Falun Dafa Practitioners from Argentina Peacefully Protest in Front of the Chinese Embassy on July 20 (Photo)

On July 20, 2002, which marked the third anniversary since Jiang's criminal regime began persecuting Falun Dafa and Falun Dafa practitioners, practitioners living over a thousand miles away from the capital of Argentina went to Buenos Aires and gathered together with local practitioners to peacefully appeal and do the Fa Zheng Nian meditation in front of the Chinese Embassy.

As it was Saturday, the embassy staff was off work. As soon as we arrived there, we practised opposite the embassy, and then we crossed the street and went to the front of the embassy to hold a banner and have a photo taken.

It happened that a police officer on duty came back. We went up to greet him. We told him what July 20th meant to us, about the persecution of Falun Dafa in China, and the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." When he learned that we wanted to take several pictures in front of the embassy, he said, "No problem, let me make a phone call to inform my superior."

At the gate of the embassy, we changed to T-shirts imprinted with, "Falun Dafa," and then did the exercises, the Fa Zheng Nian meditation and hung Falun Dafa banners. Passers-by and police officers all read the words on the Falun Dafa banners.

After a while, many police cars came. One senior official was in one of the cars. We gave him the Falun Dafa truth-clarifying literature and clarified the truth about the persecution to him. After reading our information and listening to our explanation, he said politely, "It's a pity that today is Saturday, and nobody will accept your letter." We said we would come again at another time. We also told him that we would send more truth-clarifying materials to his office.

Because of historical reasons, local people do not want to confront the police. This contact with the police made some practitioners witness the mighty power of Falun Dafa and realise that "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" is able to awaken people's conscience. Some practitioners who had not participated in such activities before felt that this activity helped them improve. As a result, they wanted to join in doing the Fa Zheng Nian meditation in front of the embassy and in distributing Falun Dafa truth-clarifying leaflets.

The practitioners shared their experiences and insights after the activity and all felt that they improved a lot. New practitioners who just obtained the Fa [Law and Principles of Falun Gong] six months earlier also gained a deeper understanding of the significance of these activities.