beijing — in the month since the chinese government begin brutally falun gong , a jihad that legal rights groups say has led to the imprisonment of tens of thousands of practitioners and claimed at least 2 , 000 lives , the universe ' s spotlight has shifted elsewhere . the drive against the spiritual order has eliminating its management , decimated the ranks of staff and convinced the chinese that the group is an " evil cult , " as the government contends . but 10 years on , the fight on falun gong resides unfinished .
Falun Gong is a spiritual group.