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Liu
Siying, a 12-year-old girl, soaked herself with gasoline and
set herself on fire on January 23. She suffered severe burns
to her face, head and hands. Doctors said all her fingers
may have to be amputated, according to the latest issue of
the Beijing Review.
She
was nicknamed happy-nut."But now her severely burned face
and hands tell people that she might never be happy again.
On
January 23, the fifth-grade primary school pupil from Henan
Province was taken by her mother, Liu Chunling, to Tian'anmen
Square, believing she would enter the "Falun world." There,
the mother and the daughter set themselves on fire. Her mother
died of the fire on the spot.
The
girl said she was told"the flames cannot hurt you. They will
only pass through your body and you will reach paradise in
the twinkling of an eye. It is a wonderful world, you could
become a'religious queen'and many people will serve you."
However,
the flames, pain and fear made the young girl cry out for
help.
Liu
said she set herself alight because she was "going to paradise,"which
was a"wonderful worldwith gold everywhere and the road to
paradise is also built with gold."She said she learned about
Falun Gong from the book Zhuan Falun(turning the wheel of
law)and her mother.
"The
suicide incident completely demonstrates that the leaders
of the Falun Gong cult have embraced the overseas anti-China
cliques. Li Hongzhi, ringleader of the Falun Gong cult, intended
to damage social stability and the auspicious atmosphere of
the Chinese Spring Festival at the cost of the lives of his
followers."
FU
TIESHAN Chairman of the China Catholic Patriotic Association
"The
televised suicidal act by seven Falun Gong practitioners from
Henan Province, who set themselves on fire, further exposes
the fact that Falun Gong is a cult, not a religion, nor health-enhancing
qigong exercises, because Falun Gong followers, with their
minds controlled by the fallacies of Falun Gong, usually lack
the rational capabilities and the sense of normal people.
"
YU
PINHUA Member of the China Human Rights Society
"Falun
Gong instigates the diehards to go to extremes, from refusing
to see doctors or take medicine after falling ill, to eventually
participating in self-destructive activities in groups in
accordance with the'great scriptures'of Falun Gong in order
to realize the fallacies of 'ascending to heaven'and'eternal
completion,'which is certainly not accepted by a civilized
society."
ZHANG
TONGLING Doctor with the Mental Hygienics Institute attached
to Peking University
"The
recent suicide attempts by a group of Falun Gong practitioners
in Tian'anmen Square in Beijing once again demonstrates that
Falun Gong is no different than any other cult in the world,
whose genuine purpose is to destroy the lives of innocent
people."
WANG
HEQING Former devout Falun Gong practitioner from Hainan Province
Chen
Guo, a 19-year-old college undergraduate studying music in
Beijing, can no longer play the pipa, an ancient flat stringed
instrument, because her fingers were too badly damaged by
the fire she herself set in Tian'anmen Square. She suffered
burns to 80 percent of her body, of which 50 percent were
third-degree burns. She is being treated at Beijing Jishuitan
Hospital, China's leading hospital for burn patients.
"I
regret it very much," Chen managed to say. "I want to play
the pipa in the future."
Chen
soaked herself in gasoline and set herself on fire on January
23, the eve of China's lunar new year. She is one of seven
Falun Gong addicts who came from Henan Province and set themselves
on fire in Tian'anmen Square.
"When
people talk about globalization, what we see is a global world
that is divided into two. There is a structural fault of poverty.
On one side of that fault are the powerful and the wealthy;
on the other side are the powerless and the poor."
THABO
MBEKI South African President
"Responsible
scientists should always bear in mind the importance of letting
their research results leave the laboratory."
HUANG
BOYUN Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
(Xinhuanet
02/13/2001)
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