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March 19, 2001

AFP: Falun Gong Protests As UN Commission Opens Human Rights Talks

GENEVA, Mar 19, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Up to 800 followers of China' banned religious group Falun Gong protested in front of the UN' European headquarters here on Monday to coincide with the opening of the annual session of the Human Rights Commission.

China's Media Has Lost Its Conscience

Dear [...],

How are you?

Being friends for so many years, we haven' gotten in touch for quite a while. Although everyone has his unique life path, no matter how different they are, people all pursue a fundamental quality of life. That' why I' like to discuss some issues regarding Falun Gong with you. Over the past year, the Falun Gong issue has shaken the whole world. No matter if you have tried to avoid the topic or keep a distance from it, you could not have remained untouched. Truly, this important event that occurred at the turn of the century could not have nothing to do with your life. If you are a reporter, could you have mixed good with bad in order to keep your job? If you are a government official, could you have assisted the evil force just for the sake of your personal interests? Even if you were not directly involved in it, have you sympathized with or hailed the unfortunate tribulations that occurred to numerous Falun Gong practitioners? Although you may have no interest in all these, how could you avoid the eternal subjects of life, aging, illness and death? No matter what high-ranking position you occupy or how much wealth you accumulate in the human world, they are nothing because they cannot be brought in at birth or carried away after death. Instead, the principle of good being rewarded with good and bad with bad and human reincarnation always holds true.

AP: EU Ministers Back UN Resolution On China's Rights Violations

Monday, March 19 7:52 PM SGT

BRUSSELS (AP)--European Union foreign ministers agreed Monday to support a U.N. draft resolution that is expected to condemn China' poor record on human rights, but backed away from co-sponsoring it. The resolution is to be debated at the U.N. Human Rights Commission annual meeting in Geneva starting Tuesday.