[Minghui Net] The following headline news was published in the Sichuan Daily on June 24, 2001: Since last winter and this spring, the drought in both seasons has affected 73 counties. At the beginning of this summer, another 66 counties have experienced continuous high temperatures and little rainfall. This is the most serious attack of drought since 1994. Some areas have had continuous drought for more than 200 days. To date, there are only 3.6 billion cubic meters of stored water in various water conservancies; the water storage level in most reservoirs has been under the warning level, and the storage volume is 900 million cubic meters less than that of the same period last year. Among 457,000 weirs across the whole province, more than 400,000 are dried up and the bottoms can be seen. The critical drought has caused some areas, especially the water-short villages in the highlands, to experience serious lack of drinking water for both human beings and animals. Six towns, 22 cities and 568 villages, 3.5 million people and 3.6 million animals are having difficulty getting drinking water. It is known that in addition to the large decrease in the production of crops, the aridity has also resulted in the inability of most spring-planted crops to grow. The statistics as of the end of May show that the area in which spring-planted crops cannot be grown due to the lack of nutrition in dry land and the lack of water in paddy fields has reached 45.6 million acres. According to the statistics of the civil administration department, the drought has caused lack of food for 17.42 million people. Among these people, 6,624,800 lack both food and water. Suffering from the drought, more than 3000 industrial factories have stopped or almost stopped production due to the water shortage.

Actually, no "natural" or man-made disaster is coincidental. The authorities should manage the area under administration with morality and thus bring good fortune to the people. On the contrary, doing bad deeds will not only cause one to receive retribution, but also bring disasters to the people. The authorities in Sichuan Province are the true followers and hatchet men of Jiang Zemin's gangs in persecuting Falun Gong.

The Sichuan police started massively arresting Falun Gong practitioners on February 5, 2001. All the practitioners who have expressed their determination to cultivate Falun Dafa have been sent to labor camps for long-term detention. The Party leader of Sichuan Province, the brother-in-law of Zeng Qinghong [head of the Political and Legal Committee of the Party, who is in charge of the persecution in the whole country], Zhou Yongkang, has personally directed the tortures on site, and carried out the brutal policy to implicate others in the abuse. "If parents practice, lay off the children; if children practice, sack the parents. Stop paying their pension and break off their financial resources." To date there have been 11 Dafa practitioners murdered by the authorities.

Although the drought in Sichuan is very serious, the punishment from heaven has just started. To stay away from these disasters and not receive retribution, you must immediately stop the persecution against Falun Gong and treat Falun Gong practitioners with kindness. Only by doing so can you bring blessings to yourself and your family.