In mid-July, when a government official from central
China's Hubei Province visited the United States, he
unexpectedly received a summons from an American court.
The official was said to be sued by Peng
Liang, a Chinese citizen and Falun Gong practitioner, on the
charge of "human rights" violations that caused
the death of Peng's brother, Peng Min, and mother, Li
Yinxiu, early this year.
Xinhua News Agency
published a report, co-written by Xinhua and People's Daily
reporters, Thursday, telling of how the Falun Gong cult
plotted for the indictment.
According to the
report, Peng's family lives in Wuhan, the provincial capital
of Hubei, and all five family members are Falun Gong
followers.
On February 28, 2000, Peng Min, 27,
was detained by local police on suspicion of organizing
others and using the cult to break the law, and he was
arrested later. On January 8, 2001, the man hurt himself by
striking an iron gate with his head in an apparently suicide
attempt and was paralyzed due to a fracture.
Local government and hospitals tried all means
to save his life, but the man died on April 5. When he was
in hospital, his family members, including the parents and
Peng Liang, refused to let him receive proper medical
treatment, but instead, insisted on broadcasting tapes on
Falun Gong and reading the "sutra" of the cult for
him, in front of his hospital bed.
Upon
learning that the son died, the mother put her palms
together and said, "You have reached perfectness at
last." His father said, "We, the whole family, are
proud of you."
Since Peng's family are
too poor to afford the medical charges, the government
exempted them from paying the fees worth more than 30,000
yuan.
On April 29, the 56-year old mother died
of a cerebral hemorrhage in a local hospital.
When Li Hongzhi, the Falun Gong leader, and
the headquarters of the cult in the United States, learnt of
their deaths, they directed, via the Internet, their
followers in China to plot for the indictment.
A number of the followers were involved in the
conspiracy, including Mo Chou, Li Fengyou, Zhang Jing, Yan
Zhigang and Liu Xunchun.
They found Peng Liang
and persuaded him to sign on a power of attorney which was
fabricated to tell a false story on the case. Peng wrote
what he saw on the spot, but did not know that the power of
attorney later would be replaced by a fabricated copy with
his signature on.
When the cult group received
the indictment, they sued the Chinese official when he was
in the United States, which was widely covered by news media
in some foreign countries and Taiwan Province.
Afterwards, the cult members also planned to
smuggle Peng out of the country, but the police stopped
them.
In a commentary accomppanying the report
to be published October 12, the People's Dalily says that
lies will never help save the doom of Falun Gong cult. It
describes the plot by the Falun Gong headquarters in New
York to sue the Chinese official as a "farce",
which ended in vain.
How Cult Plotted to Sue Chinese Official: Report (11/10/2001)
2003-11-20 17:46