Group marches against Falun Gong on National Day

Monday, 01 October, 2012, 5:56pm

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"Group marches against Falun Gong on National Day" video by Hedy Bok

A group described as “pro-Communist” by the Falun Gong tabloid Epoch Times gathered for a rally on Monday and marched from North Point to government headquarters in Admiralty to denounce what they call a cult.

About 100 members of the Hong Kong Youth Care Association paraded down the streets in lime-green T-shirts, shouting “Eliminate Falun Gong” and “Celebrate Mid-autumn, Welcome National Day”.

The purpose of the rally was to counteract Falun Gong’s anti-Communist protest also on Monday, said a member who was wearing a “supervisor” badge.

“National Day should be a festive occasion, yet the Falun Gong members are ruining it by throwing alleged insults at the [Communist] Party. Participants today are all volunteers,” he said.

When asked for more information about the group, he said: “We want to promote the right values to young people in Hong Kong. Falun Gong is a cult, and we want people to stay away from it.” Falun Gong is a spiritual movement that is banned on the mainland.

Ma (in video above), a rally participant who only gave her last name, said: “I was dragged here by a friend, and I have no idea what the rally is about. I came here for fun. It’s like a one-day tour of Hong Kong.”

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johnrai7 Oct 2nd 2012
3:12am

I am not the follower of Falun Gong, but i wonder who are these HK Youth Care Assc., i just don't like them taking the Assc. name as such and involving in such political issues,coz its nothing to do with Youth of HK and never hear anything about "Care" are they some social or NGO committee???, somebody enlighten me please, coz i always see their posters in the Hunghom station beside the Falun Gong.
Thanks.

Sunny Oct 1st 2012
10:04pm

I like the irony. A typical characteristic of a ‘cult’ is an organisation that controls the thoughts of the masses and does not allow any freedom of independent thinking or expression out of the status quo… mmmm, sounds like the Chinese Communist Party to me!
I don’t know that much about the philosophy of Falun Gong, but I found their critique of the CCP with their ‘Nine Commentaries of the Communist Party’ an essential reading that reveals the atrocities that have committed since they came to power.
****www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/nine-commentaries-on-the-communist-party-introduction-225078.html

yuuzan Oct 1st 2012
5:18pm

The Youth Care Association seems like a group that has had the wool drawn over their eyes. Not allowed to criticize the Party on National Day? I would think National Day should foremost be a celebration of China and not a celebration of its current government.