falun Gong practitioners peacefully and rationally continue to protest the CCP's violence and lies. Though experiencing unimaginable torture, killing, and even genocide, Falun Gong practitioners have maintained their steadfast belief and become stronger. Now Falun Gong has spread across the world and won respect."

Mr. Sun pointed out, "Falun Gong's Truth-Compassion-Forbearance prevails over the CCP's Falsehood-Evil-Violence. Falun Gong has created a miracle in history, of peacefully protesting violence. The CCP's anti-human nature is exposed completely. Disintegration of the CCP is inevitable."

Mr. Sun said, "Human being needs to make a choice about reestablishing morality. Stopping the persecution is the beginning of such efforts to save ourselves. All righteous forces in the world must take action immediately!"

The best way to stop the persecution is disintegration of the CCP

Mr. Boqiao Tang, Chairman of the Chinese Peace and Democracy Federation, said that the CCP's bullying of the Chinese people has continued nonstop for decades. Mr. Hexiang Bian of the US League of Guardians said, "Falun Gong practitioners are the most excellent among Chinese people."

Mr. Charles Li of the World Organization to Rescue Falun Gong Practitioners Being Persecuted said that along with Falun Gong practitioners' exposing the facts and the more than 50 million Chinese quitting the CCP and its affiliated organizations, the CCP is becoming weaker.

Dr. Daying Li, Executive Director of the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP, pointed out, "The CCP has committed countless crimes against the Chinese people. The best way to stop the CCP's persecution is disintegration of the CCP."

Calling on the Chinese people to awaken

From 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. on the same day of the rally at the United Nations, nearly one hundred Falun Gong practitioners rallied in front of the Chinese General Consulate in New York in the rain. They protested the CCP's brutal persecution and recent arrests in China. They also called on the Chinese people to awaken, spread the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, get to know the real nature of the CCP, and renounce the CCP and its affiliated organizations.

Practitioners asked Chinese diplomats in the consulate to learn about the CCP's true nature and to renounce the CCP and its affiliated organizations.

Many passers-by expressed support for the practitioners' efforts to protest the persecution.