February 13, 2001, South China Morning Post: A top-level meeting was held in Beijing yesterday to prepare for an intensified battle against Falun Gong practitioners, government sources said. ... The new round of the campaign was aimed at purging defiant key members, they said, adding that public security and intelligence organisations had managed to collect details on thousands of Falun Gong leaders in all provinces. Beijing's leaders... had ordered participating provincial leaders to take speedy and effective measures to crush the Falun Gong network, the sources said. ... State media are expected to step up their propaganda to discredit the group... "The Chinese Government will fight the war to the end in a bid to safeguard the reform and opening up, the socialist modernisation drive, and the hard-won social stability," the People's Daily said. And in an apparent attack on countries that have condemned human rights abuses reported in the 19-month crackdown, the party's official newspaper said "Western anti-China masters" were behind the Falun Gong's public protests. MAOIST SLOGANS FOR SCHOOLCHILREN: CAN ANYONE SAY "CULTURAL REVOLUTION?"The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 13, BEIJING -- Schoolchildren returning to class Monday from the two-week Spring Festival break have been given a bright new course schedule -- emblazoned with slogans and a poem criticizing the banned spiritual movement Falun Dafa. Teachers handed out the blue and red cards to 1.6 million primary-school students in Beijing on Monday, part of what the Communist Youth League promised would be a nationwide campaign to inoculate the nation's young people against Falun Dafa... Beijing has ratcheted up the campaign to a fever pitch, bombarding citizens with an old, communist-style propaganda war replete with meetings, denunciations and blanket coverage in the government-run media. .... On one side [of the card] is a table where children and teachers are meant to fill in their course schedule for the new term. The card is emblazoned at the top and bottom with the slogans: "Oppose Cults, Protect Stability, Respect Science, Promote Civilization." The back, which features a child-like drawing of kids playing with an atom superimposed over the earth, says "Reject Cults in the Schoolyard," with the word "cults" written in black and dripping blood.... [Editor's note: Is it just a matter of time before schoolchildren are encouraged to inform on their elders?...] FAMILY MEMBERS, FOREIGN PRESS NOT ALLOWED ACCESS TO TIANANMEN WITNESSESBEIJING, Feb 9 (AFP) - China is forbidding families of the five [people] who set themselves on fire on Tiananmen Square from visiting them in the hospital, where three -- including a 12-year- old girl -- remain in critical condition. The grandmother of the girl Liu Siying told AFP by telephone from her home in central Henan province Friday none of the girl's relatives are allowed to travel to Beijing to visit her. "The authorities said no one can see her," said the elderly woman, sounding nervous. "They ordered me not to receive any interviews. ... That's all I can say. I have to go. Good-bye." Liu, her mother, another mother and daughter pair and a man, all identified by the Chinese government as Falungong members doused themselves with gasoline and set themselves on fire on January 23 on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the day before Chinese New Year. ... While allowing government mouthpieces such as Xinhua access to the victims at the hospital, the government has denied foreign and domestic reporters' request to interview the victims. An official at the Jishuitan Hospital in Beijing which is treating the victims confirmed Beijing's "610 Office," which is in charge of investigating Falungong activities, has banned family visits as well as interviews by journalists. "No family members have been here to visit. They must go through 610 Office, but the office won't allow it," the official said. Police have meanwhile turned the Liu's home upside down three times searching for evidence, another relative told AFP. EU EXPECTED TO CHASTISE CHINA IN UPCOMING UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCESTRASBOURG (AFX-ASIA) - The European Parliament has demanded that China halt its crackdown on the Falungong spiritual movement and guarantee freedoms for all religious faiths. In a resolution approved late Thursday, the EU's elected chamber "invites the PRC government to allow Falungong practitioners to practice their fundamental right to freedom of conscience, expression, association and assembly in accordance with the PRC constitution."... It urged the European Union and its member states to submit a resolution to the UN Human Rights Commission "to condemn all violations of religious rights," especially those aimed at "Tibetan and Mongolian monks, certain Christian churches and certain Muslim communities." It also calls upon Beijing to "fully guarantee" constitutional rights to freedom of religion and belief, along with freedom of conscience, expression, association and assembly. The resolution was drafted by the five biggest political groups in the European Parliament, virtually assuring that it would be adopted. NEWS FROM INSIDE CHINA'S MASANJIA LABOR CAMP - A SHOWCASE FOR JIANG ZEMIN'S "GOLDEN AGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS"

• Zou Guirong, female, has gone through multiple severe beatings and electric shocks during her time at Masanjia. They have even pushed toothpicks under her fingernails. After causing wounds and bruises all over her body, the guards wrote on her arms and back and forced her to bare her breasts and walk from one cell to another [as a form of public humiliation].
• Zhang Xiujie, female, was beaten and shocked by electric baton. They even used electric batons on her genital area, causing her to lose consciousness.
• Wang Jinfeng, female, said, "I was working in the plant on September 4, 2000 when the chief officer called for me. When I followed her to the door, I saw a practitioner sobbing. I looked closer and saw that her ears were covered with blisters and her neck was red and swollen. I knew it was the work of the guards with the electric batons. The guards wanted me to write a promise to give up Falun Gong, and transcribe and recite the 30 prison rules. When I refused, they picked up electric batons and ordered me to take off my socks and shoes. They held me down on the ground, tied my ankles with wire, and handcuffed my hands behind my back and pressed them beneath my body. One of them kept kicking me and my feet started bleeding. Two of them then took turns shocking the soles of my feet, and they called in some other guards. One of them grabbed my hair, while the other shocked my head. My misery was beyond imagination. They kept asking: "Will you write the promise? Will you recite the 30 [prison] rules?"