On May 12, 2007, the Finnish Service Center for Quitting the CCP held a rally and parade in Helsinki's Central Square to support the twenty-one million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China. People from many Nordic countries participated in the event, which attracted many tourists and local people's attention.

A Finnish MP: "The CCP does not allow its people to obtain information from the outside."

Outi Alanko-Kahiluodon, an MP from the Finnish Green Party, gave a speech. She said that in Nordic countries, all the non-governmental organizations (NGO), even those who oppose the government, receive equal and proper treatment. They can even obtain financial support from the government. However, the idea of democracy is only a dream in China. In China, human rights upholders are jailed for upholding their basic human rights. Those people who step forward to oppose the Chinese government's human rights violations are imprisoned in jails in China. All controversial voices are suppressed. The CCP constrains all the people within the national border, the Internet is blockaded, people's daily activities are monitored, even the web-site of our Green Party Youth Organization is blocked by the CCP. Perhaps the Chinese regime considers ideas of supporting human rights, making the environment green and opposing dictatorship as a threat to its political power.

Finish MP Outi Alanko-Kahiluodon

She also said that the roles played by people in democratic countries are to give hope to people having difficulty, listen to the voices from different people in different places in the world, and pay attention to the situations where there is no democracy, and to respect human rights. In other words, we should make our society fairer, just, democratic, support freedom of speech, and freedom in the media. It is the foundation of a successful society.

Representative of the Swedish NGO, SHRIC gives speech

A representative from the Swedish NGO, SHRIC, said that right before the Olympic Games the CCP has started an even more rampant suppression against those dissidents to make them disappear. This worsens the human rights situation in China. She also condemned the CCP's crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. She said, "If a nation wants to be prosperous, the most important thing is to respect human rights, let the people speak without fear, and allow free thinking, instead of controlling everything by all means at their disposal.

An Eighteen Year-old Chinese Student Appeals to Rescue Her Father Being Persecuted by the CCP

Sunny, an eighteen year-old Chinese student in Finland participated in the rally. She told a reporter that in March of this year, her father, Mr. Zhang Weijie, was illegally arrested by the CCP just because he practices Falun Gong. In order to find her father, her mother begged for help everywhere, and was finally informed that her father was imprisoned in a brainwashing center.

Sunny said, "My whole family is very worried about it. The CCP's crimes of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners has been exposed to the public, and it is real. In my hometown, Wuhan, there is an organ transplant center, so we are worried that my father could suffer the same type of murder." She appealed to the Finnish government and all circles to help rescue her father, who is in danger.

A parade took place after the rally. Police vehicles cleared the traffic, and the parade was lead by the waist-drum group with the traditional Chinese costumes, followed by various banners and placards supporting the withdrawals from the CCP. The parade proceeded through the center of Helsinki.

This day was also the final competition for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, and many people from Nordic countries who love music came to Helsinki to experience the results of the competition. As a result, there were huge numbers of people in the city center. The parade with joyful drumming for celebrating the tide of quitting the CCP in China attracted many people.

Having seen the large banners and understood that it was supporting the withdrawals from the CCP, people applauded with thumbs-up saying, "What you have done is very good!"

Some western people who just learned a few Chinese words said to the Chinese practitioners who were distributing the leaflets: "Good, good!"

A man from Eastern Europe shouted, "I was imprisoned by the Communist Party for two years, I really hated it!"

A young Chinese person said, "This is really spectacular. People in China have no chance to know this." Along the parade route, many people took photos of the parade.

At the parade's final destination, a big coach full of tourists from China stopped by chance, and the large banners indicating that over twenty one million Chinese people having withdrawn from the CCP, along with various truth-clarifying materials were presented in front of the Chinese tourists. Even though some Chinese tourists did not dare to accept materials openly because of the threats from the CCP, the unforgettable parade scene must have stirred their hearts deeply.