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Liaohe Oil Field Engineer Gao Dong Tortured to the Point of Mental Breakdown in Benxi Forced Labor Camp By a Practitioner in Liaoning Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Liaohe Oil Field Prospect Bureau Zhenxing Company
Inspection and Management Engineer Gao Dong, a Liaohe Oil Field University
graduate was abducted and persecuted because he persisted in cultivating Falun
Gong. In October 2003 he was tortured until he was almost insane by Liaoning
Province's Panjin Forced Labor Camp. Later he was transferred to Benxi Forced
Labor Camp and persecuted until he finally became mentally disordered. Some
people responsible for his torture later started rumors that "Gao Dong
became deviated after practicing Falun Gong." Gao Dong was taken to the oil field detention center in the days leading up
to the Chinese New Year 2003. Reacting to the illegal detention, Gao Dong went
on a hunger strike in protest. He suffered continued brutal forced feeding. He
choked a few times from getting something into his lungs. The police there
violated the law, encouraging a prisoner to beat Gao Dong brutally, until he was
black and blue all over and he lost consciousness. The police were afraid of taking the responsibility for their illegal actions
so they took him to his workplace and left him outside the office building. Some
caring people from his work took him to the Oil Field Center hospital, saving
his life. On the morning of March 4, 2003, Gao Dong went to the company to
report to his boss, and never returned. The political and security sections of
Liaohe Oil Field Police Department together with the security section at
Zhenxing Company seized Gao Dong and took him to Panjin City Forced Labor Camp.
In October 2003, Gao Dong was tortured nearly to death at the Panjin Forced
Labor Camp. Afterwards, Gao Dong was transferred to Benxi Forced Labor Camp. There he was
detained and persecuted. Because he persisted and didn't give up his belief, he
was subjected to brainwashing sessions by the police and the collaborators (1).
They would not let him sleep for days until finally he could not eat and lost
control of his bowels and bladder. Guards force-fed him and made him vomit. Gao
Dong suffered this kind of torture continuously for one month. In the end, he
became mentally disordered and the doctor diagnosed him with schizophrenia. Benxi Forced Labor Camp authorities feared taking responsibility and sent Gao
Dong home, even using this incident to pretend that practicing Falun Gong had
made him become mentally ill. Just like this, a fine graduate from Panjin City's
Liaohe Oil field University, an engineer, was "educated" by the
so-called "Forced Labor Educational Institute" and lost his rational
mind. Applying both mental and physical torture together is a common tactic Benxi
Forced Labor Camp uses to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. They try to
brainwash the Falun Gong practitioners day and night, not allowing them to
sleep, making them very depressed. For physical torture mainly they used
detaining in the small cell, detaining in the stretch room, and various other
methods. The small cells are ghastly places, lonely and depressing. Normally
practitioners are detained there for ten days. The stretch room is used to
tightly tie the practitioners' two wrists and ankles to the metal torture
instrument, laying the person flat on the ground, unable to move, urinate,
defecate, or eat, depending totally on the prison guard to "take care of
them." The stretching would usually last for seven days. A similar situation happened to the vice Chairperson of Benxi City Library,
Wang Jingsheng, an assistant manager, who was mentally very normal, and was very
well spoken before he was abducted and "re-educated." After one year
of mental persecution in Benxi Forced Labor Camp, he became mentally depressed,
and sad, his eyes were in a daze. He rarely spoke. Liaoning Province Benxi City Forced Labor Camp address: Benxi City Names of Liaohe Oil Field Prospect Bureau Zhenxing Company personnel who were
directly involved in persecution: Sun Renqiang, Secretary, 86-427-7828938 (office), 86-427-7827935 (home) Note: 1. Collaborators: former Falun Gong practitioners who have gone astray due to
brainwashing and torture June 25, 2004 Posting date: 7/24/2004 |