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Shoot orders issued against Falun Gong?

NEW YORK MARCH. 8. The Chinese President, Jiang Zemin, has ordered his nation's security services to shoot members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual group caught hanging banners and posting signs on behalf of the organisation, a spokesman for the group said yesterday.

``Recently, Jiang Zemin issued orders that if the Falun Gong practitioners are posting flyers or signs, they (the security services) can shoot,'' Zhang told reporters at a gathering here in front of the Chinese consulate protesting the move. ``This has happened already,'' he said.

``Three or four people were shot in the legs while hanging signs in Liaoning and Jilin provinces. They are being treated in the hospital.'' ``Now, each province is preparing a list of people to be prosecuted on capital punishment charges,'' he added.

About 80 Falun Gong practitioners congregated in front of the Chinese consulate here on 42nd Street, some holding banners reading ``Stop Persecuting the Falungong'' and ``Falun Dafa,'' or Falun is good, while the majority sat on the sidewalk meditating.

The Falun Gong's New York-based headquarters said in a statement yesterday that the Chinese President had also ordered security forces to apprehend and ``kill without mercy'' Falun Gong practitioners responsible for broadcasting footage that they said exposes Mr. Jiang.

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