Representatives from all walks of life in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) gathered at a forum in Hong Kong Monday, condemning the "Falun Gong" cult for sabotaging the "one country, two systems" principle and the prosperity and stability of the SAR.

Sponsored by the Hong Kong Culture Association Limited and the Wen Wei Po newspaper, the forum was aimed to disclose the evil essence of the "Falun Gong" and enhance the understanding of local people about the cult.

Tsang Hin-chi, a member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, said that it was a correct, timely and necessary step for the Central People's Government to ban the "Falun Gong" cult in the mainland in accordance with law.

However, the "Falun Gong" followers have kept upgrading their political activities in Hong Kong, bringing negative effects on the social stability and the economic recovery and sabotaging the "one country, two systems," Tsang noted.

He said that the Hong Kong people would never allow the "Falun Gong" followers to do anything against the motherland and the people by making use of the "one country, two systems" and would by no means let them damage the prosperity and stability of the SAR.

Leo Lee Tung-hai, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), pointed out that "Falun Gong" is not a religion, but a cult.

The activities conducted by the "Falun Gong" have run contrary to the function and goal as it claimed when it was registered in Hong Kong, Lee said, noting that the cult has torn away its disguise and has been trying to make itself internationalized and politicized.

The political activities conducted by the "Falun Gong" in Hong Kong has disturbed the modernization drive in the mainland and also sabotaged the "one country, two systems" in the SAR, he said. Therefore, the campaign against the "Falun Gong" is to safeguard the "one country, two systems" and the common interests of the mainland and Hong Kong, he stressed.

Henry Hu, also a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, also denounced the "Falun Gong" for attacking the communication satellite and interrupting TV programs in the mainland, and said that its rampant disruption of the civil communications should be condemned by the people all over the world.

Chan Wing-kee, president of the Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong, said that vicious incidents contrived by the "Falun Gong" fully exposed its wickedness.

He urged the Hong Kong people to keep vigilant and resolutely fight against various illegal activities conducted by the "Falun Gong" cult.

Wang Fengchao, deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, attended the forum.

(Xinhua News Agency October 21, 2002)