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Suizhou City Officials Falsely Blame Falun Gong Practitioners When Unemployed Workers Strike After Failed Appeals to Higher Authorities By Falun Dafa practitioners from Suizhou City, Hubei Province (Clearwisdom.net) The Tieshu Group textile factory here in Suizhou City once
employed a few thousand workers, but has now gone bankrupt due to corrupt
dealings between the factory leaders and the local government officials. In
order to be able to support themselves, many jobless workers appealed to higher
authorities on several occasions with no result. Finally, the unemployed workers
protested by blocking the local railways. One such incident in 2003 alarmed the
Central Government. The unemployed workers were seeking a compensation amount
that the government was not able to pay. Information circulating among the workers said that Mayor Wu Chao was falsely
telling the higher authorities that the railway blockings were caused by Falun
Gong practitioners. On February 8, 2004, these workers decided to block the
railways again, and in order to prevent the local authorities from falsely
accusing Dafa practitioners, when marching to the railway, the workers who
walked in front of the crowd shouted, "Falun Gong practitioners, don't go to the
protest!" The protest lasted a long time, with a lot of people being arrested.
Twenty of them were falsely arrested for allegedly practicing Falun Gong and
taken to the Hubei Province Denglin Farm (a jail), where the police did not
allow visits from their family members. As practitioners, we can never accept false accusations against Dafa or Dafa
practitioners. Posting date: 6/3/2004 |