Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4660-1021468533-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 15 May 2002 06:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 7710 invoked by uid 510); 15 May 2002 13:15:38 -0000 Received: from n7.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.91) by all.net with SMTP; 15 May 2002 13:15:38 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4660-1021468533-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.201] by n7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 May 2002 13:15:33 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 15 May 2002 13:15:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 69365 invoked from network); 15 May 2002 13:15:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 May 2002 13:15:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 May 2002 13:15:32 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g4FDGmL16133 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 15 May 2002 06:16:48 -0700 Message-Id: <200205151316.g4FDGmL16133@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 06:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Falun.Gong.hijack.TV.in.second.Chinese.city] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Falun Gong hijack TV in second Chinese city BEIJING, May 10 (Reuters) - Defiant members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual group hijacked the airwaves of a second northeastern Chinese city in April to show footage protesting a government crackdown on their faith, witnesses said on Friday. Images touting the virtues of Falun Gong were broadcast on thousands of television sets in a district of the industrial hub of Harbin on the night of April 21, a TV repairman told Reuters. "I heard it went on for about five minutes," said the worker in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province which borders Russia. "Other sub-districts in the city were not affected." A local broadcast bureau official confirmed the incident had taken place but would give no details. Police and government officials declined comment. The move was the latest in a string of high profile attempts by Falun Gong to try and convince the public that adherents suffer wrongful persecution by a Communist government which is trying to crush it. Falun Gong hacked into a cable television broadcast in the northeastern city of Changchun on March 5 to show a similar film. The airings have been among the group's most daring actions since it was banned in 1999 after followers shocked leaders with a mass protest at their Beijing leadership compound to demand recognition of their faith. In late March, Falun Gong adherents slipped poems by their exiled leader Li Hongzhi into an economic page of the Guangzhou Daily newspaper describing suffocating sandstorms over China, alluding to widespread death and imminent salvation. China, always on the look out for seeds of social unrest, is particularly wary of threats to one-party rule given plans for a critical leadership reshuffle late this year and wrenching economic reforms which have thrown millions out of work. "EVOLVING METHODS" Falun Gong, which combines traditional Chinese exercise with Taoism and Buddhism, appears to be turning to new tactics such as intrusions into state press following a nationwide crackdown. Followers, once believed to number millions, have been driven underground and now rarely protest in Beijing's politically sensitive Tiananmen Square where a rash of foreigners have unfurled protest banners and deported in recent months. The New York-based Falun Dafa Information Centre said earlier in a statement the group had hijacked the airways of large Chinese cable networks five times in the past three months. This could not be independently verified. Police have arrested more than 20 Falun Gong members for the March 5 incident. They could face prison terms of up to 15 years, according to Chinese officials. The New York centre also said that Falun Gong's methods of trying to bring an end to persecution in China were evolving but the message remained the same. "No longer appealing just in Beijing, practitioners and supporters of Falun Gong clarify the truth about the persecution on thousands of street corners, sign-posts, highway overpasses and increasingly, on millions of televisions throughout China," it said. China's campaign against Falun Gong has drawn sharp criticism from some U.S. rights groups who maintain the International Olympic Committee overlooked human rights considerations in the world's most populous country. Some rights groups hope the 2008 Beijing Olympics will encourage greater scrutiny of China's rights record and be a catalyst for change for the better. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Tied to your PC? Cut Loose and Stay connected with Yahoo! Mobile http://us.click.yahoo.com/QBCcSD/o1CEAA/sXBHAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! 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