(Clearwisdom.net) June 20, 2010 marks the 10th World Refugee Day. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is holding the annual event in many places around the world. This year the theme is "Home - 'They have taken my home but they can't take my future.'" On June 18, the Bangkok Refugee Center (BRC) held a celebration and Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate.
Demonstrating Falun Gong exercises
At 9:30 a.m. on June 18, in the opening ceremony of the event, a Falun Gong representative read out a letter of appreciation to the BRC and UNHCR for the help and support given to Falun Gong practitioners who left China to avoid the Chinese Communist Party's brutal persecution. After the performance started, Falun Gong practitioners in golden costumes went to the stage and unfurled a banner with the words "Falun Dafa is great," winning applause from the audience.
The practitioners sang songs and performed Chinese music on the two-stringed erhu. They also demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises. Many audience members took photos and offered warm applause. A practitioner introduced Falun Dafa in English to refugees from many countries.
During the event, practitioners introduced Falun Gong and its guiding principle, Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, to refuges from China, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, North Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Somalia.
