January 23 one year ago, the eve of the lunar New Year, the
pathogenic fires ignited by crazy "Falun Gong" followers on the
Tiananmen Square dispelled the happy and harmonious atmosphere and
were burning a myriad of hearts.
One year has elapsed, how about the present state of the seven
immolators? What injury and pain they suffered caused by their
idiotic and diehard following? Can the human character engulfed by
the fire recover in the course of medical treatment?
(I)
The special nursing ward of a certain hospital in Henan
Province.
Although I have been mentally fully prepared, what appeared before
me here remained an eye-piercing and heartrending sight!
On
a bed lay Chen Guo, a former student of the Central
Conservatory.
Her five sense organs (ears, eyes, lips, nose and tongue) were
blurred and dotted with scars. She has a head of light green hair,
two sections of stumps, one binding eye and the other eye left with
two holes for peeping.
A
thrill of grief and indignation cut me to the heart, I closed my
eyes. Where is now her smiling face, and her long, beautiful hair,
the pair of her shining eyes and her 10 slim fingers?
"Extensive, severe burns have rendered her auricles, nose, upper
and lower lips incomplete. Her incomplete two hands suffer necrosis
which were lopped from the far end of the wrists. She has lost her
ability to take care of herself for life. "The above mentioning was
the description made by the doctor about the health condition of
this 20-year-old girl.
After nine months of energetic rescue and treatment in Beijing,
Chen Guo and her mother Hao Huijun have broken through the tests of
anti-infection, removing extensive scars on their lower limbs, and
skin grafting many times, now they have been switched to
rehabilitation treatment. The hospital has opened up a special sick
area, giving special nursing round the clock and installed a
sterilization cupboard. Their kinsfolk often come to see and chat
with them.
Care and love are the best way of treatment. Emotionally stable
Chen Guo politely greeted me and asked me to sit down in a soft and
quiet voice. On the windowsill, there were a glucose inject and a
pile of periodicals, including the latest issue of Reader, several
copies of Shanghai Dress and Beautification of Life.
"I've been to your school and your dormitory."
"Really! I remember we lived on the second floor with five
classmates sharing one room. Now they are studying in the third
grade of the university, maybe they should have begun contacting
departments concerned for employment?"
Speaking of Beijing, Chen Guo became more talkative. When leaving
Beijing, Chen suddenly asked: "Is my pipa (a Chinese lute) still
there? Who is taking care of it?" Her school sent the instrument
back to her, but she did not want it anymore and so it has all
along been in the home of her fourth aunt. We told her that her
teacher and classmates all praised her for her skill in playing the
Chinese lute. She smiled, saying "The songs I can play the best are
General Xiang Yu Takes Off His Armor' and Da Lang Tao Shao (Billow
Washes the Sand)' which I played in a competition held in Australia
in 1995."
Misfortune did not crush the beauty and innocence deep in her
heart. "This child was as pure as a piece of white paper before!"
exclaimed her fourth aunt Cui Li who came to see her.
Chen Guo and Liu Siying, pure as a piece of white paper, headed for
self-destruction by "going up to the heaven", being bogged down in
the trap of "Falun Gong" under their mothers' guidance. On March
17, 2001, twelve-year-old Liu Siying died as a result of being
seriously wounded. "I'm cheated by my mother" was the last message
she left to this world. She did not know that her mother Liu
Chunling had been gobbled up on the spot by the raging flames on
January 23, the same year.
Another mother, Hao Huijun, who trained Chen Guo bit by bit to
become a useful person and step by step pushed her into the fiery
pit, now lies on her bed face to face with that of her
daughter.
Among the three burned persons in the "January 23" immolation
incident, Hao Huijun was most seriously wounded. It was she who,
for quite a long period of time, refused to act in coordination
with the doctor for medical treatment, she still cherished the
illusion that her "master" would come to help her eliminate the
disease and that the "Falun Dafa" could help her restore her
original look!
Cui Li said her elder sister graduated from the Arts Department of
Henan University. She once served as a diligent, cheerful music
teacher at a middle school. But after she got in touch with "Falun
Gong", she became ignorant and fatuous and experienced great change
in her disposition. Talking about the past, Hao Huijun who had been
keeping quiet all the time, became extremely excited, saying, "I
don't want to think of it and mention it anymore."
Not long ago when the case of Fu Yibin who killed his father and
wife was broadcast through TV, the mother and daughter burst into
tears, shaking their heads all the time. When asked, "Are you still
waiting for your 'master' to come to remove ill fortune?" Hao said
quietly: That is impossible.
Since one eyeball had been removed and another eye was bound. She
only had the sense of gleams. Hao said she could not see what her
daughter look like. Chen Guo was very beautiful in her memory.
Occasionally she would in her dream see herself, who remained what
she was like before.
(II)
Wang Jindong, the organizer and plotter of the "January 23"
immolation event, was the first to ignite gas on his body.
Here is such an unforgettable scene: Severely burned Wang Jindong
lying on bed said that he gave not the least thought to his family
members, with which he "waited for" the test by his "master". His
wife and daughter, also "Falun Gong" practitioners, at home
applauded him for his "Nirvana (perfection)" through setting
himself ablaze on fire. Speaking about her father's condition of
wound, this young daughter on the TV screen showed a face full of
apathy, "I won't worry about him," said she.
"Falun Gong" cult's spiritual control undermines one's disposition
and deeply engraves in one's mind.
One year afterwards, on January 9, this reporter Hu Guo again saw
this family of three. The wife held her husband's hand and the
daughter held her mother's arm, affectionately sitting together.
"Yesterday was Papa's 51st birthday, I consulted with my mother and
decided we would buy nothing for father, we just went to see him,
because meeting him was the best gift!" said 23-year-old Wang
Juan.
This was the second meeting in the jail of the whole family. On
August 17, 2001 Wang Jindong was sentenced to a 15-year-term of
imprisonment for guilt of intentional homicide. On December 26,
2001, Wang Jindong saw his wife and daughter after an interval of
one year. As soon as she entered the door, the daughter hugged her
father, crying, "Papa, I'm missing you!"
"Papa is very fond of me at ordinary time. When I knew he was
wounded, I was feeling awfully bad about it." Speaking of the past,
Wang Juan was bitterly remorseful. When the mother and daughter
sobered up, the first thing happened was their desire to see Wang
Jindong as soon as possible, and help him break with the cult at an
early date.
"To tell you the truth, when I first came here, my defense line was
very solid," said Wang Jindong frankly. The case of Fu Yibin
killing his father and wife greatly shook Wang. He asked himself
painfully, "Why does the thing, thought to be the most desirable,
one tries hard to gain, but in the end, turn one to commit suicide
and kill others?"
The warden had long, heart-to-heart talks with Wang for two
consecutive days. Why is "Falun Gong" evil? Where does the evil
lie? Asked the warden. "When I was listening to him, thoughts
turned over in my mind. Many problems which I dared not and did not
think in the past went through my mind," said Wang. That night he
could not fall into sleep. The next day, when he was writing diary,
he suddenly threw away his pen, threw himself on the bed, weeping
aloud!
This "Falun Gong" follower who cried himself hoarse in the raging
flames, lauding that "Falun Gong was good", and in the law court he
professed that "no force can destroy my will to cultivate myself in
the practice of 'Falun Gong'," but at this time in his diary he
queried Li Hongzhi: "If your cultivation and perfection are just
this kind of form, then your disciple Wang Jindong would rather
give it up!"
Affection is beautiful and life is precious. This is the awakening
gained at the cost of the blood of the whole family of Wang
Jindong.
Wang Jindong said he would write down his personal experience to
awaken the world's people. Wang Juan, who was once a student of the
Japanese department of Kaifeng University, suspended her study and
gave up the chance to go abroad for advanced study in order to
pursue the illusory "kingdom of heaven" preached by "Falun Gong".
Now she picks up her books again. "Now Papa has shaken himself off
the spiritual yoke, mother and I should also bravely face life. As
long as I regain self, the road ahead is easy to follow," said Wang
Juan.
(III)
In
an ordinary residential building in Henan lives a 54-year-old woman
Liu Baorong. Dressed in a dark green sweater and wearing short
hair, she seems to be quite a different person compared a year ago
when she was a "Falun Gong" addict who shouted "I want to soar to
the heaven" riding on a police car.
On
that day she was the first person to drink gas. Had it not been a
people's policeman on duty who timely rescued her, the consequence
would be inconceivable. Liu Baorong, who was exempted from criminal
sanction, is now reading ancient poetry, taking a stroll and busily
doing household chores, living a quiet and substantial life.
On
the wall of her bedroom hangs down a scroll: The greatest crime in
one's life is deceiving oneself as well as others.
Last year's "January 23" immolation incident resulted in the tragic
consequence of two persons burned to death and three severely
injured. Liu Yunfang, a direct organizer and schemer, was sentenced
to life imprisonment for intentional homicide. But today, he still
obstinately refuses to mend his way, continuing to live in lies
featuring deception of oneself as well as others.
However, when asked why he did not light the fire and sprinkle not
even a single drop of gas on his own body, this "disciple of Dafa"
who did everything possible at that time to stir up trouble and
hoodwink the people now said "the master keeps me to convey
messages," and now said he himself "is short of required
disposition, and the time has not yet come for me to do so."
Those are the explanatory notes on the hypocritical and vicious
image of the "Falun Gong" cult.
A
special coverage is now over. Pain and grief, gratification and
consolation, anger and sorrow surge and bump into my heart.
Kind-hearted people, be vigilant against heresy, treasure life,
don't let the flower of your own lives wither away. How happy it is
to be living under the sun!
( January 24, 2002)