Commentary
Every year on July 20, there is a reminder that there is an ongoing persecution in the world. On that day in 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) set about trying to eliminate Falun Gong in China and all who practised it.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is an ancient Chinese spiritual practice consisting of simple, slow-moving meditation exercises and teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
The Party’s state-controlled media blasted the public with anti-Falun Gong propaganda, while its feared security apparatus rounded up practitioners across China and detained them for “transformation through re-education.”
At that time, there was a lot of interest worldwide in trying to understand what was happening in China….