- 1.The Burn Down in Tiananmen SquareThe story of how a regime
murdered a mother and a child, systematicallydeceiving a nation.It
had to be engineered with the most careful thought: A onebillion
were to be deceived and a pretext was badly needed aThe regime
points to ajustification, for the regimes genocide of a group of
kind-heartedsupposed self-immolationpeople. As with the Tibetan
Buddhists, their crime was one ofinnocence that they were quite not
the atheist-Marxist kind, incident in Tiananmenthat they practiced
Truthfulness-Kindness-Endurance, and a Square on January 23,
2001gentle meditation involving gentle, ancient qigong [tai
chi]exercises. Their number, state statistics put at over 70
million, in as proof that Falun Gong isChina alone. That was a
figure that topped the communist partymembership and a cause, for
the gravest concern, for the evilan "evil cult. However, weregime.
have obtained a video of thatFor the regime, anything spiritual, be
they Tibetan Buddhists, orincident that in our viewthe
practitioners of Falun Dafa, that were a perceived threat toits
materialist ideology, and, hence, its hold to absolute power proves
that this event wasover the people had to be curbed. Practitioners
of Falun Dafa, staged by the government.the fastest growing system
of mind-body cultivation in the historyof China, had become a
target, two years before, in 1999, when a We have copies of that
videobrutal wave of persecution was unleashed against them.
available for distribution.For this drama, among a few others, a 12
year old and hermother were chosen. They agreed, probably under
promises of-International Educationmoney, or under threats, or
both. Scripted into that drama, and Development. Statement
inignorant to them, was their cold blooded murder, on that
verystage. In the middle of Tiananmenn square, that mother wouldthe
United Nations. Sub-be clubbed to death and the 12 year old,
tortured, over months,Commission on thein a hospital, whilst she is
denied access to the external world.The blame for the incident
would then be shifted on to a 100promotion and Protection ofmillion
innocents, and public sentiment would be turned against Human
Rights Fifty-thirdthem. session.Played out, carefully, and, as
scripted, the drama was. News weretelecast nationwide immediately,
quite contrary to protocolwhich requires all sensitive news to be
vetted by the multiplelevels of the regime-apparatus; contrary to
protocols which
2. curtail coverage of any protests. The immolators were
practitioners of an ancient spiritual way, the mostpopular system
of qi gong mediation in China, the reports claimed. Video footage
of the scene, but,appeared after a week of production, news
dissector Danny Schechter pointed out.Despite all the careful
engineering that went in, the tapes would eventually become a
complete exposof how the regime had been deceiving its own
citizens, throughout its history, feeding them with littlemore than
propaganda1, and continually denying them the right to freedom,
even in mere thought, inwhat they may choose to believe. A
case-study of how the regime has been turning the Chinese
againsttheir own fellowmen, injecting them with hatred to ensure
its own survival.ActorsFive people were reported to have
setthemselves on fire on that day inTiananmen Square. The flames
were allput out by policemen standing by, withina span of 90
seconds. The nearestbuilding is over 10 minutes away, and thepolice
do not routinely carry fireextinguishers yet, nearly 25 pieces
offirefighting equipment were used in aninterval of 90 seconds. The
police are notknown to carry firefighting equipment intheir usual
patrols of the square.A European Journalist noted: "I havenever
seen policemen patrolling on Tiananmen Square carrying fire
extinguishers. How come they allshowed up today? The location of
the incident is at least 20 minutes roundtrip from the
nearestbuilding the Peoples Great Hall. If they were to have dashed
over there to get the equipment, itwould have been too late."For
prudent observers, the most obvious giveaways were the masks.
Nothing like burned skin - the faceof the victims seemed - formed
of patches of two colors, alternating sharply across artistically
drawncurves[See Figure 1 , Right].As a camera zoomed in to the face
of a so called victim, the details became obvious - There were
layers1Propaganda against groups or people which the regime wishes
to suppress has been the regimes modus operandi throughout its
history. As a recent case, whenthe jailed democracy activist Liu
Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, the regime
labeled the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo, an evil
cult.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/10/china-still-furious-over-nobelAs
another example of characteristic PRC propaganda: A Peoples Daily
article, dated June 01, 2000, claims: The commentary also unveiled
the evil deeds of DalaiLama and his followers during their armed
insurgence in 1959 which aimed to protect feudal serfdom. Their
evil deeds include splitting the motherland, butcheringTibetan
people, looting temples, and raping women.. They killed a
nine-year-old boy Samni, for example, cutting open his belly and
eating his heart. Then, they cutthe boy into small pieces and had
him hung from a tree. Thursday, June 01, 2000, Chinese state owned
news: Peoples
Dailyhttp://english.peopledaily.com.cn/english/200006/01/eng20000601_42058.html
[ archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5yczXuKeR ] . It is
interesting to note thatbutchering Tibetan people, looting temples,
and raping women, are things the Chinese Communist Party itself is
doing. Such propaganda manages to function inan environment where
all forms of media are quarantined, and even twitter, bbc, and
facebook are illegal. 3. of likely fire-proof clothing that the
immolators were bagged in, and the faces seemed clearly coveredwith
masks. The reader is urged to view the award-winning analysis of in
the incident False Fire, onhttp://www.falsefire.com .Schechter
notes that practitioners draw attention to that the exercise
movements or themeditation posture of the self-immolators are not
correct, which would be strange given theregimes claim they are
long term practitioners . Further, all forms of killing, including
suicideare considered sinful, in the Buddhist teachings of the
ancient tradition. Professor David Ownbynotes that Falun gong
representative from outside of China immediately contested the
accuracy ofreports coming from the mainland. Over and over again,
they insisted correctly that there is nosanction for violence in Li
Hongzhis writings or in Falun Gong practice whether it be violence
targetedat someone else, or at oneself.Philip Pan of Washington
Post who visited the hometown of two self-immolators,
writes:Beijing denied requests to interview Liu Siying and the
three other survivors, who are all hospitalized ... A
Kaifengofficial said only China Central Television and the official
New China News Agency were permitted to speak to theirrelatives or
their colleagues. A man who answered the door at the Liu home
referred questions to the government...But Liu Chunlings Apple
Orchard neighbors described her as a woman who led a troubled life
and suffered frompsychological problems. State media identified
78-year-old Hao Xiuzhen as her adoptive mother. Neighbors said
theyquarreled often before Liu drove the woman from their home last
year."There was something wrong with her," said neighbor Liu Min,
51. "She hit her mother, and her mother was cryingand yelling. She
hit her daughter, too."..There were also questions about how Liu
supported herself and about the whereabouts of her daughters
father.Neighbors said Liu was not a native of Kaifeng, and that a
man in southern Guangdong province paid her rent.Others, including
neighbor Wen Jian, 22, said Liu worked in a local nightclub and was
paid to dine with and dancewith customers.Professor David Ownby
notes that such is: Hardly a typical profile of a practitioner.
Philip Pan furthernotes that None ever saw her practice Falun Gong.
After this article, the reporter was arrested uponreturning to the
immolators hometown for further investigation.Significantly, points
out news analyst Danny Schechter, one of the CNN producers on the
scene, just50 feet away, says she did not even see a child
there.Beatrice Turpin covered Falun Gong in China for Associated
Press TV and wrote about her experiencesfor MediaChannel. She
responded from her home in Thailand: "There was a big brouhaha with
FalunGong protests and footage of police beating practitioners last
Chinese New Year and it would certainlyfit in with typical China
strategy to stage an event this year and make the show their own."
Two Wang 4. Speech identification technology at a world-renowned
laboratory in speech identification, synthesis,and verification in
Taiwan, pointed out that the lead self-immolator, Wang Jindong, who
appearedseveral times on Chinas state-run CCTV programs, could only
have been played by two different people,as the voices were
unambiguously determined to belong to two people. This evidence
emerged, furthercorroborating a previous analysis which showed the
hairline and ears of the Wang Jindong in the self-immolation
footage as being different from the photo of Wang Jindong released
by Chinas state-runmedia.CameramenAnother question: If the incident
lasted just a couple of minutes, Who took the videos? How comethey
zoom in and out - how come an entire camera crew were in place to
capture the action in all detail?The footage, as aired on state
television, shows the cameras zooming in on the victims face, and
thevictims are taken to hospital only after their apparent agonies
are thoroughly caught on camera. Thefootage can be seen in the
award-winning documentary-analysis False Fire2.The victims, speak a
something to the camera - rehearsed lines - which Falun Dafa
practitioners pointout has nothing to do with their teachings. And
these statements, and displays of agony, arethoroughly videographed
before they are rushed to the hospital.The regime answered
questions raised on the source of the footage, claiming, it was
from a CNN crewwho happened to be there, at that time, in Tiananmen
Square. In a Washington Post article, CNNs chiefnews executive,
Eason Jordan, said the footage used in the Chinese television
reports could not havecome from CNN videotape because the CNN
cameraman was arrested almost immediately after theincident began.
The Washington Post article goes on to say, The close-up shots
shown on Chinesetelevision appear to have been taken without any
interference from police. In some, the camera isclearly behind
police barricades In addition, footage from overhead surveillance
cameras in TiananmenSquare appears to show a man using a small
handheld video camera to film the scene, not a large TVnews camera.
The man with the video camera is dressed like a Chinese police
officer and moving freelyamong them to video tape the scene at
close range.In one instance: The officer stands beside the person,
holds a blanket near the self-immolators bodyand waits. Finally,
the self-immolator shouts out something for the camera , which runs
like Thisuniversal dafa is something everyone has to get through,
(spokespersons for the Falun DafaInformation Center make it clear
that this statement has absolutely no basis in the teachings of
FalunDafa) at which point the officer than throws the blanket on
the man, and the camera moves. Why was itthat the officer waited
for the man to shout this slogan as the video camera was rolling
right in front ofhim?2The False Fire Documentary, an Award Winning
Analysis of the Tiananmen Square Immolation Incident:, can be
viewed here: http://www.falsefire.com 5. Source of Long-Range
Footage Remains unknown: The long-distance surveillance cameras
located onroofs of the buildings surrounding Tiananmen Square pan
back and forth automatically, and do not havethe capability to zoom
in and out. Yet, the long distance footage of the self-immolations
was notpanning, but focusing in and on the exact locations of the
self-immolations. Additionally, these cameraswere zooming in and
out. Who took this footage and how did they happen to be on the
rooftops with along distance zoom-capable video camera at the right
time?Unusual AlacrityThe Wall Street Journals Ian Johnson, observed
the state media "reported [the victims] death withunusual alacrity,
implying that either the death took place earlier than reported or
the usually cautiousmedia had top-level approval to rush out
electronic reports and a televised dispatch. The 7 p.m.
localevening news, for example, had a filmed report from Mr. Tans
hometown of Changde, a small city inHunan province. Most reports
for the evening news are vetted by noon, so the daily broadcast
rarelycarries reports from the same day, let alone an event that
happened at noon and involved satellite feedsfrom relatively remote
parts of the country."Clubbed to DeathIn the slowed version, it
appears that Liu Chunling, one of two people who died, collapsed
notfrom the flames but from being bludgeoned by a man in a military
overcoat. The BostonGlobeFootage Shows a Self-Immolator Clubbedon
the Head by Security Officer: From thevideo recording of the
self-immolationaired on CCTV, one can see a man wearinga military
overcoat and he appears to havea heavy object that strikes the head
of Ms.Liu Chunling, one of the self-immolators.The impact of the
blow sends herimmediately to the ground. Analystsbelieve that Liu
Chunling died at the scenefrom this assault. Who is this man and
whydid he strike Ms. Liu on the head? One theory derived from Ms.
Lius frantic motion and reported yellingduring the incident
suggests she had done or said something that might betray the
self-immolation plot.Another, is they needed a death or two for
sentimental impact. 6. In the HospitalThe government says doctors
performed a tracheotomy on the victim, but a pediatric surgeonsaid
that, if that were true, the child wouldnt be speaking right away.
Danny Schechter,News DissectorMedical personnel at Jishuitan
Hospital the hospital where the self-immolators were rushed to
afterthe incident revealed that the ambulance carrying the
self-immolators arrived two hours after theywere loaded into the
ambulance on Tiananmen Square. It is only about 6 miles between
TiananmenSquare and Jishuitan Hospital. The trip should take
approximately 15 minutes. Where were the victimsduring these two
hours?Mysterious Death of Young Girl: Medical staff at Jishuitan
Hospital also say the 12-year-old girlreportedly involved in the
self-immolation died suddenly just before she was to be released
from thehospital. They reported that her death was very suspicious
because she had recovered well andshowed good health just a day
before she died. They reported that on the morning of March 17,
2001 the day she was to be released she was quite animated and
active and was visited by the head of theBeijing City Medical
Administration Division. A few hours later she was suddenly in
critical condition anddied.Several other discrepancies, including
that state media reporters were immediately given access to
theimmolators, while international media was denied access. The
non-sterile conditions in which theinterviews take place with the
burn victims, in the hospital, and the treatment procedures which
doctorspoint out are inconsistent with standard treatments for
severe burns.The reader is urged to watch the False Fire
documentary for further information on the
topic.http://www.falsefire.com/,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGN4yTtXe1I"Youve got Falun Gong
people in this country, theyve been oppressed over and over again,
they arenot allowed to speak, they are not allowed to assert any of
their rights as citizens, the level offrustration must be terribly,
terribly high.. I can understand people doing that.. but
ironically, weultimately found out that it was staged anyway, it
was not real.. it was completely staged by thegovernment." Clive
Ansley, North American President of CIPFG, former professor of
Chinese Historyand Law, from the Documentary, Beyond the Red
Well.