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Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan Staging Terrorist Acts Around Beijing to Frame Falun Gong FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 6/1/2002 [ http://www.faluninfo.net/
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NEW YORK, June 1, 2002 (Falun Dafa Information Center) - Chinese leader Jiang
Zemin and "6-10" Office1 head Luo Gan are planning to create a series of
"horrifying incidents," including explosions in government offices, prisons and
forced-labor camps in areas around Beijing to frame Falun Gong, according to reliable sources in
China who have accurately revealed similar plots over the past two years. The plans include the
"sacrifice" of some government officials and police staff with the intent of using the
incidents to incite the public's hatred toward Falun Gong, especially among government and police
officials. These same sources confirm that the persecutors plan to use the incidents as an excuse to
kill Falun Gong practitioners.
Such horrific warnings would ordinarily seem far-fetched. These sources, however,
have provided equally shocking forewarnings on numerous occasions in the past. Each time, these
warnings were followed by criminal incidents that state-run media blamed on Falun Gong.
Third party investigation has never been able to corroborate the so-called
"evidence" against Falun Gong practitioners presented in these reports, yet they have been
used to manipulate public opinion in China against Falun Gong and its principle of
Truth-Compassion-Forbearance.
"This form of defamation and slander is extremely vicious and serves as one
of the cornerstones of Jiang's campaign against Falun Gong," says Falun Dafa Information Center
spokesperson Adam Montanaro. "The tactic employed here is to overwhelm people [through the
media] with so many horrific accusations that people either begin to believe they are true or assume
that the accused must have done something wrong to deserve the onslaught...the truth is Jiang is
just trying to serve his own personal agenda of mobilizing the country behind himself and
strengthening his power base, and will stop at nothing to do this," Mr. Montanaro said.
"Including plotting such horrific acts to demonizing a peaceful spiritual practice." "6-10" Office Plants Seeds for Using Child Murder Story Against
Falun Gong
In April, multiple sources in Changchun reported that local "6-10"
Office officials were spreading rumors among the schools of the city that Falun Gong practitioners
were planning on murdering children. Sources say this was an attempt to set the stage for pinning
related crimes on Falun Gong. The Falun Dafa Information Center (Chinese) issued a news release based on this
information on April 9.
On May 13, state-run media widely reported a story of a woman who killed her
daughter in front of 40 other people, all of which the state-run media claimed were Falun Gong
practitioners. Associated Press, however, issued a report later that day noting that "State
media have issued numerous similar reports, none of which have been independently confirmed."
Additionally, the killing reportedly happened on April 22, but was not reported by the state-run
media until May 13 - the day celebrated around the world as World Falun Dafa Day. "There was no
indication why the government waited three weeks to report [the] death," the AP report said.
Thousands Arrested, Dozens Dead Revealed by Sources Early On
Following a March 5, evening broadcast of programs supportive of Falun Gong in
northeastern China, sources in China indicated that an unprecedented sweep through the city of
Changchun was underway. On March 26, the Falun Dafa Information Center issued a news release stating that sources
revealed over 5,000 people believed to be practitioners of Falun Gong had been detained in the vast
and unprecedented police sweep through Changchun. Sources also reported that dozens or more might be
dead already as a result of police brutality.
Amnesty International issued an Urgent Action in the weeks that followed the
broadcast, but because of the tight control over information about the rampage, it would be another
seven weeks before an independent party could verify the arrest of at least 2,000. On April 25,
Associated Press reported on the independent party verification:
BEIJING - Under intense pressure from Beijing, authorities have detained 2,000
followers of the banned Falun Gong spiritual practice in a northern Chinese city after a defiant
television broadcast by the group, a rights organization said Thursday. More than 150 followers in
Changchun have been sent to "re-education through labor" camps, the Information Center for
Human Rights and Democracy said. Changchun's women's labor camp alone has admitted 80 Falun Gong
followers over the last six weeks, the Hong Kong-based center said. "Suicide" Plot to Frame Falun Gong Revealed
On December 16, 2001 the Falun Dafa Information Center issued a news release stating a reliable
source inside China had revealed that Chinese officials will begin a propaganda initiative starting
Monday, Dec. 17, that frames up Falun Gong by way of a suicide case.
"We received this information late last night," said Falun Dafa
Information Center spokesperson Dr. Shiyu Zhou at the time of the news release. "Chinese
officials have used this tactic many times before - they take cases of suicide, murder, and other
horrible acts, and use the state-run media to pin them on practitioners of Falun Gong so as to
incite hatred towards Falun Gong among the Chinese people." Dr. Zhou added, "Of course,
China's officials heavily guard any information about these cases, so it's both difficult and
dangerous for us to get further details about this new initiative, but we can say this came from a
reliable source and must be taken seriously. We need to follow this closely."
The next day, the top story on China's state-run CCTV reported on a man who
allegedly killed his father and wife, and injured his own mother on Nov. 25 in Beijing. China's
state-run media did not release the news, however, until 20 days later (December 17).
The reported labeled the man a Falun Gong practitioner, and included interviews
with him in which he spoke in unfamiliar terms about Falun Gong. Dr. Zhou noted that the story was
deceptive: "What [the murderer] said does not make any sense but could be very deceiving as he
uses some strange terminologies that will cause people to believe he actually practices Falun
Gong."
4 Days Before Anthrax Scare, Sources Reveal Jiang Will Capitalize on Terrorist
Fears
On October 14, 2001, the Falun Dafa Information Center (Chinese) reported that Jiang Zemin
had internally labeled Falun Gong a "terrorist organization," and ordered that
"terrorist incidents" be created and attributed to Falun Gong. The creation of such
incidents would undoubtedly further the regime's efforts to criminalize and demonize Falun Gong,
breeding public hatred and fear.
On October 18, 2001, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA), the Associated Press and
other media issued reports, citing Chinese foreign ministry sources, that an alleged "Falun
Gong book" suspected of anthrax bacteria contamination was received in the mail by an
undisclosed American company in Beijing. No details were given about the package, including where it
originated.
On the October 18, the Falun Dafa Information Center issued a news release in which spokesperson
Adam Montanaro stated, "If the Chinese regime is using the anthrax scare to frame-up and attack
Falun Gong, which it clearly looks like, then this is very disturbing. Would someone who sends a
package like this include literature that identifies him?-that's absurd. But on the other hand,
that's exactly how someone might choose to frame Falun Gong. It's highly suspicious." "The
timing of this incident," Mr. Montanaro continued, "seems suspicious as well." The
incident occurred as many of the world's leaders were visiting Shanghai during the APEC meetings.
Sources Forewarn of Labor Camp Show Tours
On April 26, 2001, the Falun Dafa Information Center reported that sources said the Masanjia Labor
Camp in Liaoning Province was among a few facilities being readied to receive foreign and Chinese
media to 'interview' selected Falun Gong Practitioners. Almost a month later reporters were invited
to the Masanjia Labor Camp to witness freshly painted walls, prisoners decked out in new jump suits
complete with their names written on the back in Chinese and English (it was not clear why prisoners
needed their names written in English inside a Chinese labor camp), enjoying an apparently clean and
healthy environment.
What the visiting media were shown on this tour lies in stark contrast to
numerous first-hand reports from former prisoners at Masanjia who attest to violent beatings,
horrific torture and numerous deaths that have occurred from persecution at the labor camp.
Regarding this tour, Falun Dafa Information Center spokeswoman Gail Rachlin said, "This whole
exercise smacks of Nazi show tours of a Czech Concentration camp in the 1930's which was turned into
a movie set to mislead the world. We fear the same thing may be happening again."
What is the Full Story?
Last December while the number of deaths confirmed by the Falun Dafa Information
Center topped 300, government sources inside China revealed that the actual number was well over
1,600. More recently, other sources in China say the number could be 4,000 or even far greater. The
control of information in and out of Mainland China about human rights abuses remains strong,
proving difficult and dangerous to circumnavigate. Thus, despite the access to reliable sources,
evidence suggests that news agencies and human rights organizations have only barely scratched the
surface of what's really happening in China.
The true extent of the tragedy remains largely unknown.
Posting date: 6/3/2002 |