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- Tiananmen_Square_self-immolation_incident abstract "The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident took place in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, on the eve of Chinese New Year on 23 January 2001. The incident is disputed: Chinese government sources say that five members of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that is persecuted in mainland China, set themselves on fire in the square. Falun Gong sources disputed the accuracy of these portrayals, noting that their teachings explicitly forbid violence or suicide. Several Western journalists and scholars also noted inconsistencies in the government's account of event, leading many to believe the self-immolation may have been staged by the government to discredit Falun Gong.According to Chinese state media, the five self-immolators had travelled to the square together from Henan Province (in later reports the number rose to seven). One of them, Liu Chunling, died at Tiananmen under disputed circumstances, and another, 12-year-old Liu Siying, reportedly died in hospital several weeks later; three survived. The incident received international news coverage, and video footage was broadcast a week later in the People's Republic of China by China Central Television (CCTV). In the Chinese press, the event was used as proof of the "dangers" of Falun Gong, and was used to legitimize the government's campaign against the group.The official account of events soon came under scrutiny, however. Two weeks after the self-immolation event, The Washington Post published an investigation into the identity of the two self-immolation victims who were killed, and found that "no one ever saw [them] practice Falun Gong." As reported by The Boston Globe, the television footage broadcast by CCTV appeared to show that "Liu Chunling, one of two people who died, collapsed not from the flames but from being bludgeoned by a man in a military overcoat." Other evidence surfaced by journalists and international observers seemed to suggest that Chinese authorities had advanced knowledge of the self-immolation.Human Rights Watch (HRW) wrote that the incident was among one of the most difficult stories for reporters in Beijing at the time to report on because of a lack of independent information available. The self-immolation victims were accessible only to reporters from China's state run press; international media, and even the victims' family members, were barred from contacting them. A wide variety of opinions and interpretations of what may have happened then emerged: the event may have been set up by the government to frame Falun Gong; it may have been an authentic protest; the self-immolators could have been "new or unschooled" Falun Gong practitioners; and other views.The campaign of state propaganda that followed the event eroded public sympathy for Falun Gong. As noted by Time magazine, many Chinese had previously felt that Falun Gong posed no real threat, and that the state's crackdown against it had gone too far. After the self-immolation, however, the media campaign against the group gained significant traction. Posters, leaflets and videos were produced detailing the supposed detrimental effects of Falun Gong practice, and regular anti-Falun Gong classes were scheduled in schools. CNN compared the government'’s propaganda initiative to past political movements such as the Korean War and the Cultural Revolution. Later, as public opinion turned against the group, the Chinese authorities began sanctioning the "systematic use of violence" to eliminate Falun Gong. In the year following the incident, the imprisonment, torture, and deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in custody increased significantly.".
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- Tiananmen_Square_self-immolation_incident comment "The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident took place in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, on the eve of Chinese New Year on 23 January 2001. The incident is disputed: Chinese government sources say that five members of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that is persecuted in mainland China, set themselves on fire in the square. Falun Gong sources disputed the accuracy of these portrayals, noting that their teachings explicitly forbid violence or suicide.".
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- Tiananmen_Square_self-immolation_incident label "Групповое самосожжение в Пекине (2001)".
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