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Analysis of South African Shooting Incident Reveals the Need for the International Community to Help Stop the Persecution By Chen Yi (Clearwisdom.net) The incident in which peaceful Falun Dafa practitioners
were targeted in a shooting in Johannesburg, South Africa on June 28, 2004, has
generated enormous international interest. By analyzing this incident, we can
see that responsibility for stopping this terrorism lies with the people and
governments of the entire world.
Was the Gunman a Personal Enemy of the Practitioners?
The gunman could not have been a personal enemy of the Falun Dafa
practitioners. Otherwise, they would have taken their revenge while still at
home in Australia, instead of traveling all the way to Johannesburg to commit
the crime.
Was Robbery the Motive?
The victims are not wealthy. The shooting incident occurred on the road
while they were driving. The shooter fled the scene after seeing that the
practitioners' car had been stopped and was disabled, instead of approaching
the vehicle to rob the helpless occupants. Obviously, the motive for the
shooting was not robbery.
How Did the Gunman Recognize His Target?
If the gunman did not know the victim, how would he have recognized his
target? While many Falun Dafa practitioners were riding in the car, only the
practitioner shot was the one wearing clothing that identified him as a Falun
Dafa practitioner, David Liang. We can ascertain that the shooter was aiming
for Falun Dafa practitioners because these insignias were the only possible
identifiers of the intended targets. The shooter would have had no way of
predicting whether there would be any Falun Dafa practitioners going to South
Africa, exactly who they might be or from which country they would come. Hence,
the gunman was really aiming at the Falun Dafa practitioners of the entire
world. As long as the person is a Falun Dafa practitioner, shoot to kill! If
several other practitioners had also been wearing clothing that bore Falun Dafa
insignias, the outcome of this incident might have been much worse.
It was not a personal enemy that committed this crime, and it was not done
for the purpose of an armed holdup. In addition, the shooter had never met his
victims, so we may conclude that the gunman was hired to target only Falun Dafa
practitioners.
Who Hired the Gunman?
We will not speculate as to the identity of the shooter, since the South
African police are currently investigating this case. We are concerned about
who hired these shooters, however, because that is who would be the real
culprits! Who is the most hostile towards Falun Dafa and anyone who follows
Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance? That is Jiang and his regime. Zeng
Qinghong (1) is a prominent member of the Jiang regime, one who helped
plan the persecution of Falun Dafa.
The shooting occurred during a South African visit by Zeng Qinghong and Bo
Xilai (2), from June 27 through June 29, 2004. Falun Dafa practitioners
from Australia had come to South Africa to file a lawsuit against Zeng. This
lawsuit was for crimes that were committed in accordance with the genocidal
persecution of Falun Gong in China, under Jiang's personally stated policies of
"ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially and destroy them
physically," as well as "killing them won't matter because their deaths will be
counted as suicides." In order to avoid being sued, Zeng used the gangster
tactic of hiring henchmen to terrorize the Falun Dafa practitioners with an
attempt on their lives, or at least with the appearance of such.
Stopping the Persecution Is the Mutual Responsibility of the International
Community
Criminals all clearly know that once they are being sued, it becomes very
difficult to escape responsibility for their actions, so they sometimes try to
kill the victims who are trying to sue them. In order to stop the Falun Dafa
practitioners, Jiang and his regime dared to hire overseas hit men. This
exposes to the international community the inhumanity of his nature that was
inherent to the persecution of Falun Gong.
In order to persecute Falun Gong, Jiang and his regime have dared to thumb
their noses at the laws of other countries. Many incidents involving damage to
Falun Dafa practitioners' personal property have occurred in many countries
around the world. All these incidents have demonstrated that the Jiang regime's
persecution of Falun Dafa is not confined to a single country, but involves the
entire international community. Stopping such persecution and bringing Jiang
and his regime to justice for genocide, is the common responsibility of people
and governments around the world.
In the early days of the persecution, Jiang and his regime used to hand out
booklets slandering Falun Dafa to foreign officials overseas. Now his regime
has become like "mice scurrying across the road that everyone wants to hit."
Where Jiang once hired people to block the peaceful appeals made by Falun Dafa
practitioners, he is now hiring gunmen to maim them. Using his pen and his
guns, Jiang's bag of tricks have all been used up, and he now realizes that his
days are numbered. How can righteousness ever be defeated by such underhanded
tricks? Ultimately, justice must reign over evil!
Posting date: 7/4/2004 |