To tell the truth, I often look at news on the Internet through websites such as "Minghui" and "Buhuo," but there is one thing that I don't understand. Why do they consider "Falun Gong" practitioners' meaningless suicides, unexpected deaths and sufferings in trying to "reach a higher level" as being "persecuted" and "being beaten," as being the results of "government actions"?

Recently "Minghui" and "Buhuo" have been raising a hue and cry about the government "forcing" "Falun Gong" practitioners into mental asylums, citing especially "news" from Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province. In fact, a friend of mine on the Internet sent me an E-mail from Jiaozhou City, saying that it was the "Falun Gong" practitioners' family members who requested medical examinations, and that in fact, five of the crazy practitioners were diagnosed as suffering from "paranoid mental disorders." After reading the E-mail, I want to ask "Minghui" and "Buhuo": 1. Is "family members' request" synonymous with "government coercion"? 2. Did the crazy practitioners really suffer from mental disorders after the medical examination? If these two questions are given explicit answers, I want to ask a third question: What on earth led the crazy "Falun Gong" practitioners to such a miserable end: "government's actions" or the evil deeds of "Falun Gong"?

(Compiled by New Star Publishers, Aug., 2000)