Exposing the crimes of the CCP at La Gare Saint-Lazare Railway Station

On April 29, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners in Paris exposed the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) crimes in labor camps and concentration camps to passersby, using a loudspeaker and exhibition boards with photographs. They collected signatures and distributed truth-clarification materials at La Gare Saint-Lazare Railway Station. French people expressed their support and called on all kind people in the world to together stop the CCP from killing Falun Gong practitioners. Many French people came to sign their names on a petition letter to the office of the President of France, urging the French Government to make great efforts to investigate, and urgently rescue Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted in the CCP's labor camps, prisons and concentration camps.

Mr. Philippe Seigneur is in charge of the training office of "Alternative Liberale" in France. On seeing the Falun Gong practitioners' activity, he and his colleagues said they would help them. He told a reporter: "I know that the condition of human rights in China is terrible. As the French media has not reported on it, it is very difficult for people here to know that concentration camps still exist in China now. That is also why people are protesting for their human rights. So, we should help them through legal channels as soon as possible. Those (Falun Gong practitioners) who are being locked up in concentration camps are still suffering now, which can't be put up with!"

Alternative Liberale is a Party newly founded in March with over 1,000 members. Mr. Seigneur said: "We are going to participate in the general election of France in 2007. Of course we are going to talk more about problems of human rights which still exist in China and some other countries. However, what people are doing now is not enough. If people believe in democracy and freedom, they should stop keeping silent concerning people who are still suffering from the persecution on the other side of the earth because of the pressure from both diplomatic and business. We should maintain our dignity and restrain such a persecution from happening."

When being interviewed, one woman, Janine, said: "How horrible these things are! Just like the killing that took place in the Nazi's concentration camps. It can't be tolerated for us to know that a country still has concentration camps now, which is difficult for us who live in a democratic country to understand."

She also mentioned that the French Government should play a more important role in improving the condition of human rights in China, and not only consider doing business with the CCP. Janine said, "We will urge our government to do something to improve human rights in China. We must write letters to the government, and people of all over the world should be mobilized. It is abnormal if something so unjust as concentration camps still exist in the world."

A man named Jacob said, " I am against extremist action. The communist party of China has made so many people lose their lives. It is negative and immoral because it has forced Chinese people to participate in the radical socialism which has killed so many people, which is against society."

He also mentioned, "It is the democratic system that people's freedom shouldn't be forced. We participate in and defend our freedom and the dignity of human being by means of morality and agencies such as the UN. The international community must get involved, rescue those people who are still being locked up and help them escape from the (CCP's) control over their minds."

Another gentleman said, "I am going to China. I think that such a thing shouldn't be happening in our time, which is frightening. The international community should have united and restrained such a thing from happening. Such a deed is extremely immoral and shocking as well."

Maxime is a middle school student. He and his classmates were shocked at the fact that the CCP has not only persecuted Falun Gong practitioners but built concentration camps to annihilate them as well. He said, "I am shocked because I have never known that such concentration camps still existed in China. I have visited the concentration camp in Strasbourg France. I have been thinking that such concentration camps didn't exist any longer, but they still do in China, which is really incredible."

A woman named Anne said: "The information they have given is very important, the more detailed the better. In this way, more people will know the facts of the persecution and then will take action to stop such persecution."

Another woman said, "I am totally shocked at this. In our time, China still has concentration camps. I hope that people will keep such a thing from happening."

After looking at the information about the CCP's concentration camps, Jacob said, "Falun Gong practitioners are bound to receive support from even more people. Their diligence, bravery and patience will win the victory eventually, through these rallies and protests."

After learning that the CCP has killed Falun Gong practitioners in its concentration camps, a woman was shocked. She said, "Nothing is more inhuman than such a thing, which is too cruel. There is no excuse or explanation whatsoever, for something which is just a terrifying atrocity. Nowadays, it is difficult for people to imagine that such a country as China is treating its people like this. It is also very difficult to hear that such a thing has happened in the history of any one country in this world."

After listening to the practitioners talking about the persecution, a man and his wife showed their sympathy and support for Falun Gong practitioners in China who are being cruelly persecuted by the CCP, and expressed their indignation to its atrocities as well. They said: "Donating one's organs must be agreed by oneself. I have seen from some media that in China, those who have been sentenced to death had their organs removed without their prior agreement, and the authorities even refused to give their bodies back to their family members, which can in no way be permitted. And all actions of removing organs from live people for sale are not forgivable."

As to the crime of the CCP having removed organs from live Falun Gong practitioners, a gentleman said: "I don't think that human being are animals. They (the CCP) are not permitted to remove a part of a human body at will like this and then install it in a body of someone else. There is no excuse for covering up such a crime."

After looking at pictures and reading materials disclosing the concentration camps, one man, together with his family, signed the petition protesting against the atrocities of the CCP. He told the reporter: "I didn't know that Falun Gong is being suppressed now. It is too difficult for us French people to imagine that such a persecution is happening today. It's easier to believe that such an atrocity is a story which happened a long, long time ago. I am very sorry that concentration camps still exist now. Today people have participated in the activity, protesting against concentration camps, and mobilizing all people to stop the atrocities of the CCP regime."

People learning the facts

The gentleman continued: "I don't think that our government plays a role on the international stage and influences China, especially when it comes down to economic interest with China. I think that you should clarify the facts of the persecution to more French people, which is a very good way of ending the persecution - because the people's power is huge."

The photographs disclosing the crimes of the CCP having cruelly killed Falun Gong practitioners in labor camps and concentration camps in China, and Falun Gong practitioners' appeals through the loudspeaker have helped the French people learned about the CCP's crimes against humanity. They expressed their indignation and do not want to allow the crimes to continue. Several French media outlets interviewed Falun Gong practitioners as well.

In order to help people from all walks of life learn about the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, especially the recently revealed crimes of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, so that more people can join in the activities to stop the persecution, Falun Gong practitioners in Sydney, Australia initiated a face-to-face truth clarification activity to members of parliament at different levels, the media, regional governments and the media. Practitioners formed truth clarification teams, each composed of five to ten practitioners, and then went to visit different facilities one by one. Whenever arriving in a place, several practitioners fluent in English would enter the office to clarify the truth, and other practitioners would unfurl banners and distribute truth-clarification materials on the streets. Practitioners cooperated very well together, and maintained righteous thoughts at all times. Not only did the officers they came to visit learn about the truth, many people passing by on the streets also learned about the situation of the persecution in China.

The following are accounts of two of the practitioners' visits:

Leichhardt, an inner-west Sydney suburb, is an area where the majority of the residents are from Italy and Greece. A truth-clarification team of six practitioners came to this city government on a sunny morning. Two practitioners whose English is very good politely inquired at the reception desk if they could be granted an opportunity to meet with the mayor. The receptionist replied kindly that they could not meet the mayor without making an appointment in advance, because the mayor was very busy. The practitioner immediately explained that they came without making an appointment because they had an urgent need to ask for the mayor's help. They said that recently, several witnesses revealed that a crime of mass organ removal from living Falun Gong practitioners is happening in China. The receptionist was shocked and said that it was inconceivable. How come such a thing still occurs in today's 21^st century! She immediately picked up the phone to call the mayor's office. Upon learning that the mayor would not be in the office that day, she explained to the mayor's secretary about the urgency of the matter, and requested the secretary to receive the Falun Gong practitioners.

The mayor's secretary had a 30-minute conversation with four practitioners in the meeting room. The practitioners told her about the CCP's harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, and that the CCP is hastily destroying the evidence; every minute and every second involves the lives of innocent Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioners hoped the mayor could propose to the federal government to investigate the CCP's crimes. At the same time, the practitioners suggested that the mayor advise the federal government that while actively developing economic trade with China, they should take seriously the CCP's human rights abuses and maintain the human rights position that Australia should have. The secretary listened and repeatedly expressed that such crimes are intolerable. She said that she would deliver the letters and truth-clarification materials to the mayor and other members of Parliament, and would convey the practitioners' hope and their request to the mayor.

Falun Gong practitioners in North Sydney worked hard to make the local newspaper report on the CCP's atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. They twice visited the North Shore Times, a paper that is quite influential in the area, and managed to talk with a journalist for over an hour during their second visit.

At the beginning, the young journalist did not even know what Falun Gong is. The practitioners started by telling him about Falun Gong and then told him about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong since July 1999, up to the recently revealed appalling incident of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. The journalist listened, while taking notes. The journalist mentioned that the local newspaper has regional limitations in its reporting, and said that such a big incident should be covered by the larger news media.

The practitioners suggested to the journalist that since China has a huge market of human organs, patients who receive organ transplants come from around the world. The local newspaper has the responsibility to let the local residents know why China can provide such a huge number of high-quality human organs. It is because in the past seven years, organ removal from living Falun Gong practitioners has been practiced on a large scale throughout China. The newspaper can advise the residents who might plan to go to China for an organ transplant, to think carefully in terms of morality whether their conscience would allow them to receive such organ transplants. The journalist readily accepted the practitioners' suggestion, and said that he would try to write a report on this and publish it in their newspaper.

For several weekends running, rallies expressing support for withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and protesting against the CCP selling organs removed from Falun Gong practitioners were held in Munich, the largest city in southern Germany.

Since the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published, many people have seen through the CCP and have made their feelings known by withdrawing from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. In recent months, the crime of removing organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in concentration camps was exposed. It was nearly three weeks after the news was released before the CCP denied that it had removed organs from Falun Gong practitioners for profit, giving the regime time to destroy evidence. The incident of the concentration camps is only the tip of the iceberg. In fact, all kinds of methods are being used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners who are being locked up in forced labor camps, concentration camps, prisons and mental units in China, including such crimes as removing their organs.

Therefore, Falun Gong practitioners, volunteers from The Epoch Times newspaper and the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong held activities together to express support for quitting the CCP and to protest against the CCP killing and removing organs from Falun Gong practitioners, as well as the CCP's trying to cover up the facts and kill Falun Gong practitioners who know the inside stories. The activities called on international communities, all governments and kind people to pay great attention to what is happening in China, to completely investigate forced labor camps and prisons in China and to publicize the entire persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP and stop it from continuing.

On seeing banners and talking with practitioners, many people signed the petition calling for an end to the persecution. Many expressed that this inhuman action must be stopped and should be made known to the whole world. On hearing the news, some people shed tears and they simply could not believe such a persecution still exists in the world today. Many people signed the petition at once.

Julia, a student whose major was Education of Society, expressed: "I simply can't believe that such things still exists among human beings. The reason why I have signed the petition is that I should try to stop the action at least." Another woman told the reporter that her reason for signing the petition was because the incident was clearly wrong and she hoped her signature could help.

Many Chinese tourists carefully looked at the exhibition boards and banners. Some of them accepted leaflets. A Chinese man said: "Falun Gong is the first group to resist the CCP for many years and you are really terrific. It is really difficult for Falun Gong practitioners and you are working hard." Of course, there was one or two who were deeply poisoned by the CCP. One Chinese person shouted abuse at Falun Gong practitioners in German and then in Chinese before being stopped by the public.

A passerby, Mr. Winterstein, whose father was locked up in Dachau Concentration Camp by the Nazis, said that in total fifty-nine members of his family were locked up but his father was the only survivor. He suffered a great deal both physically and mentally in Dachau Concentration Camp and died when he was thirty-nine. Mr. Winterstein also said: "As I often heard my father telling his personal experience in the concentration camp and because he died when I was young, I feel impelled to sign the petition and stop the CCP's killing. My purpose is to oppose the violence and to keep history from repeating." His wife said: "Human beings are not animals. A person should have freedom of belief; this is the dignity of humanity."

German Falun Gong practitioners organized an information day in downtown Hamburg on Saturday, April 29, 2006. Our site was in the middle of the shopping area and it was very busy, with many people milling around.

The weather was fine albeit a little cold. As I was getting into town, I already saw from far away a big cluster of people and some banners reading: "Organ Harvesting from Live Human Beings" and "Stop the Persecution of Falun Gong!" I stopped a short way from the area, as I wanted to observe the scene. A fellow practitioner, dressed all in white and wearing a mask, "blood" covered gloves, and a doctor's gown, stood in front of an operating table, clearly acting out the role of a doctor. On the table lay an apparently lifeless body, covered with bloody sheets. Next to it was a basin with bloody organs. The doctor stood there, holding high a scalpel up high in one hand and money in the other. This scene was gruesome!

Re-enactment of organ harvesting attracts many onlookers

Horror, disgust, astonishment, and bewilderment were on the faces of the passersby. A recorded female voice explained the crimes committed by the communist regime in China, talking about how Falun Gong practitioners are cut open while still alive and organs are removed from the living body to be sold in the very lucrative organ transplant trade where the buyers were mostly foreigners. The voice told of concentration camps and that the number of murdered practitioners is unknown.

"Why are they committing such evil? Why doesn't the media report about this? Have these humans lost all feelings?" asked one woman. I told this shocked young woman that this re-enactment showed what is happening in China. She was keen to know what she could do to help. I told her to sign the petition, which asks the German Federal government to tell China to stop these human rights violations and end the unspeakable sorrow of many thousands of good people. Many Germans signed the petition that day.

"I felt as if I really was operated on," said one of the practitioners that acted as one of the victims. The practitioner that acted as the doctor could no longer hold back his tears. "That's my mother," said another fellow practitioner. "I just don't feel good about seeing her there, just like one of the victims."

How better could one tell the truth to the public? Practitioners have worked hard for seven years to let people know about this persecution, but there are still many people that they haven't gotten through to. How better could one bring these gruesome deeds into the open? How else could one expose the evil specter of the Chinese Communist Party?

When the vicious persecution cannot get any more brutal and the world's governments and media are still not getting involved because of economic interests, Falun Gong practitioners must find ways to get through to people and help them see what is happening in China.