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Life, Health, Inviolate Citizen Rights: Xinhua Commentary (08/04/2001)
A Xinhua News Agency commentary says today that Li Hongzhi and
his Falun Gong cult used people's desire for health to spread superstition,
and disturbed people's ideas by claiming that Falun Dafa is the
only way to avoid calamity.
The commentary says that from the uncovered facts, people should
have a clear understanding of the Falun Gong cult, which defrauded
practitioners and inveigled them into extremities.
"Life is the most precious thing for people, and health is
the guarantor of life," according to the commentary. Citizens
have the right to ask for help from the government and from other
people.
The Party and the government always pay great attention to the
health of people, and also sets health as a key goal to be achieved
by socialism.
Since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, the average
life-span in the country has been raised from 35 to 70, and the
infant mortality rate has been decreased from 20 percent to 31.4
per 1,000 births.
Li Hongzhi and his Falun Gong cult took the opposite way and said
that disease is a "preexisting sin." He misled the Falun
Gong practitioners to superstition, and asked them to refuse to
go to the hospital. What he did severely infringed on the life and
health rights of the Falun Gong practitioners.
China has explicit laws protecting the health rights of citizens.
Li Hongzhi, however, performed a spiritual poisoning act to lead
Falun Gong practitioners into a dead end. He is the real culprit.
The commentary calls on people to arm themselves with science and
leave no room for Li Hongzhi and other cultists
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