Xinhua News Agency published a commentary
Tuesday, urging Falun Gong
followers to wake up, so as
to save the lives of themselves and
their close
relatives, and for the sake of the whole of society.
The
Falun Gong followers are urged to avoid becoming sacrificial
victims, break with the cult, and return to the
love of life.
The commentary, titled "It's Time
to Realize Your Errors and Mend
Your Ways",
points out that numerous fanatical Falun Gong followers
have lost their lives and turned into burned
corpses in "Hell"
because of Li Hongzhi, the
cult leader who has given evil
instructions advocating
so-called "Completion" and "Going to
Heaven."
The fiery suicides and
attempted suicides by Falun Gong followers in
Tian'anmen Square, in central Beijing, last month has rung
an alarm
bell for the whole of society, especially for the
people still
enmeshed in the fallacies of Falun
Gong, while a number of
practitioners were so
shocked that they have renounced the cult and
made
a clean break with it, according to the commentary.
Upon
learning of the self-immolation incident in Tian'anmen
Square,
Li Linfei, a woman who had been deeply involved
with the cult and
once attempted to commit suicide for
the so-called "completion",
said that the
ghastly facts enabled her to see clearly the evil
nature of Falun Gong.
Wu Ping, a local opera
artist from Shandong Province, in east China,
said
that the only way out for those who practice Falun Gong is
to
die. The woman's family was almost destroyed by
the cult.
Having come to know that death is the
only end for practitioners of
Falun Gong, over 60 female
Falun Gong followers from Sanshui City,
in southern
China's Guangdong Province, pledged not to end up
sacrificing their lives for the cult, according to the
commentary.
The commentary expresses the belief
that under the current campaign
to expose and
criticize Falun Gong, the majority of Falun Gong
followers are able to recognize the evil nature of the cult
and the
severe harm it does, and to wake up and realize
their errors and
mend their ways.
It
says that the year-long campaign has helped more than 98
percent
of the followers reject the fallacies of Falun
Gong and throw off
the spiritual control exercised by Li
Hongzhi.
The base of the cult is being destroyed day by
day, as more and more
its followers have come to
realize their errors and mended their
ways, it says.
While Falun Gong is losing its domestic market,
the value of Li
Hongzhi that could be used by the
anti-China forces in the West is
also
diminishing, the commentary stresses.
The commentary
points out that the majority of Falun Gong
practitioners, including some of those who are still
ensnared by the
cult, are kind and good-natured people
who have been deceived by Li
Hongzhi.
Xie
Yufeng, a former Falun Gong practitioner who was detained
many
times for joining illegal protests and held
several hunger strikes
for a total of 129 days,
recalled that, like many others, he began
to practice
Falun Gong in order to heal illness and engage in
physical training.
But the more he practiced
Falun Gong, the end of which is said to be
"Completion", according to the cult leader, Xie
found that his brain
was "stuffed nothing
but Li Hongzhi". At that time, Xie did nothing
but
worshipped the cult leader and followed his evil
instructions.
The facts show that the majority of
these followers were unaware of
the real purpose
of the cult leader and unclear about the background
and
plots of the anti-China forces in the West who are
supporting
and using Falun Gong, according to the
commentary.
The majority of Falun Gong followers
are victims as well as "our
compatriots and
brothers and sisters," the commentary says.
The
targets of the government's anti-cult drive are the
organization
of Falun Gong and its backbone
elements, the handful of
wire-pullers, plotters and
organizers with political motives who
want to make
trouble, as well as stubborn Falun Gong elements who
are
continuing their illegal activities in the country,
according to
the commentary.
It
urges maximum efforts to isolate and firmly crack down on
these
die-hard elements according to the law, so as to
eliminate the cult
and to avoid future troubles.
It calls on everyone to adhere to the policy of
"Unity, Education
and Salvation" for the
majority of Falun Gong followers, saying that
this
is the important guarantee for the triumph of the anti-cult
campaign.
Maximum efforts should be
made to educate and save these
practitioners and enable
more of them to break with Falun Gong and
free them from
the spiritual control of the cult, it says.
The
commentary urges extra efforts to bring Falun Gong
practitioners
out of the ridiculous world fabricated
by Li Hongzhi and guide them
to take notice of the
developments in the domestic and international
situations, the future of the Party and the nation, and the
great
cause of the country's reform, opening up and
socialist
modernization drive.
The
commentary praises the Masanjia Education House, in Shenyang
City, capital of northeast China's Liaoning
Province, for its
efforts in educating Falun Gong
practitioners.
The Zhongyuan Oilfield, a
hotbed of Falun Gong, is also praised by
the commentary
for its successful transformation of local followers
of
the cult. While using political education to transform the
practitioners, the leaders of the oilfield
mobilized the relatives
of the practitioners to
influence them.
It is the duty of the whole
society to unite, educate and rescue the
majority of
Falun Gong practitioners, the commentary stresses.
Former members of the cult who have woken up must not be
looked down
upon by their work units, the society
or their families, it adds.
They should be given
assistance in life, employment and study,
according to the
commentary. Students who were expelled from school
for
practicing Falun Gong should be allowed to return to school,
it
says.
An environment of
advocating science and opposing superstition
should be created in China to eliminate the social base and
soil of
Falun Gong, it says.