Nineteen Years Onwards, ‘We Are More Optimistic’

A Falun Gong practitioner speaks about why he travels to Washington each July 20

Falun Gong practitioners demonstrate their discipline's exercises in Washington on July 19, 2018. Mark Zou/Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—Nineteen years are more than enough for a generation to grow up. Yet the same generation of people are still coming back to Washington, around the same day each year, to call for an end of the now 19-year-long persecution in China of the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. Some bring along their children born during these years.

This year, about 600 local Falun Gong practitioners and those traveling from New York, New Jersey, and Boston gathered again at the Washington Monument to hold one-day-long activities that included Falun Gong exercise demonstrations, a rally, and a candle light vigil.