COMMENTS

During my three trips to China (-96 to -99) I met many Chinese Falun Gong practitioners. Their pure minds and unselfish behaviour made a very strong impression on me. After the persecution of Falun Gong started I often wondered what happened to the friends that I’d met. Have they suffered from torture? Are they still alive? Why are such good people being persecuted? I just could not understand. A man I met on every trip to China was Lin Chengtao, a successful scientist in Beijing. He has now been mentally disabled as a result of intense torture in Tuanhe Labour Camp, Beijing. This case is however only one of many.

Why this persecution? It’s all because of one man’s jealousy. Jiang Zemin (sued for genocide in the USA) couldn’t stand the popularity of Falun Gong so he initiated this campaign in 1999. Many Chinese people were fooled by his Nazi-style propaganda about Falun Gong.

In the song ”Walk On!” I am trying to reach you and hope you will be able to understand the severity, urgency and extent of this persecution. It is aimed at 100 million people, but many more are affected! Falun Gong practitioners suffer mental and physical torture, brainwashing, and sexual abuse. They are disfigured with wooden batons and electric cattle prods. They are force-fed with toxic liquids, even those mixed with human faeces and urine.

The absurdity in all this is that Falun Gong practitioners’ main goal in life is to become a better and a healthier person, and follow the principles of Falun Gong: Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. Isn’t this in fact what this chaotic world needs today?

Anders Eriksson, singer/songwriter in Yellow Express

http://www.yellowexpress.nu/walkon.php
INFORMATION

Music and lyrics by Anders Eriksson, completed autumn 2002

Pedro Blom – upright bass, Susanna Halden – violin, Jonas Brunsten – piano, Torbjörn Nordstrand – drums, percussion, Ting-Ting Jin – vocals, Nancy Li – voice, Anders Eriksson – vocals, accordion, Jenny Brandt – flute

Recorded and mixed by Michael Thorén, Studio Fabriken,Gothenburg, Sweden, Feb. 2003 Produced by Michael Thorén and Yellow Express

They put my wife into prison. They beat her up until she went insane.
It reminds me of the time way back then, of all the sorrows, and so much pain.
I can see Yellow River is turning to red. So many tortured and thousands are dead.

CHORUS: Some worn out shoes. That&9s all I own. And I&9ve been walking all night long.
China, what&9s gone wrong? Yeah I wonder what&9s gone wrong.

The road is long to Tianmen Square, but I don&9t mind I will make it there.
And tell the whole wide world our leader&9s wrong, in persecuting Falun Gong.
Well the Tai Shan Mountain, is shedding it&9s tears.
Seen so much violence for thousands of years.

CHORUS: Some worn out shoes...

Walk on, walk on. People, wake up from the illusion.
Walk on, walk on, walk on. Stop the persecution!

Read in Chinese:
As one body we have been walking thousands and thousands of miles. We have been walking
through the major cities in the world. We have been walking for our freedom and for our
human rights. We have been walking to Beijing and to Tianmen Square. We have stood up for
Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. For that we have been punished. But we will never give
up. We will keep on walking until the persecution is over. Stop the persecution!

Walk on, walk on. People, wake up from the illusion.
Walk on, walk on, walk on. Stop the persecution!

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