By Paul Lin

Beijing won the right to hold the Olympic Games just as a large group of Falun Gong members visited Washington and started up movements around the world in a bid to get people to focus on the fate of their fellow believers in China. In the last two years, Beijing has crowned the movement with many different criminal hats... We shouldn't be surprised if China comes up with another 10 or so names, since the Chinese [party's name omitted] has always been known as a manufacturer of hats.

...Each of these names represents the communists' method of blaming others for their own crimes. Of all organizations in China, are there any that reach the party's levels of leadership authority, dissemination of illogic, organizational closedness, membership control, active wealth accumulation and secretive activities? The party is itself a tool in the hands of international anti-China forces, functioning as the tool of the Marxist-Leninist Communist International's splitting up of China and its destruction of Chinese culture.

The extirpation of the human character and the making of lies into truth, leading to the perishing of ethics, are the original evils of working against humanism, science and society. To fight the Falun Gong movement, the party has over and over again reported that suicide pacts are taking place in China, but why has this not happened anywhere else? If these are not lies created by the party, then they are suicides that have been forced by the evil communist cult.

It is of course also incorrect to say that the Falun Gong movement is an anti-government organization. Originally, it was completely uninterested in politics, and it is only Beijing's suppression that has forced it to fight back. Since it is China's President Jiang Zemin who is strongly advocating the suppression of the Falun Gong, causing other leaders to go along with the crackdown, followers have aimed their political activity at Jiang. This means that rather than talking of anti-government activity, we should be talking of anti-Jiang activity, of course including those officials who are actively doing their best to assist him in the mistreatment and killing of Falun Gong members.

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The Chinese communists' full use of the state apparatus to cruelly suppress the Falun Gong has forced the [group]'s followers into resistance. In the beginning, the party thought that if [group] members were arrested, the Falun Gong would dissipate. They did not expect that its patient followers would refuse to yield and instead resist. [...] To date, 253 deaths have been reported.

The numbers will continue to rise, since arrests, labor reform camps and prisons use violence and other methods of torture to force the transformation of the thinking of Falun Gong members in order to be able to report their achievements to Jiang. [party's name omitted] officials repeatedly dismiss allegations of the use of torture as "rumors," and expend great effort in arranging visits for foreign journalists to labor camps and prisons.

The hypocrisy of the [party's name omitted] shows, however, in its fears of letting the supposedly reformed Falun Gong members, who are said to have been tortured, meet with foreign media freely to tell of their experiences. Rumor has it that, to prevent [group] members from other parts of China from returning to Beijing to protest, tourists arriving by bus have to get off the bus before entering the city, walk over portraits of [group] leader Li Hongzhi that have been spread on the ground before they can reboard the bus and finish their journey. Anyone not doing so is presumed to be a Falun Gong member and will be sent back or arrested on the spot. Only a government of bandits would come up with such a trick.

Of course, the party's heavy crackdown has already caused Falun Gong protests in China to decrease. This is, however, only a superficial phenomenon, since there is no way that a belief can be completely suppressed by violence. As soon as there is an opportunity, it will come back to life, the thought of which must be keeping Jiang awake at nights.

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The [party's name omitted] said that if Beijing won the right to hold the Olympic Games, it would improve its human rights record. However, the police have been arresting people suspected of being Falun Gong members all over Tiananmen Square, continued to spout lies and stepped up arrests and sentencing of other dissidents. [...]

http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2001/08/02/story/0000096800

Posting date: 8/4/2001
Original article date: 8/3/2001
Category: News & Media Reports

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