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In Photos: Falun Gong March


On a truck-powered float and above a sign that read "Chinese Communist Party kills Falun Gong people for their organs", march participants dramatize a graphic scene.

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Falun Gong supporters march in pose.

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Supporters in flower costumes ride on a truck, ornate with signs that read "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" and "Falun Dafa in Canada".

[ more photos can be viewed in this mini-slideshow ]

Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) is a practive involving meditation, exercises, and the cultivation of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance within oneself. Marchers in this parade/protest were passing out literature about the practice itself and about some of the reported problems of persecution, especially that which is occurring in China.

UPDATE: Some readers have suggested that my definition of Falun Gong is not complete. This is not a researched feature story, and readers are encouraged, as always, to seek out further information. As suggested, Wikipedia may be a start. Cheers!


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