People from organizations of different interest groups and countries showed up to support the rally, including representatives from Burma, Falun Gong Adherents, Maori, the Kingdom of Tonga, the Independent State of Samoa and Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China. Representatives of these different groups spoke at the rally.
The opening ceremony started with music played by the Celestial Band. Mr. Barry Wilson, a renowned human rights attorney and president of the Auckland Council for Civil Liberties, read a greeting letter from New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key. The letter, which was written by prime minister’s personal secretary, Mr. Emma Homes, expressed best wishes to all participants of the rally.
Mr. Wilson himself pointed out that 20 years ago the Chinese regime slaughtered students with tanks and guns in Tiananmen Square, and 20 years later the regime still continues to rule China and persecute Falun Gong practitioners, members of house church and Chinese human rights lawyers.
Mr. He Sanpu, the representative of the Service Center for Quitting the CCP in New Zealand, spoke about how he was persecuted in China for practicing Falun Gong. He also sent this message to the Chinese people, “At present a historical event is about to have the greatest impact on the future of the world, that is, the collapse of the CCP. Since the Epoch Times published the ‘Nine Commentaries on the CCP,’ more and more Chinese have seen through the evil and violent nature of the CCP and withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. The number of people withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organization has exceeded 55 million and is still increasing rapidly.”
Another speaker, Ms. Carole Curtis, spokesperson of the New Zealand branch of “Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China” and a renowned human rights lawyer, stated that New Zealanders were very fortunate to have been able to have access to reports of Tiananmen massacre and organ harvesting of live Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP, and that it was a pity that Chinese still do not have access to this kind of information in today’s China at all.
Mr. Amato Akarana-Rewi, a chief of the Maori tribe harshly criticized the CCP’s practice of harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners. He emphasized that this kind of crime committed by the CCP is utterly evil and is therefore absolutely condemned by Maori people.
After the rally, participants marched on the streets in Queen Elizabeth Square.
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