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Cross-Straits Dialogue on "One China" Consensus May Be Reopened. Chinese mainland would authorize ARATS to reopen dialogue and consultations with Taiwan as long as the Taiwan authorities accept the "One China" principle, said Chen Yunlin, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said Sunday. He warned Taiwan authorities not to continue to challenge the "One China" principle, deny the consensus and plot new separatist moves, which would poison the cross-strait relations and heighten tension and confrontation and eventually damage the interests of Taiwan compatriots. **** DPRK Warns U.S. Against Reckless Provocation. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) would make preparations to counter the U.S. provocation against it under an unreasonable pretext in pursuance of expansion of the "anti-terror war," the official newspaper Rondong Sinmun said on Sunday in a signed commentary. **** Sinn Fein Leader Adams Visits Cuba. Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams arrived in Cuba for a visit intended to focus on remembering participants of a dramatic Irish Republican Army hunger strike 20 years ago. Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams arrived in Cuba for a visit intended to focus on remembering participants of a dramatic Irish Republican Army hunger strike 20 years ago. During the four-day visit that began Sunday, Adams was expected to meet with President Fidel Castro and thank him for his solidarity with the hunger strikers in Northern Ireland. A ceremony will be held to remember the ten prisoners who starved themselves to death during the protest. **** Iran Calls for Muslim Solidarity on Palestinian Issue. Iran on Sunday appealed to the Muslim world to strengthen solidarity and coordination on the ongoing Palestinian crisis, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iran on Sunday appealed to the Muslim world to strengthen solidarity and coordination on the ongoing Palestinian crisis, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the call in an address to Muslim states' ambassadors in Iran and Iranian officials after the mass prayers to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the feast marking the end of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan on Sunday. Khamenei said that the Palestinian issue is the most basic problem of the world of Islam, which "is in dire need of solidarity and coordination." The pressures Zionists and their supporters are currently exerting on the Palestinian nation are the result of the heavy blow the Palestinian movement and uprising have dealt to them, he said. The Iranian supreme leader stressed that the destiny of Muslim states is linked with the Palestinian issue and they should maintain unity and the sense of Islamic power and abide by their duty to render support for Palestine. The situation in the occupied Palestinian territories has recently worsened as the Israeli army launched rounds of military strikes against Palestinian targets to avenge a wave of Palestinian suicide bombing attacks. Iran, which does not recognize Israel, firmly supports the Palestinians' struggle for regaining their legitimate rights. **** Khamenei Condemns Israeli "Terrorist Crimes" Against Palestinians. Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday strongly condemned Israel's "terrorist crimes" against Palestinians, saying that the crimes committed by Zionists are "highly depressing and shocking." Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday strongly condemned Israel 's "terrorist crimes" against Palestinians, saying that the crimes committed by Zionists are "highly depressing and shocking." Khamenei made the remarks in his Eid-al-Fitr sermon to worshipers during mass prayers here, which were also attended by President Mohammad Khatami and members of the cabinet and parliament, the official IRNA news agency said. Iranians, along with other Muslims, began celebrations for Eid al-Fitr, the feast marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan on Sunday. Mosques throughout the country were to hold mass prayer sessions. Khamenei noted that the Palestinian catastrophe goes on despite its "extreme ugliness" and in fact Zionists' crimes have left no feast for Muslims to celebrate it. He accused the "arrogant" powers, especially the United States, of supporting the Israeli regime, saying that they cannot serve as arbitrators and well-wishers in the Palestinian case. "Turning a blind eye to the terrorist and shameful acts of the Zionist regime and labeling the Palestinian nation as terrorists are a big and historical injustice towards the Palestinian nation," Khamenei said. The supreme leader called on Muslim governments and the elite to shoulder their heavy duties to confront the "big injustice" to defend the oppressed Palestinians. Muslim governments should rely on the popular support shown by their peoples and offer all-out backing to the Palestinians, he added. The situation in the occupied Palestinian territories has been deteriorating recently as the Israeli army launched rounds of military strikes against Palestinian targets to avenge a wave of Palestinian suicide bombing attacks. More than 1,000 people, mostly Palestinians, have been killed since the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli violence in late September last year, the start of the al-Aqsa intifada (uprising against the Israeli occupation). Iran, which does not recognize Israel, firmly supports the Palestinians' struggle for regaining their legitimate rights. **** Murder Case, Irrefutable Evidence of Falun Gong's Inhumanity. On November 25, 2001, a Falun Gong practitioner ruthlessly killed his father and wife, and badly injured his mother at his parents' home in Xicheng District of Beijing, irrefutable evidence about the inhumanity of the notorious cult, headed by Li Hongzhi. Murder Case, Irrefutable Evidence of Falun Gong's Inhumanity A murder uncovered recently by Beijing police has revealed more irrefutable evidence about the inhumanity of the notorious Falun Gong cult, headed by Li Hongzhi. On November 25, 2001, a Falun Gong practitioner ruthlessly killed his father and wife, and badly injured his mother at his parents' home in Xicheng District of Beijing. After receiving a report at 17:55 that day, police immediately rushed to the scene and were horrified by what they saw: bloody floor, walls, doors and corridor, a woman (later identified as thekiller's wife) with many knife wounds in her face and arms, and two elderly people (later identified as the killer's parents) lying in pools of blood. Fu Yibin, 46, the suspect, was captured on the spot, and the injured rushed to hospital. Murder Case, Irrefutable Evidence of Falun Gong's Inhumanity Police seized the kitchen knife used by Fu as well as his bloody clothes at the scene. Postmortem examinations carried out by forensic medical experts at the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau show that both Fu's father and wife died of acute hemorrhagic shock and from head injuries caused by repeated stabbing by a sharp weapon (like a kitchen knife) in their faces, necks and arms. Fu, who began to practice Falun Gong in 1998, confessed to the police that he stabbed his father and wife to death and injured his mother with a kitchen knife at his parent's home after "realizing" that "they had to depart." Police discovered Falun Gong recordings and video tapes and Fu'sdiaries at his residence. Fu said, when he began practicing the Falun Gong Cult, he thought he had found the right way to escalate himself to an advanced level both spiritually and physically. He no longer thought about anything else. His family members, including his father and mother, thought they had persuaded him to stop practising Falun Gong. "I lied to them when I said I would not practise Falun Gong any longer, but actually I did not stop at all," said Fu. Once Fu even beat his mother when he thought she was haunted by evil spirits. He thought himself to have become a 'real man'. "A 'real man' has no feeling, only the spirit of universe," he said, adding people have to discard love to "upgrade" themselves. Returning home from his mother-in-law's home on the afternoon of November 25, Fu found three red apples on a table. "The three apples mean that three people have reached their 'completion'," Fu thought. At about 5 pm the same day, he and his wife went to his parents' home. He sat on the sofa watching Television programs, and his wife chatted with his parents. Fu said, at that time, he seemed to hear a voice telling him "It is time..... to kill the three people in front you." Fu said at first he was shocked by thinking of killing his beloved wife and parents, but minutes later, he went to the kitchen, took a kitchen knife and started his vicious murders. Fu said he killed his father and wife to save them from the "sea of bitterness", give them a "real life" and send them to a "land of happiness". He even said that there is no difference between stabbing his father and his wife, and stabbing a cat or dog. He also said that he had done the right thing from the viewpoint of Falun Dafa. Fu did not think that he violated any law and said "it is the first time I have killed someone, and there will be three more times in the future." Fu used to be a very kind man and a good son and he used to have a happy life, according to his neighbors. However, Falun Gonghad turned him into a selfish and cruel man. The Falun Gong cult controls practitioners spiritually, bringing on evil hallucinations, says Shi Hua, a scholar of psychology. Bewitched by Falun Gong fallacies, many Falun Gong practitioners lose their ability to judge between reality and illusion, Shi noted, adding this sometimes results in harmful behavior by Falun Gong practitioners. Neighbors of Fu's parents say they have seen with their own eyes how Falun Gong have killed people, and hope for greater efforts by the whole society to root out the evil cult. To date, Falun Gong cult has caused more than 1,700 deaths in the country. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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