Party members defect to China sect

From: The Independent - London | Date: July 27, 1999| Author: Lorien Holland in Peking | Copyright information

CHINA'S COMMUNIST Party has revealed that the mystical sect it banned last week has infiltrated its own ranks. A front-page commentary in the official People's Daily said yesterday that the quasi-religious Falun Gong, which claimed 100 million practitioners before it was banned on 22 July, had made "serious" inroads into the structure of the party.

"It is a cause for alarm that some party members were involved and a very small number of them even became the backbone of the Falun Gong,"...

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