The Staged "Self-Immolation" Incident on Tiananmen Square

(reported on Clearwisdom.net)

After July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin's faction launched a far-reaching campaign of disinformation to justify its persecution of Falun Gong and to escape world condemnation. Since the persecution started, state-run media have flooded the printing presses and airwaves with fabrications about Mr. Li Hongzhi and Falun Gong. In early 2001, desperate to turn the tide against Falun Gong, the Chinese Communist Party attempted an outrageous stunt: a staged self-immolation of five people on Tiananmen Square. The state-run media then blamed it on Falun Gong. As with all lies, the propaganda fails miserably in the details. This staged self-immolation has been analyzed by neutral reporters and by careful observers of the same videotape that was broadcasted by the Chinese government:

1. An investigative story published by the Washington Post on February 4, 2001, revealed that Ms. Liu Chunling, one of the immolators, had never practiced Falun Gong; (See Washington Post: Human Fire Ignites Chinese Mystery Motive for Public Burning Intensifies Fight Over Falun Gong)

2. Police were mysteriously patrolling Tiananmen Square with dozens of pieces of firefighting equipment that day;

3. Liu Siying, the 12-year-old girl who was allegedly burned badly, was purported to have had a tracheotomy, but spoke and sang clearly in a TV interview, a medical impossibility;

4. Mr. Wang Jindong was shown to have been badly burned; while hair burns and plactic melts extremely quickly, his hair and the plastic Sprite bottle that he had used to dowse gasoline remained miraculously intact.

5. A slow motion analysis of the videotape reveals that a blunt object hit Ms. Liu Chunling on the head.

These holes prompted International Education Development, an NGO affiliated with the United Nations , to issue the following statement during the 2001 session of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights: "The regime points to a supposed self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square on January 23, 2001 ... However, we have obtained a video of that incident that in our view proves that this event was staged by the government."
Immediately after the event, the Falun Dafa Information Center in New York published a press release 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. No independent investigation has ever been allowed.
-Clearwisdom.net

My Thoughts:
The CCP remains driven to expose Falun Gong as a wicked practice. The self-immolation depicted Falun Gong practitioners committing suicide in the name of Falun Gong. The motivation behind this set-up is to provide layers upon layers of evidence to condone their own suspicious and evil acts. The fatal flaw in this threadbare scheme is that Falun Gong strictly forbids killing of any kind (yourself or others), and doing so results in serious consequences. The belief is that in doing such harm to a living being, you are completely ruining your cultivation. Logic also shows us that if, in fact, self-immolation were apart of Falun Gong teachings, why is everyone else so shy of jumping on the band wagon? Why not everyone follow the paths of these people? Clearly, it is because self-immolation DOES NOT reflect ANY of the teachings of Falun Gong. Not previously, not presently, and never in the future was this condoned, nor will it ever be, by practitioners of Falun Gong. The Chinese government's propaganda is only concerned with developing hatred for practitioners and expediting more deaths of Falun Gong practitioners through the persecution; it is not concerned with spreading truth, compassion, and tolerance, which are the teachings of Falun Gong. FALUN DAFA IS GOOD!

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