Myth #1
Falun Gong practitioners burn themselves to go to Heaven.
This is Chinese communist propaganda. Firstly, Falun Gong strongly
condemns the taking of lives, whats more suicide. A full
sub-chapter is devoted in explaining why the taking of lives is
prohibited.
Moreover, many neutral human rights NGOs had voiced their
suspicions to this issue and even called it a hoax. The following
are some independent extracts.
Several human rights NGOs have condemned the incident as a
government staged hoax to escalate the persecution of Falun Gong.
For example, Karen Parker of the International Educational
Development states at the 53rd session Sub-Commission on the
Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, United Nations:
"State terrorism in the form of Government terror against its own
people produced far more gross violations of human rights than any
other form of terrorism; an example was China's treatment of the
Falun Gong. The Government had sought to justify its terrorism
against Falun Gong by calling it an evil cult that had caused
deaths and the break-up of families, but the organization's
investigation showed that the only deaths and resulting family
breakups had been at the hands of Chinese authorities, who had
resorted to extreme torture and unacceptable detention of thousands
of people. International Educational Development had discovered
that a self-immolation cited by the Chinese Government as proof
that the Falun Gong was an "evil cult" in fact had been staged. The
international community and the Subcommission should urgently
address this situation."[2]
Furthermore, the NGO International Education Development (IED) at
the UN Human Rights Commission in August 2001, stated:
"This government took out this so-called self-immolation incident
that happened on January 23, 2001, in Tiananmen Square and used
this as evidence against Falun Gong. We have reached the conclusion
after watching a videotape on this incident, that this incident has
however been completely orchestrated by the government.
Despite calls from the international community to allow independent
investigation teams to enter China to conduct a thorough check, the
Chinese government (CCP) refused. If the communists are so
confident of their side of the story, why will they refuse a
investigation team while the accused Falun Gong practitioners were
the ones who strongly requested for more investigations and
exposure? Isnt it another hoax by the CCP again like the lies they
tried to concoct during the SARS crisis?
