An article published in 2000 on Minghui.org, the Falun Gong movement's own publication, reprinting Century X.72 in English translation and Li Hongzhi's own commentary reading the "King of Terror" as, in his own words, "a few people with ulterior motives in the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party using their power to initiate a vicious, comprehensive suppression of Dafa," dating the verse's fulfillment to the Party's July 20, 1999 crackdown on the movement. Read here directly as the movement's own account of how it reads the quatrain as fulfilled in events concerning itself, one instance among several of the same retroactive-matching pattern this row's other fulfillment-claim atoms already record for Napoleon, Hitler and the fabricated 2001 quatrain.
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Reliability Tier3
Tier three: the Falun Gong movement's own publication, reprinting Li Hongzhi's own commentary reading Century X.72 as fulfilled by the Chinese Communist Party's 1999 crackdown on the movement. Read here directly as the movement's own account of how it reads the quatrain as fulfilled in events concerning itself, not as independent scholarship. NotesA movement's own published reading of a claim made about itself, tiered as tradition's own account, the same tier this atlas already gives Family Radio's, the Watch Tower Society's and Catholic Answers' own statements. Valued here as documented evidence of the retroactive-matching pattern, not as independent confirmation that the quatrain names Falun Gong.
Citation
AuthorLi Hongzhi (commentary); Minghui.org editorial staff (article)
PublisherMinghui.org
Publication Year2000
URLhttps://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2000/7/13/7680.html
Source Typetradition
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Prophecies, 2 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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