The incident of immolation of obsessed "Falun Gong" followers
          happened at Tian'anmen Square is not only the evil result brought
          about by Li Hongzhi and his heretic "Falun Gong" cult who have
          exercised long-term spiritual control over the practitioners,
          vigorously incited "going to heaven for nirvana", "driven beyond
          tolerance" and "creating bloodshed" incidents, but also is a serious
          criminal case wherein diehards of the heretic "Falun Gong" cult who
          deliberately organized the incident which inflicted damage to
          others' lives and undermined social stability.
          A basic feature of heresy is that it preaches fallacies and
          exercises spiritual control over crazy followers. By resorting to
          cheating, hinting, rumor-mongering, intimidating and other
          despicable means, Li Hongzhi wantonly spread the fallacies such as
          "eschatology", "fatalism", "abandoning the rigid pursuance of life",
          "pursuing nirvana" and "going to heaven", as a result, many
          practitioners were deceived and possessed by the Devil, and some of
          them ended their valuable lives by the suicidal method.
          The "Falun Gong" cult did not let off even women and children,
          instigating them to serve as its preys. The immolation of obsessed
          "Falun Gong" followers happened at Tian'anmen Square on the eve of
          the traditional Chinese New Year was a world-shocking incident
          created by them who had long been mentally poisoned by Li Hongzhi's
          fallacies and had thus lost the reason as normal people; they showed
          no consideration for their kinsfolk, families and studies, and
          abandoned their normal social life. That represents another evidence
          of crimes perpetrated by "Falun Gong" cult in doing harm to people
          and depriving them of their lives.
          In order to create disturbances, Li Hongzhi unhesitatingly made a
          show of the cult's strength with the lives of the crazy followers.
          Before the occurrence of the immolation incident, Li Hongzhi had
          made use of the Internet to dish out the murderous
          "scripture"-"beyond tolerance" to incite, instigate and urge the
          obsessed "Falun Gong" followers to go to Tian'anmen Square to
          "defend dharma with their lives and blood", cruelly giving the
          signal for the crazy "Falun Gong" followers to serve the heresy with
          their valuable lives. Several of them left their hometown for
          Tian'anmen Square in Beijing to achieve "eternal completion" and "go
          to heaven".
          At the time of departure, there were special persons who saw them
          off at the railway station and made an appointment that they "would
          meet in heaven". At their arrival in Beijing, there were special
          people who greeted them at the railway station, an apartment house
          was arranged by someone for them to take lodge, and trials were made
          before the immolation. Iron-clad facts prove that the incident is a
          criminal case created in an organized, premeditated and planned way
          by the "Falun Gong" cult, as well as an irrefutable evidence of the
          crime committed by the "Falun Gong" cult in a vain attempt to
          disrupt social stability, inflict damage to the practitioners' lives
          and set itself against society.
          After the occurrence of the immolation, in order to evade people's
          condemnation and shirk the cult's responsibility for the offence, Li
          Hongzhi and his "Falun Gong" cult immediately issued a declaration,
          held a press conference, flatly denying that those injured and died
          in the immolation were crazy "Falun Gong" followers, they inhumanly
          abandoned the obsessed followers whom they had repeatedly regarded
          as the "disciples of Dafa".
          When facts are laid bare before the world's people, Li Hongzhi and
          his "Falun Gong" diehards could no longer deny, they spread the
          rumors, their guilty conscience was thus thoroughly exposed.
          The incident of several obsessed "Falun Gong" followers urged by Li
          Hongzhi to set themselves on fire has once again proved the great
          harmfulness of the anti-humanity, anti-science and anti-society
          "Falun Gong" cult. It is a malignant tumor of society and the
          scourge of humankind, which must be resolutely eradicated for the
          tranquility of people, families and society. We must fully
          understand that our struggle with the "Falun Gong" cult is
          complicated, acute and protracted, and we must never lower our
          guard, otherwise, it would mean that we leave behind the root of
          social disturbances.
          With regard to the overwhelming majority of "Falun Gong"
          practitioners, including those who are so obsessed that they cannot
          extricate themselves for the time being, we must give full play to
          our superiority in ideological and political work, display the
          humanitarian spirit, strictly implement the policy of unity,
          education and rescue, move them with affection, tell them the reason
          and make them know the law, and rescue them from the trap of heresy,
          bring them back to the embrace of society and their relatives, so
          that they can live the life of normal people and enjoy a happy life.
          .At the same time, we should further step up the development of
          socialist ethics and culture, vigorously popularize scientific and
          cultural knowledge, actively launch healthy and beneficial cultural
          and sports activities, thoroughly eradicate the soil for the
          survival of heresies, protect social stability and the lasting peace
          of the country as we do the apple of our eye, so as to ensure the
          smooth progress of our country's reform, opening up and socialist
          modernization drive.
          (People's Daily 03/01/2001)