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...that Tung and his senior officials have advanced are forced and fallacious. Tung has said the self-immolation in Tiananmen Square of "cultists" who Beijing says are Falun Gong followers reminds him of Jonestown, 1978. A senior member of his Cabinet associated Falun Gong with Japan's Aum Shinrikyo sect, whose leaders unleashed a deadly gas attack in 1995 in a Tokyo subway, killing 12 people...
...there between Falun Gong and Jones-town or Aum Shinrikyo? Almost none. What happened in Jonestown was mass murder, not suicide: Jim Jones misled his followers into drinking poison and 913 died. As for Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese court has refused the government's request to ban the sect though it has handed down death sentences to two leaders found guilty of the gas attack. The court made the distinction between violators of existing laws and citizens' constitutional freedom to practice faith, however unpopular those beliefs may be to others. To link Falun Gong with these groups is to incite...
Tsurphu, the capital of the Kagyupa (Black Hat) Tibetan Buddhist sect, is hidden at 4,480 m in the remote and desolate snow-capped peaks of central Tibet. Founded in the 1180s by the first Karmapa, it is a mere 50 km, but a rocky two-and-a-half-hour drive, from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The road is little more than a path distinguishable from the rest of the moonscape by the occasional tire track. My Lhasa-born Tibetan driver has to stop twice to ask farmers the way. Finally we reach a rickety bridge over a fast...
...culturally a norteno, given to blunt talk, a distrust of the Mexico City bureaucracy and open admiration for the U.S. His National Action Party, or P.A.N., reinvented itself in the northern states of Chihuahua and Baja California, reshaping itself in the 1980s from an ideological right-wing sect to one that championed free elections, civil society and honest government. Fox pushed that transformation so hard that he eventually alienated himself from much of the P.A.N. hierarchy. He governs essentially as an individual--perhaps the ultimate expression of American political values...
...harshly as before. Father Ly may have been hauled in, "re-educated" and placed under church arrest, but he has not been jailed, as he was in 1983. There are other examples of official softening: Hanoi recently recognized the formerly banned Protestant Christian churches and the Hua Hao Buddhist sect. U.S. Ambassador Pete Peterson, who flew to Washington last week to lobby for the trade agreement, believes blocking the trade accord would send the wrong message. "The greatest thing we can do for human rights," he says, "is to increase economic activity...