Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4663-1021475107-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 08:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12489 invoked by uid 510); 15 May 2002 15:06:50 -0000 Received: from n11.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.66) by all.net with SMTP; 15 May 2002 15:06:50 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4663-1021475107-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.193] by n11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 May 2002 15:05:54 -0000 X-Sender: mcclains@db.erau.edu X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 15 May 2002 15:05:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 67893 invoked from network); 15 May 2002 15:05:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 May 2002 15:05:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hardy.db.erau.edu) (155.31.251.4) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 May 2002 15:05:06 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by hardy.db.erau.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4FF56a26733 for iwar@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:05:06 -0400 Received: from smtp.db.erau.edu (smtp.db.erau.edu [155.31.251.40]) by hardy.db.erau.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4FF55e26726 for <iwar@yahoogroups.com>; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:05:05 -0400 Received: from malaclypse (adsl-78-189-36.mco.bellsouth.net [216.78.189.36]) by smtp.db.erau.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g4FF55F15763 for <iwar@yahoogroups.com>; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:05:05 -0400 Message-ID: <001f01c1fc21$b804fee0$e232fea9@malaclypse> To: <iwar@yahoogroups.com> References: <200205151316.g4FDGmL16133@red.all.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Virus-Scanned: by Information Technology Department, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University From: "Scott McClain" <mcclains@db.erau.edu> 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 11:03:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [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 unsubscribe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Cohen" <fc@all.net> To: "Information Warfare Mailing List" <iwar@onelist.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:16 AM Subject: [iwar] [fc:Falun.Gong.hijack.TV.in.second.Chinese.city] > 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. > > > ------------------ > http://all.net/ > > Your use of Yahoo! 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