AUCKLAND, New Zealand—A rally in downtown Auckland supporting 76 million Chinese people who have publicly withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or it’s affiliated organisations took place on Saturday July 3.
The rally was organised by the New Zealand Service Centre for Quitting the CCP.
The “Quitting the Party” movement was initiated after a series of editorials called the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party printed by The Epoch Times in November 2004.
Referred to in Chinese as the tui dang or “Quit the Party” movement, withdrawals come from members of the Chinese Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and The Young Pioneers.
The Nine Commentaries offers a comprehensive analysis of the CCP’s rule in China and the estimated 80 million deaths it has caused. It combines historical evidence with insights into the methods used by the CCP to maintain its power, such as its history of killing and destruction of traditional Chinese culture.
Haiyu Yan from the New Zealand Quit the CCP Service Centre says that since the publication of the Nine Commentaries Chinese people have been spontaneously quitting the Communist Party. The Quit the CCP website records as many as 70,000 withdrawals daily.
The movement of withdrawals can be viewed as a peaceful way of stopping the Chinese regime’s numerous persecutions against its people and includes the arrest and torture of lawyers, democracy activists, house Christians, and other religious groups.
The rally was organised by the New Zealand Service Centre for Quitting the CCP.
The “Quitting the Party” movement was initiated after a series of editorials called the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party printed by The Epoch Times in November 2004.
Referred to in Chinese as the tui dang or “Quit the Party” movement, withdrawals come from members of the Chinese Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and The Young Pioneers.
The Nine Commentaries offers a comprehensive analysis of the CCP’s rule in China and the estimated 80 million deaths it has caused. It combines historical evidence with insights into the methods used by the CCP to maintain its power, such as its history of killing and destruction of traditional Chinese culture.
Haiyu Yan from the New Zealand Quit the CCP Service Centre says that since the publication of the Nine Commentaries Chinese people have been spontaneously quitting the Communist Party. The Quit the CCP website records as many as 70,000 withdrawals daily.
The movement of withdrawals can be viewed as a peaceful way of stopping the Chinese regime’s numerous persecutions against its people and includes the arrest and torture of lawyers, democracy activists, house Christians, and other religious groups.
Carole Curtis, a lawyer specialising in human rights law who also works with people who claim refugee status in New Zealand, spoke at the rally.
“What is something that all of us as New Zealanders have taken for granted is the fact that we are free, and sometimes you don’t know you are free until you meet up with and experience other people who are not free.”
Ms. Curtis works with many refugees from China including Falun Gong practitioners who are the most severely persecuted group in China.
Falun Gong is a spiritual practice with meditational exercises and moral teachings based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Practitioners of Falun Gong have suffered persecution, in China, for over a decade.
Ms. Curtis was shocked by the fact that Chinese people had to leave their homeland and come to New Zealand, “in order to keep themselves safe, in order to be able to stay alive,” she said.
“Many of the people that I work with are people who practice Falun Gong who have to me the most wonderful way of seeing the world—where they look at three important things in terms of truth, of charity and kindness to others and forbearance—and it seems to me extraordinary that for something so wonderful, so caring—that for those beliefs people can suffer persecution.”
With the rally held in a busy part of the Auckland city centre, many passersby were able to read fact boards with information on the persecution of Falun Gong and the crimes committed by the communist regime.
Aucklander, James Ripia, had heard about the persecution of Falun Gong but was not aware of the extent of the brutality. He said that the information on the fact boards was “amazing” and that it had “opened his eyes.”
He also connected with Falun Gong’s principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance and said that “if the world leaders took that on board, the world would be a different place.”
“What is something that all of us as New Zealanders have taken for granted is the fact that we are free, and sometimes you don’t know you are free until you meet up with and experience other people who are not free.”
Ms. Curtis works with many refugees from China including Falun Gong practitioners who are the most severely persecuted group in China.
Falun Gong is a spiritual practice with meditational exercises and moral teachings based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Practitioners of Falun Gong have suffered persecution, in China, for over a decade.
Ms. Curtis was shocked by the fact that Chinese people had to leave their homeland and come to New Zealand, “in order to keep themselves safe, in order to be able to stay alive,” she said.
“Many of the people that I work with are people who practice Falun Gong who have to me the most wonderful way of seeing the world—where they look at three important things in terms of truth, of charity and kindness to others and forbearance—and it seems to me extraordinary that for something so wonderful, so caring—that for those beliefs people can suffer persecution.”
With the rally held in a busy part of the Auckland city centre, many passersby were able to read fact boards with information on the persecution of Falun Gong and the crimes committed by the communist regime.
Aucklander, James Ripia, had heard about the persecution of Falun Gong but was not aware of the extent of the brutality. He said that the information on the fact boards was “amazing” and that it had “opened his eyes.”
He also connected with Falun Gong’s principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance and said that “if the world leaders took that on board, the world would be a different place.”
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