Five people attempt to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_self-immolation_incident" id="mwAU8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident">set themselves on fire</a> in Beijing's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square" id="mwAVA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tiananmen Square">Tiananmen Square</a>, an act that many people later claim is staged by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" id="mwAVE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a> to frame <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong" id="mwAVI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Falun Gong">Falun Gong</a> and thus escalate their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong" id="mwAVM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Persecution of Falun Gong">persecution</a>.