Had I not been familiar with Falun Gong, I too would have believed the propaganda.
Many people have died of SARS simply because China is not free, and
educated
Chinese today will be brooding about that.
Melbourne’s Falun Gong community held a candlelight vigil tonight to
mark
the fourth anniversary of a protest they say led to China banning and
persecuting its members.
Surfers prepare to go into the water as members of the Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong peform their meditation exercises, during a dawn ceremony on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, April 26, 2003.
The Central News Agency (Taipei) reported on April 17 that according to reports from various universities in Beijing regarding SARS, probable SARS cases were found in thirteen universities, four of the cases from Beijing University.
This is the hospital ward China’s Ministry of Health doesn’t want you to see. There are more than 100 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) patients crammed into tiny rooms in the infectious diseases section of Beijing’s You’an Hospital.
Falun Gong followers worldwide were turning out to support the suit filed
last October in federal court in Chicago by practitioners, mostly from the
United States, who accuse Jiang of genocide and other crimes
China’s media offensive to put the country in a better light on the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), has also stretched to Internet news sites and chatrooms.
Doctors and medical officials have also been ordered not to talk.
WHO experts searching for the origins of the outbreak in China urged officials there to come clean on the scale of the disease after a Time magazine report in which a doctor claimed the capital’s main hospital for SARS cases had admitted 60 patients with the virus, of whom seven died.
BEIJING – As can be easily gleaned from history, wars are certainly terrible, but epidemics can be worse. This has not been the case in China, where large pandemics have been limited because of dissemination of knowledge to the public and good health care.
The immigration director breached international laws designed to prevent a repeat of the religious persecution perpetrated by Nazis against Jews when he barred four Falun Gong practitioners from entering Hong Kong, according to a High Court writ.
A lawsuit is in the offing barely one year after the maligned police intervention during Jiang Zemin’s visit on April 11, 2002 in Dresden [against Falun Dafa practitioners]. A fact-finding suit is being planned in Meissen and Dresden.