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Article: A look at the sky from the bottom of the well: minorities in China whose mouths are being closed.(Falun Dafa)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Practitioners of FALUN DAFA
(also known as Falun Gong)
Falun Dafa is a practice combining slow, gentle body movements and meditation with the study of the universal principles of truthfulness, benevolence and tolerance.
On 25 April 1999 more than 10,000 Falun Dafa practitioners held a peaceful gathering in Beijing outside the Chinese leadership compound, Zhongnanhai--the biggest demonstration since Tian'anmen Square in June 1989. Within two months, the practice was declared illegal. Since then it has been actively suppressed.
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