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Survivors say China Falun Gong immolations real
Reuters/April 4, 2002
By Jeremy Page
Kaifeng, China -- Survivors of a mass self-immolation by alleged Falun Gong members in Tiananmen Square last year denied on Thursday the Chinese government had rigged the incident, showing their horrific injuries as proof.
China had long denied foreign media access to participants in the January 2001 suicide bid but suddenly arranged interviews this week with survivors and their accomplices, including two jail inmates.
The group denied charges by Falun Gong members overseas that they were not true followers of the group China banned in 1999 as an "evil cult."
"We wanted to strengthen the force of Falun Gong," said Chen Guo, 20, lying in a hospital bed in her home town of Kaifeng, her face a blotchy mass of grafted skin with no nose and no ears. One eye was open, the other covered by a flap of skin.
"We decided burning ourselves was the best way," said Chen, who also lost both her hands. "It was totally due to our own will. We were not forced by anyone."
Falun Gong members overseas have accused Beijing of staging the self-immolation to discredit the group and last month adherents in the northeastern city of Changchun hacked into state television broadcasts to show a film backing up the allegation.
The surprise decision to allow journalists access to the group shows China recognises that its fight against Falun Gong -- a mishmash of Buddhism, Daoism and traditional Chinese breathing exercises -- is far from over.
There has been a series of protests by foreign adherents of the banned group in Tiananmen Square. Movement Denounced
The three burn victims -- two others died of their injuries -- all denounced Falun Gong as a cult, echoing the official language of a sustained state media campaign against the group.
"I think Falun Gong has developed into a cult with anti-human and anti-society characteristics," said Chen, a former music student from Kaifeng in the central province of Henan.
"I hope those who still believe in this cult can be awakened and throw it away," she said. "I don't want to see another victim like me."
The victims said they had been inspired to burn themselves, though not specifically instructed, by Falun Gong leader Li Hongzhi, who lives in exile in the United States and publishes teachings mainly via the Internet.
But they said they had originally taken up Falun Gong to benefit their health and not to oppose the government.
"We wanted to show the government that Falun was good," said Chen's mother, Hao Huijun, who also took part in the self-immolation and now shares a hospital room with her daughter.
Hao, 49, has lost her ears and most of her nose, and both eyes are covered with skin grafts. She too has no hands.
She said she had protested peacefully in Tiananmen Square before the self-immolations and had also written a letter of complaint to the National People's Congress, or parliament, but it was sent on to her local prosecutor's office.
"Then I felt writing letters or showing banners cannot not really work," she said. "So finally, we decided...to make a big event to show our will to the world." Prison Visit
Reporters were also allowed to visit the Henan Provincial Prison where Wang Jindong is serving a 15 year sentence for masterminding the self-immolations, which claimed the lives of 12-year-old girl and her mother.
Dressed in a grey-blue prison fatigues with white stripes down the side, Wang denied accusations that he had been bribed by the government to stage the incident.
"If you think it is makeup, you can touch my face and feel if it is real or not," he said, touching his scarred, leathery cheeks with blackened fingers. "As to whether I am a practitioner or not, it's not for other people to say."
"I feel humiliated because of my stupidity and fanatical ideas," said Wang, who shares a simple room with three other inmates watched by a closed circuit television camera.
He said he spent his days studying classical and modern Chinese, reading newspapers and watching television.
"The officials created a favourable environment for my study," said Wang, whose wife and daughter spent nine months in a labour camp for demonstrating on Tiananmen Square.
They also praised the conditions in the labour camp. Wang's daughter said she renounced Falun Gong after just 10 minutes there.
Falun Gong says thousands of its followers have been sent to labour camps without trial and more than 1,600 have died in custody from police brutality. The government says only a handful have died, mostly from suicide or natural causes. It blames Falun Gong for the deaths of at least 1,900 people by suicide or refusing medical treatment.
Survivors say China Falun Gong immolations real
Reuters/April 4, 2002
By Jeremy Page
Kaifeng, China -- Survivors of a mass self-immolation by alleged Falun Gong members in Tiananmen Square last year denied on Thursday the Chinese government had rigged the incident, showing their horrific injuries as proof.
China had long denied foreign media access to participants in the January 2001 suicide bid but suddenly arranged interviews this week with survivors and their accomplices, including two jail inmates.
The group denied charges by Falun Gong members overseas that they were not true followers of the group China banned in 1999 as an "evil cult."
"We wanted to strengthen the force of Falun Gong," said Chen Guo, 20, lying in a hospital bed in her home town of Kaifeng, her face a blotchy mass of grafted skin with no nose and no ears. One eye was open, the other covered by a flap of skin.
"We decided burning ourselves was the best way," said Chen, who also lost both her hands. "It was totally due to our own will. We were not forced by anyone."
Falun Gong members overseas have accused Beijing of staging the self-immolation to discredit the group and last month adherents in the northeastern city of Changchun hacked into state television broadcasts to show a film backing up the allegation.
The surprise decision to allow journalists access to the group shows China recognises that its fight against Falun Gong -- a mishmash of Buddhism, Daoism and traditional Chinese breathing exercises -- is far from over.
There has been a series of protests by foreign adherents of the banned group in Tiananmen Square. Movement Denounced
The three burn victims -- two others died of their injuries -- all denounced Falun Gong as a cult, echoing the official language of a sustained state media campaign against the group.
"I think Falun Gong has developed into a cult with anti-human and anti-society characteristics," said Chen, a former music student from Kaifeng in the central province of Henan.
"I hope those who still believe in this cult can be awakened and throw it away," she said. "I don't want to see another victim like me."
The victims said they had been inspired to burn themselves, though not specifically instructed, by Falun Gong leader Li Hongzhi, who lives in exile in the United States and publishes teachings mainly via the Internet.
But they said they had originally taken up Falun Gong to benefit their health and not to oppose the government.
"We wanted to show the government that Falun was good," said Chen's mother, Hao Huijun, who also took part in the self-immolation and now shares a hospital room with her daughter.
Hao, 49, has lost her ears and most of her nose, and both eyes are covered with skin grafts. She too has no hands.
She said she had protested peacefully in Tiananmen Square before the self-immolations and had also written a letter of complaint to the National People's Congress, or parliament, but it was sent on to her local prosecutor's office.
"Then I felt writing letters or showing banners cannot not really work," she said. "So finally, we decided...to make a big event to show our will to the world." Prison Visit
Reporters were also allowed to visit the Henan Provincial Prison where Wang Jindong is serving a 15 year sentence for masterminding the self-immolations, which claimed the lives of 12-year-old girl and her mother.
Dressed in a grey-blue prison fatigues with white stripes down the side, Wang denied accusations that he had been bribed by the government to stage the incident.
"If you think it is makeup, you can touch my face and feel if it is real or not," he said, touching his scarred, leathery cheeks with blackened fingers. "As to whether I am a practitioner or not, it's not for other people to say."
"I feel humiliated because of my stupidity and fanatical ideas," said Wang, who shares a simple room with three other inmates watched by a closed circuit television camera.
He said he spent his days studying classical and modern Chinese, reading newspapers and watching television.
"The officials created a favourable environment for my study," said Wang, whose wife and daughter spent nine months in a labour camp for demonstrating on Tiananmen Square.
They also praised the conditions in the labour camp. Wang's daughter said she renounced Falun Gong after just 10 minutes there.
Falun Gong says thousands of its followers have been sent to labour camps without trial and more than 1,600 have died in custody from police brutality. The government says only a handful have died, mostly from suicide or natural causes. It blames Falun Gong for the deaths of at least 1,900 people by suicide or refusing medical treatment.
Survivors say China Falun Gong immolations real
(Falun) Gong New Year event mere propaganda
You don't get well, but you do get the point at tacky New Year event
Jan 20, 2008 04:30 AM
Susan Walker
DANCE WRITER
Chinese New Year Spectacular
(out of four)
Choreography by Divine Performing Arts. Today at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Sony Centre, a Front St. E. 416-872-2262.
It's not every day that a show comes to town on the wings of claims that watching it might bring tangible health benefits. But that's what was heard at a pre-show reception from tenor Guimin Guan, a performer who sings "Holy Falun King" near the end of the 2 1/2- hour Chinese New Year Spectacular.
The healing powers of the music and dance on display in this admittedly spectacularly tacky show was the icing on the cake of enlightenment and truth that was offered up at every opportunity in a presentation of "the true essence of Chinese culture" before it was "damaged by the Chinese Communist Party." The production is so heavily laden with Falun Gong messages as to negate any pleasure the dancing and singing might have afforded.
After all the promises of a true depiction of Chinese art, it was a surprise to see two angels in white feathered wings fluttering about as the curtain came up. Buddhism and Taoism are the traditional religions allegedly suppressed by the Communist government, but the mood on stage was more that of a Bible camp than a Buddhist retreat.
The dance component of the show included a fan dance, a Mongolian chopstick dance, a Tibetan sleeve dance, and "Ladies of the Manchu Court" shuffling about in 16th-century Chinese heeled shoes. In between the dances, two sopranos, one of them not bad (Min Jiang), a contralto, an alto and a tenor sang in Chinese to Western music. The lyrics were not what you'd call catchy: "Don't be gullible before the one-voice system," and "Why do we expose the Party for you, then?"
Art it wasn't. The choreography was consistently banal, with the performers arranged in rows doing identical gestures. The dancers were under-rehearsed and unremarkable. Only the men in the chopstick dance left any impression of dancing or acrobatic ability.
The drumming in the "Drummers of the Tang Court" sequence, barely held a candle to what you might see at a kodo drum concert, and the final "Victory Drums" scene had all the earmarks of the socialist realism that thrived in the Mao era.
And furthermore, this reviewer left the theatre with all her aches and pains intact.
TheStar.com | entertainment | (Falun) Gong New Year event mere propaganda
You don't get well, but you do get the point at tacky New Year event
Jan 20, 2008 04:30 AM
Susan Walker
DANCE WRITER
Chinese New Year Spectacular
Choreography by Divine Performing Arts. Today at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Sony Centre, a Front St. E. 416-872-2262.
It's not every day that a show comes to town on the wings of claims that watching it might bring tangible health benefits. But that's what was heard at a pre-show reception from tenor Guimin Guan, a performer who sings "Holy Falun King" near the end of the 2 1/2- hour Chinese New Year Spectacular.
The healing powers of the music and dance on display in this admittedly spectacularly tacky show was the icing on the cake of enlightenment and truth that was offered up at every opportunity in a presentation of "the true essence of Chinese culture" before it was "damaged by the Chinese Communist Party." The production is so heavily laden with Falun Gong messages as to negate any pleasure the dancing and singing might have afforded.
After all the promises of a true depiction of Chinese art, it was a surprise to see two angels in white feathered wings fluttering about as the curtain came up. Buddhism and Taoism are the traditional religions allegedly suppressed by the Communist government, but the mood on stage was more that of a Bible camp than a Buddhist retreat.
The dance component of the show included a fan dance, a Mongolian chopstick dance, a Tibetan sleeve dance, and "Ladies of the Manchu Court" shuffling about in 16th-century Chinese heeled shoes. In between the dances, two sopranos, one of them not bad (Min Jiang), a contralto, an alto and a tenor sang in Chinese to Western music. The lyrics were not what you'd call catchy: "Don't be gullible before the one-voice system," and "Why do we expose the Party for you, then?"
Art it wasn't. The choreography was consistently banal, with the performers arranged in rows doing identical gestures. The dancers were under-rehearsed and unremarkable. Only the men in the chopstick dance left any impression of dancing or acrobatic ability.
The drumming in the "Drummers of the Tang Court" sequence, barely held a candle to what you might see at a kodo drum concert, and the final "Victory Drums" scene had all the earmarks of the socialist realism that thrived in the Mao era.
And furthermore, this reviewer left the theatre with all her aches and pains intact.
TheStar.com | entertainment | (Falun) Gong New Year event mere propaganda
Falun Gong: A Sinnic Scientology
http://www.hardkingdom.com/freshrain/posting.php?mode=quote&p=49336
See how this boy comments on Falun Gong:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_al52-Wv20"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_al52-Wv20[/ame]
http://www.hardkingdom.com/freshrain/posting.php?mode=quote&p=49336
See how this boy comments on Falun Gong:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_al52-Wv20"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_al52-Wv20[/ame]
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