Some children became orphans when their parents were tortured to death. Many children were unable to go school, forced into homelessness, discriminated against, imprisoned with their parents, or even persecuted to death. Altogether, approximately ten million children in China have been affected by the persecution. Many practitioners who were tortured to death had children. Thousand have been sent to mental hospitals more than 6,000 were unlawfully sentenced to prison and more than 100,000 were sent to forced labour camps. As of August 2005, 2,773 practitioners have been killed by Jiang's regime and the Chinese Communist Party. In July 1999, Jiang Zemin, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party, launched the inhuman persecution of Falun Gong. She further said that the lotus symbolises Falun Gong practitioners in China who maintain their steadfast belief and uncompromising courage in the face of persecution, and remain pure like the lotus. While both the young and the elderly were learning to fold paper lotus flowers, a practitioner explained that the lotus grows out of mud but is not contaminated. She was pleased to see the demonstration. One woman said with a smile that her niece had wanted to learn Falun Gong and had searched for it for quite a while.
Many people paid attention to the exercise demonstration and asked for practice site information. It was a clear day with intense sunshine, as practitioners demonstrated the five sets of exercises. In front of the booth, many people signed the petition to support the rescue effort. They distributed flyers at each intersection, and young practitioners distributed flyers, as well as folded paper lotus flowers. Dafa practitioners set up a booth with the theme of rescuing children of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted in China. On August the 7th, 2005, a Mid-autumn Festival celebration was held in Boston's Chinatown.
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