272:"Such flames became all too deadly in 2001, when a number of Falun gong practitioners apparently set themselves on fire in Tienanmen Square on January 23, resulting in five deaths. This incident remains highly disputed, Falun Gong practitioners and spokesman insisting that the event was staged by Chinese officials (who long refused, for example, to allow Western journalists to interview those who had survived their own attempted self-immolation, although it would seem that such interviews would have been a golder opportunity for China to illustrate that Falun Gong 'drives people crazy')".
287:"Jensen and Weston (2006) noticed a marked change in the tone of Li Hongzhi's messages following the ban: practitioners who remained steadfast against the oppression would survive the apocalypse while those who succumbed to pressure would not. Those who died or had suffered were promised 'consummation', or 'enlightenment.'", "Jensen and Weston remarked it was clear from Li Hongzhi's messages that he advocated martyrdom over prudence, and that 'if the Chinese authorities lit the fire, Li just as clearly fanned the flames.'"
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Changxin (Tong 2002a: 640), “which would coordinate the organizational infrastructure of Falun gong and translate his works into different languages” (Bruseker 2000: 60). The Falun Xiulian Dafa Research Society was accredited and established as direct branch affiliate (zhishu gongpai) of the Chinese Qigong Research Society that same year with the title of Falun Gong Research Branch Society (Falun gong yanjiu fenhui) (Bruseker 2000: 61; Tong 2002a: 640)."
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Perhaps nothing today so exemplifies the totalitarian implacability of China's rulers as their ruthless persecution of Falun Gong, a quasi-religious discipline of meditation and breathing exercises, combined with moral teachings about truth, compassion, and forbearance. By civilized standards, it is
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China's transformations: the stories beyond the headlines
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