Torture Deaths of 2,932 Falun Gong Practitioners in the Past Seven Years Confirmed
By Minghui/Clearwisdom correspondent Li Ming
(Clearwisdom.net) The Chinese Communist Party and Jiang Zemin's regime
have persecuted Falun Gong for seven years, ever since July 20, 1999. During
this period, their policies of "ruin their [practitioners'] reputations,
cut them off financially and destroy them physically," "beating them
to death is nothing and will be counted as suicide," and "do not
identify the body [of a practitioner who is tortured to death] and cremate it
immediately" has resulted in huge numbers of Falun Gong practitioners who
persist in their belief losing their jobs, being deprived of an education, being
forced into exile, and having their families torn apart. The CCP and Jiang's regime has resorted to the most wicked and barbaric
methods in the history of mankind to abuse Falun Gong practitioners, both
physically and mentally. They use over 40 different methods of torture including
long-term sleep deprivation; electric shocks to the mouth, chest, armpits,
breasts, and private parts with multiple high-voltage electric batons; basement
detention; water dungeon; handcuffing behind the back; hanging up by hands
cuffed behind the back; the Tiger Bench; Stretching Bed; sexual
assault; whipping with leather belts and copper wire; beating with steel bars,
spiked rods, and bamboo sticks; force-feeding with pepper water, concentrated
salt water, and human feces through industrial plastic tubes; and injection and
forced ingestion of nerve-damaging drugs. In the past seven years, incidents of Falun Gong practitioners being disabled
and killed through torture have occurred frequently in China. Despite a strict
information blockade by the CCP, the torture deaths of 2,932 Falun Gong
practitioners have still confirmed been through civil channels. Among these
victims, 54.57% were female, 56.96% were over 50 years old, and an average of 34
practitioners died every month. The cases occurred throughout 31 provinces, cities and autonomous regions.
Among them, 393 practitioners lived in Hebei Province, 359 in Heilongjiang
Province, 353 in Liaoning Province, 346 in Jilin Province, 292 in Shandong
Province, 175 in Sichuan Province, 144 in Hubei Province, 105 in Henan Province,
92 in Hunan Province, 80 in Beijing, 69 in Chongqing City, 67 in Guangdong
Province, 53 in Neimenggu Autonomous Region, 48 in Gansu Province, 41 in Tianjin
City, 41 in Jiangxi Province, 39 in Anhui Province, 39 in Guizhou Province, 24
in Jiangsu Province, 22 in Shanxi Province, 21 in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, 15
in Shanghai, 14 in Fujian Province, 14 in Yunnan Province, 12 in Guangxi
Autonomous Region, 9 in Zhejiang Province, 5 in Qinghai Province, 4 in Hainan
Province, 3 in Ningxia Autonomous Region, 1 in Tibet. The area of residence for
the other 20 practitioners are yet to be verified. The violence against female Falun Gong practitioners is beyond description.
According to the "Falun Gong Human Rights Report" by the World
Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), few female
practitioners were spared of the humiliation of being stripped naked, and
sometimes this treatment was long-term. They were not allowed to use sanitary
napkins during their menstrual period, they were sexually assaulted, raped or
threatened with sexual violence, and their chest and private parts were direct
targets of beating and kicking. Police and guards not only ordered inmates to
persecute female practitioners, they also raped or gang-raped female
practitioners, shocked their vaginas with electric batons, stabbed the inside of
their vaginas with a hard toilet brush, striped them naked, and threw them into
male cells. One female practitioner who barely escaped from a labor camp said,
"The extent of the evil there is beyond imagination." The CCP widely uses nerve-damaging drugs to abuse Falun Gong practitioners.
The WOIPFG and China Mental Health Watch jointly published an investigative
report in May 2004 that points out the CCP's persecution of healthy, normal
Falun Gong practitioners with psychiatric treatments. The report says mental
hospitals in at least 100 provinces, cities, counties, and districts in China
participated in this persecution, which directly resulted in the mental
breakdown, disability, or death of several thousand practitioners. During the
seven-year genocide against Falun Gong, the CCP's harvesting of living
practitioners' organs represents "a grotesque form of evil...new to this
planet." Yet this evil has been taking place consistently throughout China
in the past several years. The Minghui/Clearwisdom website published reports on the CCP's stealing Falun
Gong practitioners' organs on December 22, 2000. Three witnesses stepped forward
in March 2006 and stated that harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong
practitioners is taking place in CCP's concentration camps, prisons, labor
camps, hospitals, and other places, and their bodies are subsequently cremated. On July 6, 2006, David Kilgour, the former Canadian Secretary of State in
charge of Asia Pacific Affairs and a Member of the Canadian Parliament, along
with David Matas, an international human rights lawyer, published the results of
their independent investigation, "Report Into Allegations of Organ
Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China," which concludes that the
allegations that the CCP is harvesting living Falun Gong practitioners' organs
are true, and they also called it "a grotesque form of evil...new to this
planet." Taking into consideration this newly exposed crime, the actual number of
Falun Gong practitioners killed by the Communist regime far exceeds 2,932. The torture deaths of another 16 Falun Gong practitioners were verified in
July 2006. Among them, seven were women; eight were over 50 years old; twelve
died between January and July 2006, and six died in July 2006. The victims lived
in six provinces and cities. Two practitioners lived in Liaoning Province, two
in Sichuan Province, two in Neimenggu Autonomous Region, two in Beijing and two
in Chongqing City. One practitioner lived in Heilongjiang Province, one in Hubei
Province, one in Shandong Province, one in Guangdong Province, one in Hunan
Province, and one in Tianjin City. According to statistics published on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, at
least 92 torture deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China were
verified between January and July 2006. Ms. Gao Huifang from Sichuan Province Arrested on June 29, 2006, and Murdered
on the Same Day Ms. Gao Huifang, 48 years old, lived in Longchang County, Neijiang City,
Sichuan Province. She was reported on the morning of June 29, 2006, when she was
clarifying the truth near Lishi Town Train Station in Longchang
County. Police from the Longchang County Police Department arrested her. She was
killed later that same day. At present, Mr. Yu Ziming, a practitioner and the
only one who knows the truth about Ms. Gao's death, is being held in police
custody and could be killed at any time. Officials from Longchang County Police
Department said that it is impossible for them to let Mr. Yu leave alive. Longchang County police agents claimed that Ms. Gao Huifang had jumped off a
building and died. When her family questioned the cause of her death, the
policeman on duty dared not meet with the family. When he later did meet with
the family, he was sweating profusely with anxiety. When the family requested an
autopsy, the report said everything appeared normal, except that her hip bones
were fractured. If she had fallen from a building and died, there should have
been evidence of trauma, bruises, and internal bleeding, not merely hip
fractures. On the day of Ms. Gao's cremation, Longchang County Police Department
dispatched more than 20 vehicles to patrol the grounds. Martial law was enforced
at the crematory for the whole day. The crematory workers said that they had
never before seen anything like it. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, Ms. Gao Huifang was sent to a
mental hospital three times and had been injected with nerve-damaging drugs. Her
head and face became swollen and disfigured. Her family could not recognize her
even up close. Ms. Gao was eventually sent to the Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp in
Zizhong, Sichuan Province. Following her release she lived in exile for several
months. Middle School Teacher Mr. Sun Peichen in Heilongjiang Province Released on
Brink of Death; Passed Away 20 Days Later Mr. Sun Peichen, 47, was a teacher at Yinglan Middle School, Yilan County,
Heilongjiang Province. He refused to give up Falun Dafa, so the Communist regime
repeatedly persecuted him. He was tortured to the brink of death at the
Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp, was sent home on June 7, 2006, and died 26 days
later, on July 3, 2006. The following are the details of his story. Mr. Sun had previously been held under administrative detention for 15 days
because he refused to give up his belief. He was detained again on January 16,
2000, for 100 days. The police arrested Mr. Sun on May 21, 2001, at work. He was held at the
Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp for a year. The conditions were very bad. His whole
body developed scabies due to the damp environment, and he could not stand up or
take care of himself. He went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and
was barbarically force-fed. He was savagely tortured many times. Mr. Sun was arrested again on May 26, 2004. Participating in the arrest were
Jia Lin, Qiao Lijun, and others from Dalianhe Town Police Station. He was taken
from Hongxing Village to Dalianhe and then sent to Yilan Detention Center. Qiao
Lijun beat him often on the way to the detention center. While Mr. Sun was
detained there, Qiao Lijun reeked of liquor as he rushed into the prison cell
three times and beat Mr. Sun, leaving him bleeding from his nose and mouth. His
chest, abdomen, and head sustained serious injuries, and he lost consciousness
many times. After not eating or drinking for 18 days, he was extremely weak but
was still sent to the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp for a three-year term. He was
brutally beaten at that camp many times by division head Ji and inmate Dong
Hebin. One of the methods they used to torture practitioners included
"pushing" and "separating." "Pushing" is where
someone sits on the practitioner's back and pulls his arms up behind his back as
far as they will go, which makes the joints crack. "Separating" is
pulling the legs in opposite directions as far as they will go. On Easter morning 2005, practitioners Mr. Sun Peichen, Li Qingrong, Zhang
Fengtian, and Xu Guoxiang shouted loudly at the dining area, "Falun Dafa is
good!" Zhao Shuang and other guards forcibly removed all of Mr. Sun's
clothes. Zhao Shuang wrapped his hand in a plastic bag, grasped Mr. Sun's
testicles, and crushed them. He then straddled Mr. Sun and tortured him with the
"pushing" and "separating" method. Another guard shocked him
with an electric baton. When the two became tired, they took a break and then
shocked Mr. Sun's testicles and other sensitive body parts with electric baton(s)
again. After that, Zhao Shuang continued to apply the "pushing" and
"separating" torture to Mr. Sun until he (Zhao) was exhausted. The
guards then forced the naked Mr. Sun to criticize himself in the workshop where
other practitioners were working. Practitioner Mr. Song Guohua couldn't stand to
watch the abuse any longer. He stood up and tried to stop it but was immediately
dragged away. He was also stripped naked and repeatedly shocked with electric
batons. After being tortured with "pushing" and
"separating," one of his legs was severely injured. On April 12, 2005, guard Zhao Shuang and others again tortured Sun Peichen.
They stripped him naked, shocked him continuously with electric batons, held him
down on the ground, and violently dug their elbows into his chest and back. They
also kicked his chest and back with the heels of their boots. They tortured him
with "pushing" and "separating" and also pinched him and
forced him to squat. They again crushed his testicles. Guard Zhao Shuang also
wrapped Mr. Sun's penis in a bag. Zhao Shuang grabbed it and pulled Sun
Peichen's whole body upwards by his penis. Guards at the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp also forced Mr. Sun and other
practitioners to do slave labor. The practitioners were permitted only two or
three hours of sleep per night. The guards frequently used "resisting
management" as an excuse to wantonly beat and verbally assault the
practitioners, shock them with electric batons, or force them to sit in metal
chairs. Zhao Shuang said, "It is alright, so long as we do not kill them.
Even if we kill them, we just need to fill out a form and claim it was a
'natural death.' Besides, the labor camp has a death quota." The brutal persecution left Mr. Sun with a whole mouth of loose teeth,
terrible chest pain, and difficulty breathing. He was painfully thin. He had
become bedridden and barely able to breathe. The labor camp hastily sent him
home on June 7, 2006. Mr. Sun Peichen died 26 days later on July 3, 2006. Mr. Liu Wenzhong from Neimenggu Had Money Extorted from Him and Was Tortured
to Death Mr. Liu Wenzhong was 52 years old and owned a department store in the
Songshan District of Chifeng City, Neimenggu. Mr. Liu started practicing Falun
Gong in June 1999. He had suffered from hepatitis, cystitis, and kidney stones.
The hospital could not treat him. All of his illnesses disappeared without any
medical intervention three days after he started practicing Falun Gong. After the persecution began in July 1999, Liu Wenzhong persisted in studying
the Fa, doing the exercises and "clarifying the truth."
Jia Aichen, head of the Songshan District 610 Office and officers
from Songshan District Police Department and the National Security Division
extorted money from him and illegally detained him many times. Officers from the Songshan District National Security Division and the local
police station broke down the door and windows of Mr. Liu's store and arrested
Mr. Liu, his wife, and two of his employees. They took them to the No. 1
Songshan Police Station and interrogated and tortured them for a whole night.
They then held these four people in solitary confinement for a whole day. The
following night they were sent to Yuanlin Road Detention Center. Liu Wenzhong's
wife was released the day after the police extorted several thousand yuan
from her. Mr. Liu's department store, valued at more than one million yuan, was forced
to close, which resulted in a great economic loss (estimated at 800,000 yuan).
This also affected many local people. More than 20 employees who worked at the
store lost their jobs. Liu Wenzhong was sentenced to three years of forced labor and was sent to the
Wuyuan Forced Labor Camp in Gubameng, Neimenggu. During his detention, the
police extorted over 40,000 yuan from him. He was also forced to do intensive
labor. Because he refused to "reform" he was beaten and subjected to
tortures, including forced standing and solitary confinement. As a result, he
was mentally traumatized and physically tormented. Mr. Liu was released from the labor camp on October 26, 2004. Before he even
got home, however, he was arrested again by Chifeng City 610 Office agents and
sent to a brainwashing center. After he was released, the police monitored and
harassed him. He passed away on July 9, 2006. A call for conscience, a call for an end to the persecution Seven years have passed. Falun Gong practitioners were and still are being
barbarically persecuted by the Communist regime simply for being good people and
living by the principles of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. The persecution itself
poses a challenge to human nature and conscience, and it's an insult to
morality. It's a tremendous tragedy for the Chinese people as well as for
mankind as a whole. During World War II, the German Nazis massacred Jews and used their bodies as
raw materials to make various products in concentration camps. After the German
concentration camps were exposed, the silence and hesitation of the
international community allowed the crimes to continue for another two to three
years, during which time another 2.5 million Jews were killed. After World War
II, the international community vowed, "Never again." Sixty years later, the Communist regime has exceeded the Nazis in terms of
brutality in its persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. What has made it
possible for the Communist regime's crimes to exist? It is worthy of reflection
and consideration on the part of each one of us that lives in this special
historic era. During this most cruel and evil persecution of the past seven years, Falun
Gong practitioners have persistently clarified the truth to the world with great
compassion and tolerance. They have exposed the evil and called for conscience.
They want to tell people: during this important historic period of the battle
between righteousness and evil, each one of us can avoid danger and enter a
bright future by supporting Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, by supporting the
cause of innocent people, and by upholding justice. Let us together stop this
"evil...new to this planet" with acts of courage, justice, and
conscience.
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