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Falun Gong Practitioners in Thailand Clarify the Truth to the Media
By a practitioner in Thailand
(Clearwisdom.net) From June 18 to 20, 2006, various media outlets in
Thailand, including Thairath, Daily News and the Chinese
newspapers Asian Daily, China Daily, New China and Jinghua
Chinese Daily, falsely attributed to Falun Gong the incident of a female
teacher from China injuring a parent with a knife. The story said that the
police thought that the teacher was a Falun Gong practitioner. The reports badly
damaged the reputation of Falun Gong. Practitioners realized that this was not a coincidence. Behind these reports,
the Chinese Embassy was manipulating the newspapers. The practitioners realized
that they should find out the truth and save Falun Gong's reputation and
sentient beings. They went to the police station in charge of the case, and
learned that no policeman had said the teacher was a Falun Gong practitioner and
no policeman had said that her behavior was related to any belief. Later,
practitioners went to the school where the teacher taught. The principal of the
school said that the teacher was sent to this school by a program run by the
Department of Education in Thailand and China. After the incident, people did a
complete physical and mental examination of this teacher, and found that she had
a hereditary mental disease and she had gone insane on another occasion two
years ago. Nobody at the school had ever heard that she practiced Falun Gong. The practitioners also called the newspapers to clarify the truth
to them. On June 19, Thairath and Daily News, the first to report
this news, made corrections to their reports. On June 23, two groups of Falun Gong practitioners went to four Chinese
newspapers to clarify the truth. They told the newspapers that Falun Gong
practitioners follow the principle of
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and try to be good people in
society, so they would never injure another person. Practitioners also told them
that many Falun Gong practitioners in China are jailed, fired from their work
places and expelled from schools because they practice Falun Gong. The Chinese
government refuses to issue passports to practitioners. So, this teacher could
not be a Falun Gong practitioner, because she was a teacher from an official
teacher exchange program run jointly by the Thai and Chinese governments. The
practitioners told the newspapers that there is no evident for the newspapers to
attribute this incident to Falun Gong, and such false reports damage the
reputation of Falun Gong. As public media, the newspapers should be objective
and just, to report the truth. The practitioners said that the newspapers should
correct the reports and make up the damage they caused. They then gave the
employees of the newspapers truth-clarification materials and the Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party. The practitioners' actions achieved good results. Four Chinese newspapers
made corrections to their reports. Chinese newspapers in Thailand have been
controlled by the CCP for a long time. Practitioners clarified the truth to them
through this incident. This has helped them to have a better understanding of
Falun Gong and the CCP, and gives them a chance to choose a wonderful future. Through this incident, practitioners in Thailand had an opportunity to
clarify the truth, do the three things well and improve as a whole
body.
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