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Clearwisdom Collection: Exposing the Evil Nature of Jiang's Regime - the Ordeals I Suffered under the Persecution (Beijing Special Collection)
(Clearwisdom.net) Content 1. Exposing the Evil Nature of Jiang's Regime: the Ordeals I Suffered under
the Persecution (Part One) http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/2/23/45389.html By Yu Ming from Mainland China (Clearwisdom.net) Editor's note: The author of this article, Yu Ming,
had been abducted and taken to Beijing's Lugu Police Station in late October of
2003, and was later sentenced to forced labor. Since he is known in the Beijing
labor camps as being steadfast in his belief in Falun Dafa, Mr. Yu is currently
still being held in the "Dispatch Center." We hope that the
international community will pay attention to his situation. Background I used to be a modestly successful businessman in China and once had a big
and very happy family. But because of the Jiang regime's savage persecution of
Falun Dafa, I have now lost everything. The factory to which I had devoted all
my effort is now out of business. My father died with great sorrow. I have
suffered all kinds of tortures and now have become destitute and homeless. My
4-year-old daughter cannot see her father. I want to write down the details
about my ordeals, hoping to get the attention and support of the kindhearted
people in the world. This persecution has not just happened to me. There are
still hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China who
are suffering from the same kind of cruel persecution I have experienced myself. 1. Brief introduction I am Yu Ming, currently 31 years old, the former president of an apparel
factory in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. I had previously made a lot of good
business deals and achieved a certain amount of success. In spite of the money
and fame I obtained from my business successes, however, I had not found the
true meaning of life. I felt a void in my inner self. In July 1997 I began to study and practice Falun Dafa (Falun Gong), a
practice introduced by Mr. Li Hongzhi. This is a very peaceful, traditional
Chinese exercise, guiding people to enhance their morality and character with
the aid of the characteristic of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance."
It enables people to understand the true meaning of life and reach a higher
level of being. Moreover, through the practice of these five sets of beautiful
and peaceful exercises, people will naturally acquire a healthy body. Through
practicing Falun Dafa, I quickly got rid of previous bad habits. The power
coming from the goodness of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance"
enabled my family and me to feel peace and happiness. I truly experienced the
great power of Dafa, a power that is indescribable and profound. My apparel business became more and more successful. Most of the workers in
my factory were laid-off workers from government-run enterprises that had gone
out of business. I voluntarily hired them, and thus helped the government to
solve the unemployment problem and enabled those jobless people to have a
livelihood. My career and life became better and better each day. However, since July 1999 when Jiang's regime started the illegal persecution
of Falun Gong, my happy and peaceful life has been completely destroyed. 2. My difficult experience of protecting human rights and freedom of belief (A) Force-feeding On January 1, 2001 I was peacefully distributing materials explaining the
facts of Falun Gong and the persecution at the Beijing University of Language
and Culture. A police officer saw me and took me to the Dongsheng Police Station
in the Haidian District, where I was interrogated for a whole night. I had not
violated any laws. However, without abiding by any due legal procedures, the
police sent me directly to Cell 16, Row 3 of the Haidian Branch of the Beijing
Police Department detention center. In the detention center, the police used a special, big chain and locked my
hands and feet together. Day in and day out, I could only bend my body to sit
down on the floor or lie down on one side. I could not lie down straight, nor
could I stand straight or walk. The police call this special torture instrument
the "dog chain." The torture instrument is only used on death row
inmates or dangerous inmates who have obvious tendencies to attack others with
force. The chain could cause serious injury to a person's body, especially the
hands, feet and back, and constitutes a huge humiliation to a person's psyche. I
could wash my face and go to the bathroom in the cell only with other's
assistance. This caused me extreme suffering and inconvenience. Chinese law
strictly prohibits the use of this restraining device under normal conditions.
However, this group of police officers ignored the law. Under orders from
Jiang's regime and due to instructions from personnel in the "610
Office," they use it at will on those Falun Gong practitioners who clarify
the facts about Falun Gong [the "610 Office" is an agency
specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each
level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary
systems]. The authorities used the most obscene methods and the most vicious ways to
persecute Falun Dafa and Dafa practitioners, to try to force practitioners to
give up their belief. I questioned the detention center police as to why they
opposed the law and regulations of the Chinese Constitution and tormented me
with such a torture instrument that so gravely insults human dignity and impairs
physical health. The police to my surprise ridiculed me, "So? Do you have a
problem with it? Law? What is the law? Jiang Zemin is the law! We will do what
Jiang Zemin says! If you have a problem you can talk to Jiang Zemin. Do you
dare? We'll kill you!" Later I reminded them again that (former) Premier Zhu had told the Public
Security Departments not to torture Dafa practitioners and I asked why didn't
they listen to him? The police gave the impression that I was not worthy of an
answer and said, "Are you really that dumb? Now it is Jiang Zemin's regime.
If we do not follow him, how else would we get our paycheck and bonuses? Power
comes out of a gun. Since Jiang has the gun, then Jiang is absolutely right. He
is the power! He is Number One! It is Jiang's idea that we do so. We also do not
want to do this way. But it is our job. If we don't do it, we will lose our
job." After hearing all that I felt that I wanted to cry, but I had no tears. What
times we live in now! Living in China is still like existing in a backward
society where they play out the rules of a personal regime. The police do not
really protect society according to the rule of law; they apply the rule of
violence to feed Jiang Zemin's personal greed for power. Therefore, Jiang Zemin
is the evil ringleader who persecutes Falun Gong; he absolutely cannot get away
with his crimes! I understand the value of life. As a Falun Dafa practitioner I have an even
deeper comprehension about the value of our human form. I love life very much!
But I also treasure defending truth and righteousness, I will uphold my dignity
as a human being. We do not oppose the government! All we oppose is the evil
persecution initiated personally by Jiang Zemin. To protest against the persecution, I went on a hunger strike. I wanted to
validate Falun Dafa with my life and bear testimony to the people there that
Falun Dafa is innocent. Three days later the police started to force-feed me. (To be continued) Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/2/7/66125.html 2. Exposing the Evil Nature of Jiang's Regime with the Ordeals I Suffered
under the Persecution (Part Two) http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/2/24/45429.html By Yu Ming from Mainland China Continued... (Clearwisdom.net) Force-feeding may appear to be a way to sustain the life of
a practitioner on hunger strike, but my experience tells differently. Every day
when they wanted to force-feed me, several criminal inmates dragged me through
cellblock hallways as if dragging a dead dog. The inmates in other cells all
looked at me like they were looking at an animal. All the prison doctors who
force-fed me were untrained. When they force-fed me they used very thick rubber
tubes which I never saw them sterilize. They pushed me down on the ground and tied up my head, my body, my hands and
feet to prevent me from struggling. This brutal behavior made me feel that I was
an animal about to be slaughtered. I was treated without any human dignity. The
prison doctors with their savage eyes wide open screamed at me "We'll stab
you to death! We'll stab you to death!" while they violently forced the
rubber tube into my nose. The tube was forced all the way into my stomach. Some
of the time the tube was inserted into my lung or my windpipe. It was extremely
painful. After they pushed the tube in, they would wriggle the tube and try to
force it in further again; my tears and nose kept running from the pain, and my
head throbbed. I had to open my mouth trying to catch my breath as hard as I
could to avoid suffocating. They then forced a bowl of corn meal gruel into my stomach. After the
force-feeding, they pulled the tube out rapidly, making a loud popping sound as
it came out. They had absolutely no concern for how I felt, physically or
mentally. Some times the tube would puncture my nasal cavity or my esophagus. The blood
would run into my stomach and made me feel nauseated, but I had no way to throw
up. I had to endure this kind of agonizing feeling and unimaginable physical pain
during daily force-feedings. When I was force-fed the first time, I saw that a
female Falun Gong practitioner was also being force-fed. Her body was covered
with dirt and the edges of her clothes were torn. It was obvious that she had
struggled. Her neck, chest and abdomen areas were tightly bound to the bed with
three belts. Her legs were spread apart, and her arms were fixed to the two
sides of the bed with belts, at a 90-degree angle. Areas around her nose and
mouth were covered with remnants of sticky food, with blood stains and
secretions. A thick and long rubber tube, which extended out from one of her
nostrils, was connected to a large injection syringe that was used for the
force-feeding. The syringe was filled with a sticky and muddy mixture. The guard
who wore rubber gloves and held the syringe appeared very ferocious and
impatient. A couple of inmates stood on the side lines with a dull look in their
eyes. When the inmates started to beat Dafa practitioners, however, they were
frenzied and showed no conscience at all. The force-feeding tube looked
extremely dirty and it was not known if this very tube had been cleaned and
sanitized after it was used on others. By the time I saw her, she obviously had no more energy to struggle, but even
so, a very strong man in a police uniform still firmly grabbed her hair and held
her down. While suffering the agonizing pain, she could not even move her head.
The detention center doctor could thus easily finish the force-feeding. The guards, through performing force-feeding, on the one hand could
temporarily keep the person alive and prevent her from dying abruptly. On the
other hand, though, the forcefeeding never demonstrated that the police in the
Jiang government cared about the life of the person on a hunger strike. From
their perspective they cared nothing about the tremendous mental stress and the
extreme physical pain caused by the brutal way of inserting the force-feeding
tube, the police basically did not care about the life of the person who was on
a hunger strike. The police did it this way purely because they did not want the
person to die [and did not want to lose their job] and thus avoided
dealing with the trouble caused by a death. Furthermore, the police used the
opportunity of force-feeding to inflict extreme pain and mental stress to the
person who was on a hunger strike, to terrorize the person, making her afraid of
the extreme pain and thus stop the hunger strike. This was done in order to
reduce the pressure and troubles the authorities faced. It also made the person
on the hunger strike lose their spirit and have no energy to appeal, file
lawsuits, and seek other legal redress. (B) Unlawfully sentenced to forced labor During the agonizing eight days of my hunger strike, except for the
force-feeding, there was not even one government official investigating my case.
On Chinese New Year's Eve (that is, the day just before the traditional Chinese
Spring Festival), the detention center head whose last name was Bai came to the
cell to see me. By that time I had already been transferred to cell No. 9 in
block No. 3. Bai told me that I would be released if I started eating, because
they did not want to have trouble in the time of the New Year holiday. I
believed him and thought that since he was a government official wearing police
clothes that he would not lie right in front of me. So I started to eat.
Unexpectedly, the next day, two policemen arrived and declared that I was
sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor for "interfering with
social order." I knew that Bai had deceived me. Perhaps he had already colluded with the
forced labor committee to deceive me. In fact, the Chinese Constitution says it
protects every citizen's freedom of belief, freedom of speech, right to appeal,
right to impeach, right to protect personal reputation, and right to protect
one's life and health. However, Falun Gong practitioners who only want to keep
fit and be good persons, have been ruthlessly deprived of all these basic human
rights -- the ruling Party and government under Jiang's single-handed
manipulation have trampled these constitutional rights. Our clarifying the truth of the illegal persecution of Falun Gong causes the
listeners no harm; instead, it encourages listeners' to have compassion and
correct thoughts. Clarifying the truth also violates no law and has nothing to
do with taking away political power. What is wrong with doing it this way? Whose
social order has been disturbed? What is more absurd and shocking to people is that the regulations concerning
the education through forced labor have all come from the administrative orders
of China's State Department and the Department of Public Security, and they are
not laws stipulated anywhere by the People's Congress or its Standing Committee.
Forced labor severely infringes upon people's freedom and is the most severe
administrative penalty. There should be laws to decide whether a person can be
sentenced to forced labor. However, China currently does not have any forced
labor laws, and the basis for sentencing a person to forced labor all comes from
the orders of the State Department. Therefore, the forced labor policy totally
violates the Legislative Laws of the Peoples' Republic of China, at least since
October 1996 or after July 1, 2000! At present, people are still being illegally
detained in labor camps, and the detainees are enduring persecution in all these
various labor camps around the country that are even more severe than in
prisons. Isn't this the most severe crime, committed by a certain group of people in
the government on a large scale, against its citizens? If this is not
persecution, what is it? Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/2/7/66125.html 3. Exposing the Evil Nature of Jiang's Regime: the Ordeals I Suffered under
the Persecution (Part Three) http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/2/26/45356.html By Yu Ming, a Falun Gong Practitioner in China (Clearwisdom.net) On January 25, 2001, I was escorted and taken to Tuanhe
Forced Labor Camp located in Daxing District, Beijing City. Since then, I have
been doing slave labor. Once I entered the gate, a group of armed policemen surrounded and ordered me
to squat down with my two hands on the head. They forced me to stand up and
squat down several times as punishment. Then, the police ordered me to strip off my clothes in order to check if I
had hidden any Falun Gong materials. My response was not quick enough so the
police shocked me in the head with an electric baton. The police tried to force the Falun Gong practitioners in the jail to write a
"Guarantee Statement"* to renounce or stop spreading the practice.
Those who refused to write it would be electrically shocked. Some of them were
hung upside down from the bed's end for a few days and they still refused to
cooperate. Under the baton of Vice Police Group Leader Shen Xiaosheng, the drug
addicts and prostitutes in the jail would separately take the practitioners to a
small room for the perpetrators to beat and kick, while they held the
practitioners' arms and pinned them to the ground. Shen yelled, "Beat him
for me, and beat him to death! I want to see how hard his bones are! We'll see
if he writes it or not! I will break up his fingers!" Then, the inmates
grabbed the practitioners' hands to make fingerprints on the "Guarantee
Statement" that was prepared by the police, which included statements such
as "no practicing and no spreading Falun Gong in the labor camp." It was the winter when I was sent to the labor camp. A cold wind whistled
over the ground of thick snow bed. Many of us only had on a layer of autumn
clothing. Our hands and feet were covered by bloodstains from frostbite. The
police forced us to drill outdoors in formations, and we were forced to eat cold
food outside in the yard. Within two minutes after picking up the food, our soup
mixed with rice froze. The police dressed in their thick cotton uniforms ignored
all this. When walking, we were forbidden to look straight ahead. The prisoners
were forced to march in a strange pattern of small steps, with their heads
drooping down and two hands on placed on their belly. Whenever the police asked
questions, the prisoners was required to placed their two hands on their head or
to squat down with their head between the two legs. Without any permission of
eye contact, the prisoners had to reply to the leader in a loud voice. Then the
police would curse, beat or shock them with an electric baton. After being
abused, the prisoners were forced to say out loud, "Thank you,
leader", or they would be tortured again. Everyday, each practitioner was
given a limit of five minutes to use the bathroom, and the police would curse
and beat us if we went over. Because of the limited toilets, half of us could
not defecate for a whole week. As a result, many of us, including the elderly
men, suffered physical problems related to this. All of the prisoners had to get up early and work until after midnight. They
packed "sanitary chopsticks" for restaurants. The ends of the
chopsticks were wrapped in a thin layer of paper, and these disposable
chopsticks were regarded as "passing the sanitary standard". They will
eventually charge six yuan for one box of chopsticks. Each prisoner was given a
quota to pack three boxes everyday. With 160 prisoners in each team, just
imagine how much money the police have made from this slave labor. The prisoners packed these chopsticks in their small dormitory, which held
many people. The chopsticks were spread everywhere on the ground, and some had
dropped into the urine bucket. The police wouldn't allow the loss of these
chopsticks, so they were picked up and continued being packed. When packing chopsticks, the prisoners did not wash their hands. In the labor
camp, many of the prisoners were drug addicts and prostitutes. The police used
them to earn money as long as they were alive. Some prisoners suffered from
scabies all over themselves, and they were packing chopsticks with their hands
that had open sores. Whoever delayed the job or failed to finish the quota would be beaten by the
police and inmates. They had to stand in the yard without sleep. The compound
was swarming with fleas, and the prisoners couldn't shower for a long time. Many
prisoners did not see the sky after being held in jail for several months with
the policemen patrolling around. The police could verbally and physically abuse the prisoners as they wished.
In addition, most of the prisoners were not brave enough to reason with the
police. Whoever spoke up to protest was thrown into a solitary cell to be beaten
and shocked by the few policemen without a word. For quite a long time, China's propaganda machines brainwashed the people
with propaganda. It was never allowed to question the government, the
authorities, or the police. Over the years, this mentality built up, and the
police developed the mindset of being able to do anything. With direct orders
from Jiang and his followers, the police became more rampant than ever in
torturing and persecuting practitioners. If our family members have witnessed all of this, then how would they react
to the Jiang regime's propaganda, "Treat the prisoners as teacher to
student, parent to child, doctor to patient." What kind of feeling will
they have? At that time, the work section was divided into two yards with wire mesh. The
front yard was assigned to female Falun Gong practitioners, the other one for
male. The incoming prisoners were forced to stand and strip in the yard. The
policemen could clearly see the women through the wire mesh. They suffered
mental anguish and humiliation in addition to the physical labor they were
forced to do. Those who tried to defend their human rights would be electrically
shocked. The police purposely shocked the female practitioners' mouths, ears,
armpits, nipples and private areas. They even instigated the drug addicts and
prostitutes to sexually assault the female practitioners. After being tortured,
some practitioners were covered with bruises and their breathing became feeble.
The police yelled wildly, "Don't think you'll get medical parole because
you are injured. We have a death quota!" *"Guarantee Statement" - A statement to declare that he or she
is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun
Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again
associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners. Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/2/8/66823.html 4. Exposing the Evil Nature of Jiang's Regime with the Ordeals I Suffered
under the Persecution (Part Four) http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/2/27/45438.html By Yu Ming, a Dafa Practitioner in China Continued... (Clearwisdom.net) It is inconceivable to those whose human rights are
maintained and respected throughout the world, in societies that are ruled by
law, and especially after Jiang announced to the world media that China is
enjoying "the best period of human rights," that there are still large
areas where people are severely assaulted and abused in a dark and evil arena. Furthermore, in my experience at some of the worst forced labor camps in
Tuanhe (and others) that the police denied us access to information regarding
the laws that regulate forced labor camps. Those sentenced to the labor camps
had no idea what their personal rights were, nor the respect that they must be
accorded under the law. If someone wanted to know about the regulations, the
police would use various means to remove their requests. Even after release from
the forced labor camps, the victim's family members dared not complain to the
police. This happened with all the police and forced labor camps all over China. One day, as some newly arrived detainees were shouting questions and answers,
in protest, I shouted that I was illegally detained. The police rushed up to me,
and without allowing me to explain myself, dragged me out to the office. Here, I
was pressed to the ground and four or five electric batons were applied to
various parts of my body at the same time. The strong electrical current caused
my heart to palpitate. I felt as if my heart would burst as I began to lose any
feeling and almost passed out. I was breathing very hard so that I wouldn't
suffocate. My face, neck, arms, legs, and other exposed parts of my body were
covered in blisters from the electric shocks. The police never did explain why
they acted so savagely towards me. Later, I sent an appeal, in accordance with
China's laws, to the National People's Congress and the Law Court in Beijing
City, in which I denounced my treatment in the forced labor camp. As of today, I
still have not received any reply. I do not know if the police confiscated the
letter or mailed it. (3) Sent to the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp, Beijing City. *Various Savage and Brutal Offences at the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp* On March 1, 2001, I was sent to the Second Brigade, Third Squad, of the
Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp, Beijing City. Here, I was immediately deprived of
sleep; forced to stand under the hot sun and not allowed to move; made to do
extra heavy physical labor; severely assaulted by inmates who were ordered to do
so by the camp officials to force me to abandon my belief in "Zhen, Shan,
Ren" (Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance); coerced to abandon my personal
ideologies and beliefs; pressured to write materials abusing my Teacher and Dafa,
which in essence was meant to justify the punishment I received. I was not
allowed to speak my mind or appeal for my rights. I remained steadfast as I knew
my constitutional rights to freedom of belief, freedom of speech, and my
legitimate personal human rights, and did not compromise them. A few
perpetrators of the Second Brigade and the police were planning some violent
actions towards me. The people involved include Cao Hui (at that time he was the
monitor of the Third Squad), Guo Jianxin, Jia Qishu, Ma Yuehui, and others. I
warned them that I reserved the legitimate right to self defense so they dared
not harm me. In fact, within a month of arriving at the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp, there
were many occasions when I saw Falun Gong practitioners severely and savagely
assaulted. The afore-mentioned cases are only the tip of the iceberg! Among the more
than one hundred persons sent to the camp, at least fifty percent of them were
tortured by having their heads tied to their knees, then forced to sit in a
wash-basin under a low wood plank bed while being beaten continuously on their
bodies and faces with the hard soles of boots. All these bloody cases, all the beatings, and the persecution, can be
verified with the Falun Gong practitioners that were the victims. All of the
assaults were instigated by the police. Otherwise, how could so many Falun Gong
practitioners have suffered continuous abuse since the end of 1999, when the
Falun Gong practitioners were first sent to the forced labor camps. (To be continued) *Tiger Bench: Practitioners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is
approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their
hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are
forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead. They are not allowed to turn
their heads, close their eyes, talk to anyone or move at all. Several
inmates are assigned to watch over the practitioners and force them to remain
motionless while sitting on the bench. Usually some hard objects are inserted
underneath the practitioners' lower legs or ankles to make it harder for them to
tolerate this abuse (see illustration on ) Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/2/10/66825.html 5. Exposing the Evil Nature of Jiang's Regime: the Ordeals I Suffered under
the Persecution (Part Five) http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/2/29/45596.html By Yu Ming from Mainland China (Clearwisdom.net) Editor's note: The author of this article, Yu Ming, had
been abducted and taken to Beijing's Lugu Police Station in late October of
2003, and was later sentenced to forced labor. Since he is known in the Beijing
labor camps as being steadfast in his belief in Falun Dafa, Mr. Yu is currently
still being held in the "Dispatch Center." We hope that the
international community will pay attention to his situation. Tip line of Dispatch Center: 86-10-61291199 ext. 8220; 86-10-61291199 ext.
8118 Tip line of Tuanhe Labor Camp in Beijing: 86-10-61292590; 86-10-61294581 Info line of Tuanhe Labor Camp in Beijing: 86-10-61293362 * * * * * * Later, the police in Brigade Two started to force me to stay up late at
night. Practitioners who refused to give up their belief in Falun Dafa were not
allowed to go to bed until after midnight, sometimes even past 2 or 3 o'clock in
the morning. But, they were woken up at around 5 a.m. to run laps and do
calisthenics. In the worst situations, practitioners were not allowed to sleep
at all. As soon as the eyes closed, the police would curse and kick the
practitioners, saying that dozing off was breaking the rules. Many people were
thus persecuted to a cloudy sensorial state and to a point of physical
exhaustion, and eventually gave up their belief because they could no longer
withstand such torment. Beijing practitioners Chen Gang and Li Chunyuan were
once forced to stay awake for 15 days straight. During the day, we also had to clean the toilets, bathrooms, and trash dumps.
These chores were all done by the steadfast practitioners. My Persecution by Policeman Ni Zhenxiong By late June 2001, it was already very hot. Every day, Lu Weidong, Fang
Yingwen, Lu Mingqiang, Wu Yinchang, Cheng Wei, Yang Shuqiang, Wang Jiping and
others, about ten of us, were dragged to the drill ground to stand under the
scorching sun. Ni Zhengxing, Deputy Captain of Brigade Two, forced us to stand
on one foot for two or three hours at a time, not allowing us to move.
Oftentimes people would pass out because of heat stroke. At the time, I suffered
from a severe fungal infection of the skin, yet I was not spared this torture. One day after we finished standing in the blazing sun, we were taken inside
to stand some more. I sat on the ground as both of my feet were oozing pus. Ni
Zhenxiong did not let me off -- the labor camp police were in a constant state
of readiness to find excuses to intensify the persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners. He came over and growled, "Stand up," as he pulled me
up. Before I could steady myself, he let go of his grip and I fell, knocking my
head on the ground. This infuriated Ni, as he thought I was deliberately
antagonizing him. He lifted me up and forcefully threw me to the ground. My feet
scraped up against his leather boot, resulting in a large abrasion and bleeding. After I got up, I said to Ni, "I am not being defiant. I have been
feeling sick and dizzy the last few days. I have reported my condition to the
police. The captains on duty last night and the night before all have records of
it. You can go and check the records." Upon hearing this, Ni barked,
"You are going against the government on purpose!" Since other
practitioners were present, he dragged me to his office and showered me with
kicks and punches like a madman. While beating me hysterically, he yelled
obscenities at the top of his voice. He then grabbed my neck hard, attempting to
choke me to death. I could not breathe and felt that I was going to die.
Realizing that I would die if he did not let go, Ni then backed off. I gasped for breath and felt like my neck was severed. Ni was also exhausted,
and left for lunch as if nothing had happened. I sat on the floor in
excruciating pain. I felt awful and did not want to eat anything. When Ni came back refreshed from lunch and a rest, he was very angry when he
saw me still sitting on the floor. He shouted, "Didn't you say you're sick?
Something is wrong with your feet? Come on, I'll take you to see the
doctor!" He then called in another policeman to take me. I said to them,
"You're forcing me and beating me illegally. I won't go to see the
doctor." Without a word, Ni rushed out to get a pair of handcuffs and put
them on me. He then tried to drag me out by tugging on the handcuffs. I held
tight onto the rail of the stairs with both my hands. The handcuffs cut deeply
into my flesh. Even now there is still a prominent scar on my wrist. Ni saw that
he couldn't move me, so he told the policeman to shock my hands with an electric
baton. My hands went numb and I let go of my grip. Ni knocked me down to the
ground, and then dragged me downstairs by my feet, down the staircase. My head
was knocking against each of the cement stairs and it was extremely painful.
After he dragged me out of the building, he continued to drag me over the
asphalt ground for dozens of meters more before finally stopping at the clinic. The doctor there felt repugnance towards Ni and did not want to treat me as
Ni had demanded. Ni was very angry and grasped my arms and fiercely twisted them
backward. I felt excruciating pain and I heard a slight crack. My arms almost
broke. Since Ni did not want a repeat of Lu Changjun's situation (Lu Changjun
had his spine broken from beating), he stopped and took me back to the brigade.
The clothes on my back were all torn and my back was covered with bloodstains. Later, practitioner Wu Jinchang in Brigade Two lodged a letter of complaint
concerning Ni Zhenxiong's atrocities. For a long time, the labor camp put on a
facade as if it was conducting an investigation but did not take any corrective
action. Ni continued unabated with his wanton torture of the practitioners. Many
people were injured at his hands, including Chen Hongxin, Mu Junkui and others. Forced Brainwashing Inside the Walls of the Labor Camp While Lies Are Spread
Outside If a practitioner, because he could not withstand the brutal violence and
physical torture, was compelled to write the so-called "Five
Statements" (statements promising to break away from Falun Gong) against
his will, that did not mean that the mental persecution ended there. Every day,
these practitioners who gave in under pressure were required to study slanderous
materials concocted by Jiang's regime. After a period of study, they had to
write up their understanding of these materials, which had to criticize and
condemn Falun Gong. If their writing did not meet the police's expectation, the
police would immediately intimidate them. Under such circumstances, these former
practitioners had to, against their conscience, denounce and not mention
anything good about Falun Gong at all times. There were monitors in the rooms.
Every move the practitioners made was under the constant surveillance of the
police. According to China's so-called laws and regulations (not legislated rules),
forced labor education is just a type of administrative punishment, not criminal
punishment. The labor camp detainees are not criminals, yet they are treated
with much more stringent measures than criminals in jails. The police secretly
arrange undercover informants in each unit to monitor every word and move of
every practitioner. If anyone who had given up his belief in Falun Gong under
pressure came to realize that the persecution was illegal, and wanted to tell
the police that Falun Gong is good, he would be immediately subjected to sleep
deprivation and physical punishment, including high-voltage electric shocks. It
is not difficult to imagine how hard it is to speak out the truth and follow the
principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance, and to be good people in the
Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp. At the beginning of April 2001, the Tuanhe Labor Camp removed its
high-voltage electrical wire from the labor camp's walls. Three days later,
there was a visit by national and international non-governmental organizations
under the escort of government officials. These changes and the visits resulted
from frequent interviews by the national media, and with international
governmental and non-governmental organizations. They were also based on a
proposal put forth by representatives of the National People's Congress and
Commissar of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee, to convey
the idea that labor camps are an "internal affair of the people" and
to show improvement in the area of China's human rights. In the days that
followed, the labor camp embarked on large-scale renovation -- new landscaping,
constructing new buildings, putting in new lawns and lots of flowers, raising
birds and other animals... there were even fish bowls, televisions, and desks in
the dormitories. In the division where Falun Gong practitioners were detained
there was now a library and Karaoke facility, among other amenities. Newcomers
to the Tuanhe Labor Camp could easily be fooled by the external façade;
little did they know that the new buildings, flowers, lawns, and small animals
were but a smokescreen to distract, and to conceal the criminal acts occurring
in the camp. Not only that, every time there was an outside visitor or inspection from
above, the whole labor camp would be educated on how to deceive the visitors:
every division had to repeatedly watch videotapes made by the labor camp on how
to answer questions from international reporters, forcing practitioners to give
a uniform answer and to lie to the media. The blatant lies were ridiculous. For
example, if one were asked if there were physical or verbal abuses by labor camp
personnel, the answer must be an emphatic no; Falun Gong practitioners could not
say that they were arrested for practicing Falun Gong, but for "disturbing
social order." If one were asked about the meals in the camp, you had to
say that every month we had so much flour, oil, meat, vegetables, and other such
nonsense. In addition, determined practitioners were threatened with
repercussions should they speak the truth. Policeman Ni Zhenxiong held a meeting
to threaten us: If reporters asked, you could not say that you had been beaten
in the labor camp, or mention that there was a dispatch location. One time,
there was a reporter visiting the Third Division on the first floor in the east
building, but several dozen people who refused to be "transformed" or
who could be "problematic" in the Third Division had already been
relocated to the training center at the north side of the building. Therefore
the reporter only saw the carefully rehearsed play. Every time outside visitors
came, the labor camp's meals suddenly improved that day, and the routine public
physical punishment of Falun Gong practitioners for the day would be cancelled
and a ball game substituted. The moment the visitors left the front door, the physical punishment resumed.
Tuanhe Labor Camp's deceptive tactics to fool the outside visitors were
inexhaustible, and were all despicable. To convince the outside world that it
was "civil," the labor camp adopted a gradation measure for the
detainees in the labor camp. It categorized the detainees into five different
classes. The top class was given milk and eggs for breakfast, meat and vegetable
for lunch, allowed to receive training for employment, or try their hand at
farming, and be off on weekends. In reality, all the non-transformed
practitioners were relegated to the lowest class and strictly supervised. They
were subjected to high-pressure brainwashing, forced to stay up all night, sent
to the "Intense Training" unit, confined in small cells, tied up,
given only bread crusts to eat, and were not allowed to buy any food or daily
necessities, among other forms of persecution. All these cruel torments were
meticulously covered up by the new measures at the camp. The persecution site, in the "Intense Training" unit in the
fortified building was never open to outside visitors, and all the Falun Gong
practitioners who dared to speak the truth were never allowed to be interviewed
by visiting journalists. Therefore the official reports were nothing but pure
deceit to fool and conceal; none were true. To the Falun Gong practitioners who
refused to give up their practice, Tuanhe Labor Camp was a living hell. One day in June of 2001, around 11 or 12 in the morning, all the steadfast
practitioners and the so-called "not thoroughly transformed"
practitioners were gathered in the first storage room behind the courtyard. The
police broke with the norm and let us watch a movie video. The Third Division's
practitioners were placed in the second storage room, and the Seventh Division's
practitioners were put in a small one-story building at the other end of the
storage area. We were not allowed to move around. Later on we learned that that
day there were large numbers of international, Hong Kong, and domestic media
reporters visiting the labor camp, and the only people that were allowed to work
outside or play ball games were those who had been "adequately
transformed." Three practitioners, who were transformed and carefully coached by the
police, were interviewed by the media, and they spoke highly of the living
conditions and human rights situation in the labor camp. Later on they were
praised by the labor camp authorities and released from reeducation ahead of
time. At the same time, there were two un-transformed practitioners (Yang
Haidong and Fang Bing) that were arranged to be interviewed by the media.
Afterwards, the media praised the open nature of the interview, and the
permission to talk to any labor camp personnel at will. Actually, these two
practitioners simply did not know the dark inside story of the labor camp. Later
on I met with Mr. Yang and Mr. Fang and learned that at the time, on the day of
the media interview, both of them had just been transferred to Tuanhe Labor Camp
and did not know the inside story of the camp. The labor camp cunningly used
them to perform for the media, and they were completely unaware of the actual
situation. What was especially nauseating was the interview with Jiang Haiquan, the
deputy section manager of the education office in Tuanhe Labor Camp. When the
media asked him, "How did you go about transforming Falun Gong
practitioners?" He unashamedly replied, "Just like today, how you and
I calmly talk about our personal viewpoints. To transform or not, that is all
the individual's free choice." How could it be like that! In little more
than one year, in Beijing's Tuanhe Labor Camp, tall buildings sprang up from the
original one-story construction, and "garden units" from grounds
overgrown with weeds. It became a city-wide model for a "civilized labor
camp," and then quickly developed into a national example. How many people
know that the new buildings, flowers, plants, trees and especially the road and
those ditches were soaked with many practitioners' blood and sweat! It is the
historical testimony of their persecution. Therefore in the Chinese labor camp,
the advertisements of "civilized" and "beautified
environment" are used to deceive and mislead the Chinese people and the
international community. Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/2/11/66827.html 6. Exposing the Evil Nature of Jiang's Regime: the Ordeals I Suffered under
the Persecution (Part Six) http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/3/5/45747.html By Yu Ming, a Falun Dafa practitioner in China (Clearwisdom.net) Editor's note: The author of this article, Yu Ming,
had been abducted and taken to Beijing's Lugu Police Station in late October of
2003, and was later sentenced to forced labor. Since he is known in the Beijing
labor camps as being steadfast in his belief in Falun Dafa, Mr. Yu is currently
still being held in the "Dispatch Center." We hope that the
international community will pay attention to his situation. "Intensive Brainwashing Team" The "Intensive Brainwashing Team" is one of the darkest places in
Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp. Many practitioners are severely abused there: Wu Jun,
Zhu Zhiliang, Lin Chengtao, Liu Xiao, and Zhao Xindong all suffered mental
collapse due to the torture and pressure. Gong Chengxi and Wu Jun were bound to
the "dead man's bed" many times. In this form of torture the whole
body, from head to toe, is tightly fettered with wide strips of bed sheet to the
bed board, so that the victim is unable to move at all. The victim is only
allowed one bathroom visit per day. For bowel movements, two assistant guards
lead the victim with a string attached to each arm, which is a great insult to
human dignity. The victim has to urinate into the bed while the upper part of
the body is untied. Wide strips of cloth are not only used to tightly bind the victims, but also
because it leaves no visible marks. Wu Jun was bound to the bed for as long as
three consecutive months without being untied once. Gong Chengxi had been tied
down for as long as two consecutive months during the hottest summer weather.
Consequently, he developed a big sore on his back, which discharged pus and
blood, and his flesh and skin festered. Flies fed on the wound, but the guards
did not care at all. Practitioner Wu Xiangwa was sent to the "Intensive Brainwashing
Team." Policemen from Team No. 5 including Guo Jinhe, Yue Weihua, and Liu
Bin, together with a policeman from the "Intensive Brainwashing Team"
shocked him for several hours with four electric batons. Wu Xiangwan lost
consciousness several times, and became unable to speak without stuttering for a
long time. In order to evade the shocks and the great mental pressure, Wu
sometimes knocked his head against the wall, causing him to pass out, while his
blood flowed all over the floor. Eventually he was forced to comply with the
policemen's demands. Later someone from the Beijing Bureau of Forced Labor came
to investigate the case, but nothing became of the investigation. None of the
policemen was held responsible for this matter. The "Intensive Brainwashing Team" treats Falun Gong practitioners
in an extremely horrible way but the media does not cover these stories. Team No. 6 involved in manufacturing unauthorized "Harry Potter"
books Towards the end of 2001 I was transferred to forced labor in Team No. 6,
where most of the detainees are general criminals imprisoned for theft,
drug-addiction, prostitution, etc. and are termed "general detainees."
From the end of 2001 to early 2002, the forced labor camp unlawfully printed
unauthorized copies of the "Harry Potter" book series to make
money. It is well known that China has just joined in the WTO. Jiang's regime has
promised the whole world they would crack down on pirated publications in China
in order to safeguard the publishing business. However within the Bejing Tuanhe
Forced Labor Camp, which is part of the Chinese legal system, policemen were
forcing detainees to bind the "Harry Potter" books series. The
books were printed at another location. The detainees were asked to fold, sort,
and bind the sheets. Then the finished books were transported to other places
for publication. I was part of Team No. 6 for over three months and the whole team was working
on the books. Piles of printed sheets about a meter high could be seen
everywhere in the hall and corridors of the floor where Team No. 6 was located.
Teams No. 3 and 5 were working on the books as well. It was said that there was
a competition among the guards to land the job for their own team. People
delivered the printed sheets to the forced labor camp furtively. The vehicles
used to carry the sheets looked pretty worn out. The print quality was extremely
poor. The paper looked yellowish and had misprints and marks everywhere. It was
obvious that they were not legally printed. In order to get more books ready before the Chinese New Year and to sell them
to students during the winter holidays, the police forced detainees to work very
hard. Sometimes they worked all night. Of course, the detainees did not get any
returns for working so hard, while the huge amounts of money earned by detainee
labor went into the pockets of the police. This arrangement made the assistant
guards furious and they deliberately damaged, messed up or removed pages while
binding the books. Consequently, the quality of the books was really poor. The
police cared only for the number of finished product rather than the quality and
intentionally turned a deaf ear to complaints about the quality. When the books
were picked up, they concealed their poor quality and were satisfied as long as
nobody could detect the difference by appearance. These books are much cheaper
than the officially printed ones. This is bound to have a severe impact on the
profits of authorized publishers, the author's copyright, and royalties. Whenever supervisors or inspectors came from outside the labor camp, the
guards would order us to stop working right away. They would hide the sheets and
books in their offices or move them to other places where the visitors wouldn't
go. During the Chinese New Year, every police guard got a 1,000 Yuan bonus [500
Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.] while the
leaders got from 2,000 to 4,000 Yuan each. None of the detainees who worked so
hard were paid. We hope somebody will pass this message to the author of "Harry
Potter" or the authorized publishers of the book so that an
investigation can be conducted to protect both the rights and interests of the
author and publishers and the detainees as well. Brutal violence taking place inside the "Fortification Storming
Building" After several months of hard time, in mid March of 2002 I was sent to a
building within the backyard of the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp for continued and
intensified abuse. According to documents issued by the "610 Office" [an
agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over
each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary
systems.] at the time, Falun Gong practitioners in forced labor camps should
not be released unless they have had a so-called "stable period" for
at least three months after they are "transformed." In other words,
practitioners who have written the so-called "Five Statements"
(renouncing Falun Gong) must be consistent and not change their minds for at
least three months before they are released. The forced labor camp signed an
agreement with the Neighborhood Committees or Community Committees in different
areas that the detainee was not counted as the ones that were successfully
transformed if the "transformation" had lasted less than three months.
Practitioners of this kind were either directly sent to brainwashing classes
held in different areas upon the maturity of their forced labor terms or
penalized with extended terms. Thus, at the time, for Falun Gong practitioners,
the three months before their terms came to an end constituted a big test. June
30, 2002 was the last day of my term in the forced labor camp and I was right on
the test. In order to attain the so-called "transformation quota" and prevent
any practitioner from leaving forced labor camps "untransformed,"
labor camps in different areas took a series of extremely vicious and
contemptible measures to intensify the persecution. When the forced labor term of a practitioner was drawing to an end, but the
practitioner still insisted on his belief and refused to be
"transformed," several policemen would forcibly detain the
practitioner in a separate room of the old Tuanhe West Building and occupied by
Team No. 5 before October 2001. They would strip off the practitioner's clothes,
tie him to a bed or the floor, gag him with rags, and bind his mouth tightly
with a piece of string to prevent him from shouting or biting off his tongue.
Sometimes, they also blindfolded him to conceal the identity of the torturer.
Then they used several 100,000 volt electric batons to spontaneously shock all
sensitive parts of his body. If the batons ran out of power, they recharged them
and continued the torture. This torture would last for hours or even days, until
the practitioner could not bear it any longer. Up to a dozen electric batons
were used to shock a human body! Imagine the misery of the painful muscle
spasms, the burning flesh, and the shortness of breath or inability to breath
due to the shocks! It feels like ten thousand arrows penetrating your body or
ten thousand snakes biting your body simultaneously. In addition, the police
used every possible means to block the news so that it became extremely hard for
the outside to learn the truth of this brutality. If one team had a high "transformation" rate, the team was awarded
a large bonus. If a team did not attain the quota, the bonus would be deducted
from the team. To reward individuals, every policeman who
"transformed" a Falun Gong practitioner was awarded 1,000 Yuan. If a
transformed practitioner did not acknowledge that he had been
"transformed," or declared all the transformations null and void, the
policeman would be fined 1,500 Yuan. Thus, the policemen do not spare any effort
to viciously torment Falun Gong practitioners. Money is one of the most common
incentives Jiang Zemin and his "610 Office" use to control policemen. The west building in the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp is the same as the
so-called "Conquering Building," referring to the
"conquering" of practitioners. Previously, team No. 5 resided in the
building, but it is now used especially for the "transformation" of
unwavering Falun Dafa practitioners. The insides differ from the "Intensive Brainwashing Team" building.
Superficially, violence could not be observed, but the atmosphere inside was
vicious. The building is totally blocked off from the outside. No visitors or
reporters are allowed to enter. The windows and doors are covered with
newspapers. People outside cannot look inside the rooms. There is nothing in the
rooms but a wooden board on the floor. On the walls are slogans or posters
slandering Falun Gong and its creator in extremely filthy language. There is
little heating even during the bitterest winter weather. Only a thin quilt is
provided for warmth. Practitioners are detained in separate rooms, along with up
to five criminal detainees who completely follow the policemen's orders. The policemen made up convenient excuses for tormenting Falun Dafa
practitioners. For example, if you said you wanted to cultivate compassion, that
you should look within first when conflicts occur among people, that you should
not hit back when attacked, and not talk back when insulted, the vicious
policemen took advantage of your attitude and intentionally found fault with,
beat, swore at, insulted, and abused you, to see whether you could bear it or
not. As soon as you showed the slightest dissatisfaction with their contemptible
behavior, they would use it as a convenient excuse to beat you up. They said it
was meant to help you cultivate "tolerance," and to help you improve. For example, we were never allowed to take a nap at noon, but had to stay up
until two or three o'clock in the morning. Sometimes we were not allowed to
sleep for 24 hours in succession. This was called "Taming the Eagle."
If you closed your eyes, various torture means were awaiting you. You were asked
to sit with both hands on your knees, motionlessly, from morning till night,
except for having meals or going to the washroom. A slight motion would be
interpreted as disobedience resulting in swearing, beating or kicking. We were
deliberately not provided with enough food. We were allowed to use the bathroom
only once a day. Articles defaming Dafa and Teacher were deliberately read in
front of us. Protests would give rise to torture because we were trying to
disturb the order of the 'transformation' process. In short, they were trying
all possible means to torment us. When practitioners asked the policemen on what legal basis they violated
human rights, the policemen laughed and swore at us asking: "Don't you want
Truth, Compassion, Tolerance? Why don't you practice tolerance then?" This
was followed by more severe torture of the practitioner who asked the question.
On the whole, they simply wanted to have you abandon the principles of Truth,
Compassion, Tolerance; they simply wanted you to give up these noble beliefs. To
this end, the policemen were authorized to arbitrarily employ any violent or
vicious means imaginable. It is really hard to talk about all of the crimes
against humanity that were perpetrated in that building! Falun Dafa practitioners seek to improve their morality, spiritual health,
and purify their physical bodies. However, this noble pursuit constitutes an
excuse for Jiang's Criminal Group to persecute Falun Dafa and Dafa
practitioners! I was assigned to the first room on the main floor of the "Conquering
Building." Three former practitioners named Yu Shouli, Gu Zhaojiang, and
Chen Hengjin in Team No. 5, who had previously been brainwashed, assisted in my
"transformation." Jiang Haiquan, Assistant Director of the Educational
Section, was in charge of the "transformation" process. He had already
personally abused many other practitioners, including Zhao Ming, Wei Rutan, and
Wu Yingchang. His hands are stained with the blood of practitioners. Liu
Xincheng, Liu Guoxi, and other policemen were also involved in the
transformation. The Beijing Forced Labor Bureau awarded "first prize"
to these policemen for "transforming" Falun Gong practitioners. They
were also on the "honor roll" published by the internal Beijing Forced
Labor Reeducation Report in 2002 because of their active participation in
transforming Falun Gong practitioners. On the morning of March 18, 2002 a brutal torture was scheduled. About five
policemen carried me up to the so-called "psycho-consultation room" on
the second floor. The door and window had been totally covered with newspapers.
The policemen could not wait, and stripped off my clothes, shoes, and socks.
They tied my neck to a bed board with a rough rope. My chest, waist, arms, legs,
and feet were fixed tightly with about eight strips of cloth. They also gagged
my mouth with rags to prevent shouting or biting off my tongue, which could
cause death. Then they tied a strip of cloth across my mouth, between my upper
and lower teeth. At the same time, paper and pen were ready. They told me,
"If you agree to write a statement saying that, 'Falun Gong is [...], blink
your eyes. And we will stop right away!" With that, they started to
frenziedly shock me with electric batons. Jiang Haiquan shocked my head and upper part of the body; Liu Xincheng
shocked my lower part and thighs; Liu Guoxi shocked especially the soles of my
feet. They were using custom-made electric batons with over 100,000 volts. Tian
Yu, a policeman from Team No. 5 watched by the door in case someone passed by. I
lay there, unable to move at all. My ears were full of the sharp sound of
electric batons, with occasional bursts of laughter from the policemen. Blue
flames fluttered in the air, and the unpleasant smell of burning flesh made me
sick. The policemen became even more irrational and shocked me even more
frenziedly. The sharp pain made me feel so miserable, as if thousands of knives
were cutting into my muscles and heart simultaneously, and as if thousands of
red hot pliers were burning every nerve carefully and simultaneously all over my
body. It is hard for me to describe the misery I experienced at the time. I
think it could have been no less than that in hell. I was sweating all over, but
I could not move or shout. My body became stiff and rigid because of the violent
shaking. The torture lasted the entire morning. The forced labor camp deals with practitioners' family members with false
compassion Usually, when a detainee, especially a Falun Gong practitioner, was brutally
tortured, scars would be left on his body. Afraid that practitioners' family
members would see the scars and ask what had happened, the forced labor camp
prevented practitioners from seeing their family members. The labor camp used
various excuses. For example, they would say the practitioner violated such and
such a rule or regulation, and had been refused the right to meet with his
family members. When my family members came asking for a meeting, Zhang Fuchao
and Ren Baolin, two policemen from the Administrative Section, told my family
members that, "[Name deleted] suffers from a mental disorder from
practicing Falun Gong. He beats others and swears at them. He is in violation of
regulations, and is not allowed to meet people for two months. We are very
sympathetic with the family, but what can we do? The regulations are made by the
authorities." As a result, my family members did not see me during that
month. How can our simple and kind-hearted family members know or imagine the
evil that occurs in the forced labor camp? The Women's Camp In some respects, the women's camp is an even more vicious environment than
Tuanhe. The newly built women's camp was finished in March 2002. It was put into
use right after it was constructed. It is said that nearly 2 billion Yuan was
spent on this camp. Superficially, it looks more modern, with more beautiful
landscaping and better equipment and facilities. It is much more beautiful than
the Xin'an Female Labor Camp where the female practitioners were previously
detained. Therefore, it creates greater confusion among people. Since a huge
amount of money was invested in the camp, the persecution of female
practitioners became even more secretive and skillful. For instance, the windows in the female camp are not the same as in Tuanhe
Forced Labor Camp. There are no iron bars from outside but simply one layer of
glass. It was officially declared to the public to be more
"humanitarian," although it is not generally known to the public, or
even to the female inmates, that all the window glass is bulletproof, costing
nearly 1,000 Yuan per square meter. This demonstrates how much money is being
spent on labor camps. Moreover, this is only a small forced labor camp. It so
happened that at the end of 2002 a teenager from the Teenage Team, named Cui
Hongyu, tried to escape. This teenager knocked out the window using all his
strength. Consequently, the window frame and the glass were knocked out and fell
to the ground from the third floor. The glass did not shatter. As a businessman, my calculations are that Jiang's Criminal Group must be
spending about one-quarter of our national income in persecuting Falun Gong
every year. This money is either earned by hard toil of ordinary people or from
foreign investments. What would the ordinary people and the foreign investors
think if they know the truth? Are their investments really being paid pack? I happened to meet a female practitioner named Zhou Yinhong while I was
detained at the Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp. Her term had been extended
because of her unshakable belief in cultivation practice, and she told me lots
of shocking inside stories. She knew of another female practitioner named Lu Kuan whose forced labor term
had been extended by ten months. Zhou Yinhong and Lu Kuan were detained together
at Team No. 2 of the women's labor camp. Under the leadership of Director Zhu
Xiaoli and policewoman Shi X, the director of the Administrative Section, Cheng
Cui'e, the leader of Team No. 2, and other policewomen kept about ten female
practitioners, including Zhou Yinhong and Lu Kuan in separate rooms shackled or
bound in awkward positions. Then they instructed many female detainees
imprisoned for drug-addition or prostitution to beat them up, or to drag them by
their hair, knock their heads against the wall, or shock them with powerful
electric batons. To make things worse, they stripped off practitioners' clothes, and the
detainees inserted toothbrushes into their vaginas, and clawed at their
genitals, tearing the tissue. One female practitioner became disabled in this
manner and because of that, such torture was temporarily abandoned. Afraid of an outside investigation into this matter, the Forced Labor Bureau
and the labor camp disbanded Team No. 2. Since then there has not been a Team
No. 2 in the women's camp and its detained practitioners were transferred to
other teams. The police covered up this matter and classified it as top secret.
Later, Zhou Yinhong was transferred to Team No. 1, and Lu Kuan to the
"Intensive Brainwashing Team." They are still suffering from inhumane
abuse and torture. However, none of the policewomen in the women's camp were
held responsible at all. From the "610 Office," the supreme organization in charge of
persecuting Falun Gong, to the Beijing Legal Bureau, Beijing Forced Labor
Bureau, and the forced labor camps, there is a complete system geared towards
the brainwashing and "transformation" of Falun Gong practitioners. At
the Terminal Center, practitioners were generally asked to write a statement of
guarantee not to practice or spread Falun Gong. The function of the Terminal
Center is to make you remember that you are a forced labor detainee, and that
you have to obey their disciplinary orders. Through various ways, they make you
follow the regulations. The Terminal Center does not play a role in the
transformation process, as they think that only when practitioners are
disciplined can they be "transformed" at the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp.
Their job is to make sure that practitioners will not continue to practice at
the forced labor camp. They first list their so-called laws, indicating the ones
that you allegedly violated. Then they ask you to confess that you did in fact
violate a law. Once you confessed that you had done something wrong, they ask
that you should show regret about it. The next step would be to write the
"statement of regret." Once you feel regretful, admitting your
wrongdoings, you would then be asked to make amends and take steps to change
direction. Now that you are ready to be "transformed" from
"wrong" to "right," you have to write a
"dissociation" statement. Writing the dissociation statement is still
not enough, although they may not have urged you to write the "denunciation
statement" right away. They may give you several days to think about where
you are headed, i.e., whether you will be "transformed" or not.
Although they give you several days to consider, they won't let you relax
because they are starting to hope that you might be "transformed."
However, on the surface, they begin to smile at you and not treat you as
strictly as before, no longer finding faults with you, or persecuting you at
every turn. From this point on, they continuously make you watch videos and read
books defaming Dafa. Several days later, when your mind is totally filled with
filthy and evil thoughts, you are required to write and make up the co-called
denunciation. You are expected to say that you were cheated into practicing
Falun Gong, and that you came to realize the [slanderous term omitted]
nature of Falun Gong through re-education. III. Appeal We are Chinese citizens who sincerely believe in Truth, Compassion, and
Tolerance. We love our country and our families deeply. For this reason, we
cannot allow the jealousy of a power-hungry clown and hooligan to continue the
inhumane persecution of millions of kind-hearted people believing in Falun Dafa.
Furthermore, Jiang's criminal group has spread the hatred and slander to
countries outside China, and through the abuse of their power have abused
foreign policies, and bribed overseas media and people from different social
classes across the world. Their lies, hateful propaganda, and cheap
sensationalism have fooled, polluted, and poisoned people all over the world. We appeal to all just people internationally to urgently pay attention to the
matters outlined above, and to all Falun Gong practitioners who are subject to
brutal torture in China, to expose all the crimes and participants in the
persecution, to bring the persecutors to justice, and to actively help end the
persecution of the belief in "Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance" and
the persecution of human rights. February 12, 2004 Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/2/12/66831.html 7. Seven Common Torture Methods Used to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/3/5/45747.html By Zhao Ming (Ireland) and Chen Gang (USA) August 11, 2003 (Clearwisdom.net August 12, 2003) In forced labor camps, policemen use many different
methods to physically torture Falun Gong practitioners, including forcing
practitioners to stand still or sit still in a fixed position for a long time,
handcuffing a practitioner to a bed for a long time, forcing practitioners to
squat down or run for a long time, confining practitioners to a boiler room
during hot summer days, and so on. The police use all of these torture methods
for the purpose of exceeding the limits of people's endurance and thus
destroying their will. To accomplish this, they are willing to go to all kinds
of extremes. Many Falun Gong practitioners who have endured long periods of
physical and mental torture such as sleep deprivation, beating, cursing, and
intimidation often experience symptoms such as their hair turning gray, severe
weight loss, body pain, damage to the functioning of their bodies, depression,
and memory loss. The more significant thing is that even after the physical
injuries and pain are healed over a period of time, the mental and psychological
trauma often continue to hurt people for the rest of their lives. In order to break people's will, control people's minds,
and completely destroy the confidence and dignity gained from their moral and
spiritual beliefs, Jiang Zemin and the nationwide "610 Office" [an
agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over
each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary
systems] have adopted dozens of brainwashing methods, both hard and soft.
The following are seven of the most common torture methods used to persecute
Falun Gong practitioners in the forced-labor camps in Beijing, which are under
the control of the "610 Office." The situation could be even worse in
other areas of China. Punishment by being forced to stand for a long time The victim has to stand still for a long period of time
without any movement. However, after the nerves in the feet have been under
pressure for a long time, the victim will easily collapse. Falun Gong
practitioner Zhao Ming from Ireland was once forced by the police in the Xin'an
Forced Labor Camp to stand for over 20 hours a day and for days on end, and his
hands, arms, feet and legs were all swollen. His feet were swollen so much that
he felt like his shoes were getting smaller and smaller every day. His feet were
extremely painful from the soles to the heels. Punishment by being forced to sit for a long time During one period, the police tried to brainwash us. They
ordered a group of ruffians to force us to sit and listen to the audiotapes of
their crooked and evil theories. We were forced to sit for 15 to 16 hours a day,
except for a fixed time for toilet use and meals. We were not allowed to move at
all. If someone moved a little, the police would order a ruffian to brutally
beat that person. Such a long period of sitting resulted in pain in the lower
back and hips. In Unit #5 of the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp, Falun Gong
practitioner Liu Yongping once received this type of torture. Mr. Liu was also
brutally beaten with a plastic bench by inmates who were under orders from the
police. The bench eventually broke from the great force used to beat
practitioners. Punishment by being forced to "fly" The victim is forced to stand with his two legs straight,
with his head bent down until the face is pointing to the ground, while the arms
are pulled straight to the back until the arms are straight and the fingers are
pointing to the sky. After a little while, the victim feels dizzy, and has weak
legs, sore arms, rapid breath and heavy sweating. Punishment by being handcuffed to a bed for a long time Lying on the bed looks easy. But the police handcuff or
tie practitioners' hands and feet to the bed and prohibit them from getting up
for months on end. Eventually the victims have bedsores and every part of the
skin that touches the bed feels extremely painful. It also causes great pain to
the arms after the arms are handcuffed to the bed and extended for such a long
time. Punishment by being forced to squat down There were two types of squatting torture: squatting on
two legs and military squatting. Some times the victims are forced to hold their
heads with their arms while squatting, with both elbows pulled inside their two
legs. The victim feels sore and numb legs and pain in the lower back. The longer
this torture lasts the more severe the pain becomes. The military squat is one
of the most vicious physical torture methods. The police in the forced labor
camps often use it to torture Falun Gong practitioners. The victim is forced to
squat down with one foot in the front and another in the back, with about one
small step of separation. The rear foot only has the front half touching the
ground and almost bears all the body weight. Normally this will feel very
painful after only a few minutes. It causes great pain to the rear foot and rear
leg and could even cause complete loss of feeling and control in the leg. When Zhao Ming was detained in the Xin'an Forced Labor
Camp, the police once ordered several young inmates to force him do the military
squat. After one leg lost feeling, he was forced to switch legs. He was forced
to do it for over ten hours a day. Eventually his two soles felt so much pain
that it felt almost like the bones of his feet were directly touching the
ground. Punishment by being forced to run The police in the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp force Falun
Gong practitioners to run. If the practitioner gets exhausted, they order people
to push him on. When someone cannot run any more even with people pushing behind
him, the police order people to drag the practitioner further. Some
practitioners' clothes were torn into pieces. Policeman Yue Qingjin in the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp
confined Falun Gong practitioner Li Xupeng in the summer time inside the boiler
room where the big furnace for boiling water was. The room temperature was very
high. Whoever stayed inside the room felt it was unbearably hot and humid,
causing breathing difficulties. In such an environment, one could easily get
exhausted and some even lost consciousness. Mr. Li Xupeng was confined in the
steamy room for as long as one month and eventually collapsed. Electric Shock Normally an electric baton has voltage of tens of
thousands volts. When it discharges continuously, it emits blue light with
static-like sound. When the electric current goes through a person's body, it
feels like one is being burned or being bitten by snakes. Every shock is very
painful like a snakebite. The victim's skin turns red, broken, burned and
festering. There are even more powerful batons with higher voltage that make the
victim feel like he is being hit with a hammer. According to the regulations for
safe usage of the electric batons, the electric batons should not be applied to
people's heads, chests, faces, or private parts. However, the police in the
forced labor camp purposely applied the electric batons to people's heads,
chests, and private parts. In order to prevent resistance from the victims,
usually the police tie up the victims first or just use handcuffs. A normal
person gives up resistance after a couple shocks. But when the police used the
electric batons on Falun Gong practitioners, their purpose was to torture the
practitioners so they often used ten or more batons to shock the practitioners
simultaneously. They even concentrated their shocks on the head, chest and other
sensitive parts and shocked the practitioners for long periods. Force-Feeding The medical force-feeding method is "to feed through
the nostrils," namely inserting a tube into the nose and through the throat
and gullet into the stomach. However, the police in the forced labor camps aim
at torturing people. Even when doing force-feeding through the nose, they still
tried to torture those who were on hunger strikes. They would use no lubricant
on the tubes. When inserting the tubes, they would purposely push and pull the
tubes repeatedly to make the victim feel great pain in the nasal cavity. The
victim would also experience nausea, vomiting, and a severe cough. Every time
when the force-feeding ended, there was blood on the tube. The police also used
the illegal direct forced feeding method very often. They would tie up the
victim and then order other inmates to force open the victim's mouth and use
steel spoons and other hard objects to damage the victim's mouth and teeth. Such
brutal force-feeding methods could easily force water and food into the trachea,
causing lung damage and life-threatening danger. Many Falun Gong practitioners have died from such brutal
force-feeding. Among them was Mr. Liu Xuguo, a 29-year-old engineer from
Shandong Province, who died on February 11, 2002 from the lung damage caused by
the force-feeding conducted by the police in a forced labor camp in Jining City,
Shandong Province. Ms. Mei Yulan, a 40-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from
Beijing, was forced-fed by an inmate (under orders from the police) with a thick
salt solution and soymilk on May 17, 2000 in Chaoyang Detention Center. She
later experienced five days of headache, and then vomited blood and passed away
on May 23, 2000. The above are two cases that have been previously revealed by
overseas media about Falun Gong practitioners who died as a result of
force-feeding. Mr. Chen Gang himself was also tortured in the Bejijing forced
labor camp under the excuse of force-feeding. Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/8/12/55480.html Posting date: 8/31/2004 |