The Chinese regime’s treatment of Falun Gong practitioners is another genocide, a human rights lawyer said of Beijing’s ongoing war against the spiritual discipline that has lasted for 24 years.
David Matas, a human rights lawyer and Nobel Prize nominee, said Falun Gong adherents have been the target of a protracted “cold genocide” that’s harder to identify than mass killings in a shorter period of time.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a Chinese meditation practice consisting of slow-moving exercises and the doctrine of “Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.”
It was estimated that the popular practice had attracted some 70 million followers before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), led by then-party head Jiang Zemin, launched a crackdown in 1999….