Special Topic on
the Self-Immolation
 After the immolation incident occurred on January 23, 2001, the Chinese Government's mouthpiece, Xinhua News Agency, immediately published a report on the incident entirely blaming Falun Gong practitioners for the immolation. This was in stark contrast to the way news is usually handled in China, where lower-level officials report to their superiors and so on until the top officials allow the news to be published. Soon after the news was released, the Falun Dafa Information Center in New York published a press release on the morning of January 23 (US eastern time) condemning the Xinhua News Agency for spreading unfounded, defamatory claims about Falun Gong. It also called on the PRC regime to allow the world media and international human rights
groups to investigate this case to clarify the facts.
A week later, CCTV, the Chinese Central Government's official TV station, broadcasted heartbreaking pictures of the 12-year-old Liu Siying, who was severely burned. Her mother Liu Chunling died from the self-immolation. The government is intensifying the campaign against Falun Gong by forcing every citizen to sign a form condemning Falun Gong. They are using the pictures of Liu Siying to instigate the public's hatred towards Falun Gong, causing the Chinese people to fight amongst themselves. This kind of inciting the people to fight against each other was one of the main tactics used in the Cultural Revolution in China decades ago.
On February 4, 2001, Washington Post published a stunning front-page investigative report entitled: "Human Fire Ignites Chinese Mystery -- Motive for Public
Burning Intensifies Fight Over Falun Gong." The article provided several facts including the following:
- Liu Chunling was not a native of Kaifeng and made a living as a hostess in a nightclub;
- Liu Chunling would beat her elderly mother and young daughter from time to time;
- No one ever saw Liu practiced the Falun Gong exercises.
Here are a few points:
- Falun Gong Practitioners hold themselves to high moral standards in both action and deed in the society. The principles of Falun Gong explicitly state that killing or suicide is a sin.
- Therefore, some reports that the unfortunate woman, who died in the self immolation incident worked as a Bar Hostess and was witnessed beating her step-mother and child, is not conduct according to a Falun Gong practitioner's standard.
- The Chinese Government should allow an independent investigation into this incident so the true facts regarding this terrible tragedy can come forth.
So, what is the real story? With more independent investigations, we will see the Tiananmen self-immolation is purely something the Chinese government set upstaged in order to defame Falun Gong. Below you'll find more information on the event.
FGMTV Video (in
English):
STAGED TRAGEDY: Self-Immolation in Tiananmen Square
(00:12:35 -- Posted on Mar. 26,
2002)
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