Canada: Torontonians Hold Grand Rally to "Try Jiang Zemin"
                                                          (Clearwisdom.net, September 29, 2003)


On September 27, at the Queen's Park in front of Toronto City Hall, more than 20 organizations involved in the formation of the "Preparation Committee for the Global Coalition To Bring Jiang To Justice" held an event : "The Public Trial of Jiang Zemin." Since the "Preparation Committee of the Global Coalition To Bring Jiang To Justice" was established in July this year, more than 70 organizations and individuals have joined it. According to representatives from the committee, more organizations are going to join. Over 300 people from different circles attended this "public trial."
Provincial Assemblyman George Smith joined the rally and delivered a speech. He expressed that it was his great honor to be here and to stand with people here to fight for justice. He said that if we stand together and face the pressure and persecution, patiently, as time passes, justice will eventually prevail. He stated that this message should be passed to those who do not agree with kindness, tolerance, and freedom, who do not respect others' values; it is time for them to be tried. He said that he will stand with us until the day of the dictator's trial.
         Provincial assemblyman George smith

A representative of the "Global Coalition Against Article 23 Legislation," who is also a member of the preparation committee stated that this activity is not to demonstrate hatred towards a partaicular individual, but instead, it is a fight between ruling by law and autocracy, and democracy and dictatorship.

Kevin Yang, a representative of "World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong" also gave an addressed the rally. He pointed out that the persecution of millions of Falun Gong practitioners was done completely out of Jiang Zemin's personal will.

He (Jiang) employed a quarter of China's entire financial resources to systematically persecute Falun Gong and he used the country as a tool for his dictatorship.

Sheng Xue, a representative of the "Committee to Investigate the June 4th Incident" commented: "There is one day the nightmare and fear will end, there is one day enslavement and persecution will end, and there is one day freedom and democracy will begin. All of these should start one day, and that day is today!" Other organizations also expressed their support for "bringing Jiang to justice."

Mr. Gerry O'pray, president of the sub-commission of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, sent a representative to join the rally who expressed that promoting freedom and human rights are the Commission's responsibility and that the Commission supports this appeal for freedom.

The attending organizations formed a mock tribunal on the spot. As witnesses, several representatives of different organizations and individual victims of the persecution related their sufferings due to Jiang's persecution before the "judge" and requested for upholding justice. After the "Judge" listened to witnesses' statements and the statements from both defendant and plaintiffs' attorneys, he pronounced Jiang guilty for committing genocide and crimes against humanity.


                        Signing a petition
             
People from the preparation committee said that this activity serves as a prelude for Canadian organizations and people to work together to bring Jiang to justice. Next, we will carry out a series of thorough actions including crime investigation, verification, publicizing the message through the internet, break though China's information blockade and filling lawsuits.

Posting date: 9/30/2003 Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2003/9/29/58117.html
The Global Coalition for Bringing Jiang
to Justice
was formally established on September 30, 2003 at the U.S. capital, Washington D.C. The coalition will hold its first public rally on October 6th in New York.
More Rallies: Global Coaltion Rally in Boston   Global Coalition Rally in Munich   Global Coalition Rally - United Nations
                          Global Coalition Rally in Sydney
  Global Coalition Rally in Melbourne

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