July 6, 2001

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[...] China's cruel suppression of the Falun Gong, a fitness movement that among other threatening things practices deep breathing, continues with gathering intensity.

More than a dozen Falun Gong members in a labor camp in Heilongjiang Province were said to have committed "suicide." The quotation marks around "suicide" are necessary because suicide can be an imaginative exercise in China. Many prisoners beat themselves to death. If they get the 2008 Olympics the Chinese could consider making suicide an Olympic sport, since only they have perfected the techniques of suicide by self-beating.

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http://www.washtimes.com/national/pruden.htm

Posting date: 7/9/2001
Original article date: 7/6/2001
Category: News & Media Reports

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