Report from Norwegian Newspaper Harstad Tidende Daily: “Practise Falun Gong for Peace”

"It is important to inform people about the atrocities practitioners are subjected to," says Norwegian Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Terese Eriksen in an article in the Harstad Tidende Daily published on the 9th of January 2007. The article brings up the many inhumanities, including torture and organ harvesting, that Falun Gong practitioners are suffering in a persecution which started in 1999 in China. The article also mentions Falun Gong's positive effect on practitioners' health, as well as the many withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party.

The original article in the Harstad Tidende Daily

Falun Gong was made public in 1992 in China and is a cultivation method to improve one’s physical and spiritual wellbeing. The method consists of living by the three universal principles of Truth, Compassion and Tolerance. These are values which are fundamental to any society, reported the Harstad Tidende Daily. Additionally Ms. Eriksen points out that the exercises help to increase practitioners’ inner awareness and has a positive effect on their health. Many practitioners have been cured of chronic sicknesses.

Falun Gong became very popular in China and soon grew to a hundred million practitioners from all walks of life. The Chinese government started the persecution against Falun Gong in 1999, when they discovered that there were more practitioners of Falun Gong then members of the Chinese Communist Party. Today practitioners are being subjected to arrests and torture.

Furthermore, in the last couple of years the practice of organ harvesting has come to light. Ms. Eriksen tells of witnesses who have stood up and revealed that the government is stealing organs from Falun Gong practitioners without their consent. These organs are sold to unsuspecting foreigners for transplantation. Organs from Falun Gong practitioners are considered attractive because the practitioners are so healthy.

There has been a change in the awareness among the Chinese people after the publication of the book Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, Ms. Eriksen continues. She says that nearly eighteen million people have withdrawn from the Communist Party.

Ms. Eriksen is from Harstad, a city in Northern Norway, and she practises Falun Gong herself. Previously, she has demonstrated the method on the main square in Harstad, as well as in different parts of the country.

The article "Practise Falun Gong for Peace”, was written by journalist Tina Eiliertsen and was published in the Norwegian newspaper Harstad Tidende Daily on the 9th of January 2007. The original article is featured above as a picture. The newspaper Harstad Tidende Daily is the third largest newspaper in three northern counties of Norway.

Originally published in Norwegian at http://no.clearharmony.net/articles/200702/1497.html