An Orphan’s Sorrow 孤兒淚

Perhaps the least known victims of the persecution in China are children such as this little girl who holds what remains of her parents-their ashes. Her father’s jacket cloaks her small frame and is likely her only protection against the coming winter. Inspired by documented events, the painting draws out what is pure in the child’s tormented gaze, and with the dark tones that engulf her, the collective suffering of many her age. Untold numbers of children have seen their parents taken away merely because of their beliefs. The parents of thousand of such children are known to have been murdered by the regime. Many children thus orphaned face the further burden of institutionalized discrimination; for their own or their parents’ practice of Falun Gong, children are often chastised by teachers or classmates, and in some cases, even barred altogether from school. The writing on wall at the left identifies the forced labor camp where her parents were likely killed.

中共的迫害造成了無數法輪功學員家破人亡。畫中的孩子，父母雙雙被迫害致死，孩子滿腹辛酸，隱忍著眼淚，捧著父母的骨灰不知何去何從。