Cases
of dire consequences caused by Falun Gong to the psychological
and physical health of people are innumerable, according
to facts collected by certain departments.
Serious
results have been reported, including sickness, handicaps,
and even death from the practice of Falun Gong.
Since
beginning the practice of Falun Gong, many people have lost
their appetites, some appeared to be disorganized in words
and behavior, and some became paranoid. Still others found
themselves suffering from hallucinations. A number of people
jumped into rivers or off buildings, or killed themselves
in other ways. Some even cruelly injured or killed relatives
and friends.
Ma
Jianmin, a retired worker from the Huabei Oilfield in north
China, was often in a trance and became distraught after
two years of practicing Falun Gong.
Ma
insisted that he had a "wheel of law" in his stomach.
Then, one day in 1998, Ma died at home after he cut his
abdomen with a pair of scissors to look for the so-called
wheel of law.
Official
Gao Encheng, who became a leader of a Falun Gong practicing
group in Kaixian County of Chongqing Municipality in southwest
China, got the idea that he had become an "immortal."
Gao killed himself by jumping off a building while holding
his son in his arms.
Bai
Changyu, a section chief geologist at a coal mine in northeast
China's Fushun City, refused to see doctor or take any medicine
when he was sick after he began practicing Falun Gong in
1997.
Bai
became seriously ill in April 1999, but still refused medical
treatment until he finally died, still holding the belief
that Li Hongzhi would come to help him.
Liu
Pinqing was a senior agronomist who had won a top prize
given by the Ministry of Agriculture. Liu, however, became
abnormal after practicing Falun Gong. He said many times
that his master Li Hongzhi asked him to burn himself so
as to become a buddha.
Liu
attempted to burn himself to death on February 4, 1999,
at home by revolving open the gas valve. He finally committed
suicide two months later by jumping into a well.
Li
Ting, a graduate student from a junior middle school under
the age of 18, killed his parents with a dagger on March
20.
Li,
inquisited, said that after two years of practicing Falun
Gong, he believed that his parents were demons while he
himself a Buddha. "So I got rid of the two demons,"
Li said.
Wu
Deqiao, 36, a clerk with Wujiang supply and marketing cooperative
in east China's Jiangsu Province, became a practitioner
of Falun Gong in February, 1998. He then felt that he had
become a Buddha, and women around would affect his practice.
Wu
chopped his wife to death with a kitchen knife when she
tried to stop him from practicing any more.
According
to initial statistics, two madhouses alone in Beijing received
six patients who became lunatic due to practice of Falun
Gong in 1996. The number of such patients increased to 10
in 1997, 22 in 1998, and 16 during the first half of 1999.
The
perniciousness of Falun Gong has waken up many victims and
their families. A female worker surnamed Jiang wanted to
beautify herself by practicing Falun Gong. She attempted
to kill herself, however, when she became a paranoid later.
Jiang
recovered after she was compelled by her family members
to receive medical treatment. "I'll never practice
that Falun Gong any more," vowed Jiang with resentment.
Retired
worker Zhang Yuqin, who had become infatuated with practice
of Falun Gong, killed herself in 1998.
"Falun
Gong broke my family, and I ask Li Hongzhi and Falun Gong
to be punished and banned, " said Lu Xingchong, Zhang's
husband.
China
daily 1999/07/22
