NEW YORK CITY—Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners held a parade and rally in Flushing, New York, on April 19 to commemorate the anniversary of a key event in China and support the 440 million people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The event in Queens comes ahead of April 25, a date 26 years ago upon which 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners turned out in a spontaneous peaceful appeal for the practice near the ruling party’s compound in Beijing.
The appeal to the regime to allow freedom to practice wasn’t heeded and on July 20, 1999, the CCP launched a violent persecution of Falun Gong practitioners overnight….