A Trail of Blood
2004-03-09 11:53
--How Falun Gong Ruined Lives of Ordinary
People
The now banned Falun Gong has claimed upwards of 1500 lives in
China. Readers of the following 14 stories can judge for themselves
if this deadly cult should be allowed to go unchecked.
1. Around 10.p.m. February 6, 2000, Huang Daisheng, an elderly,
childless man of Dasheng village near Panyu City of Guangdong
Province, was brutally attacked by Yuan Runtian, a female Falun Gong
practitioner living in the same village. Yuan had begun practicing
Falun Gong in 1996 when she was a vocational school student in
Guangzhou. The exercise seemed quite effective in the beginning to
improve her concentration and lift her sagging spirit. But before
long her personality started to change. While keeping to herself
most of the time, she became increasingly withdrawn and introvert.
After graduation in March 1999, she found a job near her home, only
to quit it shortly after. Not wanting to help the family with crops
and house chores and even tired of speaking to her parents, she
spent all her time practicing Falun Gong behind closed doors. Some
time in November 1999, Yuan began picturing herself wondering in a
strange world, with Master Li Hongzhi and many men vying to have sex
with her or have her beheaded. Among them was Mr. Huang Daisheng.
Even though the two had never talked to each other before, she was
convinced that Huang was a demon that had violated and hurt her in
the "other world" and therefore deserved to die. On the evening of
February 6, 2000, a tormented Yuan bicycled to Huang's home and
slashed the old man twice in the face with a kitchen knife.
2. Around 9 p.m. December 23, 1999, the 60-year old Lu Qingsheng, a
director at the Heilongjiang Provincial Forestry Bureau, was hacked
to death by his subordinate Zou Gang, a 39-year old Falun Gong
practitioner. Three other employees, including the 30-year old
Yajie, were seriously wounded in the incident. According to Zou, he
had begun practicing Falun Gong in August 1995 and it was not until
the previous month that he began having hallucinations in which he
heard Li Hongzhi say, "Lu and Yajie were born your exterminator and
the only way you can escape death is to have them killed first." Zou
then bought a heavy kitchen knife on December 22 and committed the
killing the following day.
3. On December 19, 1999, Jiang Wenli, a 56-year old female Falun
Gong practitioner who lived in Bengbu City of Anhui Province, was
found lying on the floor of her freezing home, half naked and
quivering with cold. Her husband, already dead, was a gruesome mess.
His badly mutilated body bore deep knife and scissor wounds and
shreds of human flesh were scattered all over the room. "Beloved Li
Hongzhi," screamed the dying woman, "Come quickly to save me." On
December 20, Jiang was pronounced dead.
Not long after Jiang began practicing Falun Gong in November 1998,
her personality took a gradual change for the worse. Staying home at
daytime and going out at night, she refused all visitors, even
doctors who came to see her ailing husband. On the afternoon of
December 19, her husband passed away. Jiang felt as if some one was
commanding her to remove and eat the dark boils on dead body so that
the man could go back to life again.
4. On the morning of November 26, 1999, 33-year old Falun Gong
practitioner Zhu Changjiu, a farmer at Zhanggezhuang Village of
Renqiu City, Hebei Province, hacked his 73-year old father and
69-year old mother to death at their home because they, according to
Zhu, had tried to talk him out of the practice and taken his Falun
Gong literature away.
5. At 3 a.m. on August 11, 1999, heart-wrenching screams of a little
boy were heard in the village of Qianjin Township, Qionglai City of
Sichuan Province. Panicked by the "doomsday" prophesy of Li Hongzhi,
Falun Gong practitioner Tang Zhihua cut off his two-year old son's
penis with a kitchen knife. Two months before the incident, Tang's
wife, also a devout practitioner, suddenly left home and disappeared
without a trace.
6. In the early morning of July 17, 1999, Long Gang, a restaurant
owner in suburban Chongqing, breaking free from family members and
neighbors, threw himself into the river from the top of a bridge,
carrying his 6-year old son in his arms. The boy was rescued, but
Long was drowned. People who knew him told reporters that since
practicing Falun Gong, Long often spoke of the earth's explosion and
his plan to escape the disaster by levitating to heaven. His wife
blamed Falun Gong for destroying the happy family.
7. On June 5, 1999, 16-year old Xu, a student at Linjiang Middle
School of Jilin Province, told her classmates that since mankind
would soon be destroyed and the earth explode, they might just as
well foretaste the doomsday by taking some sleeping pills. She gave
each of a dozen students 2 to 3 pills but one girl, out of
curiosity, took 25. All of them developed symptoms. But thanks to
timely medical attention, none, including the girl taking 25 pills,
suffered any serious effect.
Influenced by her parents who were both practitioners, Xu began
practicing Falun Gong in June, 1998. Her academic performance took a
nosedive as she became more and more obsessed with the exercise.
When teachers discussed the problem with her parents, they replied,
"It is no use to study well, it will be OK if she knows how to
practice Falun Gong."
8. At 2 a.m., March 20, 1999, a cold-blooded murder was reported in
Chengde City, Hebei Province. The weapon was a foot-long dagger, the
killer, a 17-year old Falun Gong practitioner, and the victims, his
own parents. During the interrogation, Li Ting called himself
"Buddha" while his parents demons. "Am I supposed to kill demons?"
he asked. When asked where he had learned about all this, Li said,
"I spent a week learning"Falun Gong" in the Resort Palace at Chengde
after graduating from junior middle school. I then bought some
Falun Gong literature and practiced a lot ."
9. Dong Ning was a 26-year old worker at the Changhong Electric
Mechanical Company Ltd. in Weihai City, Shandong Province. Convinced
that his practice of Falun Gong had attained perfection, he decided
to release a number of souls by killing someone first and himself
afterwards. He chose Liu, a fellow worker at his workshop, his first
target. On January 7, he attacked Liu with a heavy metal object but
missed. Next day, Dong attacked his father with a sharp knife, but
failed again. Desperate to succeed, he broke into his neighbor's
house and stabbed retired official Jiang in the neck. In the
struggle, the son of Jiang also suffered multiple knife wounds in
the waist and legs. In custody, Dong was asked of his motivation.
He said, "I was only thinking how I can bring people away, the
loved ones and friends in particular. Some one made me do this
because I wanted perfection."
10. Around 10 a.m. November 6, 1999, 46-year old Gao Encheng, a
clerk at the township industrial and commercial office in Kaixian
County of Chongqing Municipality, put his arms around his son and
jumped from the roof of a four-story building. Gao was fatally
wounded and died shortly after. But the boy survived. Both Gao and
his wife were Falun Gong practitioners with Gao serving as the head
of a practicing station. Four days before the incident, Gao withdrew
all his bank deposits and distributed them among his daughter,
parents and mother-in-law. He told them that he had already attained
divinity and would not need money any more. Just before jumping, he
yelled at the crowd, "I don't have to talk to you earthly beings, my
son knows me best." Even Gao was lying in a pool of blood, his wife
would still not let doctors touch him, saying that Li Hongzhi would
give him all the protection.
11. Yuan Yuge was a 35-year old housewife living in Renqiu City,
Hebei Province. She and her husband began practicing Falun Gong in
1997. Later they forced their 10-year old son to do the same. On
June 25, 1998, Yuan, hallucinating to have become immortal, put her
son on the back seat of her bicycle and rode all the way into the
moat. The child struggled to safety. Yuan was later saved and sent
to hospital by family members.
12. Pounding more than one hundred times with a shovel and wooden
pole, Wang Anshou, a 36-year old worker at a machine-building plant
in Xintai County, Shandong Province, reduced his father to a pulp on
the morning of April 8, 1998. Wang started practicing Falun Gong
only three months before the incident. Unhappy with what he believed
was their cold attitude towards his choice, the previously pious and
loving Wang began to see his father and his wife as ugly "tiger
spirit" and "fox spirit" that must be put away. Wang was later
diagnosed to have suffered a severe case of schizophrenia.
13. Wu Deqiao was a 36-year old employee at a grocery store in
Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province. On the night of February 26, 1998,
while practicing Falun Gong at home, he suddenly felt that he had
already become a "Buddha". When his wife tried to stop him, Wu
became greatly infuriated and saw the woman as a bad curse. He
picked up a knife from the kitchen and hacked her several times. She
was killed instantly. Wu had just started practicing Falun Gong. One
day before the incident, he was caught yelling "earthquake" at
midnight. When asked why, he said, "I felt as if I was being chased
by a killer."
14. Around 9 a.m. August 23, 1996, 24-year old Wang Xuezhong of
Jiahe County, Hunan Province suddenly pointed his finger at his
father and accused him of being a demon. Without listening to any
explanation, the son brandished a heavy kitchen knife and landed it
on the father's head, neck and chest 17 times, killing the old man
on the spot. Police investigation shows that Wang was suffering from
serious schizophrenia when committing the crime. Wang was known to
be a strait A student. But during the second year of senior middle
school, he became attracted to Falun Gong, believing that practice
would enable him to predict the contents of the college entrance
examination.
The now banned Falun Gong has claimed upwards of 1500 lives in
China. Readers of the following 14 stories can judge for themselves
if this deadly cult should be allowed to go unchecked.
1. Around 10.p.m. February 6, 2000, Huang Daisheng, an elderly,
childless man of Dasheng village near Panyu City of Guangdong
Province, was brutally attacked by Yuan Runtian, a female Falun Gong
practitioner living in the same village. Yuan had begun practicing
Falun Gong in 1996 when she was a vocational school student in
Guangzhou. The exercise seemed quite effective in the beginning to
improve her concentration and lift her sagging spirit. But before
long her personality started to change. While keeping to herself
most of the time, she became increasingly withdrawn and introvert.
After graduation in March 1999, she found a job near her home, only
to quit it shortly after. Not wanting to help the family with crops
and house chores and even tired of speaking to her parents, she
spent all her time practicing Falun Gong behind closed doors. Some
time in November 1999, Yuan began picturing herself wondering in a
strange world, with Master Li Hongzhi and many men vying to have sex
with her or have her beheaded. Among them was Mr. Huang Daisheng.
Even though the two had never talked to each other before, she was
convinced that Huang was a demon that had violated and hurt her in
the "other world" and therefore deserved to die. On the evening of
February 6, 2000, a tormented Yuan bicycled to Huang's home and
slashed the old man twice in the face with a kitchen knife.
2. Around 9 p.m. December 23, 1999, the 60-year old Lu Qingsheng, a
director at the Heilongjiang Provincial Forestry Bureau, was hacked
to death by his subordinate Zou Gang, a 39-year old Falun Gong
practitioner. Three other employees, including the 30-year old
Yajie, were seriously wounded in the incident. According to Zou, he
had begun practicing Falun Gong in August 1995 and it was not until
the previous month that he began having hallucinations in which he
heard Li Hongzhi say, "Lu and Yajie were born your exterminator and
the only way you can escape death is to have them killed first." Zou
then bought a heavy kitchen knife on December 22 and committed the
killing the following day.
3. On December 19, 1999, Jiang Wenli, a 56-year old female Falun
Gong practitioner who lived in Bengbu City of Anhui Province, was
found lying on the floor of her freezing home, half naked and
quivering with cold. Her husband, already dead, was a gruesome mess.
His badly mutilated body bore deep knife and scissor wounds and
shreds of human flesh were scattered all over the room. "Beloved Li
Hongzhi," screamed the dying woman, "Come quickly to save me." On
December 20, Jiang was pronounced dead.
Not long after Jiang began practicing Falun Gong in November 1998,
her personality took a gradual change for the worse. Staying home at
daytime and going out at night, she refused all visitors, even
doctors who came to see her ailing husband. On the afternoon of
December 19, her husband passed away. Jiang felt as if some one was
commanding her to remove and eat the dark boils on dead body so that
the man could go back to life again.
4. On the morning of November 26, 1999, 33-year old Falun Gong
practitioner Zhu Changjiu, a farmer at Zhanggezhuang Village of
Renqiu City, Hebei Province, hacked his 73-year old father and
69-year old mother to death at their home because they, according to
Zhu, had tried to talk him out of the practice and taken his Falun
Gong literature away.
5. At 3 a.m. on August 11, 1999, heart-wrenching screams of a little
boy were heard in the village of Qianjin Township, Qionglai City of
Sichuan Province. Panicked by the "doomsday" prophesy of Li Hongzhi,
Falun Gong practitioner Tang Zhihua cut off his two-year old son's
penis with a kitchen knife. Two months before the incident, Tang's
wife, also a devout practitioner, suddenly left home and disappeared
without a trace.
6. In the early morning of July 17, 1999, Long Gang, a restaurant
owner in suburban Chongqing, breaking free from family members and
neighbors, threw himself into the river from the top of a bridge,
carrying his 6-year old son in his arms. The boy was rescued, but
Long was drowned. People who knew him told reporters that since
practicing Falun Gong, Long often spoke of the earth's explosion and
his plan to escape the disaster by levitating to heaven. His wife
blamed Falun Gong for destroying the happy family.
7. On June 5, 1999, 16-year old Xu, a student at Linjiang Middle
School of Jilin Province, told her classmates that since mankind
would soon be destroyed and the earth explode, they might just as
well foretaste the doomsday by taking some sleeping pills. She gave
each of a dozen students 2 to 3 pills but one girl, out of
curiosity, took 25. All of them developed symptoms. But thanks to
timely medical attention, none, including the girl taking 25 pills,
suffered any serious effect.
Influenced by her parents who were both practitioners, Xu began
practicing Falun Gong in June, 1998. Her academic performance took a
nosedive as she became more and more obsessed with the exercise.
When teachers discussed the problem with her parents, they replied,
"It is no use to study well, it will be OK if she knows how to
practice Falun Gong."
8. At 2 a.m., March 20, 1999, a cold-blooded murder was reported in
Chengde City, Hebei Province. The weapon was a foot-long dagger, the
killer, a 17-year old Falun Gong practitioner, and the victims, his
own parents. During the interrogation, Li Ting called himself
"Buddha" while his parents demons. "Am I supposed to kill demons?"
he asked. When asked where he had learned about all this, Li said,
"I spent a week learning"Falun Gong" in the Resort Palace at Chengde
after graduating from junior middle school. I then bought some
Falun Gong literature and practiced a lot ."
9. Dong Ning was a 26-year old worker at the Changhong Electric
Mechanical Company Ltd. in Weihai City, Shandong Province. Convinced
that his practice of Falun Gong had attained perfection, he decided
to release a number of souls by killing someone first and himself
afterwards. He chose Liu, a fellow worker at his workshop, his first
target. On January 7, he attacked Liu with a heavy metal object but
missed. Next day, Dong attacked his father with a sharp knife, but
failed again. Desperate to succeed, he broke into his neighbor's
house and stabbed retired official Jiang in the neck. In the
struggle, the son of Jiang also suffered multiple knife wounds in
the waist and legs. In custody, Dong was asked of his motivation.
He said, "I was only thinking how I can bring people away, the
loved ones and friends in particular. Some one made me do this
because I wanted perfection."
10. Around 10 a.m. November 6, 1999, 46-year old Gao Encheng, a
clerk at the township industrial and commercial office in Kaixian
County of Chongqing Municipality, put his arms around his son and
jumped from the roof of a four-story building. Gao was fatally
wounded and died shortly after. But the boy survived. Both Gao and
his wife were Falun Gong practitioners with Gao serving as the head
of a practicing station. Four days before the incident, Gao withdrew
all his bank deposits and distributed them among his daughter,
parents and mother-in-law. He told them that he had already attained
divinity and would not need money any more. Just before jumping, he
yelled at the crowd, "I don't have to talk to you earthly beings, my
son knows me best." Even Gao was lying in a pool of blood, his wife
would still not let doctors touch him, saying that Li Hongzhi would
give him all the protection.
11. Yuan Yuge was a 35-year old housewife living in Renqiu City,
Hebei Province. She and her husband began practicing Falun Gong in
1997. Later they forced their 10-year old son to do the same. On
June 25, 1998, Yuan, hallucinating to have become immortal, put her
son on the back seat of her bicycle and rode all the way into the
moat. The child struggled to safety. Yuan was later saved and sent
to hospital by family members.
12. Pounding more than one hundred times with a shovel and wooden
pole, Wang Anshou, a 36-year old worker at a machine-building plant
in Xintai County, Shandong Province, reduced his father to a pulp on
the morning of April 8, 1998. Wang started practicing Falun Gong
only three months before the incident. Unhappy with what he believed
was their cold attitude towards his choice, the previously pious and
loving Wang began to see his father and his wife as ugly "tiger
spirit" and "fox spirit" that must be put away. Wang was later
diagnosed to have suffered a severe case of schizophrenia.
13. Wu Deqiao was a 36-year old employee at a grocery store in
Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province. On the night of February 26, 1998,
while practicing Falun Gong at home, he suddenly felt that he had
already become a "Buddha". When his wife tried to stop him, Wu
became greatly infuriated and saw the woman as a bad curse. He
picked up a knife from the kitchen and hacked her several times. She
was killed instantly. Wu had just started practicing Falun Gong. One
day before the incident, he was caught yelling "earthquake" at
midnight. When asked why, he said, "I felt as if I was being chased
by a killer."
14. Around 9 a.m. August 23, 1996, 24-year old Wang Xuezhong of
Jiahe County, Hunan Province suddenly pointed his finger at his
father and accused him of being a demon. Without listening to any
explanation, the son brandished a heavy kitchen knife and landed it
on the father's head, neck and chest 17 times, killing the old man
on the spot. Police investigation shows that Wang was suffering from
serious schizophrenia when committing the crime. Wang was known to
be a strait A student. But during the second year of senior middle
school, he became attracted to Falun Gong, believing that practice
would enable him to predict the contents of the college entrance
examination.