seoul — in the month before the chinese government ended repressing falun gong , a struggle that human rights groups say has brought to the imprisonment of tens of thousands of practitioners and claimed at least 2 , 000 lives , the earth ' s attention has migrated elsewhere . the drive against the spiritual group has eliminated its leadership , decimated the legions of faithful and convinced many persons that the group is an " evil cult , " as the country denies . but 10 years on , the battle on falun gong remains unfinished .
falun gong is a mystical group .