Jiang Zemin visited Germany in April 2002. He made himself look foolish in Sachsen, Dresden because he was afraid of seeing Falun Gong practitioners who wore yellow T-shirts. He even violated the laws in Germany and asked the police to beat people who practise Falun Gong. In August 2002, the famous Elbe River flooded, which caused a loss of nearly three billion Euros for the wealthiest state of Eastern Germany. The state of Sachsen was thrown into chaos. The busiest city festival, which is usually held every year, was thus forced to cancel.
A year later, local practitioners joined the city festival once again. They had learned lessons from their previous experiences and this year made a more complete preparation. They applied for permission for two stands in different places. They were invited to demonstrate the five sets of Falun Gong exercises, as well as other traditional performances on the stage beside Elbe River four times for thirty to forty-five minutes each time. As well as performing the exercises, practitioners from nearby areas enlisted dance and waist-drum teams to demonstrate the goodness and vitality of Falun Dafa. Many people signed to support the lawsuit against the instigator of the persecution against Falun Gong, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.
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About five hundred thousand people joined the city festival. Although many people visited the stands, there were still many people who did not have the chance to come. Practitioners paraded along the busiest street displaying a traditional Chinese waist-drum performance. Other practitioners distributed materials alongside them. The dance teams performed and the practitioners demonstrated the exercises on the grass bank of the Elbe River.
People understand the facts
After seeing the beauty of the exercises or appreciating the performances of the dancers and the waist-drum team, people asked for beautiful bookmarks and signed their names on a petition calling for an end to the persecution. Many people went to the Falun Gong stands to ask for information about the exercise sites and some learned the exercises on the spot. The sound engineer showed great interest after watching practitioners’ performances. He was enthusiastic to learn about Falun Dafa more deeply.
In the process of applying for the stands, there was also interference, but practitioners kept strong righteous thoughts. They brought along a laptop computer and showed a film detailing the goodness of Dafa and the persecution of practitioners in China to the festival sponsors. Thus, a meeting that was originally supposed to be quite short lasted for about forty minutes. The meeting was successful. Whoever they met, they told them the facts. When receiving practitioners’ phone calls, some working staff would pleasantly say, “Falun Dafa!” They wanted to cooperate with their activities, and asked them again and again to demonstrate the exercises in front of the stands
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