WASHINGTON—After 13 years, 3,574 people are confirmed dead. Adherents of a practice currently undergoing the largest religious persecution in the world gathered on the West Lawn of the Capitol on July 12, with over a thousand in attendance. Dozens of political and human rights leaders who could not attend set down their thoughts in missives that filled Falun Gong email inboxes over the last few days.
“I deeply wish I could join you for this important rally and, like all of you assembled today, it is my hope and prayer that this will be the last we will have to hold on behalf of the millions of peaceful Falun Gong practitioners in China,” wrote Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a U.S. federal government commission.
