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Guangzhou Daily Publishes the Articles of Falun Gong Founder Entitled "The Catastrophe" and "The Cleansing"
(Clearwisdom.net)
As reported from overseas media, the Guangzhou Daily published two
articles from Mr. Li Hongzhi, the creator of Falun Gong, on page A30 of its
March 30, 2002 issue. This incident caused a huge disturbance in the Chinese
Communist Party Propaganda System. The Guangzhou Daily is a major media
outlet in the southern city of Guangzhou and it is a paper under the control of
the Party in the Guangzhou Committee.
The two articles of Falun Gong founder Mr. Li Hongzhi were published on
page A23, which is the "Weekend Financial and Economics Club" page, in
the March 30th, 2002 issue. They were titled "Two Jueju"
(four-lined Chinese classical poems with five or seven characters to each line).
The poems were:
The Catastrophe
The dark, somber clouds have but a
few days left
With the bitter cold fully over,
spring now appears
Awakening, the sentient beings stand
aghast at the things they see
Half of China Proper covered by sand
and dust
Li Hongzhi
January 22, 2002
The Cleansing
Heaven and Earth turned upside down,
raining sand and dust
The minds of hundreds of millions in
the mortal world poisoned
People do not realize how many mercy
has saved
New graves cover the landscape of
China Proper
Li Hongzhi
January 31, 2002
According to an overseas report, this is the second time in a year that The
Guangzhou Daily has published Falun Gong articles. Last time the article was
introducing the book "Falun Turns Forever," and it was published on
page B19 of the February 16th, 2001 issue. At the end 2001, the
Guangzhou TV station was severely punished by Chinese dictator Jiang because it
showed a picture of Premier Zhu Rongji with a caption that said "former
Falun Gong practitioner." The Guangzhou TV station is also controlled by
the Guangzhou City government. The Director of the station and many others were
punished by losing their positions and suffering other such consequences.
The media experts in Guangzhou think that it was not merely a technical
mistake that The Guangzhou Daily published the articles of Falun Gong.
Some have speculated that this was a plot by rivals against the new Director of The
Guangzhou Daily because he had initiated a plan to stop corruption called
"Storm of Clean Government" immediately after taking the new position.
Posting date: 4/5/2002
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