A Picture is Worth a Million Lives

LOS ANGELES (FDI) " In 1992 media footage showing starving men behind barbwire fences led to global outrage and reaction to ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia.

It is long overdue for the media to show the world pictures of what is happening to Falun Gong practitioners in China today.

International media broadcasted images of policemen violently arresting Falun Gong practitioners on Tiananmen Square at the outset of Jiang Zemin’s persecution in 1999-2000. Yet, as this story grew repetitive or less “breaking,” these images disappeared from worldwide newspapers and television shows.

Many outside of China have come to believe that the brutality against Falun Gong has also gone away.

Nothing could be further from reality. The brutality has simply shifted from the public eye to behind concentration camp walls.

Ms. Wang Xia (pictured above) was sent to a Mongolian forced labor camp simply because she openly talked to people about Falun Gong. After going on a hunger strike to protest her detention and abuse she was injected with unknown drugs, force fed, shocked with electric batons, hung and beaten. The once 120 pound woman now weighs 45 pounds and fades in and out of consciousness. A person in charge of the prison said in front of several guards to: “Move her to the mortuary for cremation!”

Falun Dafa Information Center