Commentary: Fight Falun Gong to Ensure Stability
The current fight against Falun Gong is to maintain the country's overall stability and further promote reform and development, according to a commentator's article of People's Daily.
It is a fact that Li Hongzhi used the Falun Gong organization to deliberately create chaos and undermine the good situation of stability and unity, the article said. And he expected, by ganging up with hostile forces abroad and at home, to overthrow the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and change the socialist system.
Over the past year, Li and his followers organized one after another illegal gatherings to besiege party and government institutions and media office buildings, the article said. During the illegal gathering outside Zhongnanhai on April 25, Li even asked his followers to make it a bloodshedding incident and then put the blame on the Party and government.
Stability is of crucial importance to China's reform, opening and modernization drive, the article said. Whoever creates unrest and undermines the country's stability and unity will be condemned by the nation.
The current fight against Falun Gong is not only a serious political ideological struggle, but also a political struggle that involves the maintenance of social stability, it said.
China will never allow its course of reform and opening to be disturbed and disrupted, since only through reforms and opening to the outside world will China become stronger and more prosperous.
The article said that although initial successes have been achieved in the fight against Falun Gong, a lot of work remains to be done.
The article stressed on helping Falun Gong practitioners break with Falun Gong, while punishing the handful Falun Gong organizers and wire-pullers according to the law.
In the meantime, priorities should be given to the maintenance of social stability in order to forge ahead with reform and opening up and the modernization drive, the article said.
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