overseas media on Falun Gong

The two-week anti-cults exhibition, held in the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing, started on July 15 and has now welcomed more than 120,000 visitors.

Photographs, videos, letters, books and other exhibits all disclose the nature of nasty, evil cults, including China's Falun Gong, Japan's Aum Shinrikyo, the Branch Davidian cult and the People's Temple sect in the United States.

In the early 1990s Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, was founded by Li Hongzhi in Northeast China's Jilin Province. Li Hongzhi showed his wickedness when the cult was founded by printing and selling illegal publications, robbing its brain-washed followers of their money. From 1993 to 1999, 11 million cult books were published worth more than 53.6 million yuan (US$6.5 million).

Li Hongzhi has spread his evil fallacy through books, videos, tapes and "practice training centres." The cult controls its practitioners psychologically, leading them to desecrate their human dignity, break the law, injure and even murder people by encouraging them to take their own lives.

So far, more than 1,660 deaths have been caused by the cult bewildering its followers by stealing the terms of lawful religions like "doomsday," "being raised to heaven" and "consummation."

On July 22, 1999, the Chinese Government banned the evil cult under laws maintaining secure social stability and protecting human rights. The government's determination has won heartfelt support judging from a scroll of 1 million signatures which backs fighting Falun Gong. The signatures include former members of the cult.

Cao Hui, 27, was rehabilitated last October after severing ties with the cult he had practised for five years. His lack of knowledge of science and society had left him feeling empty and he turned to the evil cult. Before he realized he was being used, Cao attended illegal demonstrations and issued flyers to protect Falun Gong after it was banned. Cao was sent to a re-education centre last October.

It was there that Cao re-evaluated his "beliefs".

With the help of instructors in the centre, Cao realized that even death could be the end result if he continued practising Falun Gong.