While Falun Gong's cruelty is being exposed and condemned by the public, Annette Lu and other pro-independence forces in Taiwan have showed their open support to the notorious cult, commented Xinhua, adding "birds of a feather flock together."

The commentary, titled "Those Who Are Using Cult for Separatist Purpose Would Reap as They Have Sown," pointed out that in Taiwan, Falun Gong and pro-independence activists are joining hands to support one another and with the support of the separatists, the cult is engaged in rampant preaching of its evil teachings against human beings, science and society.

According to the commentary, Falun Gong has been officially registered in the island province.

Last July, Taiwan's overseas organizations summoned a number of groups at a meeting to show their support for the cult.

On December 23, 1999, the Taiwan branch of the cult held a "candle-lit evening party," at which Annette Lu made a speech to express her open support for the cult and its followers' advocacy for the so-called "human rights for exercising Falun Gong," and "wishing them success in accomplishing the exercise."

At the end of last year, Falun Gong followers from a dozen nations gathered in Taipei for a four-day "Falun Dafa conference on exchange of views in the Asia-Pacific Region." Some of the separatists even proposed to invite Li Hongzhi, the cult leader, to visit Taiwan.

Taiwan's law clearly bans any kind of evil cult, the commentary said, questioning why some people of the Taiwan Authorities have supported Falun Gong.

Xinhua came to the conclusion that those people of the Taiwan Authorities are doing nothing but trying to use Falun Gong for their own separatist purposes as the cult has been collaborating with anti-China forces in the west over the past year.

The western anti-China forces have been engaged in spreading rumors on the Chinese government's ban on the cult and providing Falun Gong activists opportunities to attack China at international gatherings, including the annual human rights conference in Geneva.

The use of the cult by Taiwan-based separatists has exposed their true nature of splitting the motherland, and on the other hand, it also indicates that these miserable separatists are at a dead end, Xinhua noted.

The growth of Falun Gong organizations in Taiwan poses a hidden danger for local compatriots and Chinese people are worried about it, the commentary said.

It reported that recently some people in Taiwan have begun to criticize Falun Gong as a evil cult, citing tragic incidents that have happened in the mainland and that thousands of mainlanders went mad and many mainland families were broken up by the cult.

The separatists' collaboration with Falun Gong and western anti- China forces under the name of "human rights" can never find a good end and will bring about severe consequences to the cross- straits relations, the commentary said.

Those who continue supporting the evil cult could find themselves at a dead end.

(Xinhua 03/25/2001)