Falun Gong supporters to wage protest
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By Rosa Ramirez, Rocky Mountain News
March 16, 2006
Denver Falun Gong supporters will hold a two-day hunger strike starting tomorrow to protest the alleged existence of a concentration camp for spiritual movent followers in the northern Chinese city of Shenyang.

The strike will begin with a demonstration from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Republic Plaza Food Court on Tremont Place and 16th Street.

The group learned last week that there is evidence supporting their contentions that the Chinese government had detained Falun Gong practitioners at death camps and sold their organs on the black market.

The New York-based Falun Dafa Information Center, which collect information of Falun Gong practitioners around the world, published an article with testimony from a former journalist from China that revealed the concentration camp. The journalist is not named and is only referred to as "a source."

The Chinese journalist alleged that the camp has the capacity to hold up to 6,000 individuals and has a crematorium.

The Chinese government outlawed Falun Gong, a spiritual movement which involves slow-moving exercises and a self improvement philosophy based on Buddhism, Taoism and founder Li Hongzhi's ideas. Since the practice became illegal in 1999, thousands of Chinese have been imprisoned