In the 1990s Falun Dafa, aka Falun Gong, became widely popular across China and was endorsed by the government because of its many health benefits. By the end of the decade, 70 to 100 million Chinese had taken up the practice. Threatened by its popularity, Jiang Zemin, the head of the CCP at the time, ordered Falun Gong to be “stamped out.” A brutal persecution began that included mass arrests, torture, brainwashing, and forced organ harvesting. The persecution continues to this day.
Falun Dafa practitioners organized seminars at several universities in San Diego about the CCP’s crimes of live organ harvesting.
Falun Dafa practitioners have responded to the persecution with extraordinary peacefulness, explaining the facts about the practice and the evilness of the persecution to the Chinese people who were deceived by the regime’s massive propaganda campaign against Falun Gong.
Candle Vigil, July 20, 2019, La Jolla, Calif.
Every year in July, San Diego Falun Dafa practitioners hold a candle vigil to commemorate the countless practitioners who have lost their lives due to the CCP’s persecution in China.
The “Art of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance” exhibit is another event we hold during summer months in Balboa Park. The majority of paintings depict the persecution in China while others show the beauty and tranquility of the Falun Dafa practice.
Transnational Repression
Soon after starting the persecution in China, the CCP began exporting its disinformation campaign to discredit, threaten, and silence Falun Gong practitioners outside China. Chinese consulates and visiting CCP officials told American government officials at all levels that Falun Gong practitioners are a danger to society and to U.S.-China relations.
The latest directive to attack Falun Gong in the United States came directly from Xi Jinping in late 2022. According to leaked information, Xi was concerned that the persecution in China had failed, and Falun Gong had spread all across the world, exposing the persecution. Xi gave orders to make greater efforts overseas to damage Falun Gong’s reputation and the organizations founded by Falun Gong, in particular Shen Yun Performing Arts, by making use of social media influencers and U.S. media outlets that are friendly towards the CCP, as well as using the U.S. legal system to file frivolous lawsuits against them.
An Organ Harvesting panel at UCSD, 11/2/2017. Speakers at the panel included former Canadian Secretary of State, David Kilgour (at the podium), Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas (behind the computer), County Supervisor Joel Anderson (center, who was then a State Senator), and Grace Li, a Falun Dafa practitioner and former judge in China who was imprisoned in China for practicing Falun Dafa (third from left).
In San Diego, over the past 25 years, practitioners have been holding countless peaceful rallies and events, collecting signatures, holding candlelight vigils, and informing elected officials of the crimes committed against practitioners in China. Torture and live, forced organ harvesting are crimes against humanity that must be stopped, and Americans need to know that obtaining an organ transplant in China comes at the cost of an innocent Falun Gong practitioner’s life. The CCP’s transnational repression on U.S. soil must also stop as it is a threat to our national security.
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