July 20 marks a solemn anniversary, the day on which one of the most unconscionable persecution campaigns in the history of mankind began. For many years, it was an obscure anniversary, but now more and more people around the world are becoming aware of it.
On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its persecution campaign against Falun Gong. The spiritual practice, also known as Falun Dafa, is based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance and teaches a set of slow-moving meditative exercises. By 1999, the practice had spread by word of mouth to reach an estimated 70 million to 100 million adherents in mainland China….