(Minghui.org) A fire that broke out in Urumqi, Xinjiang less than two weeks ago gripped the attention of many people across China.
The fire started in a residential building in the “Jixiangyuan” community in Urumqi on November 24, 2022.
For nearly three months before the fire broke out, this residential community had been designated as a high-risk COVID region. To prevent people from going out, the authorities closed emergency exits; and there were also reports that apartments were sealed from the outside.
Although fire engines quickly arrived near the building, they were unable to come close enough to fight the blaze due to obstructions installed for the COVID lockdown. The residents had to remove the roadblocks that had been set up to prevent people and cars from leaving the area.
People had to move parked cars from the narrow alleyway leading to the burning building, but some electric cars couldn’t start as their batteries had died after being left unused for months due to the over 100 days of COVID lockdown in Xinjiang. Eventually, people had to carry the cars out of the way to clear a path for the fire engines to pass through. When the fire was put out 2.5 hours later, many lives had already been lost.
Just like how the communist regime has covered up and underreported all the other man-made disasters in the past, the authorities claimed that only ten people died and nine were injured in the fire. They also blamed the residents for “being weak in their self-rescuing capabilities.”
This time, the general public that had been obedient to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s strict control and lockdown for too long didn’t believe it anymore. Protests soon rose around the countryside, where people shouted “Step down CCP” and demanded basic freedom and the right to live.
The fire in Urumqi helped many Chinese to see the true colors of the CCP and how it has always attempted to cover up the truth and shed accountability – no matter what the consequences of the tragedy or however many people die, it’s never the Party’s fault.
The fire in Urumqi also reminded many Chinese of another fire 21 years ago that speaks volumes about the CCP’s lying nature.
It took place on January 23, 2001, the eve of the Chinese New Year. Five people sat down at Tiananmen Square and set themselves on fire. The CCP immediately claimed those people were Falun Gong practitioners and started a new wave of propaganda campaigns attacking Falun Gong, a mind-body practice in the Buddhist school that the CCP banned in 1999.
However, when a Washington Post reporter went to the hometown of the lead self-immolator Liu Chunling, he was surprised to learn from people close to Liu that she had never practiced Falun Gong before.
But that wasn’t the only question people had about this incident.
While the authorities claimed that the “self-immolation” incident was an accident, the multi-angle footage with closeup shots was more like a planned film-making. The slow-motion footage also showed a man hitting Liu’s head with a club-like object and she immediately fell afterward.
The temperature of burning gasoline is around 1,733 Fahrenheit (945 Celsius). It is too high for people to endure. But another self-immolator Wang Jindong poured gasoline on himself and was said to sit still for more than one minute, without moving at all, while the fire was burning him.
The International Educational Development, an NGO affiliated with the United Nations (UN), provided a videotape during a UN meeting in August 2001 to expose how the CCP plotted the self-immolation. The documentary film “False Fire” also provided a detailed account of the suspicions.
Though the fire at Tiananmen to frame Falun Gong and the fire at Urumqi that killed innocent Uyghurs were different in many aspects, both of them point to the CCP’s hidden agenda that it doesn’t want to reveal to the general public. The flames had lit up the CCP’s villainous face and evil nature.
The CCP is not China, nor does it represent the Chinese people. May more people see the CCP’s true colors and embrace a new China without the CCP!
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