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The Sour Sound of Chinese Torture

I live up a block from the Chinese Consulate on St. George Street and when I walk by, rain or shine, Falun Gong practioners are always out there.
On Saturday, they had another cause to demonstrate. Apparently, Rogers Centre endorsed a Chinese New Year concert today put on by the Consulate and China Central Television (CCTV) called, The Same Song -- a Mandarin tune that repeatedly plays in labour camps in China to "break people's spirits," said Joel Chipkar, of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada.
The Falun Dafa Association of Canada is deeply concerned by CCTV's choice of theme and song, and the message sent to the many Falun Gong in communities across North America. "This is meant to strike fear in our hearts" said Cindy Li, a woman whose back was broken from vicious beating in the camps.
" It is taunting us, something like burning crosses by the KKK but only here they're making it look pretty for the public."
Chipkar said Rogers didn't get back to them, but should obviously be concerned what they're condoning.
"This concert should not be allowed to play here and those who attend will be condoning this event and unknowingly condoning China's human rights abuses," he said.
UPDATED: Jan. 16 @ 3:56 p.m. More added below:
However, the Chinese Consulate says the concert is called the Same Song because it's numerous Chinese popstars together onstage. Says consulate spokesperson Yan Sun, "It's an entertainment program. The consulate offers assistance to get the popstars to Toronto to perform."
Rogers Centre would not comment on the allegations, but also refuses to "make an attempt to act as a censor for this or any other group that rents our building," according to Paul Godfrey, president of Toronto Blue Jays.
Photo courtesy of: Clear Harmony


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This has NOTHING to do with Chinese "torture camps". The concert is called The Same Song. It translates into "together one song". This is because this concert is composed of numerous Chinese popstars TOGETHER in one concert to celebrate Chinese New Years, hence the name.
I am not saying the Falun Dafa people are speaking non-sense. But perhaps you should have done some research into the other side of the "issue" before posting such a bias article.
Whenever Ms. Na Gan hears the Chinese song called "The Same Song," she remembers a fellow Falun Gong practitioner's heart-wrenching cries filling for two hours the Xin'an Forced Labor Camp in Beijing. Her friend broke down after having been forced to sing it as a sign of her "reeducation."
"The Same Song" is a well-known pop song in China. It is also the theme song and name of a popular musical variety TV show that began on the state-run China Central TV (CCTV) in 2000. And it is the name of a musical show that CCTV will stage in several North American cities around the time of the Chinese New Year.
The saccharine lyrics of "The Same Song" may seem harmless, but the uses to which the song and the popular entertainments that share its name are being put are not.
Falun Gong practitioners view the song as an odious symbol of hatred and persecution. The New Tang Dynasty T.V. network sees the traveling variety show as yet another attempt by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to undermine any independent Chinese-language media.
Some China watchers see the song and its related entertainments as part of a more sophisticated propaganda effort coming today from Beijing to the West.
In 2000, according to the accounts of several Falun Gong practitioners who have survived stays in China's notorious forced-labor camps, this song was incorporated into the torture and abuse used by the Chinese Communist regime to force adherents to give up Falun Gong?what the CCP calls "transformation."
Ms. Changzhen Sun describes being tortured in the Xin'an labor camp until she weighed only 88 pounds and "had lost all human form."
Ms. Sun says "when any Falun Gong practitioner wrote the guarantee to renounce their belief in Falun Gong, the prison policemen and those who participated in the 'transforming' would sing 'The Same Song' immediately. If any practitioners' cell started singing 'The Same Song,' it meant that one more Falun Gong practitioner was 'transformed.'"
Ms. Gan reports being forced to sing this song "takes away the spiritual life of the imprisoned Falun Gong practitioner" and inflicts a pain "worse than death that makes life hard to bear."
The tour by "The Same Song" variety show means that Ms. Gan, and other Falun Gong practitioners will have to stomach this song being performed in the democratic nations where they are free from persecution.
Well, this is her blog... she can post whatever she wants.. you doesn't need your permission..
Well, this is her blog... she can post whatever she wants.. she doesn't need your permission..
Boy, whatever happened to that guy?...
The questions that should not be forgotten by sympathizers of the Communist regime in China are:
1. Disregarding all the spin they like to put on things, will the event organised by the communist regime be playing "that" song or not?
2. What is the stance of the organisers of that event towards the persecution and genocide taking place against Falun Gong in China?
Do they condemn these human rights atrocities or do they use political spin to evade it or deny it and by default condone it? If they condone it, in effect they are supporting this persecution through trying to use the arts to spread further propaganda in the typical sneaky and underhanded way which has become custom of this communist regime.
It's important to realise that the Chinese Communist regime through its embassies and consulates controls in one way or another all these events organised or supported by it. If something doesn�t conform to its ideals and intentions, it would not have the support of the embassy and would be in fact be condemned by the embassy on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Hence, this is different to any other kind of artistic or cultural event that any other organisation might hold, where the organiser claims to be non-political and tries to claim neutrality on issues surrounding human rights atrocities committed by the CCP, as the CCP is ultimately responsible for the event and what it contains.
People mustn't forget that this is the same regime that still denies killing hundreds if not thousands of people in the 1989 T'men Square massacre. It not only denies that it committed this crime, it still arrests and locks up people who even today dare to speak about it publicly. On top of this there have recent reports that there have been two other massacres against peaceful protesters in China in the last few months. It was reported in the media but how many people even think twice about it these days? Too many peoples' attention is fixed on China's GDP growth and shiny sky scrapers in Shanghai and remain oblivious to the suffering of hundreds of millions (the majority) of the Chinese people.
How many of us I wonder would be prepared to give up the right to freedom of speech and belief; risk finding oneself in a labour camp and be tortured to death for trying to uphold these values while saying goodbye to a hopefully somewhat impartial justice system in order to achieve higher GDP figures?
As well, there are regular protests/riots (74,000 reported by the communists themselves in 2004) throughout the rural belt in China where unarmed protestors are attacked, beaten, and even shocked with highly charged electric cattle prods(the same as used in labour camps and prisons for torture).
It's time to get real about this communist regime and stop making excuses for it. There can't be sitting on the fence for much longer. This regime is promoting itself as becoming worldlier while continuously becoming more authoritarian as it gets wealthier and its population demands more freedom. It regularly uses cultural exchange in an adulterated way to further its cause. It has done this in the past by holding art exhibits within the Chinese community around the world as a form of propaganda trying to vilify Falun Gong. This regime represents the largest form of organised terrorism in the world today and has since its formation in 1949 been responsible for the unnatural deaths of some 80(eighty) million people. (www.ninecommentaries.com)
Many people, governments and organisations make allowances for this communist regime in order to win financial gain for themselves. The only thing is, that the price the communist regime puts on having "friendly relations" with it in order to reap benefits, is that everyone must stay publicly silent on all its human rights abuses, not criticize it, agree to its policies on Taiwan, Tibet, Falun Gong, underground Christian Churches etc.
In effect, this equates to everyone denying all values and morals they believe to be right or good and selling out their consciences so that they can be in the good books of the Chinese Communist Party.
What kind of a world is that leading us to and who would want to live in such a world?
I think the person was only asking for more research into the concerte. I think that would have been good.
We all sing the same song together is a message to the CHinese people to "sing the same song" and to Comunist Party. That is to think the same as them. Having famous people is only to endorse their manipulative control.
"Forget that I raped, tortured and killed your wife, seeing with us, see the famous people do".....
Those people illegally come to Canada and fact "force back" to China. To keep stay, the ask for FaLunGong to claim that they are Religion Refugee, of course, its not free, they need to do something that FalunGong wants them to ... ... nobody is stupid.
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