(Clearwisdom.net) On the afternoon of November 14, 2008, the head of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao and his entourage arrived in Washington DC to attend the G20 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy (G20 summit). In response, Falun Gong practitioners in the greater Washington DC area held banners reading "Immediately Stop the Chinese Communist Party's Persecution of Falun Gong," and "Bring Criminals Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan and Their Followers to Justice" near the White House and the meeting venue to express their opposition to the nine-year persecution.

On both sides of several major streets leading to the White House, Falun Gong practitioners held banners calling for an end to the persecution and bringing the chief criminals to justice

It rained for two straight days in Washington DC, a phenomenon which is rarely seen. At dusk on November 13, the world leaders successively arrived in their motorcades at the White House in the rain to attend a dinner. Local Falun Gong practitioners stood on both sides of several major streets to the White House, holding banners.

On November 14, the G20 summit continued at the National Museum, and Falun Gong practitioners continued their peaceful protests near the meeting venue. Coordinator Ms. Ge said, "The motorcades of all the world leaders could see our banners, including Hu Jintao's."

Mr. Jiang engages in biological research at a university in Washington DC. He said, "We hope Hu Jintao will see the truth: Every day, it can be seen from the Minghui/Clearwisdom website that many Falun Gong practitioners in China are still subject to persecution. At present, the calmness on the surface in China is nothing but an illusion, as the Chinese Communist Party has covered up the number of people who have been persecuted, and the degree of the persecution is therefore unknown to the outside world. When the truth of the persecution is one day revealed, the public will be shocked. So we advise Hu Jintao not to bear the blame for Jiang Zemin, but choose a bright future for himself."

Seventy-eight year-old Ms. Zhang was an engineer when she was in China. She handed out a Falun Gong truth-clarification flyer to everyone passing by. She said, "We hope to immediately stop the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong, and immediately have all illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners released, because they are good people. They have not committed any crimes, and should not have been sentenced to forced labor and suffered other persecutions."

Passersby and people in vehicles honked their horns to express their support. Some people thanked Falun Gong practitioners after having learned the true situation.

Chinese people learn the truth

A tourist surnamed Tang had traveled from New York State to Washington DC. He lingered for quite a long time near the gate of the White House. He carefully read the messages on the banners. Mr. Tang said that he had some friends in China who practice Falun Gong. They are all law-abiding good people. He felt it inconceivable that Jiang Zemin launched the persecution. Mr. Tang believed that as more and more Chinese people travel abroad, they will see the true situation, and make their own judgment.

A Chinese professional person who had come from the Mid-US to attend an academic conference in Washington DC also walked by the G20 meeting venue. He said he had received a notice to go to the hotel where Hu Jintao would be staying in the morning to welcome him, but he was not interested and did not go. Later he was curious and came to the meeting venue to take a look. He met with Falun Gong practitioners there.

Ms. Ge, who works in a government department in the US, introduced to this professional person how her whole family practices Falun Gong. She especially shared that her husband used to suffer from a rare type of headache before practicing Falun Gong, and had spent a lot of money but could not cure it. His life was danger, but he was completely cured six months after he practiced Falun Gong. The man said, "It seems that I will also practice Falun Gong after I retire."

Unique "welcoming" group

There was an interesting phenomenon outside the G20 meeting venue: except for the Chinese Communist Party, there were no crowds either protesting or welcoming the other 19 countries.

Regarding this phenomenon, Mr. Chen, a software engineer from Virginia said, "The Chinese Communist Party knows that it is not welcome abroad, so whenever an official visits a country, the Chinese Embassy stationed in the country will spend money organizing overseas students to create an illusory scene of an official being warmly received overseas, and then CCTV and the entire propaganda apparatus inside China will use the news to deceive the Chinese people. If people in the Western countries were to learn that taxpayers' money was being used to create a false scene to deceive them, that government would definitely be criticized. Only the Chinese Communist Party is capable of such a thing."

Mr. Chen continued, "I hope these overseas students think independently why there are no crowds welcoming the leaders of other countries, as there are no crowds protesting them. Don't people in other nations love their countries? Even though the Chinese Embassy takes care of all their food, transportation and even gives them subsidies, they only work as a propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party, and help organizers in the Chinese Embassy earn some political capital from their masters."