Help Stop the Killing of Falun Gong practitioners in China

Please rescue the Falun Gong practitioners in China

Please rescue the Falun Gong practitioners who are being

mercilessly persecuted in China and systematically killed for their

organs, traded for a lucrative price in the international markets.

You might not hear loud protests and aggressive demonstrations by

Falun Gong practitioners because they believe and practice the

non-violence and peaceful resistance of Mahatma Gandhi and

Martin Luther King.

Falun Dafa also known as Falun Gong is a powerful cultivation practice
based on ancient wisdom for mind and body refinement often done through slow moving exercises and a seated meditation. The practice has brought better health and inner peace to millions in over 80 countries around the world but is banned in the country of its origin.

What sets Falun Gong apart is that it refers to the improvement of one's heart and mind through the careful study of universal principles based on Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance which is the backbone of Falun Gong%u2019s philosophy and practitioners of the discipline aspire to live by them in their daily lives, striving to achieve over time, a state of kindness, selflessness and inner balance.

The Falun Gong genocide is undoubtedly the worst human rights disaster in current day China. The communist regime has built Nazi style concentration camps to incarcerate Falun Gong practitioners and remove their organs while still alive. The State collaborates in organ harvesting from prisoners because there is big money for organs in the international market. Reports published by Canada%u2019s human rights lawyer David Matas and former Secretary of state for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour support these allegations. %u2018If this trend continues, which athlete, government, company or spectator of conscience would want anything to do with the Olympic Games?%u2019 asks David Kilgour.

Why do Falun Gong practitioners face continuing merciless persecution after eight long years? What principle of the modern Olympic Games, especially after the experience in Hitler's Berlin in 1936, allows a host government to bar any spiritual community's members from competing in, or even watching, events in Beijing? What about Tibetans, Buddhists, Christians, Uighurs, Human rights advocates, independent journalists, and other democracy activists?

Nobody wants a black out or a boycott of the Olympics. So why do we hear voices of protest against the Olympics Torch Relay? Because the Olympics Torch Relay is a world event that grabs the world%u2019s media attention. And it provides a platform to stage an eventful protest and question if crimes against humanity and the Olympics torch can coexist. Nobody is against the Chinese people or the Olympics but they want the gross Human Rights violations in China to end.

According to one report from an intelligence journal in 2005, for example, China%u2019s deputy minister of public security, Liu Jing, was assigned the responsibility of wiping out the practice before the Games. (news) More recently, according to Amnesty International, in preparing for the Games, former Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang issued the following order in the context of %u201Csuccessfully%u201D holding the Olympics: %u201CWe must strike hard at hostile forces at home and abroad, such as ethnic separatists, religious extremists, violent terrorists and %u2026 the Falun Gong.%u201D (report)

In total, since 1999, the Center has documented the cases of 3,137 Falun Gong practitioners, who have died as a result of various forms of persecution, not only from abuse in custody, but also of destitution and other traumas related to the campaign. Despite the apparently high count, due to the secrecy surrounding such cases and the danger posed to families sending information overseas, the actual death toll is most likely much higher.

So as the vociferous Tibetan and non-violent Falun Gong protests followed the global trail of the Olympic torch, one can%u2019t help wondering if there will be any impact on the Chinese Communist Party to bring about some positive changes in the abysmal Human Rights situation in China.

We are pleading with the government of China to honor the promises made when it bid for the Games. If you agree, please press your own government and your national Olympic Committee to urge the government of China to fulfill its commitments.

So if you feel the outrage, please fill in the petition