[Minghui Net] Excerpt from China Xinhua News Agency, Zhengzhou City--

According to Wednesday's report from a department concerned, because of the dry weather and other factors, 8 cities and 35 counties in Henan province are currently experiencing a severe plague of locusts. These places are putting forth their best efforts to fight the locust and reduce the plague damage. So far, 230 high-density locust flocks have been found in Henan. According to the weather cycle, it is estimated that the locusts will mature in large numbers around June 25. If the situation cannot be controlled by then, the locusts will fly up and this may very possibly turn into a big plague.

We know that there is no "natural reason" for the locust calamity in Henan Province. The vicious forces in Henan have been closely following Jiang Zemin's gang of political hooligans to suppress Falun Gong, resulting in 6 deaths and countless blood debts. Their crimes have angered the heavens.

The Yongan Road Inspection Station of Nanyang City is the "concentration camp" that tortures Dafa practitioners. On January 3, 2001 of the lunar calendar, an elderly practitioner from Heze City, Shandong Province was escorted from Beijing and was fiercely beaten there by the vicious perpetrators. The elderly practitioner went on a hunger strike to demand they stop the torture and release him unconditionally. However, on January 9 of the Lunar Calendar, he was hanged to death!

Around the 2000 Lunar New Year, Kaifeng City arrested Dafa practitioners to maximally cater to the vicious forces. The detained practitioners were not allowed to meet their family members. They were beaten and had to go through exhausting interrogations. The guards in the Beijiao Detention Center forced 11 female practitioners to sit on the snowy and icy ground, bare-footed and in their underwear, with ice chunks in their hands and on top of their heads. Three practitioners were in their menstrual period, and the icy ground was stained with their frozen menstrual blood.

After last Christmas' big fire disaster in Luoyang City [dozens of people were killed in the fire], the provincial government and Party committee of Henan plotted to frame Falun Gong in order to ingratiate Jiang Zemin and atone for their negligence [causing the fire disaster because of lacking proper management]. Shortly after, the horrifying "Tiananmen Self-Immolation Incident" occurred. On February 4, 2001, the Washington Post published a stunning investigative report that told the world the truth: No one ever saw Liu Chunling (one of the people who set themselves on fire) practicing the Falun Gong exercises.

In May, the vile people in Henan produced a Henan Opera to slander Dafa and Master Li. Kaifeng City Henan Opera Troupe and Kaifeng County Henan Opera Troupe have performed the opera all around Henan. They even planned to perform in Beijing.

To prevent Falun Gong practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal, starting from the end of last year, officials in Zhenping County exerted countywide forced brainwashing and mental torture against Falun Gong practitioners. Many practitioners suffered intensive physical and mental injuries. Practitioner Yang Rong was released after being brainwashed and "transformed," and died within a month. One night at 1 am, while other practitioners were being beaten, a rogue dragged a female practitioner outside and raped her.

How can such brutal suppression against the defenseless Dafa practitioners who follow Zhen-Shan-Ren [Truthfulness- Benevolence- Forbearance] not receive retribution?! Besides natural and man-made calamities, those scoundrel accomplices will receive immediate retribution in this lifetime, and they will be punished one after another.