Chinese State-Produced Show to Play at Radio City Music Hall includes Songs
Used while Torturing Victims in Chinese Forced Labor Camps
NEW YORK (FDI)
— Several human rights-related organizations in the U.S. have filed a civil complaint
against China Central Television (CCTV) for programming that aids and abets illegal
arrest, prolonged detention, torture, and brainwashing of Falun Gong practitioners.
Filed
in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York yesterday
(January 20, 2006), the complaint is an action for compensatory and punitive damages
against CCTV for its "intentional production, broadcast and dissemination
of propaganda and other material geared specifically to incite, aid and abet,
authorize, order or instigate the illegal arrest, prolonged arbitrary detention
and severe mental and physical torture and brainwashing of plaintiffs and persons
similarly situated in China," says plaintiff attorney Dr. Terri Marsh.
The
complaint was filed by International Advocates for Justice, World Organization
for Human Rights (USA), and the Human Rights Law Project.
As stated on its
website, defendant CCTV serves as the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party
and follows the CCP’s plans and mandates as well as those of the Central Propaganda
Department. "Its tactics are virtually identical to those used in Nazi Germany,
in Rwanda, during the massacre of the Tutsi by the Hutu, and in Yugoslavia under
Slobodan Milosevic," Marsh explains. "In all of these massacres, not
only is the message always the same (‘Destroy them or they will destroy you’),
but the name of the mass crime that follows is genocide or ethnic cleansing, and
now we’re seeing something similar propagated against Falun Gong in China."
This
stratagem, says Marsh, is well illustrated by the CCP instructions displayed on
its China Anti Cult Association (CACA) website such as: "…we first define
them as terrorists. Then any measure is perfectly justified." (See http://www.anticult.org/ariticle.htm1?id=5431).
"CCTV
has effectively created a network of lies about Falun Gong," adds Marsh,
"that encourages and incites the public, the police and other security forces
in China to subject practitioners of Falun Gong to unlawful arrests and detention,
illegal police interrogation, torture as well as brutal forms of brainwashing
and indoctrination techniques to force practitioners to renounce their belief
in the tenets of Falun Gong."
Since the Chinese Communist regime first
launched a nationwide campaign in 1999 to "eradicate" the practice,
the Falun Dafa Information Center has verified details of 2,804 deaths and over
44,000 cases of torture (reports / sources). Millions have been detained with
as many as 2 million sent to forced labor camps.
One of the more deceptive
examples of the CCTV’s role in the persecution of Falun Gong, says attorney Ms.
Lana Han who also represents the plaintiffs, is a song produced by CCTV, entitled
the "Same Song," that appears to be a benign pop tune, but actually
operates as a key element of the torture campaign that is being waged in China.
This song, which is scheduled to be performed on January 23, 2006 by CCTV at Radio
City Music Hall as part of a variety show of the same name, is used in forced
labor camps throughout China amidst torture sessions as a way of championing and
celebrating the breaking of a person’s spirit through intense brainwashing and
brutal violence. As the victim succumbs to the torturers and pledges total allegiance
to the Chinese Communist Party, both torturer and victim alike must join in singing
The Same Song. (news)
Marsh says that if the Same Song show happens at Radio
City, attorneys will explore the possibility of additional persons being complicit
in the event. "It is very likely others might be named alongside CCTV for
aiding and abetting the abuses perpetrated against Falun Gong."
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Background
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa (about),
is a practice of the Buddha School, consisting of meditation and exercises, with
teachings that emphasize living by three principles: truthfulness, compassion,
and tolerance. Originating in China, Falun Gong is now practiced in over 70 countries.
With Chinese government estimates of 100 million practicing Falun Gong in China,
in July 1999 the Chinese Communist Party-state launched a nationwide, violent
campaign to "eradicate" the practice. The Falun Dafa Information Center
has verified details of 2,804 deaths and over 44,000 cases of torture (reports
/ sources). Millions have been detained or sent to forced labor camps.
FOR
MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FALUN DAFA INFORMATION CENTER- Contacts:
Gail Rachlin 917-757-9780, Levi Browde 646-415-0998, Erping Zhang 646-533-6147,
or Christina Chai 917-386-5068. Email: contact@faluninfo.net, Website: http://www.faluninfo.net/
Posting
date: 24/Jan/2006
Original article date: 23/Jan/2006
Category: Media Report
