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Article: Feature: Abandoned Falun Gong Believers (1)
- Article from:
- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 9, 2001
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The five obsessed Falun Gong followers, who set themselves on
fire on January 23 in Beijing's Tian'anmen Square to reach "nirvana"
or to ascend to heaven, couldimagine anything but being abandoned by
their spiritual master Li Hongzhi.
After knowing the suicide attempt of seven Falun Gong
practitioners, with one dead, four seriously injured and the
othertwo abortive, overseas-based spokespersons of the cult
organization denied the persons committing suicides were members of
Falun Gong.
"We don't believe these are Falun Gong practitioners," they said,
implying that the cult has nothing to do with the self immolation.