MELBOURNE, Australia—The Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a rally and parade in downtown Melbourne in support of the 25 million people who have quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
The Sept. 1 events were intended to urge participants at the APEC summit to bring up the issue of the human rights violations in China to the Chinese representative at the summit. The APEC Summit meeting was held in Melbourne on Aug. 30 and 31.
Ms. Lin, a frequent participant in local rallies, said she has read many articles published by The Epoch Times about corrupt CCP officials. She feels that official corruption has made poor farmers unable to keep up with rising costs, and that there will likely be riots if the corruption continues. Ms. Lin plans to speak at future rallies to denounce the CCP.
Two Melbourne schoolgirls from China came to the rally. They already knew about the movement to quit the CCP and inquired about the exhibitions. Volunteers at the Service Center explained to them how the CCP tortures Falun Gong practitioners and removes their organs while they are conscious and alive—for illegal profits. The girls listened attentively to the information they could not have heard in China, and ended up quitting the CCP.
A Melbourne carriage driver for tourists, Dean Crichton, read the banners and exhibitions carefully and listened to the rally speeches. He had worked in Hong Kong for three months and had seen the Service Centers and parades that support quitting the CCP.
He likens the Chinese people to his horses—they can't see anything and are denied external contact. They can only acknowledge one voice, which is normal for them. He said he plans to tell people he knows about the truths he learned.
A Chinese girl who lives in Melbourne and had studied at Nankai University, in China, she said that she had witnessed the arrest of Falun Gong practitioners who unfurled banners in Tiananmen Square, China. She said she knew that what happened to them afterwards would be grave.
When she was attending Nankai University, several Japanese students fell into a lake while skating, and one of them died. Reporters at the scene were forbidden from reporting on the incident, and all who knew about it were told to keep their mouths shut since it could "affect relations between China and Japan."
The girl said that she knows first-hand how the CCP can cover up the truth because when she was poisoned by a drink and taken to the hospital, CCP officials forbade her to divulge what had happened.
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