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AS reported by CBS News:
Falun Gong Won't Fold
Falun Gong Outnumbers Communist Party
Falun Gong, a mixture of Buddhism and founder Master Li's
special, slow-motion exercises, is sweeping China, where it is
banned.
China's communist rulers today escalated their campaign against
the new religion, CBS News' Barry Petersen reports. They vowed to
crush what they say is a cult and announced the first criminal
charges against its leaders.
Officials were shocked when ten thousand Falun Gong members
surrounded a government complex just off Tiananmen Square last
April to protest their treatment. It was the largest
anti-government demonstration since pro-democracy students took
over the square in 1989.
Falun Gong members are being arrested by the thousands, in a
government attack even more intense since the state-run paper,
The People's Daily, warned that the party will not show the
"devil cult" any mercy.
At a secretly arranged news conference in Beijing, Ding Yan
showed off her bruises from allegedly being handcuffed while in
police custody. "After they tie you like this," she said, "they
throw you on the ground."
Eleven year old Qu Yuyan was expelled from school for his belief.
A former policeman gave up his job rather than give up Falun
Gong.
Believers see this as a holy war -- religious faith versus
communist force. It's a dangerous battle. The government has
banned the group and now has a new anti-subversive law ordering
authorities to persecute Falun Gong even harder.
There are Falun Gong followers all over the world, but the
biggest group is in China, where their number is said to be
between 70 to 100 million. That's more members than there are in
the Chinese communist party. And that's why the Chinese
government sees Falun Gong as a threat.
SOURCES: Copyright 1999, CBS Worldwide Inc., All Rights Reserved.
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