Australia: "Truth Compassion Forbearance Week" Opening Ceremony Guest Speeches

... from a United Nations point of view I am very pleased to be here because it gives me the opportunity to talk about many of the issues that the United Nations is concerned about and your three words Truth Compassion Forbearance; if indeed these were adopted and followed by all countries around the world, we wouldn't have the tremendous amount of violence, antagonism and war that we have today.

Australian Practitioners Celebrate "Truth Compassion Forbearance Week" (27th December 2001 to 3rd January 2002)

The Summer Festival

Truth-Compassion-Forbearance Week (27th December 2001 to 3rd January 2002) is now in mid-stream in Hobart, Australia. Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania (the southern-most state of Australia or Australia's 'Island State') has a population of approximately 190,000 people and hosts its annual Summer Festival from 28th December 2001 to 28th February 2002. People all over the world travel to the Hobart Summer Festival to enjoy this diverse event with a brilliant array of sounds, food, art, theatre, film and sport. Hosting the finish of the famous Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, Hobart's population is estimated to swell to almost double its size.

Chinese Officials Use Violent Crimes to Escalate Propaganda Campaign Against Falun Gong

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 1/3/2002 [ http://www.faluninfo.net/ ]

NEW YORK, January 3, 2002 (Falun Dafa Information Center)-Before leaving China on his most recent trip abroad, Jiang Zemin called for an escalation of the persecution of Falun Gong. In the days following, Bai Keming, Secretary of the Hainan Provincial Committee, called an urgent meeting with China's Public Security Bureau officials at which he developed a scheme to tie a local murder case to Falun Gong.

Falun Gong Practitioner Denied Medical Attention, Dies in Chinese Detention Center

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- 1/4/2002 [ http://www.faluninfo.net/]


NEW YORK, January 4, 2002 (Falun Dafa Information Center)--Mr. Xuan Deqiong, a 50-year-old man from Taozhu Villiage, Guangxi Province, China, has died due to medical neglect in a detention center in the Qinbei District of China. He was detained in the detention center on December 4, 2000, for practicing Falun Gong.

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