(Clearwisdom.net) At 10:30 a.m. on April 25, 2011, practitioners in South Africa held a group practice in front of the Chinese Consulate in Durban to commemorate the peaceful and rational appeal of 10,000 practitioners on April 25, 1999, in Beijing.
Practitioners unfurled banners reading, in Chinese and English, “Falun Dafa Is Good” and “Stop Persecuting Falun Gong” on the lawn in front of the Chinese Consulate. They peacefully and clearly exhibited the facts about Falun Gong and exposed the Chinese Communist Party's 12 years of persecution to passersby.
Background
On April 25, 1999, over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners in China gathered outside the State Council Appeals Office to demand their basic rights of belief and the immediate release of 45 fellow practitioners who had been unlawfully arrested. Though as a result of the appeal the Chinese Communist regime promised to protect the practitioners' rights and released the arrested practitioners, three months later, the regime started a nationwide persecution to "eliminate Falun Gong." The brutal persecution has continued for 12 years.
