Added: Oct 13, 2008
Author: FlowerOfTheHeart
Duration: 7:29
While Falun Gong is practiced openly in the 70-plus countries where it is found, today in its homeland of China it is subject to well-documented egregious human rights violations. The scale and scope of abuses taking place make this possibly the largest religious persecution in the world today.Suppression officially began on July 22, 1999 following years of escalating state abuses (timeline).One basic explanation for the seemingly irrational campaign is the proclivities of Chinas atheist Communist Party (the CCP), which fears all groups outside its control particularly ones that subscribe to a different ideology.The Party has tried several times to eradicate all expressions of religion from China (a country traditionally referred to as "the land of the divine"). To this day Roman Catholics, many Protestants, and Tibetan Buddhists cannot worship freely in China and are at constant risk of detention and torture. By 1999, Falun Gong became a natural target as it was the largest - and fastest growing - spiritual group in China with 100 million practitioners nation-wide, according to Chinese Government reports at the time.Others have noted that the decision to launch the campaign is linked to former-Party head Jiang Zemins "fear" and "jealousy" of Falun Gong. According to analyst Willy Lam (news), Jiang has been seen as "using the mass movement to promote allegiance to himself." Sources cited by the Washington Post, state that, "Jiang Zemin alone decided that Falun Gong must be eliminated," and "picked what he thought was an easy target." (more about the origins of the campaign).more info at http://www.faluninfo.net/topic/2/
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Tags: benevolence china compassion dafa falun forbearance gong persecution tolerance truth truthfulness
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