China Tightening Control Over Tibet

[DanaC]

Yep. They have done something very similar for the reputation of the Falun Gong practitioners in China. Painted them as an evil, dangerous sect, when in reality theyre a bunch of disparate individuals, usually with health problems who practice a series of meditative techniques in order to improve general health and well being. They dont have a 'membership' as such. In order to be a Falun Gong practitioner you just do the exercises and follow a buddhist-like set of principles.

For this great crime thousands have been arrested, discredited, financially ruined, incarcerated, tortured or had their organs harvested (often whilst still alive and, at least initally, conscious.)