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In part 6 of this expose on Falun Gong, I will talk about the early days of the CCP crackdown on FLG. In this a few more posts, I will cover the period from 1999 to 2002 which saw the most severe persecution. Most of the egregious human rights violations committed against FLG come from this time. If you are Chinese and don’t like seeing this, I recommend checking this out and continue with the rest of the series which will show the nuance around this entire crackdown. Granted this post and the next few will be mostly showing the CCP in very bad light. I was a long time FLG practitioner who has never been directly persecuted but I do know many who have and I have done my research on the info I present here. For those who haven’t read the earlier parts of this series, I am making an anonymous expose on FLG because I think FLG has gone off the rails but telling the truth is risky due to both the CCP and FLG. After the FLG petition/protest at Zhongnanhai (Chinese govenrment HQ) on April 25, 1999 extracted a promise to release the Tianjin practitioners who had been arrested for trespassing at Tianjin University a few days earlier, FLG petition leaders in Beijing who had been negotiating with government officials in Zhongnanhai decided that they were unlikely to extract further concessions from the government and grew concerned that continued protest might invite a backlash. Throughout the day, FLG practitioner Ji Liewu had been on the phone with Li Hongzhi (who had left for Australia the previous day) updating him on what was happening in Beijing and taking instructions from him. Li Hongzhi had wanted the protest at Zhongnanhai to continue until the government fully restored FLG’s legal status which he could then sell to his practitioners as the world having entered a new era where FLG had rectified the universe and they had all made a huge stride towards Enlightenment. But towards the end of the day, FLG protest leaders sensed that the government’s mood was darkening and they called for practitioners to go home. When Ji Liewu notified Li Hongzhi of this, he was incensed because throughout Chinese culture and history the government rarely truly lets threats to its power go unharmed after it had revealed its potential. By letting up the pressure at Zhongnanhai, FLG was more vulnerable than ever. Jiang Zemin (President of China at the time) immediately gathered the Politburo to discuss next steps. He wanted a full scaled nationwide crackdown but other top officials were reluctant or outright opposed the idea because many saw FLG as a harmless Qigong practice with some weird ideas but no real potential to overthrow the government. Furthermore, some Politburo members had family that practiced FLG for health purposes (they did not believe the millenarian teachings that Li Hongzhi was spreading). Chinese government at this time required consensus in the Politburo in order to enact policies so President Jiang ordered state agencies to scour their research on FLG to find fault. Over the next couple of months, Jiang Zemin internally circulated findings that Falun Gong not only posed a health hazard in the sense that practitioners would refuse medication, but also made practitioners crazy, suicidal and had the organizational capability to overthrow the government. These allegations had some merit but were also exaggerated. FLG did indeed encourage practitioners not to take medication by telling them that illness was a chance to eliminate karma that they had accumulated for past sins though FLG also tried to pass off responsibility by saying that it doesn’t explicitly say not to use medicine. Some practitioners (though only a small percent in the 1990s) did die from not taking medicine and the CCP cherry-picked them. Few practitioners went crazy but some practitioners had mental illness to start with. Furthermore, Li Hongzhi’s millenarian callls for practitioners to give up all fears to protect FLG during 1998 and 1999 in order to attain Enlightenment at the supposedly upcoming Fa Rectification of the Universe (basically end of the world and the beginning of a new world where bad people will not make it) had led a small but significant number of gullible practitioners in China to give up all of their property (it’s not known where their property went but I suspect some of it probably got donated to FLG groups) and join one protest after another in the hope that they would quickly attain Enlightenment. These gullible and desperate people would do crazy things including suicide especially when influenced by government agents (will get to that in a future post). Jiang Zemin’s final point that FLG had the organizational capacity to overthrow the government is a complicated one. Back then I thought Jiang was wrong on this point but given what FLG became after 1999, I realized that he was not entirely wrong. FLG had a very loose organization in China in the 1990s. Except for a small cadre of practitioners who worked in the FLG’s Buddhist Study Association and a network of coordinators who were distributed across every province, autonomous region, city, and local practice site, FLG had no explicit organization. But Jiang Zemin did have a point in that Li Hongzhi exercised varying degrees of influence over his practitioners by his promise of Enlightenment and Buddhahood. A small portion of practitioners truly believed that Li Hongzhi was divine and they believed earnestly in his millenarian teachings about the Dharma-Ending Period and the Upcoming Dharma Rectification of the Universe. These diehard believers would do anything that Li Hongzhi tells them and these people who may have numbered in the hundreds of thousands in 1999 arguably did constitute a organizational potential for threatening the CCP. Based on information from FLG practitioners who worked in China’s central government in 1999, Jiang Zemin’s cherry-picked charges against FLG gathered reluctant support in the Politburo during May and June of 1999. Finally using the weight of his authority (Jiang became Paramount Leader only around 1996 when Deng Xiaoping was too ill to have any more influence on government policy), he got concensus on a crackdown. On July 20 and July 21, 1999, the CCP declared Falun Gong to be an illegal evil cult and launched a harsh crackdown on something that it once fostered.
You should post this on 4chan pol or reddit
Keep them coming 🍿
wtf I love flg now
haven’t seen the other parts but TL;DR on FLG is they’re a terrorist group
US supports terrorism? Color me surprised.
Depends on frame of reference. To CCP yes, to US? No
Copied and saved, well written overview. I look forward to reading the series
Ccp is todays nazi party.
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