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U.S. Newswire: Torture 'Victory' Song to be Theme of Chinese Communist Regime's New Year Show in U.S. Venues 1/16/2006 TENAFLY, N.J. -- Friends of Falun Gong USA, a NJ based human rights
organization, is extremely disturbed about the content of a Chinese New Year
performance organized by the Chinese Communist Government, scheduled to be held
in the U.S. and Canada. It is Friends of Falun Gong USA's understanding that this Chinese New Year
celebration features a song entitled "The Same Song" which apparently
comes from a familiar TV program shown on CCTV, one of the most influential
media mouthpieces of the Chinese Communist Party, since 2000. According to
sources, Falun Gong practitioners are forced to learn this song while held
captive and face beatings, electrocution, or force-feeding of feces and sludge
if they refuse. Whenever a Falun Gong practitioner is "transformed" the first thing he/she is forced to do is to join in singing this song with
the police who have broken them. Even prisoners who are not practitioners are
said to understand that whenever they hear "The Same Song", it means
that another Falun Gong practitioner has been successfully brainwashed. "To allow a foreign government to come on U.S. soil and covertly
communicate in a seemingly harmless little song its triumphs in crushing the
mind, body, and spirit of countless innocent people is simply intolerable",
says Friends of Falun Gong USA executive director, Alan Adler. "It would be
no surprise if the Chinese Communist Government films their performance from
landmark American locations, like New York City, so they can turn around and use
them as weapons against the thousands still being tortured, claiming that all
foreigners support the persecution of the Falun Gong in China. We can't let this
happen." Friends of Falun Gong USA calls on the American government to explore all
means to assist in stopping this performance. Additionally, we ask that all
venues currently scheduled to hold the show to be aware of its content and the
serious role it will likely play in the persecution of Falun Gong in China, and
reconsider their contract for this performance with the Chinese Government. http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=59309 Posting date: 1/17/2006 |